(New York, New York) -- Teachers College at Columbia University, the leading graduate school of education in the US, will present
Teach, Think, Play: Popular Culture in the Classroom on March 24 and 25, 2007. The event is designed to explore the power and challenges of integrating popular culture into classroom curricula with celebrities, media professionals, classroom educators, and academics at this unique conference.
Featured speakers include
Ice-T, the legendary rapper, Law & Order actor, and star of the recent VH1 reality show Ice T’s Rap School that featured the rapper teaching students at a Manhattan prep school how to be hip-hop artists. Students from the show will also speak at the event.
Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book artist of Maus and creator of The Garbage Pail Kids, along with his wife
Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker Art Editor and co-creator of Little Lit comic series, will deliver a multi-media presentation about the history of comics and their dynamic children’s literature.
Other featured keynote presentations will be made by
Taylor Mali, four-time National Poetry Slam champion and star of the film Slam, as well as
Will Pearson, President and co-founder of mental_floss magazine;
jan jagodzinski, author of Youth Fantasies and Professor of Education at University of Alberta, and
Renee Hobbs, Temple University Professor of Mass Media & Communication and Director of Temple’s Media Education Lab.
Sessions at the conference will be organized as follows:
TEACH – Workshops led by teachers and organizations that have developed innovative and pedagogically meaningful ways to integrate popular culture into 5-12 and college curricula.
THINK – Attendees will explore the theory and research behind the use of popular culture for educational purposes. How much theory do we need to breathe contemporary life back into our accustomed practices?
PLAY –Cultural figures will discuss the ways in which they produce creatively in their media. Attendees will explore which methods of media and cultural production can best be adapted to the classroom setting.
Artists and cultural figures that will present workshops are:
Popmaster Fabel: Senior Vice President of the Rock Steady Crew and hip-hop historian
Danny Simmons: visual artist, poet, and co-founder of DefPoetry Jam
Emir Lewis: film editor of I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown vs. the Board of Education and Whiteboyz
Sheila Marikar: ABC.com reporter and author of “Inside Britney’s Shaved Head”
Alissa Quart: author of Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child
Neil Chastain: award-winning percussionist and teaching artist
Jason Bitner: creator and editor of Found Magazine
Session topics include: How to Write A Differentiated Lesson Plan Using Popular Culture; Exploring Media Literacy Through Online Gaming for Girls; An Interdisciplinary Approach to Visual Literacy in the Language Classroom; Using Super-size ME! and Inquiry-based Teaching to Promote Reading and Writing; Blah, Blah, Blog: Virtual Dialogues in the Classroom; Cyber Bullying, Fact vs. Fiction; and Using Hip Hop Culture to Develop a Positive School Climate.
The conference will take place at Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 West 120th Street at Broadway, New York City on Saturday, March 24, 8:15 am-7 pm and Sunday, March 25, 8:15 am-4 pm.
A limited number of spaces to attend the conference remain. To register, visit
www.tc.edu/ceoi/teachthinkplay or call 1.800.209.1245.
Teach, Think, Play: Popular Culture in the Classroom is presented by The Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation at Teachers College. The event is co-sponsored by Mindblue.com, Progressive Arts Alliance, TC Students for a Cultural Studies Initiative, and FERA (Film Education Research Academy).
1 Comments:
Wow! Art Spiegelman and Ice-T talking at the same conference. Now that is something. Thanks for posting, Snails.
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