3. Declining Writing Skills
Due to the excessive usage of online chatting and shortcuts, the writing skills of today’s young generation have declined quite tremendously. These days, children are relying more and more on digital communication that they have totally forgot about improving their writing skills. They don’t know the spelling of different words, how to use grammar properly or how to do cursive writing.
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The 4 Negative Side Effects Of Technology - Edudemic - 2 views
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I know I am guilty of this myself. We all rely on auto correct or spell check way more then anyone should, instead of trying to correct the mistakes by learning better literacy skills. Grammar is probably one of the things most effected by technology. Everything is cut short, or words are left out, and it gets worse every day.
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Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? | UCLA - 1 views
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"Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary," Greenfield said. "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades."
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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.
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"Wiring classrooms for Internet access does not enhance learning," Greenfield said.
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Multitasking is not always the best idea. When it comes to the internet it is so stimulating that its hard to take in any other information. You can't be on tumblr and listen to the story about what happened at the coffee shop to your friend today and be able to respond to them meaningfully.
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Kayla Mullis
"In today's world we have a number of technological advancements to help us with everyday life; making things easier, smoother, and more enjoyable. How does this affect our literacy skills?
With social media we have cut out sentences, words and conversations are shorter. We shorten statements like "Oh my god." to "OMG" and actually use the abbreviated version in our face to face conversations. Children would rather "watch the movie then read the book". So are these things bad? Are they negatively affecting literacy? Here is our proof that we are harming our own intelligence by using more technology instead of focusing on improving our skills."
Also as far as winning we probably wont because technology has created a whole new type of literacy to start with so its kind of pointless. The assignment is more about the facts and backing up our statements with research like you said.
Also my cousin just finished this assignment three weeks ago and was in team C. She said that one team did have a nice presentation with pictures and everything. But if we were to use say power point for instance it would kind of prove out argument invalided by using more technology to say technology is bad. See what I mean? Team A has the upper hand pretty much anyway. We just need to make a good argument whether we are right or not isn't the point.