igital storytelling has changed Butterfield’s classroom. “Students quickly become invested in their classmates’ stories. The sense of collaboration enhances the writing community. Revision is given true purpose a
The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That's because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text.
So... right... texts and Texts are so mixed up in our lives now in a way that is more social than writing has ever been before. Like I wrote texts, facebook statues, emails so much more often than we wrote postcards and letters and passed notes before.
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