Comments for Brain Popcorn http://brainpopcorn.com Playing Outside the Lines: Interdisciplinary education for teachers and museum-folk Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:42:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Happy First Day of the Month of Thoth by mwinikates http://brainpopcorn.com/2011/08/29/happy-first-day-of-the-month-of-thoth/#comment-131 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:42:22 +0000 http://brainpopcorn.com/?p=436#comment-131 I thought so! He’s one of my favorites. Though there’s one version of the Egyptian pantheon that credits a goddess with inventing writing. I wish I could remember her name.

]]> Comment on Happy First Day of the Month of Thoth by Kathleen Winikates http://brainpopcorn.com/2011/08/29/happy-first-day-of-the-month-of-thoth/#comment-130 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:36:49 +0000 http://brainpopcorn.com/?p=436#comment-130 How appropriate…a god of knowledge for the start of school!

]]> Comment on Twelve Days of Popcorn (Day 2): Underwater Art by thedreamwords http://brainpopcorn.com/2010/12/10/twelve-days-of-popcorn-day-2-underwater-art/#comment-113 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 07:10:57 +0000 http://brainpopcorn.com/?p=382#comment-113 This is cool. Different. I enjoy different.

]]> Comment on Dinosaurs, Art Photography, and…Toddlers? by Two Weeks to National Fossil Day « Brain Popcorn http://brainpopcorn.com/2010/07/16/dinosaurs-art-photography-and-toddlers/#comment-72 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:35:41 +0000 http://brainpopcorn.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-72 [...] And, of course, more fossil fun activities and links at my previous post, “Dinosaurs, Art Photography, and Toddlers?” [...]

]]> Comment on Happy International Literacy Day by Holograms, Impossible Objects, and Floating Furniture « Brain Popcorn http://brainpopcorn.com/2010/09/10/happy-international-literacy-day/#comment-69 Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:45:29 +0000 http://brainpopcorn.wordpress.com/?p=288#comment-69 [...] one of my recent posts I mentioned that studies have shown that we start recognizing impossible objects when very young.  [...]

]]> Comment on Developing a Critical Eye: Why Media Literacy Matters by davidlorango http://brainpopcorn.com/2010/06/23/developing-a-critical-eye-why-media-literacy-matters/#comment-49 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:31:04 +0000 http://brainpopcorn.wordpress.com/?p=235#comment-49 Great piece. There’s certainly been a shift in the way that we perceive reality, both consciously and subconsciously. We prefer to see the Wonderful World of Disney in both our media images and the realities around us such as the two wars in the Middle East, the effects of the recession, and other hard to swallow truths. Airbrushed reality is not airbrushed reality anymore, but the only reality some Americans wish to stomach.

And the problem isn’t just that these images induce mental disorders and body image issues. It’s that even if the truth were exposed — that the “beautiful” have all kinds of surgery to enhance appearance; that images are touched and retouched more often than a work of art; that unhealthy physiques carry real health issues — it might already be too late.

The problem is not just the image, but that the viewer wants to be that image themselves. It matters little whether the image is reality. The viewer wants that reality, and will harm themselves to get there. Airbrushed minds as well as images.

David Lorango

]]> Comment on Developing a Critical Eye: Why Media Literacy Matters by anthonymora37 http://brainpopcorn.com/2010/06/23/developing-a-critical-eye-why-media-literacy-matters/#comment-47 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:20:14 +0000 http://brainpopcorn.wordpress.com/?p=235#comment-47 Absolutely! I appreciate that you did so much research, and gave great examples. I think this is connected to a huge issue: the media giving us what we want as opposed to educating us realistically. http://tinyurl.com/38ujusu Thanks again!

]]> Comment on Developing a Critical Eye: Why Media Literacy Matters by mwinikates http://brainpopcorn.com/2010/06/23/developing-a-critical-eye-why-media-literacy-matters/#comment-46 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:16:00 +0000 http://brainpopcorn.wordpress.com/?p=235#comment-46 Thank you! The curator and I both felt that it was a topic worth exploring in connection with our exhibit.

]]> Comment on Developing a Critical Eye: Why Media Literacy Matters by anthonymora37 http://brainpopcorn.com/2010/06/23/developing-a-critical-eye-why-media-literacy-matters/#comment-45 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:10:25 +0000 http://brainpopcorn.wordpress.com/?p=235#comment-45 This is a great article! Very informative, and eye opening.

]]> Comment on Cartoon Brain Food by mwinikates http://brainpopcorn.com/2010/05/17/cartoon-brain-food/#comment-42 Wed, 19 May 2010 13:54:17 +0000 http://brainpopcorn.wordpress.com/?p=206#comment-42 Thank you! I like to see art museums having fun with their content.

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