'Meme-ingful Education. How to Teach Languages With Memes' by Alevtina Popova

About the talk: To modernize and adapt educational content to resonate with today's learners' needs, teachers should rely on the tool provided by the digital world: memes. Educators have to evolve by transforming our teaching methods to make education engaging and relevant. Incorporating internet culture and memes into academic content, we can create a more dynamic and relatable learning experience for students. Then our classrooms will ensure they are worth the time for future generations. Memes can make learning fun and meaningful by integrating modern, media-based content into our teaching practices.

About the speaker: Alevtina Popova is an entrepreneur, a third-generation language teacher, author and TEDx speaker. Alevtina has co-run a language school since 2001. In 2022 she came up with an idea of meme-ingful education and has written 2 books about it. Alevtina stands for making education more accessible for students on top of being a mother to two bilingual children.