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.

This is the one my colleagues and I want to buy for our office:



This is the one the students think we should get:



Head over to Despair, Inc to find your favourite beautifully framed piece of misery.

Comments

[kat_lair]

Just a note to say that this comm is an awesome idea and have joined :) Now I only have to get to the habit of actually using DW as more than a backup place for my LJ... Might have to spend some time this evening trying to figure out how to set out reading filters and cross-post.

Bless your students for not being internet savvy. I have to mod some online student boards for one course and usually at the beginning of the semester when we go through the posting guidelines, I make a joke about 'im watching ur boards, like a ceiling Kat'. Usually about 20% gets it and the rest just stare at me like I'm insane...

[redsnake05]

Cool, I look forward to having you here - and it is the easiest place in the world to get used to, seriously.