Using Emojis in the Classroom

Who would have thought that you could affectively and academically apply emoji use in teaching and learning!? I didn’t, that’s for sure; but I stumbled upon an interesting article explaining the ways one academic has found them to be very useful in her research and teaching! The article Why I use emoji in research and teaching by Jennifer Fane at The Conversation is well worth a read if you are interested in finding out useful ways of bringing emojis into your class.

For more ideas on how to implement emojis in the classroom, check out some of these articles

Using Emojis to Teach Critical Reading Skills

Emojis in the Classroom 

5 Ways to use Emojis in the Classroom

Literacy is the Answer

Just found an interesting TED Talk on why literacy is so important to everyone in society! It can unlock the door to so many opportunities!

Look What You Made Me Do – Decoding Taylor Swifts New Music Video

Shaking up her image after a serious of public battles with celebrities like Katy Perry and Kanye West, Taylor Swift has dropped her new song Look What You Made Me Do for her upcoming album Reputation.

Judging by the lyrics and accompanying music video,  Swift is set to be taking this album in a very different direction to her previous, 1989. A number of references are made to her relationships and fueds, and the video is heavily loaded with symbolism and connections to her past. Have a look at the video for yourself and read some of the articles below to help you understand the secret hidden messages she has packed into the song!

Rolling Stone – “Taylor Swift’s ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ Video Decoded: 13 Things You Missed

The Daily Telegraph – Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do video: All The References Explained

 Elle – Actually, the Old Taylor Swift Is Alive and Well

Welcome

Welcome to my blog exploring literacy and its presence in the everyday!

This blog will be used to explore the topic of literacy and the approaches that are taken by people, myself included, when creating and interpreting meanings in communication of the contemporary society. This will be explored through a range of modalities to demonstrate just how diverse and wide-reaching literacy is in the everyday lives of the modern produsers of literacy.

Some of the questions that my investigation into literacy will explore includes:

• What is literacy?
• What does it mean to use literacies in 2017?
• What literacy practices do you engage with regularly?
• How do you use literacy practices? Are you a ‘produser’?
• How does your use of particular literacy practices reflect your own schooling history?

By exploring these links which my blog will be organised under, insight into the diverse and varied nature of literacy will be explored using a range of mediums. In particular, the concept will be examined in relation to my own experiences and understandings of literacy, and with reference to literary sources and content knowledge developed in the Educ1707 course.