TASK 6 – AMY Jaziennicki
You were right, so many people did choose the Netflix hit: Squid Games.
I found it way too daunting to try and use emojis to illustrate the entire series- so I took the assignment more literal when you asked, “pick the last show you watched”. I therefore chose the last episode. Even the season finale was almost too much to translate orthographically. Amy also used her iPhone Notepad, as did I, so the emoticons were the same. Some phones produce totally different emoticons and I am sometimes lost because they begin to look foreign in a way.
Amy chose to illustrate the entire series, which she did so with great skill. Even though I have seen the series, I was reading her emotions out loud and the story I was vocalizing turned out to match most of the plot to the entire series.
I found her use of the numbers “1-6” really helped me understand how she organized the system of the games. Numbers are emojis, but they are also numbers- so they communicate a more direct message, in some ways.
It also helped that Amy included the Korean flag. It was a dead give away after I saw that I was able to make a solid guess. Amy’s post made me reconsider my pedagogical lens a bit. I often think I don’t want to put too much on the plates of my students, and usually give them ‘small pieces’ of assignments to digest. However, Amy proved that setting up parameters, especially with a skill and literacy students are more comfortable with, shouldn’t be my angle. I need to remember that the generation of learners today, Generation Z, communicate in this multimodal way. I shouldn’t be limiting communication- rather elaborating the avenues to communicate.
