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Interactive Meme Pedagogies.

I would like to float the idea of using a partially prepared meme as the starting point for a student to commence work on say a Cert IV multimedia project. It works like this:

[1] A student, or group are given the keys to a blog [username and password] that has a selection of prepared multimedia residing in it.

[2] Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to breath some digital life into this meme.

[3] Both the trainer and the trainee develop assessment rubrics for the moderation [marking] of this work.

This model is not "Learn This", it's "Lets see how you can grow/evolve/mutate/steer this given meme."

In the "Chimeric Memes" blog I present a meme to you as an example of how I would, at this time, present the meme theme to a student, as a piece of work for Cert IV Interactive Multimedia. And I want you to imagine how such a learning object could flourish in the memestreme.

Life [being talked about, replicated, transacted etc] and Death [being ignored] in the Metaverse.  I think it was Oscar Wilde who said 'There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.'

We need to have a look at this Meme concept 

That being said, I would now like to briefly explore the concept of Memes; what they are and how we may fuse them into current pedagogical approaches.

Universal Darwinism

If there's something thats copied, with variation, and its selected for, then you MUST get design appearing out of Knowhere... you can't stop it!

Susan Blackmore emphasized the word "must" in this sentence

The principle applies to anything that is copied with variation and selection.

Richard Dawkins in his 1976 best seller "The Selfish Gene" applied this to the construct of 'Language', an inaugural cultural meme if ever there was one.

Any information that is varied and selected will produce design.

Look around you, we copy so much from one another, Oscar Wilde said that "imitation is the most sincere form of flattery". It's also, ipso facto, self-selecting - with chinese whisper like variation.

I want to bring it across to students interacting with a memestreme.

i.e. Here's seeds of multimedia about Simpsons gap that I have placed in a blog.  here's the username and password.  Go and grow it...imitate it, expand on it, induce others to critique it.

Ancient Greek mimeme, shortened to meme; "That which is imitated."