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I chose this article because it relates to how technology these days is impacting how we learn the english language. The scary part is that fact that it's true. We are learning to be lazier everyday with twitter and FB taknig over our lives. Being alowed only 140 characters is making our society not have to think as hard and make it seem as tho less is still ok. Also, every student now has access to online papers and sparknotes to handle any writing or reading problem they may have. Today students can just dodge the work, then when it come back at them in the real world it will be a giant blow to their level of thinking.

Polish is the hardest language to learn. English kids are fluent at their language by the age of 12. Polish kids are fluent by the age of 16.

I picked slashdot.org because...well...slashdot is for NERDS! GEEKS!!! Someone who might be in the Computer Information Technology learning community! LIKE ME! On a more serious note though, I picked slashdot because it involves people like the CIT learning community. We are nerds/geeks we know it, and love it. Slashdot is composed of authors that are IT gurus and love to talk about as what there title says, 'news that matters' which is straight and to the point.\n\nLike any good nerd we like to put in our two cents. Slashdot added a message board to reply to any post the authors make. The articles composed by Slashdot will always involve technology in someway. Whether it's a post on the internet's birthday or a post about how red hat enterprise linux 5.4 has been released. Slashdot has posts to the point for people like "us". Its not filled with clutter or garbage about stupid news about Jon and Kate + 43000, its news that MATTERS. Simple as that.\n

This site is a funny one to show the reader ways in which English just does not make sense. We have all theses rules but all of them can be broken. There are more rules in English than in most other languages but most of them have limits, exceptions or can be broken.Why can't English just follow the rules like other languages do? I have personally seen how other languages follow their rules and to me, it just seems much easier. If there are rules, they should always be rules and not just be there but not followed. This is why it is so hard for people with a different native language to learn the English language.

This site excells at describing careers for students looking to go into a career involving computers. This would be terrific for many of the students here involved in the learning community.

I chose this ad because it covers a lot of what we have been learning about and gives simple examples. I thought it would be a good quick reference guide if ever needed. I actually used this site today to edit one of my reports

As far as literature review sites go SparkNotes is one of the best. When placed in the hands of the lazy, this website, and the convenience it brings, can lead to a quick and painful academic downfall. However, if used merely as a study resource SparkNotes can substantially increase a students grades. For example, You've just finished reading The Lord of the Flies and you've been assigned an essay on symbolism due next class. You don't particularly remember any symbols from your reading, so you check spark notes which gives you a few examples and leads you in the right direction. Add a little of your own synthesis and some specific incidents that support your statements and your essay will be done before you know it! This also works with hard to follow Shakespearean plots and deep character development. Along with being able to help you learn, SparkNotes can also help you study and remember old books that you've read just in time for your final. Or it can help you study for your SATs. In fact, SparkNotes has a lot of sections designed to help high School and College students succeed. SparkNotes is a great tool as long as you remember to do the real work yourself!

This article gives some very good advice to assist in speedreading. I felt it was a very appropiate article for our meeting on Sunday, and this website may further help some people.

This is a follow up article on my previous diigo post. This one shows how well the game actually did. For us computer geeks this is a big deal. This game is predicted to become the most successful game to ever hit the market. If we can learn something from this we can be successful too. The reason i think that they sold 7 million copies world-wide is because of the previous game CoD4. Not to mention that they had game stop hosting release parties and that there was a huge party in New York for its release. This could be the biggest game of the century, lets make sure you get in on it.

This article discusses a popular opinion poll discussing the possible repercussions of texting while driving. Although this article doesn't contain much scientific backing, its still extremely surprising to see what people think about texting while driving. I was incredibelly shocked when I read that 97% of those polled thought that texting while driving should be illegal. This number is so surprising to me because the act seems to be so prevalent these days. It feels like whenever your walking down the street, on a bus, or driving everyone around you has there eyes down as the stare at and type on the cell phone. I understand that some people are confident in their abilities to multitask, but lets face it some of the same confident people are just being delusional. I don't think everyone can handle this multitasking, as is evident by the amount of time I spend dodging around people that don't even notice me walking towards them. Beyond that statistic there are also several others that are worth taking a look at. Especially that 50 percent of those polled believe that texting while driving should have similar repercussions to drunk driving. To me this seems to be going a bit to far, but I do agree that there should probably be some punishment. But then again, I almost never use my cell phone, what do all of you think about this poll?