Social Literacy?

What is that?
“An individual’s ability to successfully an deliberately mediate their
world as family members, workers, citizens and lifelong learners.”
In simpler terms, Social Literacy, or sometimes reffered to as social
intellegence, is the ability to build relationships, and maintain those
relations 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.

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Emotional Literacy is “the ability to recognize, understand and

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appropriately express our emotions.”

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Social Literacy is important because students must learn the
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necessary skills to communicate and wide their social circles.
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Communication is crucial no matter where you go. Wheter it is

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being used at home to interact with family members or at school to

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successfully expand their social circles and maintain those

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relationships.

Social Literacy Skills:

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Maintaining eye contact

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 Understanding angry feelings
 Handling confrontation
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 Collaborating ideas
 Discussion
 Ability to meet new people

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 Social Literacy and Technology
As technology begins to play a larger part of our daily interaction,
the importance of Social Literacy increases immediately.
 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.

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Social networking, online courses, job interviews.

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A majority of interaction between adolescents is done through

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technology. If students are not taught at a young age how to be
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socially literate, they may find themselves at a disadvantage in the
future. Almost every career today requires communication through
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 Reflection
Social Literacy is the ability of an individual to understand the
ways they interact to other people appropriately and with respect. This
lesson plays an important role of a learner to socialize to others and
understanding each their diversity.
This lesson really reflects to me as a learner and as a freshman
student of this university. Starting on my first day here, it made me feel
uncomfortable in socializing since I not really good at it. I am afraid of
rejection and for their judgment. For me, if I socialize I need first to

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actually not really good in making myself shine among others.

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