Genes and memes

[redsnake05]

I recently did DNA with one of my classes, and thought that we should touch on the idea of memes as a way of passing on cultural knowledge. It turned out that no one in the class had ever heard of internet memes, not even lolcats. So I introduced lolcats and demotivators as a five-minute funtime reward at the end of the lesson, having the projector on and flicking through a range of lolcats and demotivators. The students thought it was interesting, and it was nice to give them a reward that was easy. I'm a big fan of five-minute reward times at the end of class.

( Unsurprisingly, demotivational posters were their favourites )