Social networking and internet.... - 15 views
started by Jana Zills on 12 Mar 14
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#1 Jana Zills on 12 Mar 14I'm on the fence on this subject. I think it could be helpful to literacy because you have things like spell check and corrected grammar errors in some programs. Also with the internet you are reading a lot so that is beneficial. On the other hand I think that technology is relied on too heavily for teaching us to spell and teaching us grammar. We don't have to use our minds as much because technology will do it for us. If you don't believe that, think back to a time when you didn't know how to spell a word on paper, no resources to look it up. Simple words. I'm a spelling buff so I think we should rely on ourselves to spell words correctly. The new age is rely on technology making us a bit lazy. -
#2 adria toshok on 12 Mar 14I do agree that Social networking and the internet stunts our growth with spell check and grammar corrections. It does let us being lazy and also it may make the teachers not as put as much emphasis on anything in English or reports in any subject. -
#3 moriahlynn on 12 Mar 14Also, with all the lingo that isn't used with the proper grammar or spelling, I think it hinders people. With all the abbreviations and short-hand text isn't necessarily helpful, it shows how lazy we are, and can hinder learning, in a sense. -
#4 Jana Zills on 12 Mar 14I like to use your, you're, ur, and u r as an example. In the past I've seen students that have used "u r" in a formal paper. It makes me a little upset just because I've always loved grammar and spelling and make it a point to use to correctly. English taught in school is a dying subject. I heard one of cousin's say the other day "I don't need English in school, I already speak the language." To me, that's the most silly thing I've ever heard. It's not about learning the language but about putting it on paper correctly.
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#5 moriahlynn on 12 Mar 14I agree Jana, especially since people "speak the language" and yet, it's still not used properly when speaking. Because of short hand and abbreviations, the digital native generation's ability to decipher the difference between your, you're, and you are vs u r, is tanking, and quickly.
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#6 Matt Lowery on 13 Mar 14I fully agree with all of the above mentioned points! Something else that I think people take for granted is Twitter and their 140 character limit. Thanks to the digital age people are absorbing information faster and from so many different sources, which is great! But that also means we have so much more to distract us, by pandering to these 'short attention spans' I think not everyone provides as much information as they could have in the past. Newspaper articles use a similar tactic, but it's mostly to hook you into the article. Now, it's JUST the 'hook' and then the story is over. Instead of just providing in depth coverage for as much relevant information as possible, it's just a steady barrage of 1 line 'news updates'. -
#7 Jana Zills on 13 Mar 14I agree with you! People are sucked in by a title and that's it. I think Twitter is used more frequently than any other social media and with the character limit they are forced to using short messages. I this this also goes back to older phones when there was a text message character limit and every "page" counted as one message. People were trying to save their space and I think that's where the shorter message language came from initially.
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#8 Ronald Henry on 14 Mar 14I definitely agree, it's always harder for me to type a paper. I have to go through and retype almost every sentence because I am abbreviating everything. I often missed some and at my last school I almost failed an english class because of it. I also know that my time is fully taken up with netflix and youtube, at least when I'm not working, at church, or doing school work.
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