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Brittney Chambers

Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills, charity warns | Mail... - 1 views

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  • Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills and are less likely to enjoy it as a pastime, charity warnsSurvey of 35,000 pupils finds majority of youngst
  • ers now read on screenebooks also reducing the number of children who enjoy reading as a pastime 'Children who only read on-screen are significantly less likely to enjoy reading and less likely to be strong readers', National Literacy Trust says
  • Children who read on an iPad or Kindle are falling behind in the classroom as figures showed for the first time the majority of youngsters now prefer ebooks to printed versions
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  • The advance of technology means that young people who read on a screen have weaker literacy skills and fewer children now enjoy reading, experts have said.
  • A survey, conducted by The National Literacy Trust, found that 52 per cent of children preferred to read on an electronic device - including e-readers, computers and smartphones - while only 32 per cent said they would rather read a physical book.
  • Pupils who get free school meals, generally a sign they are from poorer backgrounds, are the least likely group to pick up a traditional book, the research found.
  • Boys in particular would prefer to read on a computer screen and the change in trend has encouraged many publishers to cash in by offering electronic versions of comics and books.The number of children and young people reading newspapers has fallen from 46.8 per cent in 2005 to 31.2 per cent in 2012
  • Brittney Chambers on 12 Jun 14
     
    Amazing facts and statistics that I think will be good to use!!! 
Brittney Chambers

Is Texting Killing the English Language? | TIME.com - 1 views

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  • Texting has long been bemoaned as the downfall of the written word, “penmanship for illiterates,” as one critic called it.
  • Brittney Chambers on 12 Jun 14
     
    Quote from a critic
Brittney Chambers

The 4 Negative Side Effects Of Technology - Edudemic - 2 views

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  • Though we can’t deny the endowments that the current era of advancement has provides us with, but like any other thing, we cannot deny the fact that there is always two sides to everything: Good and Bad.
  • Let’s take a look at the top 4 ways that overuse of technology has influenced our children in an adverse manne
  • 1. Elevated Exasperation These days, children indulge themselves in internet, games or texting. These activities have affected their psyche negatively, consequently leading to increased frustration. Now they get frustrated whenever they are asked to do anything while playing games or using internet. For instance, when their parents ask them to take the trash out, they get furious instantly. This behavior has shattered many parent-children relationships.
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  • 2. Deteriorated Patience Patience is a very precious virtue and its scarcity could deteriorate a person’s Will. Determination is a necessity that comes with patience and without it no individual can survive the hardships of life. According to studies, tolerance in children is vanishing quite increasingly due to the improper use of technology. For example, children get frustrated quickly when they surf internet and the page they want to view takes time to load
  • 3. Declining Writing Skills Due to the excessive usage of online chatting and shortcuts, the writing skills of today’s young generation have declined quite tremendously. These days, children are relying more and more on digital communication that they have totally forgot about improving their writing skills. They don’t know the spelling of different words, how to use grammar properly or how to do cursive writing.
  • 4. Lack of Physical Interactivity No one can deny the fact that the advancement of technology has produced a completely unique method of interaction and communication. Now, more and more people are interacting with others through different platforms like apps, role-playing online games, social networks, etc. This advancement has hampered the physical interaction skills of many children. Due to that they don’t know how to interact with others when they meet them in-person or what gesture they should carry.
  • maelichauros on 10 Jun 14
     
    The bit I highlighted ties in well with my source from Johns Hopkins
  • Brittney Chambers on 12 Jun 14
     
    4 negative effects of tecnhology
maelichauros

percent literate adults - Google Search - 0 views

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  • maelichauros on 12 Jun 14
     
    Compares literacy rates in speaking and writing for 1992 and 2002
snipleflipper

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
snipleflipper

Is the Internet Making Us Dumber? | Psychology Today - 2 views

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  • Another study showed that Internet users surfing the web tended to surf aimlessly when reading something that included hypertext links to other selected pieces of information and that some could not remember what they had and had not read.
  • They concluded that the people in the study predominantly read via the Internet by "skimming" and not reading in depth, hopping from one site to another. The researchers coined the term "power browsers" and this activity is not reading in the traditional sense. This reflects other research.
  • Carr argues that even the media now is adapting to the Internet, so that news stories are getting shorter, with abstracts, headlines and easy to browse pages.
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  • Wolf argues that we are "how" we read, and that Internet reading focuses on efficiency, immediacy and speed, so we become "decoders of information." This is a very different from traditional print reading which allows us to create complex mental connections. Wolf says that deep reading is indistinguishable from deep thinking, neither of which the Internet provides.
  • snipleflipper on 11 Jun 14
     
    "Another study showed that Internet users surfing the web tended to surf aimlessly when reading something that included hypertext links to other selected pieces of information and that some could not remember what they had and had not read. "
maelichauros

The New York Times > Business > What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence - 0 views

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  • Craig Hogan, a former university professor
  • "E-mail is a party to which English teachers have not been invited," Dr. Hogan said. "It has companies tearing their hair out." A recent survey of 120 American corporations reached a similar conclusion. The study, by the National Commission on Writing, a panel established by the College Board, concluded that a third of employees in the nation's blue-chip companies wrote poorly and that businesses were spending as much as $3.1 billion annually on remedial training. The problem shows up not only in e-mail but also in reports and other texts, the commission said.
maelichauros

I Think, Therefore IM - New York Times - 0 views

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  • As more and more teenagers socialize online, middle school and high school teachers like Ms. Harding are increasingly seeing a breezy form of Internet English jump from e-mail into schoolwork. To their dismay, teachers say that papers are being written with shortened words, improper capitalization and punctuation, and characters like &, $ and @.
  • Even terms that cannot be expressed verbally are making their way into papers. Melanie Weaver was stunned by some of the term papers she received from a 10th-grade class she recently taught as part of an internship. ''They would be trying to make a point in a paper, they would put a smiley face in the end,'' said Ms. Weaver, who teaches at Alvernia College in Reading, Pa. ''If they were presenting an argument and they needed to present an opposite view, they would put a frown.''
  • ''You are so used to abbreviating things, you just start doing it unconsciously on schoolwork and reports and other things,'' said Eve Brecker, 15, a student at Montclair High School in New Jersey.
  • maelichauros on 11 Jun 14
     
    This is a perfect article for a slide. I think.
maelichauros

School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe of Stu... - 0 views

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      maelichauros on 10 Jun 14
       
      The excerpt in blue is the example pointed to at the end of the teacher testimony
  • According to Lee (2002), "teachers say that papers are being written with shortened words, improper capitalization and punctuation, and characters like &, $ and @. " However, something that is not always considered is that these mistakes are often unintentional – when students use IM frequently, they reach a saturation point where they no longer notice the IM lingo because they are so used to seeing it.
  • Montana Hodgen, a 16-year old high school student in Montclair, New Jersey, "was so accustomed to instant-messaging abbreviations that she often read right past them" (Lee, 2002). As she puts it, "I was so used to reading what my friends wrote to me on Instant Messenger that I didn't even realize that there was something wrong," she said. She said her ability to separate formal and informal English declined the more she used instant messages" (Lee, 2002).
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  • Students have trouble seeing the distinction between formal and informal writing, and consequently use informal IM abbreviations and lingo in more formal writing situations (Brown-Owens, Eason, & Lader, 2003, p.6.
  • This was also a problem for Carl Sharp, whose 15-year old son's summer job application read "i want 2 b a counselor because i love 2 work with kids" (Friess, 2003), and English instructor Cindy Glover, who – while teaching undergraduate freshman composition in 2002 – "spent a lot of time unteaching Internet-speak. 'My students were trying to communicate fairly academic, scholarly thoughts, but some of them didn't seem to know it's "y-o-u," not "u"'" (Freiss, 2003.) These examples give credence to Montana Hodgen's point, that heavy IM use actually changes the way students read words on a page.
  • "Some teachers see the creeping abbreviations as part of a continuing assault of technology on formal written English" (Lee, 2002).
jmdurham

Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis? -- ScienceDaily - 2 views

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  • most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination — those do not get developed by real-time media such as television or video games. Technology is not a panacea in education, because of the skills that are being lost.
  • Among the studies Greenfield analyzed was a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access
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  • Another study Greenfield analyzed found that college students who watched "CNN Headline News" with just the news anchor on screen and without the "news crawl" across the bottom of the screen remembered significantly more facts from the televised broadcast than those who watched it with the distraction of the crawling text and with additional stock market and weather information on the screen
  • These and other studies show that multi-tasking "prevents people from getting a deeper understanding of information," Greenfield said.
gdebalski

Write or Wrong: Does Technology Benefit the Writing Process? - 0 views

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  • A main problem I notice when I write essays on my laptop, is all of the distractions that come along with using the computer. I have music and internet at my fingertips and this can dramatically change the quality of writing.
  • The downside to becoming so used to the computer working for you is when the computer misses your mistakes. The word processing software is not perfect and often misses mistakes that we over look and assume have been corrected.
  • Because of technology my writing has gotten more informal and it's easier to write in a personal or informal tone. Because I use technology so much to communicate to friends and family it is sometimes difficult to transition to scholarly and formal writing styles.
gdebalski

Does texting hurt writing skills? - TimesDaily: Archives - 0 views

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  • According to a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life Project, "Writing, Technology and Teens," the vast amount of cell phone text-based abbreviated communications teens use is showing up in more formal writing.
  • Out of 700 youth aged 12-17 who participated in the phone survey, 60 percent say they don't consider electronic communications - e-mail, instant messaging, mobile text - to be writing in the formal sense; 63 percent say it has no impact on the writing they do for school and 64 percent report inadvertently using some form of shorthand common to electronic text, including emotions, incorrect grammar or punctuation.
  • "I work at the school's writing center and I would suspect that some of the mistakes I see in writing assignments are text related
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  • Billy Ray Warren, secondary curriculum director for Florence schools, said texting has definitely contributed to the decline in writing skills.
gdebalski

Is Technology Ruining Our Ability to Write? - Techlicious - 0 views

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  • All this technology is not only affecting the quality of our handwriting, it’s hurting our ability to spell, as well. Four in ten of those surveyed said they increasingly rely on predictive text, which is when your mobile device finishes a word you start to input.
  • Even worse, people are starting to use “text talk” outside of texting. I have a friend on a certain social network who sends me messages such as “U should come dancing with Caitlyn n I some night.”
iriemisterg

Technology: A decrease in literacy skills. by Makayla Vikander on Prezi - 2 views

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  • There is plenty of evidence that literacy skills continue to decline. U.S. government data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that after years of educational reforms, high school seniors scored worse on a national reading test than they had back in 1992. Less than three-quarters of U.S. 12th graders scored at at least the “basic” level, down from 80% in the early 1990s.
  • gdebalski on 09 Jun 14
     
    This is a good base for us. I was thinking our opening statement would be a sentence, but I think I was wrong. This looks much better with a full paragraph beginning the argument.
iriemisterg

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? | UCLA - 1 views

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  • As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
  • gdebalski on 09 Jun 14
     
    "No one medium is good for everything," Greenfield said. "If we want to develop a variety of skills, we need a balanced media diet. Each medium has costs and benefits in terms of what skills each develops." This makes sense, the problem in society today is that we are much heavier technology users, and our other communication skills are becoming overshadowed.
iriemisterg

ORLANDO, Fla.: Professor says teens' social media lingo hurts writing skills | Technolo... - 1 views

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  • But some writing advocates say Twitter’s frugal word structure, Facebook’s short-post syntax and acronym-filled text messages are degrading writing skills.
  • gdebalski on 09 Jun 14
     
    "Just the other day, I asked my students to write four lines of dialogue they had over the weekend," said Terry Thaxton, a University of Central Florida English professor who runs the summer writing camp Shelby attended earlier this month. "Three of them reached for their phones to read their text messages. They said they couldn't remember any face-to-face conversations." This part raises a good point.
iriemisterg

Education Update:Leveraging Technology to Improve Literacy:Leveraging Technology to Imp... - 1 views

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  • In the classroom, some educators are attempting to harness the power of technology to increase literacy rates for struggling students, but does using technology really make a difference? An initial assessment of the research on the current generation of technology used to aid literacy yields interesting, if somewhat lackluster, results.
  • iriemisterg on 09 Jun 14
     
    Since we are refuting the statement, I believe this article has some good points to help bolster our claims.
  • gdebalski on 09 Jun 14
     
    I agree, this is a good one. Thanks for all the of the content. We are off to a great start!
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