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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: Meet Amy - Your Local Bookstore Manager
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Thursday, 31 October 2013. Meet Amy - Your Local Bookstore Manager. When the topic arose about 'what books are popular with teenagers' I had no idea where to start. Despite Goodreads and Amazon being widely available I headed to the local bookstore that my best friend manages. Amy (pictured left) Original Image. These were some of her recommendations:. I interviewed a new Australian YA author called Meli...
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CLN647 -- Youth & Popular Culture: Youth & Popular Culture Resources
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CLN647 - Youth and Popular Culture. Youth and Popular Culture Resources. Youth and Popular Culture Resources. Here is my curated list of sources based upon topics covered on this blog for students of Youth and Popular Culture, past, present and future:. The place where I get all of my video games news and information. There is also very good games criticism posted on here every now and again. Http:/ www.buzzfeed.com/. Http:/ www.tumblr.com/. Want to know what all the kids are talking about? View my compl...
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CLN647 -- Youth & Popular Culture: Week 11 -- Pinterest page!
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CLN647 - Youth and Popular Culture. Youth and Popular Culture Resources. Friday, 4 October 2013. Week 11 - Pinterest page! Signing up to Pinterest for me is daunting, as I detest involving myself in the deluge of images and GIFs that proliferate across Tumblr and these image-based sites. I also disagree with the idea of reposting someone else's work, as for me, a writer, it doesn't feel very creative. TBLC n.d. How to create a Secret Board on Pinterest. Benjamin Harkin's profile on Pinterest.
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CLN647 -- Youth & Popular Culture: YouTube Resources
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CLN647 - Youth and Popular Culture. Youth and Popular Culture Resources. The caption and explanation for the YouTube videos being in this list appears above each video. A series of feminist critiques on popular culture. Very useful for looking behind mainstream popular culture and analysing from a viewpoint not often discussed in classrooms. How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter -. RSA Animate - Language as a Window into Human Nature. Madeon - Pop culture (live mashup). Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe.
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CLN647 -- Youth & Popular Culture: Week 7 -- Digital Education Revolution: Pencils are the past!
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CLN647 - Youth and Popular Culture. Youth and Popular Culture Resources. Wednesday, 4 September 2013. Week 7 - Digital Education Revolution: Pencils are the past! For my first post I thought that the Creativity in my pocket: No 'i' puns here. Reading discussing the implications of the Digital Education Revolution would be timely and fitting given the recent change of government, and their want to scale back some of the digital revolution (see: NBN. I garauntee within a generation these problems will be g...
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CLN647 -- Youth & Popular Culture: Week 8 -- Video games and player positioning
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CLN647 - Youth and Popular Culture. Youth and Popular Culture Resources. Sunday, 15 September 2013. Week 8 - Video games and player positioning. Note before: There are a few links to gameplay videos so obviously if you're interested in playing a game listed with a link, don't click the link as it may have spoilers! I decided to jump ahead this week and find a resource related to an essential Player positioning. Reading for week 9. As much as I kick myself for it, video games are my passion. But they are ...
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: Week 12 - Popular Culture Romanticising Crime
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Monday, 7 October 2013. Week 12 - Popular Culture Romanticising Crime. What about the wives and sons of people he killed? What about their story? Why is our society so enthralled with stories of criminals and their exploits? Is it because we want an outlet from our normal, mainstream life and this looks dangerous and exciting? Is it something about a bad boy turning us on? And other primal emotions. ...
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: Book Review - Uglies
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Wednesday, 23 October 2013. Book Review - Uglies. What is it like to be labelled as ugly? What are the societal ramifications of such as body-obsessed world? As much as I would like to say it’s purely science fiction, I think many readers will see loose parallels to our current hyper-consumerism and tabloid culture which idolises beautiful people and sees plastic surgery as acceptable. Week 13 Educationa...
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal: Week 13 - The Progression of Television
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Popular Culture and Texts - Learning Journal. CLN647 - A collection of the weekly reflect activities. Sunday, 13 October 2013. Week 13 - The Progression of Television. Where the protagonist’s eight year old self pays him a visit – when he put’s his younger self in front of the TV to ditch him for a while the kid says “holy smokes… you have 99 channels and there’s nothing on! Bruce Willis and Spencer Breslin in The Kid. Was it that it became more accessible and integrated into our routines over time?