Teaching+Trash+-+Up-cycling+Reality+Television+in+the+Classroom

=Teaching Trash: Up-cycling Reality Television in the Classroom=

Work themes: Student engagement and technology integration
In this presentation, I show how I use provocative clips from so-called “trash” TV to teach textual analysis in my Composition and Literature class. While I developed these strategies for an English course, these ideas can be applied to all disciplines that encourage critical thinking and social critique. Participants will: 1) identify how everyday “texts”, such as television shows and commercials, can be used to teach students to think critically, 2) explain how this approach teaches students to use critical thinking strategies (the same ones used in literary analysis) to be educated consumers of the material they view.


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