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Teaching the Emoji Generation

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I 💕 My 🙋👦📚! My 🙋👦📚! !

10,000+ years ago this is how we communicated!

Now? Photo by Benjamin Chum

, Flic.kr/p/7YHqRJ

How do we humanize our digital

experience?

“Although an emoticon may look like a smile, a frown or

any number of facial expressions, it doesn’t

represent a face, as many internet users assume. It’s actually intended to convey a feeling (“I’m happy,” or

“just joking”).” - Lauren Collister, New Republic, 2015

“Although an emoticon may look like a smile, a frown or

any number of facial expressions, it doesn’t

represent a face, as many internet users assume. It’s actually intended to convey a feeling (“I’m happy,” or

“just joking”).” - Lauren Collister, New Republic, 2015

emoticons are quasi-nonverbal cues - Shao-Kang Lo

“You can say anything as long as you add a ;)” - William Chamberlain,

@WMChamberlain

:-) 1st emoticon in1982 email by Scott Fahlman at Carnegie Mellon University to indicate

sarcasm in text communication - Lauren Collister, New Republic, 2015

Keep your desk clean! Last time I looked, my job title didn’t include

maid. ;-)

Get students to play with tone!

Keep your desk clean! Last time I looked, my job title didn’t include

maid. !

With textspeak & emojis, students …

Translate

Decode

Summarize

Play with language

Create pictograms

Develop an international language

Add emotion to language

“… young people are reading and writing more than I ever did at their age, but they are doing it using their computers

and mobile phones … The mobile is central, and will

become even more so as time goes by.” - David Crystal

Crystal, D. (2012). On myths and mindsets. From DavidCrystal.com

TMTH

SMH

How many do you know?

LOL

🙇

BTW BRB

CU

🙅

👍 IDK

🙌

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“Literacy has always been defined by the

technology. Before the printing press, your ability to orally recite

something meant [you were] literate.”

- Nichole Pinkard

Image by Emma Buckley, Flic.kr/p/8EALt9

How do we learn more?

Emo

ji lit

era

ture

!

Emojidick.com

Penguinrandomhouse.com/series/OGS/omg-shakespeare

Guess what these emojis reveal about me!

Why should we learn English?(Interpret the emoji reasons)

Quizzes & answers in emoji!

Youtube.com/watch?v=AUpJcMTlf8E

Create emoji poetry!

Stories, E. [LOLemojistories]. (2013, Jul 22). [Tweet]. Retrieved from https://twitter.com/LOLemojistories/status/359362148683616259

Emoji polls!

Stories, E. [LOLemojistories]. (2014, March). [Tweet]. Retrieved from https://twitter.com/LOLemojistories/

Emojitranslate.com

Translate fairytales into emoji!

Youtube.com/watch?v=qjycf7h4KZM

Create emoji video lyrics!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUutvkIm61A

Writing prompts!

Emojinate.com Your turn!

Emoji word problems!

Emoji word problems!

Culture & diversity!

Blog.emojipedia.org/2015-the-year-of-emoji-diversity

Class chats!

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Cool emoji apps & sites!

Bitmoji app (iOS/Android)

www.🍕💩.ws

http://🍎🚵🍖🔥😐🐢🌻🏉.🍕💩.ws

Emojiapp.net & Guess the Emoji app

Create your own emojis with imoji app (iOS/Android)

Emojimo iOS App

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