Neil deGrasse Tyson: How to Teach Science? Leverage the Power of Pop Culture

Pop culture is a great way to frame new information. And a teacher like Neil can make a huge difference. Why spend hours explaining something in great detail when you can simply use what they already know? Pop culture is a great scaffold to build and hang information off of argues Neil deGrasse Tyson. For example, you need to understand basic laws of gravity in order to play Angry Birds, so why spend hours explaining Newton’s Law when you can just fling a red bird at a pig? In this video, Neil uses a great anecdote about watching a football game and realizing that physics and science play a huge part in it whether the audience knows it or not.

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