Just a quick note to all members of the group::

Sent an email through the school site to you all a copy of the assignment that has been emailed to the teacher.Sorry if the email comes out too spaced or bloc-key but through the school site where you have peoples profile/email it does not give an attachment option like in Outlook.

I hope you all are able to get the copy.If not just post your full sail email and we'll get you a copy.

Team B - Refute the statement:

"Technology (through television, texting, social networks posting, and the Internet), has
contributed to an increase in literacy skills."

Technology (through television, texting, social networks posting, & the internet), has become a massive contributor in the decline of our literacy skills. With more advances in technology every day, there is becoming less and less physical work to be done by students. Various gadgets coming out every year are now letting folks get away with not having to type much of a word before the gadget spells it out for you. Same for punctuation and grammar. People do not have to type much before the computer, iPhone, etc. starts completing their thought. Yet for students when it comes time for a test in class on a piece of paper, they cannot figure out how to spell certain words they wish to use on their test sheet. Many students have no clue as to when they should be using capital letters, proper punctuation, and even the use of words like "they are/they're" and even "you are/you're".Not to mention these gadgets do not help in handwriting skills either. Some students fall into that problem of you cannot understand what they just wrote down.
Some experts have noticed in younger children, that they dart from one page to the next without fully reading all the information on the page. This is a very damaging way to read because it decreases our ability to comprehend what we just read. Other way experts believe the internet has an impact on our critical thinking abilities is that we use less reliable sources to learn anything new. Most of us usually just accept any article as thou it was the truth.

Team B Folks:
Jinnette Reyes Pantalone
Brandi Burke
Matthew Murren
Jennifer Lynch
Patrick Gladden
Christopher Howe
Mikail Zahir
Lucas Cook
Tevin Banks

Links to support the argument statement:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/technology/texting-twitter-contributing-to-students-poor-grammar-skills-profs-say/article4304193/?service=mobile
http://www.mlive.com/living/jackson/index.ssf/2011/09/guest_column_texting_social_me.html


((so if this WAS the final argument project --- this is what it would look like with statement,article links, & student names))

please make any adjustments - just a rough draft

https://groups.diigo.com/group/full-sail-team-b-eddies-class/content/the-future-of-reading-literacy-debate-online-r-u-really-reading-series-nytimes-com-10716877

Some traditionalists warn that digital reading is the intellectual equivalent of empty calories. Often, they argue, writers on the Internet employ a cryptic argot that vexes teachers and parents. Zigzagging through a cornucopia of words, pictures, video and sounds, they say, distracts more than strengthens readers. And many youths spend most of their time on the Internet playing games or sending instant messages, activities that involve minimal reading at best.

According to Department of Education data cited in the report, just over a fifth of 17-year-olds said they read almost every day for fun in 2004, down from nearly a third in 1984. Nineteen percent of 17-year-olds said they never or hardly ever read for fun in 2004, up from 9 percent in 1984. (It was unclear whether they thought of what they did on the Internet as "reading.")

The simplest argument for why children should read in their leisure time is that it makes them better readers. According to federal statistics, students who say they read for fun once a day score significantly higher on reading tests than those who say they never do.

What we are losing in this country and presumably around the world is the sustained, focused, linear attention developed by reading," said Mr. Gioia of the N.E.A."What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation," he wrote, confessing that he now found it difficult to read long books."Reading a book, and taking the time to ruminate and make inferences and engage the imaginational processing, is more cognitively enriching, without doubt, than the short little bits that you might get if you're into the 30-second digital mode,"

To date, there have been few large-scale appraisals of Web skills. The Educational Testing Service, which administers the SAT, has developed a digital literacy test known as iSkills that requires students to solve informational problems by searching for answers on the Web. About 80 colleges and a handful of high schools have administered the test so far.

But according to Stephen Denis, product manager at ETS, of the more than 20,000 students who have taken the iSkills test since 2006, only 39 percent of four-year college freshmen achieved a score that represented "core functional levels" in Internet literacy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Took the 3 articles that were posted in the Diigo group.In #4-6 posted that link from Diigo at the top, then followed by the highlighted parts from that articled copy/pasted in the middle, then at the bottom the link to the original article posting.

Trying to get things moving for the statement presentation due.

Going to start this topic.In here let's toss in some ideas to be put into the argument that will be turned in today.Then from the ideas can smash them together into one good argument.Going to see through the postings what I can pull from them.

Definitely should have that in the argument.

Going to work up a rough draft of the argument with the links below it supporting the statement.I will post it in another topic.At that point please feel free to make any adjustments to the statement.Again, it will be a rough draft.

I vote you (Jinnette). You have done an awesome job creating the group, making sure we are all connected for the debate project, and Diigo site seems to like you during it's hiccup phase. 1 Vote - Jinnette

Ok.Going to start a topic to get some ideas from everyone what should be put into the argument from what everyone has read.Then myself or another can email you the argument part so you can whip it up and send to Eddie.I'll be on/off here and there today.

Yes I agree with the argument.The auto correct spells for you not letting the young mind learn the correct spelling on their own. Even for some adults too. Auto correct does it all for you so if you ever have to write out the word on a piece of paper, your brain halts because the piece of paper doesn't have auto correct.

It's ok. I didn't know it had to be approved. Never saw a "Approval by moderator" or anything of that sort listed anywhere. All good.

The teacher will see that I had made a "List" and added the link to this group you created and it has the dates on it showing when I had made it/added links to it/and posting it to the group. It's all good. Even though it shows in the group individually you posting, it shows down the link I had posted of the couple links I had that I thought would be helpful to the group.Double the link posting never hurts.

Your not the only one having some issues. The Diigo site for the past couple of hours has been a tad slow and not posting everything that is bookmarked/highlighted/sticky noted.

I am still having trouble these few hours later.Images are not showing up. Still cannot bookmark or anything.I get that spinning timer look waiting to post but nothing happens.I'm going to see if they have a "Contact Us" link.

**edited** I hope this post stays on here for ya'll to see since parts are not working at the moment. I sent off an email to Diigo to let them know of a couple of issues with logging in and the bookmarking and all.

I have found 3 articles to help so far.I hope it will help towards the groups findings.
https://www.diigo.com/list/brandiburke/Team+B/2lwachl29