{"id":9486,"date":"2018-06-16T21:28:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T01:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/?p=9486"},"modified":"2018-06-16T21:28:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T01:28:41","slug":"gene-luen-yang-comics-belong-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/gene-luen-yang-comics-belong-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Luen Yang: Comics belong in the classroom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Comics belong in the classroom | Gene Luen Yang\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xjvTIP7pV20?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>FUTURO_2018 is on the roll. MILANO411 wants you to consider a future where comics teach. What?<\/p>\n<p>Is this the continual &#8220;dumbing&#8221; down of America, and thus the world? Or is an &#8220;Old School&#8221; way of teaching a very visual generation?<\/p>\n<p>Comic books and graphic novels belong in every teacher&#8217;s toolkit, says cartoonist and educator Gene Luen Yang. Set against the backdrop of his own witty, colorful drawings, Yang explores the history of comics in American education &#8212; and reveals some unexpected insights about their potential for helping kids learn.<\/p>\n<p>Check out more TED Talks: <a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?v=xjvTIP7pV20&amp;redir_token=lTGyx_-TLqvTW-PW18MiRBxeuJ98MTUyOTI4NDA0N0AxNTI5MTk3NjQ3&amp;event=video_description&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-sessionlink=\"itct=CDQQ6TgYACITCJuUv5TB2dsCFSLRwQodp-kA7Sj4HUjtrqX3j-T0ncYB\" data-url=\"\/redirect?v=xjvTIP7pV20&amp;redir_token=lTGyx_-TLqvTW-PW18MiRBxeuJ98MTUyOTI4NDA0N0AxNTI5MTk3NjQ3&amp;event=video_description&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com\" data-target-new-window=\"True\">http:\/\/www.ted.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world&#8217;s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). 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MILANO411 wants you to consider a future where comics teach. What? Is this the continual &#8220;dumbing&#8221; down of America, and thus the world? Or is an &#8220;Old School&#8221; way of teaching a very visual generation? Comic books and graphic novels belong in every teacher&#8217;s toolkit, says cartoonist and educator Gene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[48],"tags":[1002,1003,424,1004,27,47,200,879,351],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/wp2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/xjvTIP7pV20.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}