Education Dive – Lauren Barack
“Tapping pop culture as a delivery mechanism for learning is one many teachers adopt. Chaucer may be chewy and Aristotle arguably a bit dry, but most students are familiar with the television show “Parks and Recreation” and certainly Beyoncé. As Reiff knows, students are always more excited and engaged when they can relate to the material. And those writers we consider now classic authors, like Dickens, were actually producing pop culture of their own time. Dickens’ “The Pickwick Papers,” was first published as a weekly serial — and hardly then considered in the league of Shakespeare.” (more)