Earlier in the semester our class heard the speaker Elizabeth
Wakefield and as she described the importance of gestures in learning and
teacher, I thought it very thought provoking that a small wake of the hand
could communicate so much. She found that gestures in teaching material allowed
for students to understand where to focus their attention at the appropriate time.
By having these extra gestures in addition to speech, telling the student how
to solve problems, these gestures helped children embed and understand the
material quicker.
She explains that gestures aren’t just exploring with your
hands but it’s the movement that enhances what you are saying or already doing,
such as saying “he went up the staircase” but you draw a spiral with your
hands. The onlooker can infer that the staircase is in fact spiral shaped.
While hand gestures can give context to meaning, there is a
new form of gestures that is taking over our lives; emojis. Emojis give inflection
where we cannot with typed words. They are able to signify how we feel, how mad
we are about something, or to draw attention to the way something ‘should’ be
said, aka how it was meant to come across. For example:
‘I’m sorry’
This small phrase can be construed in a variety of ways;
mockingly, genuinely, regretfully, disingenuously… you get the point. With out
emojis or really knowing the person there is no way to know what they are
saying. With the range of emojis forever expanding to be more customization,
there will be better and better ways to get our points and emotions across to others
around us.
Maybe, sometime far in the future, even eliminating some types of gestures all together.
link:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/more-just-text/201705/emojis-tools-emotions
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