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Utilizing Educational Cartoons In The School System
School-aged and college kids today are smarter and more worldly than my own 60's generation. Obviously, as many of us (now adults) have learned, we have much to learn from them.
Education is not a rapture experience. There are no born-again graduates. It is a process. That is why it is called "the process of education. Learning takes time and learning pragmatic skills takes even more time.
What is now known as education began in Greece. It derived from the term "educare" which means "to pull out". Greek educators felt that young people already had the seed of knowledge in them, and a good educator simply spent time drawing that knowledge out, rather than pushing it in. Many, but of course not all, of today's educators are ego-driven and have forgotten the real meaning of education and use their teaching platform as a pulpit to share "their knowledge" and show it off. As was probably true in ancient history, is true today, there are good teachers and bad ones, those who push, or those who pull knowledge.
Kids are also a bit more cynical, question authority, aware of their environment, and more often than not, are on the same stage as the teacher. They do not look at the classroom as some kind of "mystical experience" as our generation did. Many of them look at it as a part of their day, and understand they are going through a process that helps them reach adulthood. Most of us, at least in my circle, hadn't really a clue as to why we were there. The idea of "so we could go to college" was instilled in our minds, but we really didn't understand the meaning of the value of that.
Distractions, often too many, take away from the focus of learning today They, like us, have shortcuts to knowledge, same as we (adults) do, such as the Internet. The Xerox television commercial of the teacher telling the students that getting a book published is tough because it takes money, and a student raising his hand and debating that due to the new print on demand process, exemplifies that.
Generation after generation of both kids and adults still love humor. It is one thing that has not changed much. Many school systems and even book publishers are using educational cartoons to "lighten up the learning process" and even major textbook publishers are utilizing such cartoons in their books. And the kids are paying attention.
Their knowing that their instructor may enjoy a good laugh as well, helps bond the students to the teacher and can make the learning process that much easier. Humor is a great conflict-resolver as well.
We often quiz the school or publisher after sending their cartoon order to see what kind of reaction it got. We have been doing this for a decade and every one has been positive and we generally get second and third orders the same year. It seems to have a great impact if used occasionally; not too often but often enough to keep the students interested.
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Rick London and his creative cartoon group have been creating cartoons in various topics from law to science to animals to medicine for over a decade Londons Times Cartoons School System & Textbook Publishers Using Cartoons To Enhance Learning By Londons Times Cartoons
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