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Can social networking boost literacy skills? - 1 views

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Social Networking Supporting Evidence 2.4

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But do social networking sites have any educational benefits? Aside from helping students to make new friends, do social networking sites facilitate learning? The answer seems to be that they do. The National Literacy Trust found that social networking sites and blogs help students to develop more positive attitudes toward writing and to become more confident in their writing abilities.
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49 per cent of young people believe that writing is “boring.” However, students who use technology-based texts such as blogs have more positive attitudes toward writing. Whereas 60 per cent of bloggers say that they enjoy writing, only 40 per cent of non-bloggers find writing enjoyable.
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students who write blogs or maintain a profile on a social networking site tend to be more confident about their writing ability.
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13 per cent of students have their own website, 24 per cent write a blog and 56 per cent have a profile on a social networking site.
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Dr. Spencer Jordan, a creative writing teacher in the School of Education at the University of Wales
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“When I was a kid, I used to write in exercise books kept in a drawer, but now that young people write on the web, there’s a whole community out there to read their work. It’s interactive, and that makes it more appealing to them.”
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Perhaps text messaging, social networking sites and blogs are a new form of literature that will soon be studied in schools in the way that books, plays and poetry are now
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