I very much liked this week’s reading by Robert Saunders’ “Imperial Imaginaries:Employing Science Fiction to Talk About Geopolitics” of integrating pop-culture to teach international relations and geopolitics. Saunders was able to give concrete examples on how he related science fiction into his lessons. Furthermore, he states his reasoning of using science fiction; “The goal of employing these pop-culture products to talk about geo-power is not to produce an objective understanding of George Lucas’ or Gene Roddenberry’s galactic realms, but instead to promote intersubjective and intertextual knowledge, which in turn enables students to develop their geopolitical vocabulary and apply it to the real world.” (Saunders) This is what I find the most important aspect, not only does integrating science fiction into the class if entertaining, but being able to learn the themes and apply it.
Now as a Math and Chemistry teacher, I was wondering, how can I integrate science fiction into my classes? Fortunately, yesterday, I came across Ted-Ed’s “The science of ‘The Martian’: 5 TED-Ed Lessons to help you understand the film”. (http://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/09/22/the-science-of-the-martian-5-ted-ed-lessons-to-help-you-understand-the-film/ ) I can’t wait to apply this into the class and I’m sure the students will be as excited as I will be when we integrate ‘The Martian’ into our Math and Chemistry lessons!
Reference: Saunders, R. (2015) ““Imperial Imaginaries:Employing Science Fiction to Talk About Geopolitics” Popular Culture and World Politics: Theories, Methods,and Pedagogies. p 149-159
Now as a Math and Chemistry teacher, I was wondering, how can I integrate science fiction into my classes? Fortunately, yesterday, I came across Ted-Ed’s “The science of ‘The Martian’: 5 TED-Ed Lessons to help you understand the film”. (http://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/09/22/the-science-of-the-martian-5-ted-ed-lessons-to-help-you-understand-the-film/ ) I can’t wait to apply this into the class and I’m sure the students will be as excited as I will be when we integrate ‘The Martian’ into our Math and Chemistry lessons!
Reference: Saunders, R. (2015) ““Imperial Imaginaries:Employing Science Fiction to Talk About Geopolitics” Popular Culture and World Politics: Theories, Methods,and Pedagogies. p 149-159