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Devin Davis

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

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  • 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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  • 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

Impact of the Internet on Critical Reading and Writing Skills - Reading Horizons - 0 views

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  • The internet offers so many gateways to other pages, that it has made it difficult for us to focus on one piece of information at a time. In other words: the internet is making us all a little more A.D.D. Experts describe this habit of darting from page to page as "associative" thinking. They have especially noticed this habit in younger children, whom are comparably less focused on studying, reading, and writing then the age group was when measured in the past. This is damaging to reading ability because it decreases our ability to comprehend what we read.
  • Another way researchers believe the internet has impacted our critical thinking abilities is that we now use less reliable sources to learn about new ideas. We often accept any article as fact. They found that students children’s reading abilities now do less research before answering a question. They also found that they trusted their friends for answers more than adults. They attributed this habit being a result of internet exposure
  • "What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking.” -Nicolas Carr, Author of "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google"
Ron Smith

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

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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’
Ron Smith

How Technology Has Changed Education - The Next Web - 1 views

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  • As you well know, technology can be a powerful tool for learning, and it can be the same for cheating. It can be used to inform, and to distort. It can boldly open new doors, while flinging open some that were perhaps best left closed; not every topic is appropriate for all age groups
  • Instant Research Ask anyone over the age of 50 with a PhD what it was like to get the information that they needed and they will generally begin to swear and discuss how young people these days have it so soft. They are not merely being curmudgeon-esque (well perhaps a few) but on the whole they have a point: nearly every fact is no more than a few taps of the keys from anyone, making the accretion of information, well, child’s play. What does this mean? It has been speculated that this will lead to a decline of respect for intellectuals, but that seems unlikely. Knowing how to search for something is merely the first step to real comprehension, which involves a deeper understanding and critical analysis. On the whole, intellectualism and its pursuits will always command respect
  • Things such as cheating are now simpler than ever, and I don’t mean writing on your hand. Your class is allowed to use a graphing calculator for the test? Write a program on it that contains all the formulas that you need and presto, you pass the test. Chance of being caught? Zero
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  • Or just take a picture of your homework and send it via SMS to your friend, who copies it on the bus on the way to class
Devin Davis

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

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  • 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.
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