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The Pop Culture Propaganda of Ender’s Game, Pacific Rim, and G.I. Joe
These posters' apparently value-free aspect is perhaps what's most worth exploring with young people...
Joss Whedon, Modern Dress Shakespeare, and the Problem of Class in Classrooms
Both curriculum and pop culture, perhaps not coincidentally, have no problem dealing with class systems when they’re at a remove.
‘Super Pop!’ and Making (Extremely Fun) Connections Across Media
Quick, what do these have in common... the 'dingy basements' in 'Fight Club' (the film), the video game Flower, a couple of novels by Harumi Murakami and E.L. Konigsburg, the bathroom in HBO’s 'Girls,' Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s 'Empire State of Mind,' and Homer's 'The Odyssey'?
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Jane Austen, Edtech, and the Promise of ‘Theatrics’
"A narrative experience like 'The Lizzie Bennet Diaries' is compelling in part because of the great bones of Austen’s story and characters, for sure. But equally compelling is the story form, the opportunity for consumers to engage deeply with those characters..."
This Weekend Forget ‘Gatsby,’ and See ‘The World Before Her’ Instead
...the most riveting film about gender I’ve seen in a looooong time.
Why At First I Didn’t Think I Could Write About ‘Citizen Hearst’
So why am I so on the fence about recommending this well-produced and often engaging film?
When Curriculum is Media: The Important Lessons of ‘The Revisionaries’
Students are provided with curriculum in much the same way that religious adherents are provided with scripture, as something whose source and authorship are not be discussed, much less questioned.
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