Technology and 21st Century Learning

Before the examination of the memes and the humor culture with the learning environment formed around them, we should look into what made all of that possible: technology, the Internet, and sharing information part of it, specifically. 



After we shared our experiences and learned from each other by using web 1.0, web 2.0 and its creativity tools led to an era of countless innovative ideas about all things surrounding us. One of them, of course, was about education.



As a young teacher candidate, I was born into this digital world of exploding new innovations. My students will experience the same fate as well. However, the complexity and impact it has on them definitely will be more than me and my generation had. Maybe they will be familiar with artificial intelligence-created information, or they will communicate with machines in their daily lives. We cannot predict tomorrow that easily, but we have to prepare for our profession's adjustment to the future. Maybe piece by piece, but I believe that the collective knowledge of prepared teachers is up to this challenge. And my piece of work is, examining the humor of the internet, which is called "meme culture" and how it affects our future students.


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