Hip Hop Cartoons
One of the reasons Pop Lock and Learn began making music to educate children was that we noticed the commercial art form of hip hop had been hijacked by the…
Are Children Educated Away From a Creative Mindset?
Considered one of the worlds leading thinkers, creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we are educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to…
Recent research reveals it possible to recreate photo images from the neural patterns of the brain
I ran into a new friend who is a researcher in neurology, discovering how octaves and tones affect different parts of the brain. An interesting conversation proceeded whereby we discussed whether…
Welcome to our blog!
It is with great pleasure we would like to annouce the launch of our blog today. We hope to fill this space with information that will help education professionals, parents…
Public Service Announcement: Stay in School!
Seeing as its Friday, we here at Pop Lock and Learn decided to keep it kinda light. Enjoy your weekend! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yVFxjmIg1E&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
Math \’Edu-tainment\’ in Hollywood
Oliver Knill over in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University has been compiling a collection of movie clips where math has been referenced. This reminded us over at Pop…
A Conceptualized Framework for Edutainment
As education design becomes more complex and challenging, a new form of storytelling is required in delivering a new level of interactivity, integration and a more democratic relationship between storyteller…
Pharrell on being a \’kidult\’ pt 2
Pharrell reveals more details on his side project \’Kidult\’ talking about how there is a void of real information for the youth demographic. This 120 second interview is facilitated by…
Breakthrough Learning in the Digital Age
We took some time off for summer break but we are back. To all you teachers and education policy professionals, if these recessionary times have you unable to attend conferences…
Ten Signs Your Child is in Need of an Alternative Education
1. Does your child say he or she hates school? If so, something is probably wrong with the school because children are natural learners. When they\’re young you can hardly…
Rapper Jim Jones puts on his teachers cap in Brooklyn, NY classroom
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Metaphors in Music to Teach Language Arts
Today we came accross a fantastic lesson plan resource that teaches students to: -examples of metaphor in the lyrics of a song. -interpret the meaning of the metaphors they find….