S3 Ep41: Teaching Students with Pop Culture
Teachers Off Duty
Bored Teachers
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder how pop culture can aid classroom teaching? Lauran takes us back to her rockin' Wax Museum project, teaching history through the lens of Hall of Fame musicians. Gabe shows us how he turns up the volume in his class with music, teaching subconscious understanding through lyrical analysis. Don't worry, he'll explain what that means.
We also tap into the fashion flashback and the hilarity of kids not knowing the pop culture references on their own shirts. Good or garbage with Gabe keeps it classic this week, as we debate the nostalgic thrill of the TV cart wheeling its way into the classroom. Is the TV cart good or garbage, we all know the answer!
In the world of gaming, who can forget the good old Oregon Trail? We revisit some educational games and the unintended scares they gave us. Wrapping it up, we discuss how fictional Hogwarts classes could potentially stack up in a real-world curriculum.
It's a pop culture frenzy you wouldn't want to miss. Tune in!
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of Teachers Off-Duty, we're talking all of our favorite pop culture teacher references |
| 0:05.4 | and how to use pop culture references in the classroom. Stick around. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Teachers Off-Duty. Today we are going to be talking about all of our favorite pop culture teacher references |
| 0:56.0 | and about how we like to incorporate pop culture in the classroom. So I think it goes without saying that we all have a favorite pop culture teacher, so who are some of yours? |
| 1:06.8 | Cameron Diaz's character thinks that she has married a guy who is very well off and finds out that she leaves a school, like throwing up her hands, kind of like bye, and then finds out that she burned all the bridges there, found out that he was leaving her, |
| 1:24.3 | and then has to teach the next year, and she has no money, right? And so she finds out that there is a incentive for your students getting like the best score in the state, you get like a $20,000 raise or something. |
| 1:36.6 | And the Miss Squirrel is like that teacher, like that one who's going to tell you like, oh, your signs are a cricket, or should you be watching that movie? |
| 1:45.1 | And so it's all about Cameron Diaz then, like essentially cheating to try to get the kids to win the thing. |
| 1:52.7 | But then at the, well, I don't want anyone to run the game. |
| 1:55.2 | It does have a good ending, and she ends up loving her job, and she becomes like a different staff member in the school. |
| 2:02.5 | Which that's always predictable. |
| 2:04.3 | Yeah, it ends well. |
| 2:06.3 | Justin Timberlake is in there, he's kind of the... |
| 2:09.2 | Justin Timberlake's in... |
| 2:10.4 | Yeah, Justin Timberlake is... |
| 2:12.0 | He plays gay, Dan and Bring, and... |
| 2:16.3 | Well, what's he... |
| 2:17.8 | Is he a substitute in the game? |
| 2:19.3 | Yeah, they're happy, go lucky, like, just loving... |
| 2:22.4 | Isn't he also rich? |
| 2:25.1 | Like his family is like a watch... |
| 2:27.5 | Yeah, something to do with the watch company, so she tries to go after him, and like it doesn't work out, |
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