Misinformation debate Team B 7/2014

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.

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

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.

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

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.

This site could help with understanding what they may use as rebuttal.

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.

"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."

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