Education Student Suggests Leveraging Memes in the Classroom
Taylor Benavidez is studying secondary education at WNMU, where she said she is learning about how to be the best teacher she can be in order to educate the future leaders of our world. “I have not only been educated on what students need to learn, but also how they learn. Recently, there has been a movement to stray away from teacher-centered learning and place more emphasis on the student having the ability to learn this information on their own,” she said in an address at this spring’s academic symposium. “But I beg to oppose this movement and say that maybe teacher-centered learning is not such a bad thing. Maybe we just don’t know how to keep the students' attention anymore.” The senior, who will be student teaching this fall, developed a proposed method for capturing students' attention and engaging them with the teacher-presented content. She calls the technique “Meme-ingful Connections.” Benavidez’ research project was aimed at determining if the...