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Download full textMarja-Leena Rönkkö; Juli-Anna Aerila; Tuula Stenius – Design and Technology Education, 2025
This study explores humour's role in a holistic craft process when 7-8-year-olds design personalised soft toys. Humour enhances learning environments by fostering joy, belonging and a positive atmosphere, acting as a motivational tool in experiential and arts-based learning. The study aims to answer the following questions: (1) What are the…
Descriptors: Humor, Toys, Handicrafts, Young Children
Direct linkTheamishaugur – Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2009
In a remix of the infamous Hitler meme--taking a scene from the movie, "Downfall" (2005), and adding subtitles appropriate (in this case) for "Kairos" readers--theamishaugur makes a pointed, humorous (to some) commentary on the status of multimodal composition scholars in English departments during job market season.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Writing (Composition), Multimedia Materials, Writing Instruction
Gainer, Jesse S.; Valdez-Gainer, Nancy; Kinard, Timothy – Reading Teacher, 2009
This article addresses issues surrounding critical media literacy using popular culture texts. The authors focus on the example of their work with a fourth-grade class involved in a project to unpack the messages of popular media and advertising texts. This project, which they call the Elementary Bubble Project, was inspired by guerilla artist Ji…
Descriptors: Advertising, Popular Culture, Humor, Media Literacy
Mazer, Joseph P.; Murphy, Richard E.; Simonds, Cheri J. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
Research suggests that teachers who personalize their teaching through the use of humor, stories, enthusiasm, and self-disclosure are perceived by their students to be effective in explaining course content. This experimental study examined the effects of computer-mediated teacher self-disclosure on perceptions of teacher credibility. Participants…
Descriptors: Course Content, Credibility, Computer Mediated Communication, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
Pavlekovic, Margita, Ed.; Kolar-Begovic, Zdenka, Ed.; Kolar-Super, Ruzica, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
The universities and faculties which educate teachers of mathematics for teaching pupils/students of any age group from pre-school age to higher education carefully monitor and compare valuable results of this research, detect the areas in which the mathematical achievements of pupils should be improved at the national level and propose the ways…
Descriptors: Operations Research, Geometric Concepts, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction
Dormann, Claire; Biddle, Robert – Learning, Media & Technology, 2006
This paper focuses on the benefits and utilisation of humour in digital game-based learning. Through the activity theory framework, we emphasise the role of humour as a mediating tool which helps resolve contradictions within the activity system from conjoining educational objectives within the computer game. We then discuss the role of humour…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Humor, Teaching Methods, Computers
Liljedahl, Peter, Ed.; Oesterle, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2011
This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Mathematics Education, Textbooks, Performance Based Assessment
