2.4 Disinformation Debate
"Technology (through television, texting, social networks posting, and the Internet) has contributed to an increase in literacy skills
Team C Conclusion

Our job as team C was to review two separate arguments debating the following statement and decide whose argument was best. "Technology (through television, texting, social networks posting, and the internet), has contributed to an increase in literacy skills." In addition to reading Team A's(support) and Team B's(refute) statements, we also looked over each teams research. Although we feel both teams did an incredible job with their statements and their research we could only choose one winner. But before we get to that, here are some things we took into consideration when making our final decision.
For Team A, some of the links sources we really felt had good support for their statement were as follows. First "Videos, Games Help Preschool Literacy, Study Says", this article talks about various ways you can utilize and harness learning through hands on experience with different games. Helping kids learn a variety of learning styles while strengthen basic skills. Second "Has Social Media Improved Child Literacy" the majority of the 3000 children in the study had good or better than good literacy skills due to their text messaging, online blogs, and other technological interactions. Third "Txt msg n school literacy: does texting and knowledge of text abbreviations adversely affect children's literacy attainment?" students who used more abbreviated texts had higher verbal reasoning scores, then it seems like it may help. Phonetically speaking, that is what text-isms do, phonetically spell words increasing literacy in terms of letter sound comprehension. Fourth "Reading comprehension on the Internet: Expanding our understanding of reading comprehension to encompass new literacies", which speaks of several ways the internet can be used and the way we interact with technology in meaningful ways. It cites multiple pieces of literature supporting it material from the past few years.
For Team B there are also several good articles. First," What Are the Positive & Negative Effects of Using Technology to Communicate?", in this article it talks about several well used technologies we all use listing how poor communication in written form can lead to misunderstanding and confusion. The second article, "Negative Effect of Texting in the Classroom", students are often putting short hand words, improper punctuation and capitalizations in their writings showing poor literacy. This was also shown in "Texting, Twitter contributing to student's poor grammar skills". Another for the fourth, "The Internet's Damaging Effects on Literacy" this article show the decline in reading comprehension and students inability to be able to tell what is good information or bad. Lastly, "Is Technology Producing a Decline in Critical Thinking and Analysis", for this article shows that students are more visual and less print literate and without taking the time to read print, critical thinking, analysis, imagination and reflection are not engaged or developed.
All of these articles we all felt really strengthened their arguments. But there were some things that we felt weakened their argument or were really not showing literacy skills. Team A used "Literacy in the Television Age: The Myth of the TV Effect", we didn't like this source because it was incomplete referencing a book but without the complete text we could really see all the information. For Team B we all felt like some of the sources speaking of social behaviors or what happens when technology is not used properly, such as an "addiction", threw their presentation off track. They did not really relate to literacy.
Our conclusion, after researching both sides and everything they presented we decided that Team A had the better argument. Both teams did amazing presentations and great write ups. Team A just had a clearer representation of "Technology (through television, texting, social networks posting, and the Internet) has contributed to an increase in literacy skills".

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2.4 Disinformation Debate
"Technology (through television, texting, social networks posting, and the Internet) has contributed to an increase in literacy skills
Team C Conclusion

Our job as team C was to review two separate arguments debating the following statement and decide whose argument was best. "Technology (through television, texting, social networks posting, and the internet), has contributed to an increase in literacy skills." In addition to reading Team A's(support) and Team B's(refute) statements, we also looked over each teams research. Although we feel both teams did an incredible job with their statements and their research we could only choose one winner. But before we get to that, here are some things we took into consideration when making our final decision.
For Team A, some of the links sources we really felt had good support for their statement were as follows. First "Videos, Games Help Preschool Literacy, Study Says", this article talks about various ways you can utilize and harness learning through hands on experience with different games. Helping kids learn a variety of learning styles while strengthen basic skills. Second "Has Social Media Improved Child Literacy" the majority of the 3000 children in the study had good or better than good literacy skills due to their text messaging, online blogs, and other technological interactions. Third "Txt msg n school literacy: does texting and knowledge of text abbreviations adversely affect children's literacy attainment?" students who used more abbreviated texts had higher verbal reasoning scores, then it seems like it may help. Phonetically speaking, that is what text-isms do, phonetically spell words increasing literacy in terms of letter sound comprehension. Fourth "Reading comprehension on the Internet: Expanding our understanding of reading comprehension to encompass new literacies", which speaks of several ways the internet can be used and the way we interact with technology in meaningful ways. It cites multiple pieces of literature supporting it material from the past few years.
For Team B there are also several good articles. First," What Are the Positive & Negative Effects of Using Technology to Communicate?", in this article it talks about several well used technologies we all use listing how poor communication in written form can lead to misunderstanding and confusion. The second article, "Negative Effect of Texting in the Classroom", students are often putting short hand words, improper punctuation and capitalizations in their writings showing poor literacy. This was also shown in "Texting, Twitter contributing to student's poor grammar skills". Another for the fourth, "The Internet's Damaging Effects on Literacy" this article show the decline in reading comprehension and students inability to be able to tell what is good information or bad. Lastly, "Is Technology Producing a Decline in Critical Thinking and Analysis", for this article shows that students are more visual and less print literate and without taking the time to read print, critical thinking, analysis, imagination and reflection are not engaged or developed.
All of these articles we all felt really strengthened their arguments. But there were some things that we felt weakened their argument or were really not showing literacy skills. Team A used "Literacy in the Television Age: The Myth of the TV Effect", we didn't like this source because it was incomplete referencing a book. Without the complete text we couldn't see all the information. For Team B we all felt like some of the sources speaking of social behaviors or what happens when technology is not used properly, such as an "addiction" and video game violence, threw their presentation off track. They did not really relate to literacy.
Our conclusion, after researching both sides and everything they presented we decided that Team A had the better argument. Both teams did amazing presentations and great write ups. Team A just had a clearer representation of "Technology (through television, texting, social networks posting, and the Internet) has contributed to an increase in literacy skills".



Participants of Team C
Ju-Lia Dukes
David Gerard
Shamel Joe
Jeffery Massery
Brian Turner
Amber Linnemeyer

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2.4 Disinformation Debate
"Technology (through television, texting, social networks posting, and the Internet) has contributed to an increase in literacy skills
Team C Conclusion

Our job as team C was to review two separate arguments debating the following statement and decide whose argument was best. "Technology (through television, texting, social networks posting, and the internet), has contributed to an increase in literacy skills." In addition to reading Team A's (support) and Team B's(refute) statements, we also looked over each teams research. Although we feel both teams did an incredible job with their statements and their research we could only choose one winner. But before we get to that, here are some things we took into consideration when making our final decision.
For Team A, some of the links sources we really felt had good support for their statement were as follows. First "Videos, Games Help Preschool Literacy, Study Says",(ref1) this article talks about various ways you can utilize and harness learning through hands on experience with different games. Helping kids learn a variety of learning styles while strengthen basic skills. Second "Has Social Media Improved Child Literacy" (ref2) the majority of the 3000 children in the study had good or better than good literacy skills due to their text messaging, online blogs, and other technological interactions. Third "Txt msg n school literacy: does texting and knowledge of text abbreviations adversely affect children's literacy attainment?" (ref3) students who used more abbreviated texts had higher verbal reasoning scores, then it seems like it may help. Phonetically speaking, that is what text-isms do, phonetically spell words increasing literacy in terms of letter sound comprehension. Fourth "Reading comprehension on the Internet: Expanding our understanding of reading comprehension to encompass new literacies" (ref4), which speaks of several ways the internet can be used and the way we interact with technology in meaningful ways. It cites multiple pieces of literature supporting it material from the past few years.
For Team B there are also several good articles. First," What Are the Positive & Negative Effects of Using Technology to Communicate?"(ref5), in this article it talks about several well used technologies we all use listing how poor communication in written form can lead to misunderstanding and confusion. The second article, "Negative Effect of Texting in the Classroom" (ref6), students are often putting short hand words, improper punctuation and capitalizations in their writings showing poor literacy. This was also shown in "Texting, Twitter contributing to student's poor grammar skills" (ref7). Another for the fourth, "The Internet's Damaging Effects on Literacy" (ref8) this article show the decline in reading comprehension and students inability to be able to tell what is good information or bad. Lastly, "Is Technology Producing a Decline in Critical Thinking and Analysis" (ref9), for this article shows that students are more visual and less print literate and without taking the time to read print, critical thinking, analysis, imagination and reflection are not engaged or developed.
All of these articles we all felt really strengthened their arguments. But there were some things that we felt weakened their argument or were really not showing literacy skills. Team A used "Literacy in the Television Age: The Myth of the TV Effect" (10), we didn't like this source because it was incomplete referencing a book. Without the complete text we couldn't see all the information. For Team B we all felt like some of the sources speaking of social behaviors or what happens when technology is not used properly, such as an "addiction" and video game violence, threw their presentation off track. They did not really relate to literacy.
Our conclusion, after researching both sides and everything they presented we decided that Team A had the better argument. Both teams did amazing presentations and great write ups. Team A just had a clearer representation of "Technology (through television, texting, social networks posting, and the Internet) has contributed to an increase in literacy skills".
In closing, both teams have provided sufficient information to present their cases, however Team B really did not find any hard evidence to fully support their case. We strongly felt that Team B went off track with their refute; With the evidence they found about the negative aspects of what their topic was, instead they focused on another area, other than "Literacy", as opposed to what they had discussed. So with this conclusion it is with our best interest that Team A had won the debate as they stayed on track with their topic. The ways in which children these days have new ways of "Literacy" communications in everyday life, using games, videos, the Internet and television as a learning tool.



Participants of Team C
Ju-Lia Dukes
David Gerard
Shamel Joe
Jeffery Massery
Brian Turner
Amber Linnemeyer
Team C Diigo Link
https://groups.diigo.com/group/dgl-24-debate-team-c
References
1. www.schoollibraryjournal.com/...CA6709333.html
2. http://schoolboardnews.nsba.org/2010/01/has-social-media-improved-child-literacy/
3. http://search.ebscohost.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=34933695&site=ehost-live
4. http://search.ebscohost.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9463424&site=ehost-live
5. www.diigo.com/...-impact-on-social-interactions
6. 56wrtg1150.wikidot.com/ts-of-texting-in-the-classroom
7. www.theglobeandmail.com/...article4304193
8. suite101.com/...ng-effects-on-literacy-a319958
9. newsroom.ucla.edu/...producing-a-decline-79127.aspx
10. books.google.com/...acy_in_the_Television_Age.html
Team A Diigo Link
https://groups.diigo.com/group/fsu-disinformation-debate-team-a
Team B Diigo Link
https://groups.diigo.com/group/disinformation-debate-team-group-b-2013