We’ve all been through high school and middle school. Sitting for hours on end, often staring at a blank wall, through the window, or at a blank ceiling to pass the time while a teacher drones off about a topic that you think you’ll probably never need in real life. Except you do, it’s just not being introduced properly. In this episode of the Attention, Ladies and Gentlemen podcast, our host Jeff Coleman talks to Alexander Deeb. Alex is the co-Founder and CEO of ClassHook, a tool which uses popular culture and media such as movies to introduce and explain real-world topics such as Physics, Math, and even poetry. Alex also talks about the problems that teachers and students alike go through in the public school system, and how the benefits of ClassHook often go outside the classroom as well. HIGHLIGHTS Using popular media to introduce educational topics Engagement in the classroom is key to learning Teaching Physics through The Simpsons and Speed (1994) The public school system need a lot of tweaking Movies can even be used to teach literary devices and poetry Focus does not come naturally Tips for using ClassHook more effectively QUOTES Alex on the added benefits of using movies and other popular media to teach topics: "It goes into topics like media literacy and being critical about what media they're consuming. There's a whole host of other tangential benefits and more explicit benefits that they can get from understanding the truth or being more critical about the media they consume." Alex on the difficulties of also catering to high school students: "They have other things distracting them. They have more of a social life and that's when engagement tends to drop off. Because students sometimes become disillusioned with the public education system, unfortunately. Because they've went to the motions enough times to know, okay this is the formula: 'I just got to study or cram for the test and just get an A.'" Alex's take on how to grab and sustain attention from the teacher: "The goal of ClassHook is to get the students' attention, and then help the teachers create connections between their personal lives and interests, which are movies, tv shows and such to the curriculum. And through that process of having a discussion based on the videos, that's kind of where the focus and engagement is more continual versus temporary." Connect with Alex and his work at Classhook with the links below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderdeeb/ Website: https://www.classhook.com/ To find out more about BrainLeap Technologies, visit https://brainleaptech.com/ and follow them on social media using the links below: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/brainleap/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/brainleap-technologies/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/brainleap Twitter - https://twitter.com/brain_leap Please rate, review and subscribe. Every feedback counts!
We’ve all been through high school and middle school. Sitting for hours on end, often staring at a blank wall, through the window, or at a blank ceiling to pass the time while a teacher drones off about a topic that you think you’ll probably never need in real life. Except you do, it’s just not being introduced properly.
In this episode of the Attention, Ladies and Gentlemen podcast, our host Jeff Coleman talks to Alexander Deeb. Alex is the co-Founder and CEO of ClassHook, a tool which uses popular culture and media such as movies to introduce and explain real-world topics such as Physics, Math, and even poetry. Alex also talks about the problems that teachers and students alike go through in the public school system, and how the benefits of ClassHook often go outside the classroom as well.
HIGHLIGHTS
QUOTES
Alex on the added benefits of using movies and other popular media to teach topics: "It goes into topics like media literacy and being critical about what media they're consuming. There's a whole host of other tangential benefits and more explicit benefits that they can get from understanding the truth or being more critical about the media they consume."
Alex on the difficulties of also catering to high school students: "They have other things distracting them. They have more of a social life and that's when engagement tends to drop off. Because students sometimes become disillusioned with the public education system, unfortunately. Because they've went to the motions enough times to know, okay this is the formula: 'I just got to study or cram for the test and just get an A.'"
Alex's take on how to grab and sustain attention from the teacher: "The goal of ClassHook is to get the students' attention, and then help the teachers create connections between their personal lives and interests, which are movies, tv shows and such to the curriculum. And through that process of having a discussion based on the videos, that's kind of where the focus and engagement is more continual versus temporary."
Connect with Alex and his work at Classhook with the links below:
To find out more about BrainLeap Technologies, visit https://brainleaptech.com/ and follow them on social media using the links below:
Please rate, review and subscribe. Every feedback counts!