It's good to see someone really passionate about engaging students and really looking at the world that they live in to find positive solutions.
If you can imagine themillions of dollars that go into developing music, movies, tv, and video games, how that money is spent on the latest graphics, recording and producing technologies, celebrity performers,and now think that it's only a fraction of the amount that they spend on MARKETING, how can teachers compete.
Well for one instead of working,against this reality, use it. As adults we might not like some of the elements of those products that engage our youth but it's important that we understand that they do ENGAGE our youth. If we understand how and why they do then most of the hard work is done all we have to do is tap into that resource.
I'm not saying that engaging students in what we think is valuable is easy, but if we look further and deeper into what children and adolesences are interested in, we might find they value the same things just in different ways.
Broaden the scope of our own interests
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