This article will explore various emoji activity ideas for teachers, demonstrating how these colorful symbols can transform traditional lessons into engaging and memorable educational adventures.

First Known Use: 1997 Etymology: Many assume the word emoji has roots in emotion, but the resemblance is purely coincidental. It actually comes from the Japanese for picture (絵, pronounced eh), plus ...

It's been a while since we've experimented with some fun tech tricks, so here: On this lovely Friday, I present to you eight emoji hacks you need to know, for the simple reason that there's so ...

Oxford Dictionaries made history on Monday by announcing that their “Word of the Year” would not be one of those old-fashioned, string-of-letters-type words at all. The flag their editors are ...

Oxford Dictionaries chose an emoji as its 2015 Word of the Year. Even by Oxford's own definition, it is just not a word: It's an emoticon or a pictograph, argues philosopher Alva Noë.

A new data set on the popularity of emoji reveals a problem with Unicode's approval process, along with a way to fix it.

Every year, Oxford Dictionaries’ lexicographers chose a word that captures the year’s biggest trends or changes in the English language. The organization knew it wanted to pick an emoji for 2015.

Oxford Dictionary announced this week that the 2015 Word of the Year is not a word at all but an emoji – more specifically the ‘face with tears of joy’ emoji.

The true word of the year in 2015 should be the rat emoji. No, it shouldn’t be “rat.” “Rat” has too many meanings, too many shadings — it’s both a verb and a noun, for starters.

Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year is as much about capturing the cultural zeitgeist as it is reflecting the evolution of the English language, and that's truer than ever in 2015. For the first ...

The eight new emojis coming to your iPhone have been officially revealed, and one is already dividing Apple fans.