SOCIAL LITERACY

Objectives
At the end of this unit, 80% of the student should be able to:
1. Identify what is social literacy.
2. Recognize the importance of social literacy in our daily lives
3. Construct a diagram that contains their personal experiences that makes them a
social literate.

Subject Matter: Social Literacy

References : https://360430028271334326.weebly.com/how-has-social-literacy-
changed-over-time.html
: http://www.socialliteratebendick .blogspot.com/2008/03/what-is-
social- literacy.html
Materials : LCD Projector, HDMI, Laptop, box, paper
Values : The students will know how express their emotions in a proper manner
and have a good social interaction.

Introduction
“By giving people the power to share, were making the world more transparent”.
-Mark Zuckerberg
In literacy education students are not only instilled to know about something, more than
that students are taught to implement their knowledge in their lives, have values and
behavior originated in their values, so they can adjust themselves with life and create a
harmony.

Activity
Pre- Activity
How do you feel today?

Instruction:
  The class will be divided into 3 groups.
 Each group will choose 2 representatives to act or to present the given different
emotions.
 The remaining members will guess what emotions has been present by their
representative.
 Each group will be given 1 minute for this activity.
 When the group representative gets the piece of paper inside the box
automatically the time will start.
 The winning group will be the one that has the most correct answer or guess.

Analysis:
1. What comes to your mind when you hear the words social literacy?
2. How would you handle your emotions?
3. How important is social literacy in our daily lives?

Abstraction
Good morning class, so today we will be discussing about social literacy and how it
works when a person is communicating on other people.
Teachers Question Students possible answer
Class in your own understanding, what is - For me teacher, social means to
social? build a relationship with other
people.
Then what about literacy? - I think teacher literacy is the ability
to know how to read, write and to
communicate.
Okay thank you, so class what really social literacy is? Social literacy is defined as an
individual’s ability to successfully and deliberately mediate their world as family members,
workers, citizens and lifelong learners. Social Literacy is a student’s successful
performance and understanding of social skills, organizational skills, and communication
skills.
- In simple 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.
Emotional Literacy
Emotional Literacy is the ability to recognize, understand and appropriately express our
emotions.
-It is simply how we control our emotions in different situation appropriately, for example;
you are angry towards someone just because he/she didn’t give you a piece of paper for
your quiz. If you are emotional literate, you will talk to him/her about your feelings
privately, instead of posting online or start gossiping.
Why is social Literacy important?
-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.
For example: In a classroom without social literacy students cannot interact with their
classmates in a proper manner and probably will cause misunderstanding and their will
be no unity.
Social Literacy Skills
- it is an ability of individual can do to have a
good interaction with other people.
We have here four skills of Social literacy:
Maintaining Eye-contact
- First is maintaining eye contact for example as
you see in the picture they are talking face to face
without breaking their eye contact to maintain
their conversation.

Understanding Angry Feelings

-Second is understanding angry feelings,
example when your teacher is angry because you
are very noisy so must keep quiet and listen
attentively.

Handling Confrontation
-Third is handling confrontation, for example, if
you confront someone say it in a pleasant way to
avoid misunderstanding.

Collaborating Ideas
-Fourth is collaborating ideas, for example in a
classroom you have a group activity in order for you
to finish the tasks everyone should cooperate or
give their ideas about the given task.
Discussion
-Fifth is discussion, for example in a tutorial class,
everyone can state their question and their
teacher is the one who will answer those question
with an explanation.

Ability to meet new people

-And the last one is the ability to meet new people,
you need to be friendly and approachable to meet
different kind of people, example you’re a transferee
student, in order for you to have friends of course
you need to talk to them in a nice way.

Social Literacy and Technology

As technology begins to play a larger part of our daily interactions, the importance of
Social Literacy increases immensely.
-We need to teach you 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.

How can we incorporate social literacy into the classroom?

- So we have two ways to incorporate social literacy

1. Ways to incorporate social literacy

online:

BLOGGING
-First is through blogging students learn how
to effectively use the internet and share their
thoughts and knowledge appropriately.
Reading classmates blog posts and
responding helps students learn from others
and gives them access to others ideas, as
well as a chance to constructively respond.
CLASS WEBSITE
-Second is through class website it is
extremely useful in teaching students how
to use and navigate on the internet.
Keeping students updated on class
happenings, as well as giving student’s
opportunity to write and contribute on the
class website will teach them useful skills
in communicating on the internet.

VIDEO CONFERENCING
-Third is through video conferencing it has
endless possibilities. Whether it is
conferencing with a professional in the
community, or students from a culture across
the world, it opens up a realm of social
interaction that can teach students so much
about people in the world around them.

SOCIAL NETWORKING
-And lastly is through social networking in
this site it gives student opportunities to know
and learn about people all over the world in
a matter of seconds. Encouraging students
to meet people of other cultures and learn about social issues around the world is a
priceless opportunity-and we are so blessed to have sites like these to make it happen.

2. Ways to incorporate social literacy in a face to face environment:

GROUP PROJECTS
-First we have group projects, through this
the students will have opportunities to
interact face to face and experience social
interactions. It is so crucial that students
learn to interact with people effectively and
contribute their part.

PEER REVIEWING
-Second we have peer reviewing, it teaches
students how to give constructive advice
and communicate their thoughts well. To be
able to give constructive criticism and view
another person’s ideas is an important
ability.
FIELD TRIPS

-Third is we have field trips for example:

taking students to a museum or to volunteer
in an area in need could help students open
their eyes and learn about different
societies. On any field trip, even learning
how to travel in groups, communicate with
people in charge, and work together as a
group will be effective in teaching students
to be socially literate.

How has social literacy changed over time?

-In the past, social literacy was understood as a student’s ability to communicate in social
settings. This definition broadened and continues to broaden into more and more social
realms. Over time, and especially recently, social settings are changing from just a face
to face environment. For students to competently interact socially and communicate
effectively includes a newer and very present realm: the internet. Understanding how to
communicate appropriately and use technology effectively in our social lives is so
important in today’s world. We as teachers are responsible for using technology as an
advantage and fully using its benefits to improve social literacy even further.

Application
A. Post- Activity
HANDLE ME!
Instruction: With the same group, each group will be given a situation that you
need to act and handle. You need to do the task within 2 minutes each group, 1
minute to plan and 1 minute to act.

Situation 1: supposed one of your classmates failed his/her subject and you
together with your friends saw him/her crying on the hallway. What will you do?

Situation 2: one of your friends stops schooling because of some family

problems, as a close friend, how you would encourage your friend not to stop
and continue to go to school.

Situation 3: you saw an old woman you is walking at the street, she didn’t where
to go. A bus full of passenger is approaching her. What will you do?

B. Quiz

Identify whether the situation is a social literate or not. Write SL if it is Social

Literate and NSL if it is not.
1. You are at the restaurant and you saw your sister sitting alone. She is so
engrossed with what she is doing and does not even bother to look at you
when you sit beside her.
2. Your father is watching the news on TV Patrol.
3. You have gone beyond your curfew. Your mother opens the door and look at
the wall clock.
 4. Your teacher says, “Turn off all cellphones before entering the room”.
5. Your younger brother asked you to help him with his assignment.
6. Jean message her friend Janine in Facebook that she can’t go to her birthday
party tomorrow because she is sick.
7. You are thinking deeply what you will become 10 years from now.
8. The teacher taps the student on the shoulder when she catches him using his
cellular phone in the class.
9. On Saturday evening while having dinner with the family, you could not seem
to take place in the conversation. You were thinking of your log exam in Math
the following day.
10. You pass-by in the center of a two teacher talking to each other without
knowing because you are busy talking to your phone. You say, ‘Sorry’ after
you found out.

Assignment:
In a short bond paper, construct a diagram that contains at least 5 personal experiences
that makes you a social literate person.

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