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  1. Rayne of Terror
    Rayne of Terror says:

    I text using emojis fairly often with my niece & nephew who are teens and early twenties. Then I heard on NPR (so Gen X) how some emojis have subtext, like the eggplant, which made me feel like an old 38 because I had not picked that up. SO I sent them a message to say, OMG I just mash the buttons like an old, if I sent any inappropriate messages I’m sorry. They said they didn’t know about the eggplant either, but I think they just said that to be kind to their flailing old aunt… Actually, they send GIFs a lot more than emojis now and taught me how to install various GIF keyboards so I can have the right GIF at my fingertips. My brother even asked me how my GIF game was so good.

    • karelys
      karelys says:

      My brothers do GIFs all the time. It’s hilarious.

      They’ve never been great at communicating with text. But pictures and GIFs it’s where it’s at.

      It’s amazing to me that there’s a time for everyone. Autism was elevated to almost a gift when you found almost everyone in Sillicon Valley had it and is what gave people an edge.

      I am too wordy. I talk too much at times. Maybe there was a better time to be too wordy and good at talking but not now.

  2. Lucy Chen
    Lucy Chen says:

    I think emojis are a MUST! One emoji expresses so much than a bunch of words and is much faster to text, too!

    You remind me that I have to go find better emojis for my phone.

  4. marta
    marta says:

    Very interesting post, Penelope.

    Makes me think.
    In pre-printing days, the Western world culture was still very visual: the stained glass in cathedrals all over Europe told all the stories the masses were meant to know and learn from. Only the educated had access to the written culture – both to christalyze and expand knowledge. Those were the elite. The massification of the written form provided by the printed book helped the wide, boundary-less circulation of ideas and the eventual overthrow of the Ancien Régime. The elite now is more about money and less about education.

    Who will the elite be in a world gone visual again?

    • Kina
      Kina says:

      I think graphic designers. We will probably also see an emergence of visual creative agencies that will create highly visual non-video campaigns.

      • marta
        marta says:

        Yes, those will be the jobs of the near future.

        But the elite? To distinguish itself from the masses – who have access to all kinds of visual intake and are already creating their own visual inprints – , the elite will have to possess something else…

        I just can’t figure out what.

  5. Mark W.
    Mark W. says:

    I wonder about the title of this post – “All curriculum needs more pictures and less text”. It seems to me the more pictures that are added to curriculum, the more text will be added to describe and support them. It won’t be a case of one replacing the other. It will be more of both.

  8. Mark W.
    Mark W. says:

    There’s a very good article titled – 10 Reasons Why You Should Care About Visual Content Marketing at http://neomam.com/blog/13reasons/ . Two reasons cited for the increased usage of infographics (a combination of text & images) that I thought were very applicable here are they increase understanding (at a faster rate) and they are more engaging (more interesting to those who are curious). It seems as though there would be other principles of marketing that could be applied to homeschooling to create a more optimum learning environment as well. The article cited above includes sources at the end.

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