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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
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.
voidlegion

The Effects of Texting on your Grammar ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 1 views

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  • Students are using texting as a major method of their day to day communications, and because they are writing on compact and small keyboards they invented these acronyms to get their ideas across with the least typing time  possible. There is nothing wrong with this except when it spells over  into the formal writing territory then it becomes a problem. You might think that by just making them aware of the difference between texting and formal writing will do the job, but what about their spelling and grammar. Studies have shown
cakeffer

The Dawn of the Postliterate Age.: EBSCOhost - 1 views

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Technology Declining Literacy

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  • cakeffer on 16 Jul 14
     
    Page 1 This article questions, "How can it be that, between 1982 and 2007, reading declined by nearly 20% for the overall U.S. population and 30% for young adults aged 18-24, or that 40 million Americans read at the lowest literacy level?... the image makers." Television, video games and YouTube to mention a few is causing this decline.¬¬ ****I believe that as new technological items come out as often as they do, it separates us from the past of pen and paper literacy to the future of something "easier". Page 2 "A recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that text messaging use among teenagers in Ireland was having a highly negative effect on their writing and reading skills." ****Texting employs heavy use of acronyms to replace entire words or sentences, creating a culture of brief to-the-point communications. The electronic culture essentially killed letter writing. Page 3 "While advancement in cybernetics and the decline in literary culture appear, at first glance, completely unrelated, research into cyber-telepathy has direct ramifications for the written word and its survivability." "The advent of faster and more dexterous artificial intelligence systems could further erode traditional literacy." "As originally proposed by futurist William Crossman, The written word will likely be rendered a functionally obsolete technology by 2050. This scenario exists alongside another future in which young people reject many of the devices, networks, and digital services that today's adults market to them so relentlessly." Page 4 "AI watchers predict that natural-language search will replace what some call 'keywordese' in five years. Once search evolves from an awkward word hunt-guessing at the key words that might be in the document you're looking for-to a 'conversation' with an AI entity, the next logical step is vocal conversation with our computer. Ask a question an
  • Kayla Mullis on 17 Jul 14
     
    If we send in the link for this one it cant be viewed because it was during the session you had with the library but we can add the source still so that it is on there but you would have to return to the page on the site and grab it to add to the doc. We don't have to add links per say just make sure we cite the research. I had an ebscohost page as well but instead of getting the info for it i decided to find a different link because it didnt work well with what we are trying to do.
roberthenk

Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills, charity warns | Mail... - 0 views

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literacy technology

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  • A survey, conducted by The National Literacy Trust, found that 52 per cent of children preferred to read on an electronic device - including e-readers, computers and smartphones - while only 32 per cent said they would rather read a physical book. Worryingly, only 12 per cent of those who read using new technology said they really enjoyed reading, compared with 51 per cent of those who favoured books.
  • The poll of 34,910 young people aged between eight and 16 across the UK found that those who read printed texts were almost twice as likely to have above-average reading skills as those who read on screens every day.
  • roberthenk on 16 Jul 14
     
    The reason i chose this article is because the author talks about how technology such as iPads and Kindles can lower a person's ability to read greatly. In the article it states "The poll of 34,910 young people aged between eight and 16 across the UK found that those who read printed texts were almost twice as likely to have above-average reading skills as those who read on screens every day.". Which is a good example to use when you think about if your ability to read lowers, so does your ability to independently learn, your use of proper grammar, your ability to spell, and not to forget your power of creative thinking. Without all these literacy skill our future world will slowly crumb, and we will stop progressing do to lack of these skills. Also in this article, it states that according to The National Literacy Trust survey, " 52 per cent of children preferred to read on an electronic device - including e-readers, computers and smartphones - while only 32 per cent said they would rather read a physical book." This can be quite the dilemma, because with technology always progressing and kids growing up in this technological age will grow more fond of it. Personally I have seen the affect of technology on our future generations, because I work with kids year round and i have notice their abilities grow less and less over the years. I have many 8 year old kids who have problems with literacy skills such as not knowing which way to put letters. So they will write backwards letters, and yet the can fully use a smart phone way better then I can. They can also tell me everything to the last detail about the game Minecraft, and yet many of them have trouble doing simple equations and spelling simple words such as birthday.
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
  • Texting
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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.
  • Email
  • 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.
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.
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