• cynar@lemmy.world
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    I know a few teachers, the “cringy and bad” is the goal, not a mistake. It’s apparently quite therapeutic watching the “cool kids” squirm. How bad can you make them, but not make it obvious what you’re doing?

    The fact that it also helps a lot of kids remember it is almost just a bonus.

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      I’ve got a friend who was slightly too old when the word yeet became popular. He decided he would use it confidently, often, and incorrect. He still does.

      He’s excited to embarrass his kids by doing that with whatever the current slang is when they are 12 or 13.

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        My minion is still too young for that. I plan to wind them up mercilessly however. Right now, dad jokes are the height of humour to them.

        • “I’m hungry”
        • “Hi hungry, I’m dad!”
        • “Nooooooo, I’m not called hungry!”
        • “So why did you tell me your name was hungry?”

        I’ll be a little sad when it finally gets old.

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      Yup and the “cool” ones who don’t engage will suddenly be engaged with it and paying attention

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      YES! Yes holy shit, I love to make kids cringe by intentionally using memes wrong.

      I’m not even a teacher but this is the best part of being a full adult.

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      I really hope in 20 years teachers will uses skibidi toilets running around the screen as the way to explain migration

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    But you know what osmosis is now don’t you. Also count yourselves lucky you get memes we got “raps”

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    When I use memes of my childhood (e.g. Rage Faces) the reactions are similar. They don’t realize they stand on the shoulders of giants.

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    My speculation is that teenagers react so vile to adults trying to fit in partially as a unwittingly defensive mechanism. Teenagers have some social skills, but not all and thus having separate youth culture provides spaces for learning - adults trying to fit in are possible OP in those spaces and keeping out adults altogether might help with abuse prevention as well.

    I don’t really know how to test or research this speculation though.

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      Well, to start, you need an old psychologist, and a young psychologist.

      And probably several psychology grad students.

      And then you can have a scientific study.

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    School toilets are about to become even more traumatic when gen alpha starts teaching.

    At least I just have random nyan cat bullet points in my slides, with a lot of random loss thrown in.

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    Joke’s on the kids—It’s the cringe I’m aiming for. I live to hear the groans and see the eye rolls.

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    They’re not trying to “fit in”, they’re trying to reach students with their own language. For those students’ benefit! Be nice to teachers…

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        There is a psychology to using cringy memes. Can’t use them all the the time, and you need to fit the right cringe into the right place, but when you hit it, it does tend to make them remember a point they might not have.

        Much of teaching a classroom full of kids effectively involves a perverse mix of psychological warfare, manipulation, and entertainment. You should try it some time.

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    Whatever I heard you’d say today would go in my slides for tomorrow. I would be the cringiest and baddest teacher ever.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    If I started posting memes, would that make memes uncool because I’m old? Or do you specifically have to be a parent/teacher/other authority? 🤔

    You’re a bit older than I am, ain’t ya? Are you the teacher? lol