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  I love the impressiveness of VR headsets .... it really helps you get your head in the game. HAHA!  In this unit, we talked about the use of video games and virtual reality in the classroom. Video games have evolved tremendously over the past few years. They have become more realistic and more common, Originally started as you playing by yourself and now you can play with any number of people, people from all over the world. And now, they are bringing video games into the classroom as a new educational tool. One thing we mainly touched on was video games in ELA classrooms. "...Video games serve as the locus of a host of other literacy practices such as essay and review writing, digital art-making, and video production," Brady L. Nash wrote in an article we read in class. Games have done more good in the classroom than most people realize. Some just say that it poisons young children's minds. But that isn't going to stop them from playing, so why not make it educatio...

  Haha... see what I did... I used a meme because we are talking about memes. Anyway, this entire unit focused on social media in the classroom. At first glance, when I thought of this I was expecting a bunch of articles just dissing social media because it is so unliked by many. But really, it was articles that showed how much social media has positively affected the classrooms. The kids who are in the classrooms are a generation who grew up with technology their whole lives, and they are being taught by a generation who didn't. I believe that is it important for teachers to do the best they can to teach in a way that is relevant to their students. Meaning, create lessons that their students can relate to. We talked about this last unit so now I'm getting behind, but I do find it really cool that teachers are bringing memes into the classroom because they do so much more than just give us a laugh Through this unit, I learned that memes can be way more educational than I though...