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Mikail Zahir

The Argument (( rough draft)) - 16 views

I like the rough draft argument you did. You put everything all members posted about in it. I thank you for taking the steps to getting this done. I have been at work all day.

started by Brandi Burke on 12 Sep 13 7 follow-ups, last by Mikail Zahir on 13 Sep 13
Brandi Burke

Team B argument project - 2 views

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 spac...

started by Brandi Burke on 13 Sep 13 no follow-up yet
Jinnette Reyes Pantalone

The Future of Reading - Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTime... - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...27reading.html

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    • Jinnette Reyes Pantalone
      Jinnette Reyes Pantalone on 11 Sep 13
       
      This one we can use!
    • Patrick Gladden
      Patrick Gladden on 11 Sep 13
       
      Good stuff.I read one similar that I posted on here earlier about cultural literacy.Although learning through technology is the new wave,I think traditional reading and writing fundamentals should still be applied.I think so much visual learning takes away from the ability to use imagination.
    • Brandi Burke
      Brandi Burke on 11 Sep 13
       
      This is a good article to use.It is one of the ones I had tried to "bookmark" yesterday but couldn't due to Diigo not working right.Then I closed the tab and lost the page.Glad Jinnette found it.
  • 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.
  • Last fall the National Endowment for the Arts issued a sobering report linking flat or declining national reading test scores among teenagers with the slump in the proportion of adolescents who said they read for fun.
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  • 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.”)
  • “Whatever the benefits of newer electronic media,” Dana Gioia, the chairman of the N.E.A., wrote in the report’s introduction, “they provide no measurable substitute for the intellectual and personal development initiated and sustained by frequent reading.”
  • Despite these efforts, Nadia never became a big reader. Instead, she became obsessed with Japanese anime cartoons on television and comics like “Sailor Moon.” Then, when she was in the sixth grade, the family bought its first computer. When a friend introduced Nadia to fanfiction.net, she turned off the television and started reading online.
  • Many of them have elliptical plots and are sprinkled with spelling and grammatical errors. One of her recent favorites was “My absolutely, perfect normal life ... ARE YOU CRAZY? NOT!,” a story based on the anime series “Beyblade.”
  • “Just then I notice (Like finally) something sharp right in front of me,” Aries writes. “I gladly took it just like that until something terrible happen ....”
  • “So like in the book somebody could die,” she continued, “but you could make it so that person doesn’t die or make it so like somebody else dies who you don’t like.
  • Nadia said she wanted to major in English at college and someday hopes to be published. She does not see a problem with reading few books. “No one’s ever said you should read more books to get into college,” she said.
  • 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
    • Brandi Burke
      Brandi Burke on 12 Sep 13
       
      Can add this into the argument.
  • Department of Education statistics also show that those who score higher on reading tests tend to earn higher incomes.
  • “I would believe people who tell me that the Internet develops reading if I did not see such a universal decline in reading ability and reading comprehension on virtually all tests.”
  • Critics of reading on the Internet say they see no evidence that increased Web activity improves reading achievement. “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.
  • he suggested that the effects of Internet reading extended beyond the falling test scores of adolescence
  • “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,”
  • Some scientists worry that the fractured experience typical of the Internet could rob developing readers of crucial skills.
  • 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
  • Jinnette Reyes Pantalone on 11 Sep 13
     
    The one that i highlight after this one has a lot of great stuff about grammar.
Mikail Zahir

Guest column: Texting, social media sites causing bad habits in our students | MLive.com - 3 views

www.mlive.com/..._column_texting_social_me.html

literacy skills decline texing technology debate

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    • Mikail Zahir
      Mikail Zahir on 11 Sep 13
       
      Many facts why todays learners literacy skills are hurt by social media and texting.
  • Texting and social networking sites don’t require careful reading or editing. Those are skills expected of literate individuals. They also don’t require writing in complete sentences. Twitter, for example, only allows 140 characters. Consequently, many students write in fragments and run-ons. This also has an effect on word choice. Typically, students use slang and abbreviations. Consequently, many students start using slang in formal writing because it’s part of their everyday writing and speech. There also is a negative effect on punctuation, especially when texting. It ignores language and writing conventions. Many students have no idea when to use capital letters. They don’t capitalize ‘I.’ They don’t capitalize proper names. You’re/your, there/their/they’re, and its/it’s become interchangeable. Punctuation is haphazard. Also, texting and social networking sites don’t require practicing handwriting; therefore, many students can’t write legibly. Every year, I am amazed by how few of my eighth-graders are able to read or write cursive. They struggle with their own signature.
    • Brandi Burke
      Brandi Burke on 12 Sep 13
       
      This is good to be added into the argument.
Jinnette Reyes Pantalone

Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say - The Globe a... - 5 views

m.theglobeandmail.com/...article4304193

twitter texting

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  • Little or no grammar teaching, cell phone texting, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are all being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write. For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students. Now there seems to be some solid evidence.
    • Brandi Burke
      Brandi Burke on 12 Sep 13
       
      Can use this in the argument.
  • Ontario's Waterloo University is one of the few post-secondary institutions in Canada to require the students they accept to pass an exam testing their English language skills. Almost a third of those students are failing.
  • "Thirty per cent of students who are admitted are not able to pass at a minimum level," says Ann Barrett, managing director of the English language proficiency exam at Waterloo University. "We would certainly like it to be a lot lower."
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  • Barrett says the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent. "What has happened in high school that they cannot pass our simple test of written English, at a minimum?" she asks.
  • Punctuation errors are huge, and apostrophe errors. Students seem to have absolutely no idea what an apostrophe is for. None. Absolutely none. Paul Budra, an English professor and associate dean of arts and science at Simon Fraser University
  • Even those with good marks out of Grade 12, so-called elite students, "still can't pass our simple test," she says. Poor grammar is the major reason students fail, says Barrett. "If a student has problems with articles, prepositions, verb tenses, that's a problem." Some students in public schools are no longer being taught grammar, she believes. "Are they (really) preparing students for university studies?"
    • Brandi Burke
      Brandi Burke on 12 Sep 13
       
      Can also use this part in the argument.
  • "Little happy faces ... or a sad face ... little abbreviations," show up even in letters of academic appeal, says Khan Hemani. "Instead of 'because', it's 'cuz'. That's one I see fairly frequently," she says, and these are new in the past five years.
  • "There has been this general sense in the last two or three years that we are finding more students are struggling in terms of language proficiency," says Rummana Khan Hemani, the university's director of academic advising. Emoticons, truncated and butchered words such as 'cuz,' are just some of the writing horrors being handed in, say professors and administrators at Simon Fr
  • "because a committee will immediately get their backs up when they see that kind of written style."
  • "The words 'a lot' have become one word, for everyone, as far as I can tell. 'Definitely' is always spelled with an 'a' - 'definately'. I don't know why," says Paul Budra, an English professor and associate dean of arts and science at Simon Fraser.
  • "I get their essays and I go 'You obviously don't know what a sentence fragment is. You think commas are sort of like parmesan cheese that you sprinkle on your words'," said Budra. Then he's reduced to teaching basic grammar to them himself.
  • "We haven't taught grammar for 30-40 years...(and it) hasn't worked." "It's not that hard to teach basic grammar,
  • Cellphone texting and social networking on Internet sites are degrading writing skills, say even experts in the field. "I think it has," says Joel Postman, author of "SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate," who has taught Fortune 500 companies how to use social networking.
  • The Internet norm of ignoring punctuation and capitalization as well as using emoticons may be acceptable in an e-mail to friends and family, but it can have a deadly effect on one's career if used at work. "It would say to me ... 'well, this person doesn't think very clearly, and they're not very good at analyzing complex subjects, and they're not very good at expressing themselves, or at worse, they can't spell, they can't punctuate,' " he says.
  • "These folks are going to short-change themselves, and right or wrong, they're looked down upon in traditional corporations," notes Postman. But "spelling is getting better because of Spellcheck," says Margaret Proctor, University of Toronto writing support co-ordinator
    • Jinnette Reyes Pantalone
      Jinnette Reyes Pantalone on 11 Sep 13
       
      This whole article is gold!
Brandi Burke

Ideas for the argument - 15 views

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 stateme...

started by Brandi Burke on 12 Sep 13 11 follow-ups, last by Brandi Burke on 12 Sep 13
Brandi Burke

Picking - 9 views

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 ...

started by Jinnette Reyes Pantalone on 11 Sep 13 4 follow-ups, last by Brandi Burke on 12 Sep 13
jennifer lynch

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? / UCLA N... - 0 views

newsroom.ucla.edu/...producing-a-decline-79127.aspx

decline in critical thinking study

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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.
  • Reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said.
  • 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. When students were tested after class lectures, those who did not have Internet access performed better than those who did.
jennifer lynch

Declining Literacy | Teacher to Teacher Archives | Articles | Resources | BJU Press - 1 views

www.bjupress.com/...declining-literacy.php

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  • Here are the facts. The Department of Education’s National Adult Literacy survey of 1992 revealed that over 50% of American adults over the age of 16 were functionally illiterate. The tragic news is that the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy reveals that the "average prose and document literacy did not differ significantly from 1992."1
  • Defining literacy as "using printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential," the assessment found that "average prose literacy decreased for all levels of educational attainment between 1992 and 2003" although "the educational attainment of America’s adults increased between 1992 and 2003." Even though more adults have completed more education, their reading is weaker
  • A recent report from ACT, the nonprofit American College Testing program, reveals that "only half of the 1.2 million high school seniors who took its test in 2005 are prepared for the reading requirements of a first-year college course.
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  • "a detailed but bleak assessment of the decline of reading’s role in the nation’s culture." Entitled Reading at Risk, the report of this survey of national trends among American adults reveals that "literary reading in America is not only declining rapidly among all groups, but the rate of decline has accelerated, especially among the young
Jinnette Reyes Pantalone

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

www.educationworld.com/..._impacts_student-writing.shtml

texing education

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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.
  • “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.”
  • 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.
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  • 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.
Lucas Cook

http://bootheprize.stanford.edu/0203/PWR-Boothe-Craig.pdf - 0 views

bootheprize.stanford.edu/...PWR-Boothe-Craig.pdf

Instant messaging literacy

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    • Lucas Cook
      Lucas Cook on 11 Sep 13
       
      Page 118 2nd paragraph
    • Lucas Cook
      Lucas Cook on 11 Sep 13
       
      A prime example of the literacy problem our youth faces in todays world of technology.
Patrick Gladden

Hey ! - 14 views

I was wondering wth was going on

started by Jinnette Reyes Pantalone on 10 Sep 13 8 follow-ups, last by Patrick Gladden on 11 Sep 13
Matthew Murren

Hey everybody! - 1 views

Do you guys have AIM instant messenger? I've been using it to keep in touch with our instructor. It would be easier for all of us to share our ideas on there, with a group conversation.

started by Matthew Murren on 11 Sep 13 no follow-up yet
Brandi Burke

Team B articles - 8 views

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

Debate literacy decline technology

started by Brandi Burke on 10 Sep 13 no follow-up yet
Patrick Gladden

Decline in literacy skills due to technology - 5 views

Literacy through technology promotes laziness to an extent.Texting,for example, has been turned into a language completely compiled of acronyms and abbreviation.Online video hosting sites have take...

Debate literacy

started by Patrick Gladden on 10 Sep 13 no follow-up yet
Patrick Gladden

cultural literacy - 0 views

justintadlock.com/...ational-systems-responsibility

Debate decline literacy

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  • Patrick Gladden on 10 Sep 13
     
    Thia entire article is pretty interesting..It talks more about cultural literacy and it's decline,and how necessary it is for our current society.
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