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This article summarizes the issues with assuming that all students understand pop culture and can make reference to those when reading or in a discussion. I am currently experiencing this now while trying to teach my students about political cartoons. If they are not up to date on their politics or news, they are lost. There are also many culture pieces the immigrants that I teach are missing. For example, one cartoon showed Hillary Clinton with her nose growing implying she was a liar and her nose grew like Pinoccio's did. This was lost for some of my students.

While this does not necessarily relate to social media exactly. I would like to use this to spark a discussion. How does social media effect this? Is it helpful? Is it more difficult? Do we have more of a combined culture thanks to the internet and social media?

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