10 reasons to use Antimatter with your students in 2024-25
We spent the summer adding the most oft-requested features for Antimatter while sprucing up many of the existing features that have made Antimatter such a hit. The result is an Antimatter that's leaner, meaner and rarin' to go for the 2024-25 school year.
Whether you're new to Antimatter or just catching up on what's new, we're here to give you the Top 10 reasons to try Antimatter with your students this school year.
1. Meme creation is a great activity for formative assessment
Teachers have been asking their students to make memes long before Antimatter. Why? Because meme creation represents the tippy top of Bloom's Taxonomy. Check out our post on the three types of learning memes or dive deeper into our PD material or Certifications course on memes for formative assessment.
2. Our activities are designed for the devices your students use
When we design features and activities, we start with a Chromebook screen, followed by iPad. When we QA our work we do it across these devices and more. We've seen students make incredibly intricate memes on even the smallest of Chromebook screens.
3. We use AI the right way
Our Sorcerer activity is beloved by teachers around the world for the way it personalizes instruction and asks questions without giving away answers. Students love to try to make their score go up. They're also often amazed at how reliably it assesses their understanding.
4. We make it as easy as possible for you to orchestrate the activity
We support every form of moderation — from hiding inappropriate content to kicking out students who insist on being disruptive. We also take care to handle all the inconveniences you might experience when running an activity, such as students joining late. We aim to empower you to focus solely on running a great classroom activity and discussion.
5. This ain't your Vice Principal's memegen
One of the things we hear most often from teachers is that their students weren't expecting such an awesome creative tool. We import the latest templates from Reddit every single day (filtered for maturity of course). And our creator this year is bigger and better than ever, having added Giphy stickers and animated creations. Many of our students come back to us as their go-to memegen beyond the classroom!
6. We support lifelong learning
For many students, activities on Antimatter are just a start. We offer students daily quizzes and quests where they can earn XP for decoding the memes from our community or creating their own.
7. You're helping your students help the world
The memes made by our student are too creative and insightful to stash away in a folder on a server somewhere. They're useful learning devices for students around the world. When you run our meme creation activities, your students' creations will live on! (Of course we curate which memes and quizzes get published to our community).
8. Students don't need to create accounts
This is new to the 2024-25 school year. As educators you're rightfully looking out for your students' privacy, and to that end we've enable your students to join activities as guests, without creating an account. In fact you can do the same as a teacher!
9. You can use our activities for short- or long-term projects
One of our proudest achievements from a 9th grade classroom in Massachusetts that memed all of All Quiet on the Western Front (yes, seriously). Teachers have consistently surprised us with their unique and creative ways of leveraging our activities.
10. We reach your very unique students
One of the things we hear from teachers when their student's meme gets featured is that they were really happy to see that brilliant and creative student get celebrated for something they're uniquely great at. Something that may not show up in test scores or other forms of assessment, but shines in a creative realm like meme creation. Memes already make the world go 'round, and nothing makes us happier than to show those students how bright their future is.