Bieber Fever

For our Inquiry Project, we chose to investigate the life and legacy of the one and only Justin Bieber…..and then we chose to educate our peers with a little skit! Very fun and we learned a lot……especially that glitter gets EVERYWHERE. 

We all know that Bieber is not an Angel in the limelight…..although he may be visiting brothels and causing rid-raf with fans, we believe that our students (especially the little girls) are his target audience and we have a responsibility to educate ourselves and be ready to discuss the good and bad of the swiped-bang-swaggy-boy that lives in our students' iPods. 

Is Justin a good influence for our kids? Probably not, or at least not anymore.  Can we use him and his influence to teach our kids the importance of critical thinking, role models and appropriate social behaviour? Absolutely! The fact remains that they still love him. (And I admit I like a few of his songs, and if I was ten I would of push-pinned his posters into my drywall!) Also before he ran off the rails a little (teachable moment about growing up in front of the world and pressures of fame and fortune), there was a lot of great things that he had going on….which we touched on in our skit. Justin isn't living his dream from sitting around singing songs quietly in the shower….he got where he is by hard work, determination, and social media. (yay YouTube). 

Anyways, as controversial as our inquiry topic was, I think we all took something away from it. Even if it was that grammar is certainly important and males cannot give birth ;)