Why comics belong in the classroom | Gene Yang | TEDxManhattanBeach

In this humorous talk, former teacher and graphic novelist Gene Yang shares some unexpected insights and urges educators to bring comic books into the classroom. A 2016 MacArthur fellow, Gene Luen Yang began drawing comics in the fifth grade. “American Born Chinese”, Yang’s first graphic novel, put him on the map. A finalist for the National Book Award, the book caused a controversy over whether graphic novels were Currently, Gene is writing the middle-grade, computer programming series Secret Coders, i