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Ron Smith

How texting made history but ruined our language - and plenty of marriages! | Mail Online - 0 views

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Texting impact literacy writing skills

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  • On the 20th anniversary of the first mobile phone text message...  How texting made history but ruined our language - and plenty of marriages!
  • On the 20th anniversary of the first mobile phone text message...  How texting made history but ruined our language - and plenty of marriages!
  • Texts have changed the way we write, obliterating conventional punctuations and replacing properly spelled words with abbreviations, initials and ‘emoticon’ smiley symbols
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  • I’m gonna be here always xx But are you OK? xxSent by Amy Winehouse to her friend Kristian Marr at 3.10am on July 23, 2011. Marr was asleep when it came through. By the time he woke up, she was dead.
  • WTC has been hit by an airplane and a bomb. currently b6 is being evacuated. updates will followTexts sent by the police and emergency services in New York after American Airlines Flight 111 crashes into the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001.
  • I beg u keep this between us x …Please delete all texts ill have no balls leftSent by Ashley Cole on October 4, 2008, shortly after his first sex-session with a lover who has remained anonymous. Cole later texted a number of explicit photos to the young woman.One of a number of extra-marital affairs that Cole indulged in, all with full text commentary, before his outraged wife Cheryl texted
  • Will you marry me?The first known text proposal, sent in 1999 by salesman Grant Strange to his girlfriend, who responded: ‘Yes. Yes. Yes. XXX’
Devin Davis

Education World: Does Texting Harm Students' Writing Skills? - 0 views

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texting literacy education writing technology reading skills Decline

shared by Devin Davis on 13 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • While this communications boom has been praised for its educational benefits, some argue that a negative side effect is beginning to take hold in our classrooms. Cyber slang is suspected of damaging students’ writing acumen.
  • Texting and the slang that goes with it have crept into students' more formal writing.
  • “I think it makes sense for these social conversations to be lightweight or light-hearted in terms of the syntax,” said President of Dictionary.com Shravan Goli. “But ultimately, in the world of business and in the world they will live in, in terms of their jobs and professional lives, students will need good, solid reading and writing skills. I’m a little worried about where we are in America with literacy levels dropping. Are these [electronic devices] helping us, or making it worse? I think they may be going the other way and making it worse.”
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  • The Times Daily newspaper cites a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life Project, "Writing, Technology and Teens," which found that the cell phone text-based abbreviated communications teens use are showing up in more formal writing.
  • One only has to spend about two minutes browsing the public pages of a social media platform like Facebook to find examples of cyber slang. In some cases, a second and third read is required before a sentence begins to make sense.
  • A public Facebook page entitled “If you think the rules at UnionCounty High School are ridiculous,” dealing with school policies in Union, S.C. offers these examples: “the new policy on dress code they handed out last week is our last chance 2 keep us out of uniforms. the new super intendant as u all know is from spartanburg is using the saturday school crap 2 take a note on how many offenses we have & will use it 2 make her decision. so we ned 2 stop breaking the dress code or we might have 2 really fight uniforms next year.” “dont worry abt us wearing uniforms nxt year. our parents wont buy them & the district cant even give us the first set cuz our parents pay the taxes & we cant afford them. so get ur parents opinion & make them disagress with uniforms!” Goli said that while examples like these demonstrate a problem, it is not one that can’t be solved.
Devin Davis

Pros and Cons of Technology in the Classroom and Where I Stand | Rachel Lynne's Blog - 1 views

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literacy debate decline technology skills impact writing Internet reading Education

shared by Devin Davis on 14 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Other negative effects of technology on learning: -Technology makes it easier to cheat and plagarize -Decrease in critical thinking -Decrease in analysis skills -Decrease in imagination -Don’t process as much during class, easily distracted
  • Texting/Digital Communication: One of the issues we discovered is the negative effect texting and instant-message language has on student’s writing capabilities.  Our research shows that acronyms and abbreviations are slipping into student’s writing.  Rather than using formal English when writing papers, many students use digital language, which includes things like: -lower case ‘i’ rather than uppercase ‘I’ -b/c for because -idk for i don’t know -recurrent grammar issues -Many, many more: http://www.aim.com/acronyms.adp
  • Negative Effects: Spell-check: Through our research we discovered that many students rely too heavily on spellcheck to correct their spelling, and as a result, have poor spelling skills.  In the following video, a high school girl describes her spelling problems from dependency on spellcheck.  It also addressed the problems that arise from text speak.
  • John Hereshko on 14 Aug 13
     
    Not as big of a hit, but still, it has been a big hit on basic literary skills
  • Devin Davis on 14 Aug 13
     
    Same resource and John had. Just re-posting so you can see my highlights.
Devin Davis

Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Are Digital Media Changing Language? - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...a-Changing-Language%C2%A2.aspx

digital media debate decline technology skills impact writing Internet reading Education

shared by Devin Davis on 14 Aug 13 - Cached
  • It's natural for languages to evolve. But what should really concern us is the way computers and mobile phones are changing our attitudes toward language.
  • Are instant messaging and text messaging killing language? To hear what the popular media say, a handful of OMGs (oh my god) and smiley faces, along with a paucity of capital letters and punctuation marks, might be bringing English to its knees.
  • Devin Davis on 14 Aug 13
     
    This source has a lot of good information on how instant messaging and text messaging is killing language.
Ron Smith

About K12 | K12 - 3 views

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impact Internet technology elearning

shared by Ron Smith on 14 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Ron Smith on 14 Aug 13
     
    online learning for students  k-12. 
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  • Mike MacDermant on 14 Aug 13
     
    What did you find here that helps our argument?
  • Devin Davis on 14 Aug 13
     
    Please highlight material that supports our argument.
  • Ron Smith on 14 Aug 13
     
    This is just a website I found on the internet that shows education is provided on the NET. I haven't found any statistics so far about this program but I figured this could be something we could mention to prove the internet is a resourceful tool to learn.
  • Mike MacDermant on 14 Aug 13
     
    That's not what we're trying to prove at all. Perhaps you need to read the assignment again. We are supposed to be REFUTING the statement "Technology (through television, texting, Facebook posting, and the Internet) has contributed to an increase in literacy skills." We need bookmarks that support our side of the argument.
  • Ron Smith on 14 Aug 13
     
    Jeez what was I thinking....alright gimme a min I'll find something lol playing for the wrong team
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