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Does texting hurt writing skills? - TimesDaily: Archives - 4 views

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  • Gilbert Lawrence on 13 Aug 13
     
    This article talk about how students at the age rang 12 to 17 are dramatically affected by texting and writing. Talks about how kids abbreviate their words making their writing very bad. Some kids even say they get lazy and allow text talk to enter the papers.
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Text messaging - the good, the bad, the ugly - Boston home technology | Examiner.com - 0 views

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  • Americans sent 1 billion text messages in last December, up sharply from 253 million from the previous year.
  • Increasingly, text messaging is boosted by tie-ins with television shows such as American Idol, major league baseball and pro football.
  • Texting is eroding our children's ability to spell. Because becomes "cuz." Are you becomes "RU." Laugh out loud is now "LOL." Make no mistake, texting is really instant messaging with a wireless device and a whole new English syntax is developing. Problem is, texting is destroying proper sentence construction and turning writing into a series of fragments.
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  • The second area of concern is reckless texting ... what a distraction to look at or send a text while behind the wheel of a car. There should be a law!
  • Danielle hall on 14 Aug 13
     
    Texting is destroying grammar and proper sentence structure.
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Does Technology Make Us Smarter or Dumber? | TIME.com - 0 views

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      Courtney JLee on 15 Aug 13
       
      This is an excellent article with a clear statistic about how the use of technology is detrimental to our intelligence.
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Bedtime Texting Bad for Sleep - ABC News - 2 views

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  • Kids who send text messages or use the Internet right before bed may suffer poorer sleep at night as well as mood and cognitive problems during the day, according to results of a pilot study.
  • Text messaging and other electronic communication media were linked to excessive movement during sleep, insomnia, and leg pain at night in students ages 8 to 22,
  • Use of these technologies after bedtime was also associated with "high rates of daytime cognitive or mood problems ... including ADHD, anxiety, depression, learning difficulties," according to the report slated for presentation here at the CHEST meeting on Wednesday.
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  • "The prevalence of insomnia and other sleep disorders is cause for great concern, given their potential consequences on a child's ability to function in school,"
  • These young people averaged 33.5 text messages or e-mails sent per night to an average of 3.7 people for a total of 3,404 text messages per person per month.
  • More than 77 percent of the adolescents and young adults surveyed had persistent trouble getting to sleep.
  • Danielle hall on 14 Aug 13
     
    An article about how the texting and having technology around actually causes kids to not only not get enough sleep but causes disruptions in sleep and the effects are terrible. It can disrupt learning in a extremely negative way.
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Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? / UCLA N... - 0 views

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  • As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined,
  • Reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said.
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      Brandon King on 16 Aug 13
       
      Basically about reading for please is thing of the past most don't do it and technology plays a big role in our lives but weakens us in terms of reading,grammar, and writing skills.
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The Decreasing Literacy Skills of the Workforce - Changing Responsibilities of Business... - 1 views

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  • In 2001, the American Management Association found that one-third of job applicants flunked basic literacy and math tests. 
  • There is plenty of evidence that literacy skills continue to decline. U.S. government data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that after years of educational reforms, high school seniors scored worse on a national reading test than they had back in 1992. Less than three-quarters of U.S. 12th graders scored at at least the “basic” level, down from 80% in the early 1990s. 
  • Employers view reading and writing as critical basic skills, yet they are often at a loss about how to improve those skills among their workforce without incurring huge costs and loss of on-the-job time. Training programs abound to train managers and staff about project and budget control and various technical disciplines, but few programs exist to teach basic skills and employers find it difficult to justify such expenditures. 
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  • The Center for Lifelong Learning was created to address these and other pressing literacy issues. 
  • We believe that the problem of the decline in literacy is exacerbated by the fact that nearly everyone is taught to read using techniques that modern education and brain researchers have proven to be antiquated. Since the beginning of mass education in the U.S., students have been taught to read, starting in Kindergarten, in ways that have been shown to be the opposite of the way our brains work. 
  • Most people attribute their reading problems to their own failings as students. Yet the problem is really the techniques they were taught to use, not their brain and its native capabilities. 
  • Researchers have found that the reality is that the faster you read, the more you remember. It’s the way our brains are designed. In school, kids are taught to read one word at a time, to stop reading at the end of a line until they reach the left side of the page again, and, worst of all, to say the words out loud in their head. All of these practices are exactly the opposite of the reality of the way our brains want information delivered.
  • Researchers have found that the reality is that the faster you read, the more you remember. It’s the way our brains are designed. In school, kids are taught to read one word at a time, to stop reading at the end of a line until they reach the left side of the page again, and, worst of all, to say the words out loud in their head. All of these practices are exactly the opposite of the reality of the way our brains want information delivered.
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      Brandon King on 16 Aug 13
       
      this article discusses the decreasing literacy skills in jobs because of advancements of technology
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Is Technology Making Us Dumber? | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • Courtney JLee on 16 Aug 13
     
    This article agrees that the internet helps us retrieve information faster, but raises the question; do we actually KNOW more or less?
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Ellen Galinsky: Texting, TV and Tech Trashing Children's Attention Spans - 0 views

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  • "There is a widespread belief among teachers that students' constant use of digital technology is hampering their attention spans and ability to persevere in the face of challenging tasks.
  • Nearly three quarters of the 685 public and private K-12 teachers surveyed in the Common Sense Media online poll believe that students use of entertainment media (including TV, video games, texting and social networking) "has hurt student's attention spans a lot or somewhat."
  • Likewise, in the Pew online survey, which polled 2,462 middle and high school teachers, 87% report that these technologies are creating "an easily distracted generation with short attention spans," and 64% say that digital technologies "do more to distract students than to help them academically."
  • Courtney JLee on 15 Aug 13
     
    Per a survey of 85 public and private school teachers, social media has hurt students ability to pay attention in class, thus decreasing their likelihood of obtaining good grades. Teachers have to come up with creative ways to "win" student's attention. 64% say digital technologies hurt them academically.
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Baroness Susan Greenfield: society should wake up to harmful effects of internet - Tele... - 0 views

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  • Society should be aware of the potentially harmful effects of the internet, networking sites and computer games on the brain, leading neuroscientist and peer Baroness Susan Greenfield has said.
  • "By the same token we have got to be very careful about what price we are paying."
  • On the other side of the equation, social networking sites might reduce empathy, said Lady Greenfield.
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  • Using search engines to find facts may hinder the ability to learn, while computer games could "make us more reckless in our day-to-day lives".
  • "I have yet to find a parent who says, 'I am really pleased that my kid is spending so much time in front of the computer.'
  • Danielle hall on 14 Aug 13
     
    Internet and social networking destroying the ability for empathy.
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Televison, Health & Development - 0 views

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    Outlines negative effects on television on a child who is young. Poor performance in school, less imagination, focusing issues, planning and judging, and violence.
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    Televisions negative impact on literacy of children

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? - 0 views

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Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say - The Globe a... - 0 views

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  • Little or no grammar teaching, cell phone texting, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are all being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write.
  • "Thirty per cent of students who are admitted are not able to pass at a minimum level,"
  • Poor grammar is the major reason students fail
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  • "If a student has problems with articles, prepositions, verb tenses, that's a problem."
  • Cellphone texting and social networking on Internet sites are degrading writing skills
  • Barrett says the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
  • Orlando Gonzalez on 12 Aug 13
     
    This article discusses how social networking is hurting the youth of today on how to use proper grammar. "Students seem to have absolutely no idea what an apostrophe is for"
  • Orlando Gonzalez on 12 Aug 13
     
    Schools are not teaching the proper way to use grammar anymore, and with the internet being so dominant our youth today thinks that "U" instead of "YOU" is acceptable etc....
  • Gilbert Lawrence on 13 Aug 13
     
    If you really think about it they don't really push writing in cursive anymore either. It shows how dramatic technology is affecting writing skills.
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Spelling and text language are influenced by technology - New York literacy | Examiner.com - 0 views

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  • When students are not aware of the requirements for formal written language, ‘texting language’ can make itself present, and this poses a major issue. Many times, teachers will read their students’ assignments and are unable to comprehend what students have written, simply because the assignment is written in text language.
  • Studies have shown that areas of students with low-socioeconomic status are more likely to be influenced by ‘texting language’ in their writing.
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Is Technology Ruining Our Ability to Write? - 0 views

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  • Check out these findings from Docmail’s study: Two thirds of those surveyed said if they do write something on paper, it’s usually something only they will see, such as a note or reminder. More than half said they don’t take pride in their handwriting. One in five can’t remember the last time they were required to write something neatly. Over half said the quality of their handwriting has noticeably declined, with one in seven being “very ashamed” of it. Nearly half (44%) said their handwriting isn’t easy to read and a third said they often struggle to read their own writing. Even so, remarkably a sixth of those surveyed don’t believe handwriting should still be taught in schools.
  • All this technology is not only affecting the quality of our handwriting, it’s hurting our ability to spell, as well. Four in ten of those surveyed said they increasingly rely on predictive text, which is when your mobile device finishes a word you start to input.
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Is technology harming our communication skills? - 0 views

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  • When you are constantly using abbreviations and slang in texts and online chats, it is hard to remember to use proper grammar when writing formal emails, letters or papers.  Technology can also harm our communication skills at work and in school.  It may be degrading our ability to speak publicly and write formally.  Think of how many professors or bosses have probably received a "cuz," "l8ter" or "cya" in an email. 
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Downsides and disadvantages of improvements in technology | The Herald - 0 views

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  • Technology has advanced to the point where today’s generation communicates mainly with technology. From texting, MySpace and Facebook, people are finding other means of communicating with each other.
  • One way that people lack in communication skills due to technol­ogy is spelling.
  • Nonverbal communication skills are also lacking.
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  • Good communication skills are important in the workplace and in our daily lives.
  • For the past few years everything is designed to be more conve­nient for people, such as new generation iPods, faster phones and computers.
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Technology: Declining Literacy or Changing it? by Brian West on Prezi - 0 views

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  • Agree The NEA makes a convincing case that both kids and adults are reading fewer books.
  • picking up a book for the fun of it - is down 7% since 1992 for all adults, and 12% for 18-24 year olds
  • in 1992, 43% of Americans read at an intermediate level; by 2003 the number was slightly higher at 44%. "Proficient" readers dropped slightly, from 15% to 13%.
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Impact of Text Messaging & Other Technologies on Student Writing Skills - 1 views

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  • This article discusses how technology, primarily texting, has negatively influenced students' writing skills, and offers advise on what particular weaknesses students may have developed that you will need to work on correcting in your classroom.
  • “I wanna go u wanna go 2?” Now, this gibberish is easy enough to understand and requires one to type less, but the problem is that students are not adept enough at knowing where informal writing ends and formal writing begins
  • Today's Tech-Savvy SocietyThe most alarming trend concerning the impact of technology on students involves poor formal writing skills. This is due in large part to the society in which we live. Texting on cellular phones has had a detrimental effect on student’s writing. Although communicating via text messages is a fabulous way to stay in touch, this seemingly coded short-hand that students use while texting, has surfaced in their formal writing, in their essays, and in their research papers. slide 3 of 6Mechanics MeltdownFor the most part, students have no idea that contractions do not belong in formal writing, and that to be considered a contraction, a word has to include an apostrophe, which typically replaces a letter or two. I inform my students to avoid contractions in their writing, and someone always responds, “What’s a contraction?” To no avail. I am not surprised, but I rather expect some student to comment.
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  • Personal Pronoun "I" is Capitalized?Not only is this affecting usage skills, but students have no idea that the personal pronoun “I” is supposed to be capitalized when it is used. Another common mistake that is closely related to capitalizing the personal pronoun, is the capitalization of first letters of the first word that begins sentences.This emanates from students who do not take the time to properly capitalize their letters when they are texting because it takes too much time.slide 5 of 6Lack of PunctuationAnother negative effect that texting is having on students is the lack of punctuation. Now, punctuation is limited on cellular device keypads, but to students, the punctuation that appears is nonexistent. If they are not going to take the time to capitalize letters, they certainly are not going to take the time to punctuate their sentences. The result is that students are so used to texting that when they must complete a formal writing assignment for their English class, they can not transition between formal and informal writing. The result is that students just run together their sentences and phrases, thus omitting proper punctuation. slide 6 of 6Texting Makes Teaching ToughNow, I realize that text messaging is not solely responsible for this shortcoming, but emailing, internet searches, and instant messaging have all contributed to the demise of students' writing abilities. Such technological innovations are useful, but for teachers, it makes them work twice as hard. One solution to this problem is to address the impact of technology on students before each formal writing assignment and emphasize the need to write differently in different circumstances.
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There Are No Technology Shortcuts to Good Education « Educational Technology ... - 0 views

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  • There are no technology shortcuts to good education. For primary and secondary schools that are underperforming or limited in resources, efforts to improve education should focus almost exclusively on better teachers and stronger administrations. Information technology, if used at all, should be targeted for certain, specific uses or limited to well-funded schools whose fundamentals are not in question.
  • To back these assertions, I’ll draw on four different lines of evidence.
  • The history of electronic technologies in schools is fraught with failures. Computers are no exception, and rigorous studies show that it is incredibly difficult to have positive educational impact with computers. Technology at best only amplifies the pedagogical capacity of educational systems; it can make good schools better, but it makes bad schools worse. Technology has a huge opportunity cost in the form of more effective non-technology interventions. Many good school systems excel without much technology.
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      Brandon King on 12 Aug 13
       
      the place where it starts with "The history" is where there supposed to be a 1. and going down to 4. it didn't bookmark the numbers for some reason.
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