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…
Brain Re-organizes to Make Room for Math
A very interesting link showed up in Pop Lock and Learn\’s inbox today leading to an article discussing research that has been conducted on how between childhood and adulthood neural…
Creating a learning relationship with a subject matter
When considering what works in education, one must draw conclusions from basic or big bigger ideas in knowledge networks to figure out the best way to form that relationship of…
Teaching Emotional Literacy in the Classroom
Emotions are an integral part of human nature from birth to death. Through emotions we react and respond to life in so many different ways including anger, happiness, fear, love…
Pharrell on Education and being a \’Kidult\’
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geTNnB93zPc&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Skateboard P aka Pharrell is known for his music production but most probably famous because of his passion. For some people, with success comes a freedom of thought that…
Using Music in the Classroom
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…
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…
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…
Raising a 21st century citizen
Chris Lehmann is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy (SLA) a Philadelphia high school opened in September 2006 fundamentally asking the pertinent questions \”How do we learn?\” \”What…
Look Around You, Art is Everywhere!
Perhaps the smash hit \’Kids\’ was but a precurser to MGMT most recent appearance on one of Pop Lock and Learn\’s favourite television show \’Yo Gabba Gabba\’? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hBoce_WqXg]
Rapper Jim Jones puts on his teachers cap in Brooklyn, NY classroom
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