The document provides an agenda for an education track at a conference occurring from June 5-8, 2014. The track includes sessions on Thursday from 6:30-7:30pm, and various sessions on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10:30am-7:00pm on topics like Sherlock Holmes, media literacy, integrating pop culture into the classroom, video games, comics, and more. Many sessions provide learning objectives and strategies for engaging students through popular culture references.

1. Launch Panel
Thursday 6:30-7:30pm
June 5, 2014
Education Track

5. Friday
June 6, 2014
10:30 am - 11:30 am The Pastiche of Sherlock Holmes Part 1: History
11:30 am - 1:00 pm Pastiche Part 2: Best Practices in the Classroom
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Every Child Tells a Story:
Media Literacy for Early Learners
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Pop Goes the Classroom:
How to Effectively Integrate Pop Culture
Into Your Classroom
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm I've Been Talking to Your Kids with Bradley
Snyder
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Phoenix Comicon Maker Sharefest

6. The Pastiche of
Sherlock Holmes
Dawn Opel
Arizona State University
Department of English
• Hear about the history of the works featuring the iconic
detective Sherlock Holmes, including the longstanding
engagement of Sherlock fans.
• Unlock some vocabulary: What is the difference between fan
fiction, pastiche, and other fan productions? See a few examples
in the Sherlock tradition.
•Learn about the PBS Sherlock series and how it continues this
tradition of fan participation, and how this phenomenon can be
utilized for teaching with a digital media and learning curriculum.
Join us to Solve
the Mystery:

8. Every Child Tells a Story
 Learn how to use sequential art & multi-media as a
transitional medium?
 Learn a conceptual understanding of how the
language of comics works?
 Motivate & engage students to apply innate
background experience with alternative media to
increase literacy skills?
 Prepare students for college & career readiness by
understanding sequential art & multi-media?
 Consider the Special Education and ESL/ELL
applications?

9. how to effectively integrate pop
culture into your classroom

11. Saturday
June 7, 2014
10:30 am - 11:30 am Best Practice in Pop Culture Integration
11:30 am - 1:00 pm The Truth about Kids and Video Games
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Introducing PBS Digital Studios
and IDEA Channel
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Comics in the Classroom:
Sequential Art and Critical Thinking
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Comicornucopia: Culinary Life Skills in
Comics, Games and Film
6:00pm – 7:00 pm Lights, Camera, Learn
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Explore PBS Online

15. Presented by Jeff Barbanell,
M.Ed.
(Arizona State University)
Phoenix ComiCon
June 7, 2014

16. Avengers Initiative: Social Studies
While watching The Avengers,
students are assigned one of 5
members of the team. These each
correlate to a different component
of WWII.
 Captain America: Battle
strategies and major battles
 Iron Man: Technology during the
war
 Thor: America’s neutrality and
the attack on Pearl Harbor
 Hulk: The atomic bomb and the
decision to drop it
 Black Widow: Women in WWII

17. Sunday
June 8, 2014
10:30 am - 11:30 am Super Civilizations: Exploring Social Issues
in comics, games and film
11:30 am - 1:00 pm Utopian vs. Dystopian Societies
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Here a Con, There a con,
Everywhere a Mini Con

19. Super Civilizations:
Encoding the Story
1.Simple narrative
2.Complex narrative
3.Antinarrative
4. Braided narrativity
5. Proliferating narrative
6. State of grace

22. R. Bradley Snyder
I’ve Been Talking to Your Kids