Article from: UCLA Newsroom by: Stuart Wolpert January 6, 2009 'Learners have changed, reading for pleasure declined, no one thing is good and things are better when there is a balance.', says Patricia Greenfield (patricia greenfield UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles)

go to the dashboard click on 2.4 the first one and follow the link their response is there

After I do this research I'm writing my assignment in google drive. Until I get someone to send it to for submission or editing. I'm using the quotes from these four articles to base my judgements on. Team A hasn't submitted yet that should tell you we should not make the same mistake. I will be done tonight or early tomorrow to get this out of the way or as soon as team A posts.

Article from all about Adolescent Literacy Resources for parents and educators in grades 4-12 by: National Center for Technology Innovation and Center for Implementing Technology in Education 2010 While researching the article Adolescent Literacy I think team B could have gone a little further into detail about access to online reference like dictionaries and encyclopedias, or even online training videos. There was more of a focused argument on texting and social communication primarily. EBooks, annotations and study features, spell checkers, word prediction and voice recognition software were also mentioned in this article as ways

Article from The Principal of Change Stories of learning and leading by: George Couros Division Principal for Parkland School Division and an Innovative Teaching, Learning, and Leadership consultant. August 21, 2011 "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." Most of us are still in a mindset where we see the book as central and the electronic technology is marginal. For young people, it is the other way around…We are not going to change that, but we can manage it….put the book into the electronic technology." "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." David also addressed the idea that the acronyms and slang that we use in our text messaging, shows up in students' exams, to which he stated: "(When asked) Do you see these 'textisms" in your exams, the answer universally is no…the kids don't do it." David Crystal expert on the English Language honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor video interview David Crystal-Texts and Tweets: Myths and Reality