Bryan Stevens's Groups
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Gaming
131 members
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Teach with Moving Images
414 members
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New Media & Technology
545 members
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Graphic Novels & Comics
417 members
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American Literature
298 members
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- What is your connection to education?
- High School Teacher
- What subjects do you teach / specialize in?
- American Literature, Film Literature, Media Studies
- What 5 essential pop culture artifacts (CDs, DVDs, Books, Images, Toys, etc.) would you have on your desert island?
- OK Computer - Radiohead
III - Led Zeppelin
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Mulholland Drive
Bryan Stevens's Blog
Need help with my master's project: your experiences using popular culture in the English classroom
Much like many of you here, I am a life-long devotee of popular culture. I have nightmares about my iPod dying, I can relate nearly any mundane occurrence in life to a Simpsons episode and I restlessly await the next opportunity to be completely baffled by a new David Lynch film. Unsurprisingly, when I decided to become a teacher, I envisioned a classroom that embraced popular culture as a means of facilitating critical thought. I wanted to create a learning environment that engaged… Continue
Posted on June 2, 2009 at 12:00am — 2 Comments
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Hey, listen if you get a chance you should really consider joining some of the special interest groups as a lot of the resource action of late has been in the group discussion areas.
You might dig:
http://mcpopmb.ning.com/group/popularmusic
http://mcpopmb.ning.com/group/americanliterature
http://mcpopmb.ning.com/group/ushistory
http://mcpopmb.ning.com/group/mediaeducationliteracy
http://mcpopmb.ning.com/group/graphicnovelscomics
http://mcpopmb.ning.com/group/foreignfilmsfortheclassroom
Anyway, hope you're groovy and CO is sunny.
Good Vibes,
RRG:)