This document provides an overview of a webinar on teaching English to the "selfie generation". The webinar objectives are to define the selfie generation, discuss opinions about it, review terms related to selfies, examine selfie popularity among Moldovan students, and learn activities involving selfies for English classes. The webinar will discuss understandings of the term "selfie generation", behaviors of selfie-takers like narcissism and individualism, popular selfie types, and selfie usage statistics. Suggested activities include having students create selfie-related content like phone backgrounds and playlists. Resources for additional lessons on selfies will also be shared.

1. TEACHING ENGLISH TO
SELFIE GENERATION
META Webinars Season 4.1
January 16, 2017 // 16:00 – 17:20
Presenter: Irina POMAZANOVSCHI, META President

2. Webinar Objectives:
Be the end of the webinar participants will be able to:
1. Define “selfie generation” and state its basic features;
2. Formulate their own opinion about the selfie generation;
3. Name most popular coinages of the word selfie;
4. Find out when the first selfie was taken and discuss the
popularity of selfies among Moldovan students;
5. Learn about possible activities with selfies during English classes.

3. META Webinars SEASON 4
Overview
What to expect?
 4-5 webinars each month
 Interesting topics +
enthusiastic speakers + ideas
worth trying in class
 Pre- and post-webinar tasks
 Final project
 At least 75%
attendance+active
participation and 2
certificates guaranteed

4. HOW DO YOU
UNDERSTAND THE TERM
“SELFIE GENERATION”?
People have called
selfie-takers Gen Y,
Millennials or
Generation Selfie.
the “iGeneration,” or
“Generation Me“
“self comes first”
time of “narcissism epidemic
“the current generation “one of the most self-centered, narcissistic, competitive, confident
and individualistic in recent history”

5. THE SELF(IE) GENERATION
A survey by the Pew Research Center finds that millennials are drifting away from
traditional institutions — political, religious and cultural.
Younger people in general are less likely to say that they are patriotic or religious, but
the gap between millennials and previous generation is greater than the gap between
most other generations.

6. Selfie-taking is merely another
way to "write" contemporary
conversation.
Selfie cultivates a visual culture
because it shows not tells how
you’re feeling, where you are,
what you are doing.
We're in the middle of a selfie-
addiction crisis that could be
turning many 20-somethings
into narcissists who lack human
warmth and connection.
The narcissist culture on
cyberspace has firmly
established itself.
Agree / Disagree
Selfies make up 30% of the photos
taken by people aged 18-24

7. DISCUSSION POINT
1. What is a selfie?
2. Why do people take selfies?
3. Do you take selfies? When? Where?
4. Are selfies popular in Moldova? What do you think of this trend?

9. Are you selfie ready?
 The popularity of the word “selfie” can also be
gauged from the fact that Oxford Dictionaries
announced it as the “word of the year” for 2013.

11. A search on Instagram retrieves almost
270,000,000 images uploaded with #selfie
A selfie taken by Ellen
Degeneres during the
86th Academy Awards broke
the record of most re-tweeted
image, being shared more
than 2,000,000 times before
the ceremony was over and
causing Twitter to collapse for
a short time.

14. Enjoy REAL Life and REAL Friends!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkdJkDicFrk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcRm5uH_rHA

15. Vincent van Gogh,
Self-Portrait, c. 1887,
oil on canvas
Lady Portrait Painting
on Celluloid
Photographic film and
digital media

18. LINGUISTIC PRODUCTIVITY
 helfie (a picture of one’s hair)
 belfie (a picture of one’s posterior);
 a particular activity – welfie (workout selfie)
 drelfie (drunken selfie),
 items of furniture – shelfie and bookshelfie.
multiple interpretations:
 delfie (where the d could stand for dad, dog, double, or rather
inexplicably dead)
 melfie, with the m being explained as Monday, moustache, male,
or mum.

19. LINGUISTIC PRODUCTIVITY
 One of the more popular offshoots is legsie, where the photograph is of
a person’s outstretched legs, often with a suitably glamorous
background visible.

20. If You Thought Selfie Sticks Made You Look
Ridiculous, Get Ready for Selfie Shoes!

21. EFL ACTIVITIES WITH
SELFIE

25. -

27.  1. wallpaper – sketch the character’s cell phone wallpaper with colored
pencils. Then, explain why this image choice would appeal to the
character.
 2. e-mail- this character has just received 2 messages. Thinking back over
the reading, explain which other characters just sent messages to this
character and what is the content of each message.
 3. playlist – what three songs would likely be on this character’s playlist. Be
sure to explain your choice as to why these three songs would appeal to
this character.
Choose one of the characters and complete
the three steps to show what might have
been on the person’s cell phone. Be sure
your answers are written in complete
sentences.

29. Additional EFL Resources
1. Death by Selfie: a conversation lesson -
https://ricardobarroselt.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/death-by-selfie-a-conversation-
lesson/
2. Selfie-Film http://film-english.com/2014/10/06/selfie/
3. The Truth about Selfies and Your Personality - http://esl-voices.com/the-truth-
about-selfies-and-your-personality/
4. Macmillan Dictionary BuzzWord: selfie (Lesson plan) -
http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/vocabulary/macmillan-dictionary-
buzzword/macmillan-dictionary-buzzword-selfie/552919.article
5. The Selfie Revolution http://www.linguahouse.com/worksheet/the-selfie-
revolution/a22fa054-458f-c564-1111-65628a4e5f71/e868c928-d88e-d0f4-61c0-
e5fb9ac144bd/7/the-selfie-
revolution.html?goBack=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5saW5ndWFob3VzZS5jb20vZXNsLWxlc3
Nvbi1wbGFucy9nZW5lcmFsLWVuZ2xpc2gvYTIyZmEwNTQtNDU4Zi1jNTY0LTExMTEt
NjU2MjhhNGU1ZjcxL3RoZS1zZWxmaWUtcmV2b2x1dGlvbi5odG1s
6. Database of resources on SELFIE: http://www.henry4school.fr/Sciences/selfies.htm

30. Moldovan English Teachers’ Association is planning its
annual international conference on the 28-30 of April, 2017.
The general topic of the conference is
“Teaching English to “Selfie” Generation”.
contact us for additional details:
meta.conference@gmail.com
The conference subtopics are as follows:
•Multimedia and web tools in EFL/ESL
•Academic Integrity
•Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers
•Teaching Adults in the 21st century
•Teaching Culture at the EFL/ESL lessons
•Teaching Skills for exams
•Translation Studies
•Teacher Training and Teacher Development and others
We would be extremely glad and honored if
you choose to join our Conference!
Sponsors, partners are also welcome to contribute!
Speakers’ form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd56th-
4zrQ75WbNf1yd1I6aNwVkokrbXTDHV9kY7-2kWqGpw/viewform

31. What to expect from 2017 META Conference?
• Learn how to make your classroom activities more interactive,
support literacy and focus on academic integrity;
• Find out useful tips on how to teach English in the most effective
way English to digital natives, “Selfie” generation;
• Gain ideas for assessment using appropriate apps to monitor
students’ progress;
• Connect with like-minded educators from all over the world.

33. Post webinar task
 Take a Selfie of you
and your students –
be creative!
 Post it to our
Facebook group and
provide a one
paragraph
introduction: who are
you and your
students, what do you
have in common.
 What song would you
associate with your
selfie? Explain why?

34. References:
 “I, Me, My Selfie Generation!”
http://www.caleidoscope.in/nostalgiphilia/selfie-generation
 “The Self(ie) Generation” , Charles M. Blow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/opinion/blow-the-self-ie-
generation.html?_r=0
 History Of The Selfie: A Photo Phenomenon
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-
york/articles/history-of-the-selfie-a-photo-phenomenon/
 The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2013 is ‘selfie’
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/11/word-of-the-year-
2013-winner/
 Страсть к селфи, лайкам и репостам: что за этим стоит
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selfi-lajkam-i-repostam-chto-za-etim-stoit.html

35. THANK YOU FOR
ATTENTION!
Any questions?
metawebinar@gmail.com