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By: Anna Kue
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Emotional Literacy
Emotional Literacy is "the ability to recognize, understand and appropriately express our emotions."
What Does that Mean?
In simpler terms, Social Literacy, or sometimes referred to as social intelligence, is the ability to build relationships, and maintain those relationships in any social environment.
In order to be successful, Social Literacy involves knowing how to express one's own emotions in a proper manner, and therefore, is often linked to Emotional Literacy.
Social Literacy?
What is that?!
Why is Social Literacy Important?
Being Socially Literate as an Adult with Technology
"An individual's ability to successfully and deliberately mediate their world as family members, workers, citizens and lifelong learners."
Social Literacy is important because students must learn the necessary skills to communicate and widen their social circles.
Communication is crucial no matter where you go. Whether it is being used at home to interact with family members or at school to discuss with peers, being socially literate allows students to successfully expand their social circles, and maintain those relationships.
Social Literacy and Technology
Social networking, online courses, job interviews.
A majority of interaction between adolescents is done through technology. If students are not taught at a young age how to be socially literate, they may find themselves at a disadvantage in the future. Almost every career today requires communication through technology.
As technology begins to play a larger part of our daily interaction, the importance of Social Literacy increases immensely.
- Teaching students to become socially literate, and how to express themselves correctly can help to prevent bullying over the internet.
- It can also aid students in handling their friendships and miscommunications better (on or off the internet).
- Communicating through technology also becomes more frequent as students grow and enter adulthood.
Social Literacy Skills
- Maintaining eye contact
- Understanding angry feelings
- Handling confrontation
- Collaborating ideas
- Discussion
- Ability to meet new people