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Jenna Flammini

FOCROFLOL: Is Texting Damaging Our Language Skills? | Psychology Today - 0 views

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DGL texting

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  • young people write in techspeak, using shortcuts, such as homophones, omissions, non-essential letters and initials, to quickly and efficiently compose a text message.
  • based their findings on a survey of over 500 students in middle school.  They concluded “there is evidence of a decline in grammar scores.”
  • conducted a study for her Master’s thesis in linguistics, which showed that those who texted more were less open to new vocabulary, whereas those who read traditional media were more open to expanding their vocabulary.
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  • College students who frequently text message during class have difficulty staying attentive to classroom lectures and consequently are at risk of having poor results
  • reading traditional print media exposes people to variety and creativity in language that is not found in colloquial peer-to-peer text messaging
  • “Our assumption about texting is that it encourages unconstrained language,” Lee argues, “but the study found this to be a myth.”
  • most college students believe they are capable of performing multitasking behaviors (such as texting) during their classroom learning, but research does not support that proposition.
  • Out of a study of 700 youths aged 12-17, sixty percent don’t consider electronic communications such as messaging to be writing in the formal sense; 63 percent say it has no impact on the writing they do for school, and yet 64 percent report that they inadvertently use some form of shorthand in their formal writing
g_lem803

HowStuffWorks "5 Ways Technology Has Negatively Affected Families" - 0 views

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Negative Effects Technology DGL

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  • Another study examined boys aged 6 to 9 and the relationship between video games and their declining reading skills. The boys didn't seem to have any underlying reading problems; researchers speculate that their desire to play video games just surpassed the time they devoted to reading and writing, bringing down their abilities
  • Children with unlimited gaming, computer and TV time may not get enough interpersonal face-to-face interaction needed to develop proper social skills.
  • E-mail and texts don't convey empathy, tone or subtext the way face-to-face or phone conversations do.
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  • A group of children, aged 4-6, were asked whether they'd want to watch TV or hang out with their dad. Dear old dad lost out! According to an A.C. Nielsen report, 54 percent of kids preferred to spend time with the TV.
  • In 2004, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention said childhood obesity had tripled since 1980 in the U.S.A. One of the most technologically advanced countries also has one of the highest shares of obese people in the world -- not a correlation of which to be proud.
Jenna Flammini

Texting affects ability to interpret words -- ScienceDaily - 0 views

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DGL texting

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  • those who texted more were less accepting of new words.
  • The people who accepted more words did so because they were better able to interpret the meaning of the word, or tolerate the word, even if they didn't recognize the word. Students who reported texting more rejected more words instead of acknowledging them as possible words."
  • reading encourages flexibility in language use and tolerance of different words.
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  • In contrast, texting is associated with rigid linguistic constraints
  • for texters, word frequency is an important factor in the acceptability of words.
Jenna Flammini

Does Technology Make Us Smarter or Dumber? | TIME.com - 1 views

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DGL technology

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  • Auto-complete.
  • make adolescent users faster, but less accurate
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  • scientists found that kids who sent three or more text messages a day had significantly lower scores on literacy tests than children who sent none.
  • Search engines
  • changing the way we use our memories
  • lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it.
  • It’s good to know where to find the information you need—but decades of cognitive science research shows that skills like critical thinking and problem-solving can be developed only in the context of factual knowledge. In other words, you’ve got to have knowledge stored in your head, not just in your computer.
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  • those who divided their attention between email and other tasks experienced a 10-point decline in IQ.
  • Their decrease in intellectual ability was as great as if they’d missed a whole night’s sleep
  • scores on a test of general knowledge were highest among people who read newspapers, magazines and books, and lowest among those who watched a lot of TV.
  • Watching television, they noted, is “negatively associated with knowledge acquisition” — except when the TV watching involved public television, news, or documentary programs.
aefreemansmith

To read or not to read - 2 views

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misinformation DGL digital literacy decline effects

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    "Americans are spending less time reading. Reading comprehension skills are eroding. These declines have serious civic, social, cultural, and economic implications"
aefreemansmith

The Six Early Literacy Skills | CLEL - 2 views

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digital literacy DGL misinformation negative literacy

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  • aefreemansmith on 16 Jul 14
     
    Print Motivation - Being interested in and enjoying books. Print Awareness - Noticing print everywhere, knowing how to handle a book and knowing how to follow the written word on the page. Letter Knowledge, vocabulary, phonological awareness, narrative skills.
  • roberthenk on 16 Jul 14
     
    One thing I notice at work, since I work with kids, is that I have 8 years old who still don't know how to put letters the right way, such as backwards letters. They do however know how to use an iPhone completely,and know every part of Minecraft there is to know. This is becoming a problem that has gotten worse and worse every year i have worked there
  • Kayla Mullis on 17 Jul 14
     
    I know my sister who is 9 has the same problem Robert. Hers is due to dyslexia which mine is as well. I still write my b and d backwards when I print but, reading and the fact that I started reading for pleasure has made a huge difference on my dyslexia and my sister is improving as well. I can read faster now that I am not reading sentences backward, though my print still suffers. I don't think that it will ever change as hard as I have tried.
aefreemansmith

Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America - 3 views

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DGL misinformation digital literacy decline

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  • aefreemansmith on 16 Jul 14
     
    "For the first time in modern history, less than half of the adult population now reads literature, and these trends reflect a larger decline in other sorts of reading."
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