Misinformation Debate Team C 1/20/14

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

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

I feel the most credible sites the used where http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Student-Research and http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/is-technology-producing-a-decline-79127.aspx Not that the Huffington Post, NYTimes or Washington Post are not credible, however they are most based on filtering out information, while the above sites, are stating statitcs and giving better expamples. Basically I don't feel like they are trying to just win me over to one side or the other.

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)

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.

We have to have ours turned in by Monday, if possible can we get everyone's responses by 2:00 or 3:00 Saturday. I will edit that night and Sunday morning and get it to you by 2:00 Sunday, for any changes anyone wants. Have that to me by 4:00 and by 6 Sunday have final review and then I will send it to the person to turn in the assignment.