granting wishes
i’m trying a thing in class where i ask my students “what do you wish we would do in class today?” and trying to get them to vocalize the things they feel they need to understand the material.
part of the wish-granting thing is they will sometimes ask for off topic things, and i am trying to at least nominally respond to these to show them i am serious about taking what they say earnestly. this led, of course, to me dancing a jig during class.
a student wrote “watch anime” as a wish for something to do in class and i told them i’d put something on as background noise during our work time, but it would be old anime (i was thinking of some kind of showa stuff like mazinger z)
one student replied that the oldest anime he could think of was redline (the 2009 film)
another was fussing on his phone for a moment, then was like “okay, i have a REALLY old one i watched…”
before he showed me what was on his phone, i asked “…is it cowboy bebop?”
(it was.)
i have assigned both students anime homework.
and: we ended up watching the 1969 black and white version of dororo during our work session—right now that class is working on adapting card games they made earlier in the semester into bitsy games. i told them i had some much older silent anime on file, but i would spare them