Using emoji at school ‘could improve language skills’

[mike_field]

http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/15/using-emoji-at-school-could-improve-language-skills-6782137/

Using smiley face, poo and broken heart emoji at school may sound like a strange idea but it could improve children’s language skills, according to an expert.

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:26:

Easier than teaching kids the nuances of language and the proper formulation of a sentence I guess. Why use metaphor and simile when you can draw a shit to make yourself understood.

:26:

Oh maybe they have a point?

 

[Stephen Jay Hawkings]

Wat R u takn bout miK?

 

[mike_field]

wil xplan 2morow

 

[kefkat]

We have lots of emojo's on here. Perhaps they can use VV as a template :13:

 

[CDX_EIRE]

Hilarious

Neil DeGrasse Tyson said it is literally a move toward illiteracy.

 

[BodyButter]

I'd fire any of my teachers who let their students write using emojis.

 

[col8]

BodyButter - 16/7/2017 05:48

I'd fire any of my teachers who let their students write using emojis.

2 :150: honest only :146: will tell if the :113: is correct or they are :6: bollox
:86:

 

[kefkat]

Col :21: :22: :54: 2 :56: :88: :144:

 

[col8]

Kef :90:

 

[lewis1980]

Surely teaching kids other languages, particularly those with other alphabets and sentence structures would prove more useful?

 

[mike_field]

Teaching some of them proper English would be a good start. I have no idea why Education persists with trying to be so complicated...teach the basics, give them a grounding and set them up for life then those more academic will follow that route, those less academic will follow other routes.

Everyone deserves the chance to be good at what they are good at, but this preconception everybody is the same is a mockery.

 

[The Fear]

I think it's a fair point, this is me getting my views over in Las Vegas...!

 

[mike_field]

Come on JF, you're even that disgusted with yourself you're crying!

 

[The Fear]

I can assure you I was soooo funny we all wept tears of total joy.

 

[Pride of Lions]

When I went to school there was no such thing as emojis and I managed alrught.......

:91:

 

[mike_field]

Wept tears of joy, you mean you were that drunk you pissed yourself?

PoL I agree alrught! lol

 

[JuanPabloAngel]

Apparently, it was National Emoji Day today.

I shit you not.