Saturday, May 20, 2006

marijuana as a teaching tool

I'm taking a summer course right now called Hip Hop Culture. It's quite interesting so far. All of our "class discussions" are conducted online using blackboard.

One of our questions to discuss was the appropriateness of teaching hip hop in the classroom/using hip hop as a teaching tool. Some folks have said only in high school, others have said, hey...the kids already hear it, why not use it in elementary school. Why not? Well, here's what one classmate said:

"I agree that they may hear it in everyday life but teaching fractions and measurements using marijuana isn't exactly appropriate for a school system to use. Even though kids would probably pay more attention and learn more if we did it that way, it is still not sociably acceptable and parents would be outraged." -LA

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