::A Geek in Korea::

  In one of my classes we have been learning about laws and how they help a community be safer. For homework, they had to write ten classroom rules. Most of the students had pretty standard lists, with rules like, “Don’t shout,” or “No fighting!”. Some of the students had more outlandish rules, like “Don’t wrestle in class,”  or “Don’t play with guns.”

Today, we moved onto the second part of the lesson. With their homework completed, we learned about signs in neighborhoods that remind us of the rules. Speed signs, stop signs (Korea doesn’t have these. Really.) and other common signs children might see or know about. We would match a visual sign to the rule written down. We would explain why the rules and signs were a good idea. It was very interesting and fun.

I told the students they had to now make a sign for each of their classroom rules. Things like, “Don’t shout,” were easy to make, but the students really had to be creative to draw their “No Wrestling!” signs. They had a person body slamming another with a circle and line drawn through it. They’ve got a few days to work on making their signs clear for everyone. Then, I’m going to strip out the language context, post them on a wall, and have other students try to guess what they mean. Suddenly, “No Wrestling” could mean, “No Grendel!”

It should be fun.

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