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This article acknowledges the growing prevalence of instant messaging and text messaging in today's society. It reveals the two different beliefs of how these new forms of communication affect writing. One belief is that it has caused a "breakdown of the English language" from the use of abbreviations and lack of punctuation. The second is that students have been encouraged to write more and that it is helping them practice their literacy skills. These technologies can be used as learning tools, but the problem is that students have a hard time distinguishing when to use informal and when to use formal writing. The challenge now is how to teach children how to use this new tool for literacy.

Schwartz, Nancy E. "Communicating Nutrition and Dietetic Issues." Journal of the American Dietetics Association 96.11 (1996): 1137-1139. Web. 20 Nov. 2010. This article talks about the lack of nutrition that people have. A lot of people are unaware of the importance of nutrition and how it can help you. It explains how nutrition can come to grow and how you can involve more of it in your everyday lives.

Wolman, David. "The autie advantage." New Scientist 206.2758 (2010): 32-35. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. This article talks about the advantages some autistic people have that others don't realize. Autistic people have what is diagnose as "triad of impairments". These impairments are in communication, social interaction, and imagination. Researchers have studied that autistic people, although think differently, think in a better way. Some ways that autism is looked at as an advantage is in memory, thought process, sensitivity to musical pitch, strength, and more rational decision making. Autistic people are better at 3D dimension and are able to do tasks quickly and more efficiently. They do not have a theory of mind, meaning they cannot distinguish the difference between truth and lies or understand that people have different beliefs to yourself. This article is trying to explain more positive sides of autism, rather than the negative.

Nemeth, Dezso, et al. "Learning in Autism: Implicitly Superb." PLoS ONE 7 (2010): 1-7. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. Autistic people have memory and learning impairments, but recently researchers have studied how implicit learning in ASD is affected as well. ASD stands for Autism Spectrum Disorder, which includes social, motor, and communicative impairments. Implicit learning is the developing of a skill or information without consciousness to what was learned. Neurocognitive (thought) studies, and implicit cognition (unconcious influences such as knowledge) studies have received less attention. Studies have shown that children with Asberger's syndrome have better cognitive abilities that children with normal autism. Autistic children are more likely to forget the skills they have learned over the long term, but can use the results of implicit learning over a long period of time. ASD children compared to controlled show similar learning patterns in specific and general skill learning.

Bruce, Barbro, Gunilla Thernlund, and Ulrika Nettelbladt. "ADHD and language impairment." European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 15.1 (2006): 52-60. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. The article gives the reader the results from a questionaire sent to the parents of children with ADHD. The results from the parents showed that children struggled communicating with others due to their symptoms. Also, the kids had problems comprehending what they read. The children then had major problems in school with reading and writing aspects. The results showed that language comprehension is related to the learning and social problems of children with ADHD.

"Literacy & Deaf Students." Gallaudet Research Institute (GRI). Gallaudet University, 30 Oct. 2003. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. . Gallaudet University is a Deaf university that does research within the Deaf community. This article looks at literacy of highschool deaf students.

"Deaf Literacy: Research Highlights." EMSTAC. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. . This is a tool that guides teachers on how to teach English to Deaf students.

Romanello, Mary L., and Malissa Martin. "Information Literacy in Athletic Training: A Problem-Based Approach." Athletic Therapy Today 11.3 (2006): 40-43. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 2 Nov. 2010. Sports and literacy are connected in this article, which talks about literacy in the sporting world and its importance. It mentions literacy in regards to working as an athletic trainer and effectively communicating with athletes. It shows that literacy is essential in the sporting world. Involvement in athletic training should come with great physical literacy skills.

This article talks about how it is time to expose students to the concepts of law. this will make them more educated on various issues that influence them in their lives. This will give them the tools to make right decisions from now on. Reboussin, Beth A., et al. "Geographic clustering of underage drinking and the influence of community characteristics." Drug & Alcohol Dependence 106.1 (2010): 38-47. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010.

Comeaux, Eddie, and C. Keith Harrison. "Faculty and male student athletes: racial differences in the environmental predictors of academic achievement." Race, Ethnicity & Education 10.2 (2007): 199-214. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. This article is talking about how outside environmental variables affect the academic achievements of college athletes. It also talks about the varying types of athlete to faculty interaction. A certain study shows that black and white athletes do not benefit equally from this interaction. The author is inferring that black and white athletes are treated much differently, in some situations at least. Faculty and students are now discussing how to fix this problem in order to improve communication and the experience of college athletics.

When a food magazine steals a writer's story, Facebook and Twitter lash back -- hilariously An article about what can happen when people outside of the academic community plagiarize.

Banks, James A. "Educating Global Citizens in a Diverse World." New Horizons for Learning. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This text discusses all the necessary reasons to become involved with global and multicultural education and obtain knowledge from the different cultures, languages, religions and racial and ethnic groups. Because of the growth of cultures throughout the world, citizenship education needs to be changed in order to educate students how to function in today's interdependent society and global culture. Student's need the knowledge, attitudes and skills required to function in their cultural communities.

Guerin, Stephen H. "Internationalizing the Curriculum: Improving Learning Through International Education: Preparing Students for Success in a Global Society." Community College Journal of Research & Practice; Aug2009, Vol. 33 Issue 8, p611-614, 4p Still in view of international education, this article looks at how the education being received by the students here, although thought to be globalized, is actually really only nationalized. They did a survey of the curriculum's of various schools which have a strong international student base and found this to be true. All in all it proves its point that the notion of an international education actually most times does not do much in the way of preparing the students for an international or global education.

Talks about how police officers raided underage teens who were drinking illegally at a party in Naperville, Illinois. The police issued a citation to all the underage drinkers. they also cited Garrison Wood for being at a party where there was underage drinking. It then goes into another case where a girl got in trouble for driving home her two friends who were drinking. Party Off?." Current Events 104.2 (2004): 3. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010.

Henderson, Paulette A. ""Is everybody getting it?": Sustained support for English as a second language students." About Campus 14.4 (2009): 8-15. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article is about English as a Second Language (ESL), and the experiences of international students in understanding English in their first year in American universities. Both professors and students talk about their own experiences and how the professors can help them understand the materials that been taught in class. every international student is working twice compared to most American students.first they have to overcame the language barrier,and then they have to understand the material benign taught in class.

Chandler-Olcott, Kelly, and Paula Kluth. "Why Everyone Benefits From Including Students With Autism in Literacy Classrooms." Reading Teacher 62.7 (2009): 548-557. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. The autism growth rate in normal classrooms has gone up about 5%, so teachers are now more straightforward with their literacy teachings. For autistic kids to develop literacy skills, they should be placed in classrooms with people of the same age. Studies have shown that students with autism who had been placed in a normal classroom at a young age have better communication and interaction skills with others. Having autistic children in normal classrooms has also pushed teachers into further analyzing their students, and pay more attention to assignments.

Larson, Natasja, Jim Parsons, and Laura Servage. "The Google-ization of Knowledge." Online Submission (2007): ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 20 Nov. 2010. The article looks at how Google has changed how knowledge is used, accessed, and the impact it has on those that seek and create it. They suggest that Google is reshaping, how knowledge counts as important, helps business, education, among other things. The authors suggest that the way we access information and how it is presented to us changes how we view knowledge and its creditability.

Walsh, Maureen. "Worlds have collided and modes have merged: classroom evidence of changed literacy practices." Literacy, Volume 42, issue 2 (July 2008), p. 101-108. OhioLINK. Web. 20 November 2010 Debates continue in public and in educational policy forums about the 'basics' of literacy while many have not recognised that these basics may never be the same again. Rapid changes in digital communication provide facilities for reading and writing to be combined with various and often quite complex aspects of music, photography and film. At the same time, educational policy and national testing requirements are still principally focused on the reading and writing of print-based texts. This paper examines evidence from classroom research to analyse the nature of multimodal literacy, the literacy that is needed in contemporary times for reading, viewing, responding to and producing multimodal and digital texts. Examples of students' engagement in multimodal literacy are presented to demonstrate how classroom literacy practices can incorporate the practices of talking, listening, reading and writing together with processing the modes of written text, image, sound and movement in print and digital texts.

Lester, Jaime and Michael Perini. "Potential of Social Networking Sites for Distance Education Student Engagement." New Directions for Community Colleges 2010.150 (2010): 67 - 77. Electronic Journal Center. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. This article is all about how students who are "distance learners" meaning that they do not participate in a face-to-face classroom setting, are using social networking to help connect in a disconnected world. It talks about how although they are not having peer contact in the traditional classroom, they can still get different opinions and socially apply themselves in an otherwise isolated environment.