Reading Blogs and Podcasts Assignment PDF

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Jessica Rhodes, 332692 ED 315 Reading Blogs and Podcasts Assignment Voice of Literacy The podcast I decided to summarize was the podcast called “Youth, Literacy, and popular culture: Implications for teachers with Dr. Robert Petrone.” In this podcast they discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using popular culture in the classroom. Educators know that when they find a way to engage students by making lessons relevant to students’ real-world lives, they’ve scored a win. Bringing popular culture into the classroom is one of those winning strategies. It seems that students are always on their smartphones or tablets, and often, educators are told to use the topics and technologies students prefer in order to make learning more meaningful. Using popular culture in a lesson on media literacy or visual literacy might involve asking students to analyze different magazine covers to determine the audience, message and how those relate to current events. Students could analyze and deconstruct magazine covers in groups, then work individually to create their own magazine cover. Using popular culture in lessons might consist of comparing songs and poems for similar themes, creating Facebook accounts for historical figures, writing parodies of popular songs to demonstrate knowledge about a specific concept, or pulling from recent movies to illustrate historical events or concepts. The disadvantages are that materials on popular culture lack human sympathy and contain ideas connected with violence or strong social taboos that may lead to hate speech in the classroom especially towards the students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The second issue concerning using popular culture in the classroom is the domain of slang that it involves

sometimes including swear and offensive vocabulary....