The Pop Culture Classroom Kids’ Laboratory is back in action for Denver Pop Culture Con 2018! Don’t know what the PCC Kids’ Lab is? It’s only 9,000 square feet of pop culture-based educational fun for…
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5 Comics For Teaching Diversity
There’s never been a stronger demand for diverse characters than now, and the comic book industry seems to be listening and responding in kind, giving readers the chance to see themselves and their personal experiences reflected in the pages of their favorite (or soon-to-be favorite) comic book.
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FREE Denver Pop Culture Con Admission for Educators!
Are you new to using pop culture in education? Or are you well-versed in the pairing, looking to brush up your skills? Either way, we invite you to attend Educator’s Day at Denver Pop Culture…
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Our Educational Course Returns to Denver Pop Culture Con 2018!
We’re excited to be offering ED 589 for another year at Denver Pop Culture Con! If you haven’t heard about it previously, ED 589 is a course offered exclusively at Denver Pop Culture Con in…
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Using Graphic Novels to Get Your Kids Interested in Classic Literature
To start in a seemingly off-topic place: I like to tell my students that we study Shakespeare in an adapted format more often than we study Shakespeare in his original, intended medium. Shakespeare intended his…
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5 Ways to Teach Young Children With Comics
My earliest memories of holding a pencil were as a 4-year-old, drawing the same stick figure character on recycled computer paper from my dad’s office (probably with proprietary company secrets on them). I was drawing…
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3 Ways to Use Comics & Superheroes to Teach Social Studies
All educators need to be teachers of reading, no matter their class level or subject area. As comics, graphic novels, and superhero movies become increasingly more popular, they become an easy way to engage students…
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Five Empowered Women in Pop Culture
The term “strong female character” gets tossed around so often, but many representations of women in media aren’t necessarily all that progressive or empowering. Women aren’t as frequently represented as men, either: Looking at statistics…
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Game Design for Adults
Beginning in April, Pop Culture Classroom is offering a variety of pop culture themed workshops, designed for a number of age groups (and even a few directed at adults). And speaking of adults, this is…
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Is Pop Culture in the Classroom a Path to Autism Acceptance?
I am sure that most of you by now have heard the term “autism awareness” and you probably know that there is a national autism awareness month every April. It was so declared by the…
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Free Drop-In Times for Students!
Beginning this month, Pop Culture Classroom is offering FREE drop-in times in our new classroom! These drop-ins are a time for students, ages 8-18, to come over to Pop Culture Classroom, hang out and create…
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Are There STEM Comics for High School?
As educators begin to embrace comic books, graphic novels and other aspects of pop-culture as teaching tools, we often get the question about whether any of these materials are useful for teaching STEM. The answer…
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Five Graphic Novels with Social Critique
In the court of the king, only the fool was free to point out His Royal Folly. The jester who juggled and joked for the amusement of the rich and powerful could also point out…
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Six Graphic Novels that Tackle Racism
At Pop Culture Classroom, we know the challenges of discussing social issues with your students in a way that keeps them engaged. As we’ve said before, engagement is one of the key ways that graphic…