Connecting with Digital Audiences

How can we use code-switching to enhance our communication with online audiences?

What you say, and how you say it, often depends on whom you're talking to, both in person and online. The person or people you're chatting with -- and the apps or websites you're using -- affect how we communicate. Remind your students to consider their audience before they post or comment online, and help them build community and communicate effectively in the digital world.

Objectives:

• Apply the idea of code-switching to how they use phones and other devices in and outside of school.
• Consider different ways that code-switching online can make communication more meaningful and effective.
• Write an example post or message that uses code-switching to communicate with an online audience.

Vocabulary 

• code-switching 
• collaborate

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