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samahmed

Texting Improving Literacy? | The Principal of Change - 7 views

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  • As I watched and wrote notes on his talk in this video, there were some amazing, yet seemingly common sense ideas that he shared.  Here are some of the quotes that I jotted down: Texting and it’s impact on reading and writing “It turns out that the best texters, are the best spellers.” “The more you text, the better your literacy scores.” “The earlier you get your mobile phone, the better your literacy scores.” “What is texting?  Texting is writing and reading.” “The more practice you get in writing and reading, the better writer and reader you will be.”
  • These kids do not read,” but he quickly dismisses this as a fallacy.
  • In fact, Crystal goes further to say that kids that text read more than what we did as children because they have more access to writing.  Simply put, they do not read and write the same things that we did.  Looking at my own situation, I have actually read more “books” in the last little while than I ever have, as I carry around a huge book collection all the time on my iPhone and/or iPad.
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  • “Every style of language has its purpose, but we have to see what the purpose is…Take an essay and turn it into a text message or vice versa, take a text message and turn it into the essay.”
  • samahmed on 12 Aug 14
     
    Expert confirms reading or writing in any shape or form will help improve reading and writing skills.
kevin johnson

Group items tagged decline - DGL Week 2 Debate Sources | Diigo Groups - 0 views

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  • kevin johnson on 14 Aug 14
     
    "The Lost Art of Conversation Technology such as text messages and email allows us to communicate in short, carefully-edited sentences that lack immediacy and completely remove the contextual information provided by tone of voice and body language. As a result, people who connect with others primarily through technology might find it difficult to engage in normal conversation, since they may have issues understanding non-verbal cues due to lack of practice with face-to-face interaction that can't be paused, edited or filtered. Deteriorating Language Books, dictionaries and treatises have been written on the vocabulary and peculiarities of online and text messaging slang. This slang can prove extremely confusing for people who are not native English speakers, making it harder to discern the meaning of a sentence; people who regularly text or chat online may end up using it, out of sheer habit, even in situations where it is inappropriate or out of place, such as in business messages or school essays. Enabling Rudeness Because communicating through technology creates a barrier between people that isn't there when speaking face to face, some may find it easier to be rude and aggressive. Insulting or threatening messages from anonymous commenters are par for the course for anybody who regularly publishes online content, and even lack of anonymity doesn't alleviate the issue -- Facebook arguments and the like are also relatively common. Sherry Turkle, professor of the social studies of science and technology at MIT, suggests that this happens because technology keeps us from having to see the reaction of the person on the receiving end of the message, making it harder to empathize with him. Constant Disruption Technology allows us to always be reachable if we want to be, no matter where we are or what we're doing. Although this can be beneficial, it may also lead to a vicious cycle of stress and anxiety in which people feel pressured to immediately check and answer any i
erininama

Enterprising Technology: Using 4G Technology to Improve Literacy Skills - 5 views

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  • erininama on 13 Aug 14
     
    Some positive influences on literacy from texting
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  • samahmed on 13 Aug 14
     
    The content was unavailable to me for some reason, boo :( - Sameer
  • erininama on 14 Aug 14
     
    Ah! Oh no! I'll see if I can fix it.
  • erininama on 14 Aug 14
     
    Okay. Maybe this will work: http://escalate.ac.uk/downloads/8298.pdf
Taylor Gruszka

Can social networking boost literacy skills? - 2 views

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  • Let’s explore these findings in more depth. Teenagers may not be reading books, but they are clearly interested in social networking. So the question becomes whether social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube are harming students or helping them. Social networking sites, which began as social communities, are becoming increasingly important. Barack Obama, for example, used such sites to great advantage during his successful campaign to become United States president. But do social networking sites have any educational benefits? Aside from helping students to make new friends, do social networking sites facilitate learning? The answer seems to be that they do. The National Literacy Trust found that social networking sites and blogs help students to develop more positive attitudes toward writing and to become more confident in their writing abilities. According to one of the studies, 49 per cent of young people believe that writing is “boring.” However, students who use technology-based texts such as blogs have more positive attitudes toward writing. Whereas 60 per cent of bloggers say that they enjoy writing, only 40 per cent of non-bloggers find writing enjoyable.
samahmed

David Crystal - Texts and Tweets: myths and realities - YouTube - 3 views

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  • samahmed on 12 Aug 14
     
    Here is a YouTube video with speaker David Crystal, the interviewee from the "Principal of Change" article, as he discusses the myth that technology is inherently weakening our literacy skills.
samahmed

Education Week: Classroom-Tested Tech Tools Used to Boost Literacy - 3 views

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  • Sullivan also uses audio recorders to have student-teachers read sets of vocabulary words, then she creates matching PowerPoint presentations with the words and burns them onto DVDs for the students to take home and listen to.
  • “New technologies are making amazing inroads into helping students overcome some of the challenges that have prevented people from keeping up with reading,” says Frey. “The technology is just a tool that is engaging and allows [students] to do the instant playback.”
  • “The last two years I really looked at the data to see how the kids were doing using all of this technology, and in both the past two years, I ended the year with no children below grade level in reading,” she says. “I do think that technology has a very large part in that.”
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  • “Being literate has always meant the capacity to use a culture’s most powerful tools to create and communicate meanings,” he says. “If you’re not teaching with [technology], you’re not only not preparing the kids for the future, you’re not preparing them for the present moment.”
  • Technology, such as the Internet and Web 2.0 tools, makes it easier for teachers to tap into students’ interests and personalize what they are reading, he says. For instance, during a unit about satire, Wilhelm had his students post jokes to a wiki. Afterward, the class read through the jokes and identified what made each one funny. “We were defining satire, pastiche, misdirection,” he says, and because it was in the context of funny jokes, the students were engaged.
  • For instance, Teachers’ Domain, an online repository of free media resources for teachers run by the Boston-based WGBH Educational Foundation, provides multimedia-rich science and social studies curricula infused with literacy lessons.
  • The lessons include a glossary of terms, videos, interactive Flash activities, and text boxes for students to submit answers in.
  • samahmed on 13 Aug 14
     
    A unique and more "literal" take on how technology helps improve literacy in today's students.
samahmed

2 meanings for literacy - 7 views

Yeah that could be good. The speaker seems to drive the point home.

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