As anyone who reads this blog will soon discover, I love memes. A meme is a cartoon for the 21st century. It has a picture (most often the picture is reused again and again within a context of something really socially relevant) and with humorous text phrase underneath. I love memes because they say what I cannot, and in less words. They are a great communication tool, and one that I feel that students really appreciate. I also am caught up on my blogs for this course, but I wanted to take a second to share a couple of great memes with you. I am sharing these because, as educators we will not only get them, but feel they are a little "too real".
This one makes me roll my eyes every time I see it. The truth is nauseating!
The question we all ask ourselves daily.
I mean it worked for Dukes and Earls who taxed their peasants regardless of the growing season, so why not apply the same (horrible) logic to teaching?
The other reason that I posted these memes is because for this week's assignment, we are going to be working together in groups to discuss something that is a problem in education. I am not a purest and know that there are many, but one of the more prevalent ones today is testing. So, to break up the sadness of testing, I decided to share some memes! :)
Ha! This is one of my favorites: http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/MjAxMi1jZWQ2ZjdiZDEwZjRmNzM5.png
ReplyDeleteI could go on a long rant with you about the ridiculous of testing...but I won't.
Love it! So true!
DeleteI remember when I first started teaching school seemed like a fun place to be. There were games, crafts, laughing, and learning all rolled into this happy building where children could still be children. Now, schools seem like mini offices full of seriousness and teachers taking stopwatches out to recess because heaven forbid we spend an extra 7 minutes outside one day. Why is this? I think it is because teachers are stressed from the unreasonable demands placed upon them--differentiate in a standardized way--common assessments that meet the needs of all students blah blah blah. Students then internalize that stress they feel rolling off the adults and and internalize it. Then we end up with mini factories where children learn to click a, b, or c. How sad for all of us.
ReplyDeleteHi Laura, this is so sad but so true. It really is a fun place to be, but the problem is all the extraneous stuff. Kids need to play more, learn more effectively, and have less micromanagement. We need to work on this, but really it needs to be a cultural revolution!
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