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Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teach, Think, Play

Explore the power and challenges of integrating popular culture into your curricula with celebrities, media professionals, classroom educators, and academics at this unique conference.

Limited spaces are still available! Register today at www.tc.edu/ceoi/teachthinkplay

KEYNOTE PRESENTERS
Ice-T, legendary rapper, Law & Order actor and star of the VH1 reality show Ice T’s Rap School
York Prep students, parents, and teacher from Ice-T's Rap School

Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book artist of Maus and creator of The Garbage Pail Kids

Taylor Mali, four-time National Poetry Slam champion and star of the film Slam

Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker Art Editor of and co-creator of Little Lit comic series

Will Pearson, mental_floss magazine President and co-founder

Jan Jagodzinski, author of Youth Fantasies and Professor of Education at University of Alberta
Renee Hobbs, Temple University Professor and Director of Temple’s Media Education Lab

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
• Urban Fiction: Exploring the Underbelly of Adolescents’ Literary Lives
• Using Hip Hop Culture to Develop a Positive School Climate

FEATURED ARTIST WORKSHOPS
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

Popmaster Fabel, legendary dancer and hip-hop historian

Neil Chastain, award-winning percussionist and teaching artist

Jason Bitner, Creator and editor of Found Magazine

Panel of of producers and filmmakers from the socially conscious Media That Matters Film Festival

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS BY MINDBLUE.COM WILL BE GIVEN TO ALL REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS!

Register today by visiting www.tc.edu/ceoi/teachthinkplay or call 1.800.209.1245

Starts03/24/2007
Ends03/25/2007
IssuesMedia, Youth
Homepagewww.tc.edu
Contactttp2007@gmail.com

Posted on March 19, 2007 in Event / Call to action by dianalee