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rinnalj

Schoolchildren 'should be encouraged to blog and use Facebook to improve literacy' - Te... - 0 views

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Literacy Facebook thetelegraph

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  • Children who kept blogs or had profiles on social networking sites were more likely to enjoy writing and believe themselves to be good at it, it found in a survey. However, educational experts including Professor Tanya Byron, a clinical psychologist, have warned about allowing children to roam the web unsupervised.
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    Lee Rinna - Facebook and Literacy
sante33

Higher literacy rates proven through using Facebook and Blogs! - 0 views

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Literacy Skills Facebook

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  • sante33 on 16 Jul 14
     
    We often hear how the digital age has changed young people's lives in a negative way, that they are glued to their computers and that they don't get out the way older generations did when they were young. In fact, a recent study shows that young people who have a Facebook page and blog have high literacy levels...
coyotegirl18

Facebook 'can help to improve writing skills' Networking boosts ability and confidence.... - 0 views

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    A study conducted by the National Literacy Trust found that children's confidence in their writing abilities were boosted by writing blogs and using social networking sites. The survey, of more than 3,000 youngsters aged between nine and 16, found more than half of all respondents thought writing was "boring" but that youngsters who spent time blogging enjoyed writing more than their peers who did not keep a blog. It found that 57% of youngsters who kept blogs said they liked writing compared to 40% of children who did not do so. The findings, detailed in the report, Young People's Writing: Attitudes, Behaviour and the Role of Technology, also indicated that 61% young bloggers and 56% youngsters with a social networking page claimed to be good or very good at writing.
coyotegirl18

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Technology helps through the television by communicating with a large number of people. Television has made the world global, it helps us learn different languages by showing many foreign films.Tex...

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llgreene

The Internet has created a generation of great writers | Penelope Trunk Blog - 0 views

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Internet and Literacy

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  • Newsflash: No one could write in the Middle Ages, when the good writers wrote in Latin and everyone else spoke colloquial languages like French and English, which priests told them were too lame for real writing.
  • The people who tell you who can write and who can't are the people who don't want language to change. They don't want ideas to change. They don't want people to talk in ways that are new to them.
  • Prior to the Internet, almost all writing people did was for the classroom. The increased amount of writing that young people do outside the classroom these days is so significant that Lumsford calls it a paradigm shift.
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  • Second, the type of writing that students do—via IM, Twitter, Facebook, and so forth—is actually great for building communication skills. Thompson writes that, “Lunsford’s team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos“?assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across. The modern world of online writing, particularly in chat and on discussion threads, is conversational and public, which makes it closer to the Greek tradition of argument than the asynchronous letter and essay writing of 50 years ago.”
  • Lumsford found that students are writing mostly to debate, organize, or persuade. This is much more demanding writing than most of the writing students do for school.
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