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Memes in Education
What Does it all meme?
What's a meme?
how to be good at memes
Rationale
- Basis of meme usage is the “reappropriation” of the content by the creator
- Understanding the meme is contingent upon understanding both the content and modern culture
- Bridges the gap for students
- Bridges the gap for students
- Gaining popularity in classrooms of all content areas
Findings
- Took on three distinct forms of sharing resources for classroom use...
- Teacher-teacher shared
- Student-generated projects
- Teacher-generated/found
- Members of the social group had a common contextualization of the materials
- Made meaning together
- Humor as a method of meaning-making
- TPCK at play
- Technology- needed to make memes, share them
- Pedagogy- needed to use in class, curriculum
- Content- Have to get the history to get the joke
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