Teaching the Emoji Generation: 12+ Activities & Resources

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Teach with emoji literature! Great titles include Emojidick and the OMG Shakespeare series.
Students can translate literature or the quotes of famous characters into emoji. Translating the emoji would be a more engaging quiz. Here is an example of a quiz with famous first lines from literature written in emoji.
Back to school icebreaker- Students guess what emojis reveal about you and they write their own statements their peers guess!
Get students interested in the topic by posting in emoji why learn your subject or interesting facts about the subject. Students translate the emoji reasons.
Students text each other questions and answers in emoji! Watch this video example that has you guessing the TV show, Youtube.com/watch?v=AUpJcMTlf8E
Create emoji poetry! See this example here, https://twitter.com/LOLemojistories/status/359362148683616259
Emoji polls! Students ask questions that their peers answer with an emoji, like what did you do this summer? Each student can post their poll as a status update in your virtual learning environment (Edmodo, Schoology, etc.).
Students translate their favorite song lyrics or speeches into emoji and show the video! Check out this example! Youtube.com/watch?v=fUutvkIm61A
Emojitranslate.com allows you to copy and paste text and translates it into emoji for you. This is a starting tool, but students will have to add more emojis to the translation. With this tool they can begin translating modernized versions of fairytales into emoji or their own imagined stories. See this example of Frozen translated into emoji- Youtube.com/watch?v=qjycf7h4KZM
Use emojis as writing prompts! Find several example on Emojinate that gives you 5 random emojis to help students create a short story.
Have students create emoji word problems their peers translate and answer.
Emojipedia is a site for discovering what each emoji means and keeping up with the latest in emoji developments and resources.
Bitmoji app (iOS/Android)- your avatar becomes an emoji
www. .ws is an emoji url shortener! Check out this example, http:// . .ws
Emojiapp.net and Guess the Emoji app (iOS/Android) are word games where students translate emojis into words.
Students can create their own emojis with the imoji app (iOS/Android). Check out Rosco the pug’s emoji!
Emojimo iOS app helps you translate emojis and is an emoji app keyboard.