Possible Final Project Idea

I'm really clueless about what to do for the final project...basically, haven't thought about it yet but I should now. This course has opened up my mind to think beyond the thinking box and look at society closely on how we use everyday culture to benefit education. I never thought about it before until now. So, I want to just do a plain and simple final project --- I'm thinking about this for me:

A critical analysis (maybe a analysis paper instead) of toys and education. I'm going to focus on three main ideas/targets:

1) what makes toys so raving that it make kids buy them

2) the role toys play in popular education

3) importance of incorporating toys as a fundamental learning tool to be used in teaching

In this course, we've certainly covered several interesting topics of popular culture and examined them critically. However, I want to go depth more on one topic, that's why I decided to choose toys. I believe that there is more to a toy than using it as a demo for lessons or enhancing a child's education or being the child's entertainment. I'll be drawing my resources from Tooning In and the website provided by Professor Thom when he sent us the assignment. I'll probably us other outside sources as well, but I'll list them as I use them. In addition, multimedia and visual aids will be provided.

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