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Albert Martinez

Google Drive Document - 29 views

I find your revision of the title much better. Shorter and straight to the point. and I just added this to the diigo group and will be adding it to the doc: "Schools are continuously updating the...

Google Drive Document Editing Assignment

Randall Oxendine

Finishing Up! - 0 views

Document Review

started by Randall Oxendine on 11 Apr 14 no follow-up yet
Randall Oxendine

Turning in the assignment - 13 views

Bumping this up so others can find the link to the Peer Review.

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Simora Martin

Literacy rates expected to worsen - 0 views

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    Edmonton Journal (Alberta) September 8, 2010 Wednesday Final Edition Literacy rates expected to worsen BYLINE: Postmedia News SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A6 LENGTH: 399 words DATELINE: OTTAWA Current low literacy rates in Canada's biggest cities are expected to be about the same in 20 years unless some serious efforts to improve them are made now, a new report released today warns. Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa are all on track to see the number of adults with low literacy levels in their populations soar because of demographic shifts, according to a report from the Canadian Council on Learning, and it should be a major concern for the cities, the group's president says. "It's surprising for people who think that the problem of low levels of literacy among Canadian adults will improve over time, because they won't," Paul Cappon said in an interview. "And that includes in the bigger cities where people might have thought you'd get the most improvement." The latest numbers from the CCL indicate that about 48 per cent of adults have low literacy rates and projections show little is expected to change over the next 20 years. By 2031, about 47 per cent of Canadian adults are projected to have low prose literacy skills, as defined by the OECD's International Adults Literacy and Skills Survey -- which means they'll have difficulty reading, comprehending and functioning effectively with written material. While the percentage is expected to stay the same, the total number of Canadians with low literacy is predicted to jump 25 per cent to 15 million between 2001 and 2031. The major factor behind that trend is the projected growth in the number of senior citizens and immigrants, the report said. In Toronto, a slight decrease of five per cent in the share of the population with low literacy is expected by 2031, but the absolute number of residents who need help is expected to go from 1.9 million to 3.2 million. The change in Toronto is being driven mostly by immigrati
Albert Martinez

25 Negative Effects of Technology - RooGirl - 2 views

  • Here are 25 negative effects technology can have:
  • 1. IsolationSocial isolation is characterized by a lack of contact with other people in normal daily living
  • 2. Lack of Social SkillsThe use of online social media outlets causes us to meet face-to-face with much less frequency resulting in a lack of much needed social skills. We lose the ability to read body language and social cues in other people.
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      Abuse of technology use, creating negative unhealthy impacts on social environments and personal lives
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  • isolate ourselves by walking around in our own little world, listening to our iPods or staring at the screen of the latest mobile device even when we are around other people. Studies have shown that people who are socially isolated will live shorter lives.
  • 5. Poor Sleep HabitsSome of the negative effects of technology can be linked to the effect it has on sleep habits. We get sucked into online activities that keep us up too late and the constant stream of information can make it difficult to turn off our brains.
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      Poor sleep habits is critically and incredibly vital to keeping sane and healthy. Lack of sleep is a huge factor in crazy behavior. I'll add supporting documentation soon
  • 6. PollutionWith the rapid-changing world of electronics and technology, the turnover rate for upgrades is staggering. This constant stream of out with the old, in with the new is adding to the levels of toxicity in our air and land.
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      relating it to properly and responsibly using digital tools.Responsibility and Accountability. 
Randall Oxendine

School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe of Stu... - 0 views

  • According to Lee (2002), "teachers say that papers are being written with shortened words, improper capitalization and punctuation, and characters like &, $ and @. " However, something that is not always considered is that these mistakes are often unintentional – when students use IM frequently, they reach a saturation point where they no longer notice the IM lingo because they are so used to seeing it.
  • This was also a problem for Carl Sharp, whose 15-year old son's summer job application read "i want 2 b a counselor because i love 2 work with kids" (Friess, 2003), and English instructor Cindy Glover, who – while teaching undergraduate freshman composition in 2002 – "spent a lot of time unteaching Internet-speak. 'My students were trying to communicate fairly academic, scholarly thoughts, but some of them didn't seem to know it's "y-o-u," not "u"'" (Freiss, 2003.) These examples give credence to Montana Hodgen's point, that heavy IM use actually changes the way students read words on a page.
  • Students need to understand the importance of using the appropriate language in the appropriate setting, and that who one is writing for affects the way in which one writes. For example, IM-speak is perfectly acceptable when instant messaging with someone; on the flip side it is completely unacceptable when writing a formal letter. The same thing is true of formal writing – it is appropriate in an official document, such as a school paper, but would be inappropriate in-- for example-- an online chat room.
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  • Lee, J. (2002, September 19). I Think, Therefore IM. New York Times, p.G.1.
  • Friess, S. (2003, April 1). 'Yo, can u plz help me write English?': Parents fear online chatting ruins kids' language skills. USA Today, p.D.08.
  • However, something that is not always considered is that these mistakes are often unintentional – when students use IM frequently, they reach a saturation point where they no longer notice the IM lingo because they are so used to seeing it. Montana Hodgen, a 16-year old high school student in Montclair, New Jersey, "was so accustomed to instant-messaging abbreviations that she often read right past them" (Lee, 2002). As she puts it, "I was so used to reading what my friends wrote to me on Instant Messenger that I didn't even realize that there was something wrong," she said. She said her ability to separate formal and informal English declined the more she used instant messages" (Lee, 2002).
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