The Best Saturday Night Live Videos On Education

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I’ve shared many SNL videos related to education over the years, and decided to put them all in one place.

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Here are the videos I have so far:

This one would be perfect to show to educators and ask them to identify the ways they made content comprehensible to non-Spanish speakers:

Many of us teach our students about the Trolley Problem (see The Best Videos About The Famous “Trolley Problem”).

I do in our IB Theory of Knowledge class.

Now, thanks to Saturday Night Live show, I have the perfect video to show at the end of the lesson – a love song about it!

This one would be good for a professional development session on Artificial Intelligence:

Here’s another one good for English and ELL teachers:

This one could be used in American history classes to initiate a discussion on how enslaved people were viewed and in science courses to introduce weights and measures. Yeah, I know, quite a combination!

When Betsy DeVos was Secretary of Ed, you have seen here on 60 Minutes (you can see the interview here and read reactions here).

Saturday Night Live aired this spoof of the interview:

Here’s one about attacks on LGBTQ student rights:

When students were walking out of schools in Florida to protest Florida’s ridiculous proposed “Don’t Say Gay”  bill, SNL did this piece:

Lin-Manuel Miranda did a skit parodying “inspirational” teachers in the movies:

Sandra Oh did a SNL promo using The Marshmallow Test for inspiration:

Let me know what I’m missing!