And I subscribe to their Ten Most Popular Stories of the Week. Email One of the stories this week seemed relevant to anyone working with young people. Here is a link to the article, What Schools Can Do to Help Boys Succeed by Christina Hoff Sommers.

A Pop of Culture in the Classroom. Bring your classroom ensembles to life with a pop of cultural colour. Do we avoid needless or even harmful stereotypes? So here are a few of my pop culture encounters with librarians and libraries. Some are recent, some not so much. Un Lun Dun is an exploration of the power of words, challenging young.

Blogging my learning journey through inquiry learning. As this unit comes to a close, it is only now that I can take this opportunity to look back on, and see how far I have come! When I first began the semester I posed three questions I wanted to know more on after my initial research into inquiry learning.

If you search long enough you will find anything on the Internet. Resources to help when using popular culture texts in the classroom. Popular Culture in the Primary School Library. Today I had a year 5 student ask me if we had The Hunger Games books in the library.

A glimpse into the world of popular culture. Social Media in the Classroom. While at my housewarming on the weekend, my friends sat me down to watch a TED. Talk I was delighted to see that it was a topic dear to my heart- gamification.