Literacy

Literacy & Education

Literacy & Relationships

What is the best reading strategy to aid comprehension/ understanding?

Literacy & Technology

Memes

How do memes aid communication?

Social Media

How does social media aid or hinder communication?

Cell phones

Why do teenagers prefer texting over calling?

How do people communicate?

How does body language help us communicate?

What does it mean to be literate in today's society? It means you can speak the language everyone else speaks. It shows you're intelligent.

Where/ how are students struggling with literacy? Why?

The use of an upclose image of a face is an often image used with memes. Often, it is an image we have already seen, but simply zoomed in on the face or eyes. Maybe this is us trying to look deeper into the eyes and get a greater understanding of what the person is feeling.

Is anything lost when texting vs. calling?

Here is a piece of writing that explores the different ways of communication on social media and online: "I love Internet grammar I love how “you what mate” is an incredulous question but “u wot m8” is an invitation to fight I love how straight people are different to Straight People I love how smol is so much smaller than small I live how thiS, tHIS and THIS are all different in my mind i luv how dis spelling make sarcasm I love how haha, lol and lmao are completely different emotions I love how….. This…. Makes everything… So much more dramatic???? Tone is so hard to convey in writing u go lil buddies you go" -
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Memes are oftentimes the satirification of serious, important, or controversial subjects. Although this oftentimes can demean the argument of one side of a debate, it can also bring to light the ridiculousness of what one argument is saying.

Why is it so hard to create original sentences?

Why are people shy?

How do people know how to avoid another with body language and get a good result?

Why are some people easily embarrassed?

also this is an impressive use of onomatopoeia and somehow works

Why is swearing bad for communication? #%#%$#

Why are people in NY more likely to use hand gestures?

When do people start to develop their own writing voice?

This is a poem that uses memes in order to finish its endings. This shows how widespread and known these pieces of information are.

here is another example

This meme is in a language other than english, but people who can only speak english, (such as myself) can also understand what it is saying. Memes are a way for people to communicate through language barriers and share a laugh.