Those of us who are products of the 1980’s or 80’s pop culture have fond...or not so fond recollections of the teachers in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or Fast Times at Ridgemont High who make learning a gauntlet of boredom and fear. For many of us and our students, those satires, while intended to highlight the absolutely un-fun nature of the high school classroom, are all too reminiscent of our learning experiences in school. Today, we’re going to talk about learning and how learning and practice is connected to the idea of something being fun. We’re going to grapple with: Is learning fun? Should it be fun?