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Use Emojis to strengthen communication in distance learning

9/28/2020

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Is it okay to use emojis when commenting on student work in distance learning? Although I have not seen any scientific study on this, I am sure that the teaching profession would be divided in this matter. Personally, I think these small symbols are a great way to strengthen communication and I use them extensively. Often we give feedback to students with different tones of voice in the classroom. Sometimes with a joke and sometimes more serious. 

When all the feedback is received as black, written words and there might be a lot of them to read, there is a risk that the students lose motivation. It is easier to reach out to the students and show your personal presence by marking the tone and expression with symbols. In addition, emojis are international and understood by everyone.I always use Emojipedia to find suitable images for Google Docs, I usually use: https://emojipedia.org/google to be sure it will be the same emoji in the comment as the one I had in mind. I simply select an emoji and press ctrl+c to copy and ctrl+v to paste, but you can also click on the emoji and select "copy" and then paste it into your comment in Google Docs.

I can imagine that there are colleagues who think it looks too informal and childish, but at the same time I think that the most important thing must be that communication works well, that it is fulfilling to take part of the feedback to make sure that the students do not lose motivation. In order to achieve that you may have to sacrifice your pride and spread some happy emojis around you.

Maria Rådstam

ICT-teacher

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MARIA RÅDSTAM

I am the technician who became a librarian, but who got tired of the quiet and peaceful life at the library and started working as a teacher. I brought with me everything I knew about databases, information retrieval and networks and soon I was an ICT-educator. Today, I work as a teacher at Komvux in Norrköping.

I have always had a nerdy great interest in technology. I can find interest in everything from robots to model railroads or the steel industry of the industrial revolution. Technology should take us forward and prevent us from everything boring. You need to dare to be somewhat lazy and ask yourself if there is no easier way to get something done. The human desire to get away is what has driven the technical development and find time for other things. Like model railroads, for instance!
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