#worldgeochat is a weekly chat focused on teaching geography and global studies. Chats vary between geography specific topics as well as general teaching and education topics. ALL are welcome in worldgeochat!
Welcome to #worldgeochat, everyone! Sam here from MA, 7th grade world geo, 1/8 of moderation team. Tired of the rain and hoping for one good fall day before the winter comes!
John Honish Waunakee Community Middle School north of Madison, WI gearing up for #NCSS18 currently buying my bus ticket to avoid those $70 parking fees! #worldgeochat
Hi John! I'm looking forward to your @playfanschool session at NCSS! I can't wait to learn about new ways to use Fantasy Geopolitics with my students! ##NCSS18#worldgeochat
Folk culture is culture that originates in isolated areas, is typically reflective of the natural environment, and diffuses through human relocation. #worldgeochat
By acknowledging that it’s a weird label and artifacts labeled as folk culture (or pop culture) can be studied with the same critical-thinking tools we use to study “high art” and culture. #worldgeochat
Folk culture is culture that originates in isolated areas, is typically reflective of the natural environment, and diffuses through human relocation. #worldgeochat
A1 My class approaches folk culture from a few perspectives. Origins, diffusion, and its impact on the environment. We specifically look at material culture and how its produced through habits and customs. #worldgeochat
A1: I will be honest in saying I do not incorporate folk culture into my classroom as much as I should. Looking for more answers tonight! #worldgeochat
A1 Since I teach ancient world history, it comes through in many ways. Right now we're studying world religions so an example would be how different groups celebrate holidays. #worldgeochat
A1: We discuss the destruction of Amazon culture for oil - https://t.co/3KYy52ED61 - helps to build empathy and question whether or. It consumers are complicit. #worldgeochat
A1 If folk culture is for smaller more isolated cultures, I think our attempts to do the #haka are my biggest example, although with the media attention given to the Haka and with stuff like Moana lately it might go beyond “folk” culture #worldgeochat
Would it be appropriate to ask for a clarifying definition for this as well? I think sometimes we don't know we incorporate it until it's explained. #lightbulbmoment#worldgeochat
A2 I use music every day at the start of each lesson that connects to the lesson. I also started this year having a meme/gif of the day on my bell ringer slide to also connect to the topic of the day. #worldgeochat
A2 I try to incorporate modern media and things my students are interested in as much as I can. I need to come up with a way to incorporate Fortnite! #worldgeochat
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MUSIC!
Each week we listen to music from some other part of the world. I try to use something contemporary rather than feed into the stereotype of traditional music defining a culture.
Then we play 20 questions to figure out where it came from. #worldgeochat
A2: I incorporate pop culture everyday and don't know it! We play a Song Starter every day, use gifs to get us excited about our work, use every day examples (like Black Friday for supply and demand) to further understand our content. #worldgeochat
A2 Use Austin's original Chuy's restaurant explore how local cult. impacts pop cult. and vice versa. In this case commodifying "Austin Weird". https://t.co/uc06ojPc7s#worldgeochat
A2: Music is my favorite way to incorporate pop culture. - syncretism and diffusion, for example, in Afro-Caribbean religions reveals much about interactions and development of new pop forms and reservation of old ones, too #worldgeochat
A2 this gets in with references a lot, not trying to be academic even. Today when asked about direct monarchies I said “if the King of eSwatini said ‘wear pink tomorrow because on Wednesdays we wear pink’ you’d do it because the king said so. #worldgeochat#meangirls
Here is what I have so far. I will be honest I googled a this menu idea, and I thank Mrs. Pretzel at CMS in Carrburrus County, NC for her good work. I made a few options and I am writing the official directions tonight. Feed back is welcome #worldgeochathttps://t.co/HnQUThrzov
A2 - Most years I have students start the "mean girls challenge" where they as a collective group attempt to create and diffuse a pop culture trend throughout our school. Most years they attempt to create a new buzz word, but they have tried fashion trends as well #worldgeochat
Clothes has been big with our globalization unit. We have looked at shoes, pencils, and T-shirts. We also looked at the spread of fast food using a recent Junior Scholastic article. #worldgeochat
Here is what I have so far. I will be honest I googled a this menu idea, and I thank Mrs. Pretzel at CMS in Carrburrus County, NC for her good work. I made a few options and I am writing the official directions tonight. Feed back is welcome #worldgeochathttps://t.co/HnQUThrzov
Yes! We love that you’re acknowledging culture as this evolving, dissipating, changing, living thing—not some “pristine” untouched cultural artifact from communities not recognized as mainstream. So important. #worldgeochat
I have found them but I love the idea of flipping it. Instead of me using it as a bellringer. The students could recommend ones or create their own for a closure activity! I can't wait to do this! Thanks Stewart! #worldgeochat
A2: I love looking at music and electronic technology especially TV and social media. Having the students then analyze the diffusion is great too! Ex: Why is The Office (USA) translated and viewed in countries other than the USA? #worldgeochat
A2) I use comics + movies all the time. I do a movie quote of the day and always seem to make references to both mediums even if it is not a specific day for them. #worldgeochat
A3: We have to share, too. Model sharing. To explain Marxist communism, I shared about how my family reunion is run without a committee or authority structure. #worldgeochat
A2: Popular culture comes up all the time in class! I mentioned the internet, and next thing I know someone said Wreck it Ralph Broke the Internet, and we were off topic for a few minutes and then went back to work! Does that count? I am trying to catch up! #worldgeochat
#worldgeochat A2 Just recently had @Weegee speak with our 80s class. Wrote a book called “Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies.” Great insight to the decade. Gets students interested in the subject matter.
A3: I try to Model Sharing as well. I love to talk about my family's Sicilian background when it comes to food. Definitely could use more ideas though! #worldgeochat
It's complicated, isn't it. I often look at the influence of African culture on new food or music, for example, in the United States. #worldgeochat BBQ and Blues
This is why the shift to from folk to local culture. It is easier for Ss and me to connect local to popular and the interaction/diffusion between all the in betweens. #worldgeochat
I'm so sorry to have to do this, #worldgeochat. But I need to bow out tonight. Lack of sleep last night and a long day today has me wiped out. I can't wait to read the archives! Thank you again, @CoachHenkel, for moderating!!
A4 Pop culture can not only spark engagement and establish connections but it could also be used to make more challenging topics more accessible for students. #worldgeochat
I know Friday afternoon and Saturday morning are stacked. I have tons of sessions bookmarked on my app. We will need to divide and conquer! #worldgeochat
A4) we engage in critical thinking skills, text analysis, when reading comics. We discuss things like current events, historical time periods etc. #worldgeochat
A4 I think indirectly pop culture can be such an engagement tool, relationship builder and piece of relevant context, no matter your topic. When I quoted Mean Girls today, the kids that knew the reference perked up instantly #worldgeochat
The influence of pop culture's constantly changing trends gets brought back up during the Ag. and Dev. units. We can show how old fashion items diffuse to poorer countries, how trendy food choices shift agricultural production patterns. #worldgeochat
A4: Ss are more likely to engage if it's something they are familiar with. They can find the pattern we want them to learn in their own culture -- rite of passage like diver's license compared to puberty dances in Ghana #worldgeochat
A4 - The influence of pop culture's constantly changing trends gets brought back up during the Ag. and Dev. units. We can show how old fashion items diffuse to poorer countries, how trendy food choices shift agricultural production patterns. #worldgeochat#worldgeochat
A3: Today we defined stereotypes and bias, and then created a world's fair exhibit to teach aliens about our culture. S's had to choose 5 pictures from like 10 random & somewhat outdated images and explain how these images represented us. #worldgeochat (Lesson from Ms. Herson)
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Popular culture is the easiest way to introduce Ss to culture. They understand popular culture - they get the references and weird words. Like YEET. I don't know what YEET is, but I was told to use it by 2 students today. #worldgeochat
#worldgeochat A4 Mike Eruzione and his story of the 1980 Olympic Hockey Team helped make the Cold War an important topic to students. The battle between East and West, battle for supremacy became interesting! Also gained new hockey fans!
A4: Pop Culture hooks the students' interest. Especially since Popular Culture changes, its allows us to create and adapt lessons that play into the students's interests #worldgeochat
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Popular culture is the easiest way to introduce Ss to culture. They understand popular culture - they get the references and weird words. Like YEET. I don't know what YEET is, but I was told to use it by 2 students today. #worldgeochat
A4: Popular culture is the window we need to help our students see curriculum in a new light. That 5 themes fortnite video @cheffernan75 shared earlier this year helped me connect geography to students who would not have been interested otherwise. Now they care. #worldgeochat
A5 We have to look at our past to understand our current culture. Also, we need to see how the other cultures we study have changed and evolved. Culture is not stagnant. #worldgeochat
A5: Learning about the loss of folk culture can help Ss appreciate learning about folk culture still available to us. What's lost with genocide, destruction of environments, exploitation of resources and forced transition from traditional econ #worldgeochat
I don’t have full permission to share Ms. Herson’s presentation but here are they the 9 images S’s had to choose from and explain how 5 of these pictures represent our culture while making sure they don’t promote stereotypes #worldgeochat
Sorry - still distracted!
I think the most important thing is to show the Danger of the Single Story. It's really the best way to show kids how diverse things really are! #worldgeochat
I had one student decide to like school period because of that video. Thank you- it helped me make a connection and he has been a social studies person ever since. #worldgeochat
Cool!! @drahsturgis has been teaching me about indigenous literature and been trying to incorporate it. I've also found some indigenous comics I've been working toward using. #worldgeochat
A6 1 issues is building their understanding of culture. I think students often have a narrow view of what culture is. When we look at the 8 traits of culture (govt, econ, religion, social groups, daily life, language, the arts, and history) it opens it up. #worldgeochat
A6) students know it I think but they aren't aware. Kind of like Neo in the Matrix. He knew it was there but it took just the right nudge. #worldgeochat
A6- when I show the Ss how fashion companies work in choosing fashion trends years out, they are shocked. Some get upset because they feel manipulated #worldgeochat
A6 I think it's important to understand the commercial aspect of popular culture. Students need to know how they are manipulated by it. How games like Fortnite are designed to be addictive. And Joe everything is amplified by social media. Lecture finished. #worldgeochat
A2 Just listen to your students! Pop culture is in your classroom everyday through their conversations... often times I ask them to educate me! #WorldGeoChat
Please do! Even if you just show the first 7 minutes, it does a great job telling the story of how all people in a culture are not the same.
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#worldgeochat Always searching for similarities, folk dances, movement, ...can't forget the geography of food - always the way to a student's heart! Boiled peanuts were not a hit in the MidWest! :)
Asomething We haven’t linked a single thing tonight, mostly because I forgot we had this terrific, standards-aligned, inquiry based and beautiful photo gallery resource. So check it out!!! #worldgeochathttps://t.co/a1l53PdNpW
A7 I used Moana: "Where you are" when I sat after my folk culture to show the main aspects of folk culture which they still remember. Kind of a mix of folk and pop culture there. #worldgeochathttps://t.co/J0k5N3zGgl via @YouTube
A3: Show Ss that culture is as close as their dinner table and the uniqueness of how each family eats differently or how differently they celebrate holidays #worldgeochat
Yes @Newsela has so many great resources for a variety of folk cultures around the world and how they are trying to stay strong in the face of popular culture #worldgeochat
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@ecasey77, @CultureGrams, @Newsela, @NatGeoEducation, @Newsela
If any #worldgeochat'rs are at #NCSS18 this week, make sure to join our friends from #sschat for the Unconference on Friday night. And then all of us can grab a drink afterwards!
A7: To teach about other cultures and history, I like to use folktales. For popular culture, I like to use social media screen shots of relevant hashtags, or connect through popular music on youtube. I rip articles out of fashion magazines. #worldgeochat
Thank you to everyone at #worldgeochat for another amazing night of ideas! Thank you @CoachHenkel for moderating. I am looking forward to reading back through what I missed while trying to catch up! Good night and a Happy week to all!
