Keeping kids' attention is not easy these days, especially in school. Pairing the short attention spans of children with all of the distracting technology out there makes it really difficult for teachers to teach. Teachers need to work harder to keep kids engaged with learning, they need to connect with them on a personal level, and somehow become cooler than their phones and social media. It is not an easy task.

Teachers have struggled with kids and distractions for years now. Kids don't think teachers are cool, and even the so-called cool teachers have kids who just don't get it. Some teachers and other professionals have developed an "if you can't beat them, join them" mentality. Internet slang and trends have started to appear in school hallways and classrooms, but it just isn't working the way they want it to.

Here, we have collected 25 images of times teachers used memes and other forms of online and Internet culture in their classrooms to try and grab and maintain kids' attention. Did they work?