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They Can Text, But Can They Talk? - 0 views

  • Actual conversation is becoming a thing of the past
  • and that's not good for our kids' future.
  • They don't know how to handle conflict face to face because so many things happen through some sort of technology," said Melissa Ortega, a child psychologist at New York's Child Mind Institute. "Clinically, I'm seeing it in the office. The high school kids who I do see will be checking their phones constantly. They'll use it as an avoidance strategy. They'll see if they got a text message in the two minutes they were talking to me."
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  • Now we have an escape route, a Blackberry or iPhone, available any time a stranger (gasp!) starts up an elevator conversation.
  • Gary Small, a neuroscientist and author of "iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind."
  • "They haven't had these years of learning about awkward pauses. Being able to tolerate the discomfort is not something they're going to be used to, unless their parents make it a priority."
  • "We're seeing very, very young children being given these devices to soothe them and to entertain them, and it's displacing the connection with the parent," said Rowan.
  • Our brains have evolved to like constant stimulation and variety,"
  • Humans send many nonverbal cues, from fidgeting to foot tapping, long pauses to eye contact.
  • young people are not learning when they're using these devices
  • they may have trouble initiating interactions, those small talk situations. They don't have as much experience doing it because they're not engaging in it
  • Cris Rowan, a pediatric occupational therapist,
  • "We're seeing escalating diagnoses of all sorts of mental illness in children.
  • children that aren't happy and aren't well-adjusted."
  • British neuroscientist warned that Internet use may be rewiring our brains and leading to attention deficits. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • "As children and parents are attaching more and more to technology, they're detaching from each other, and we know as a species we need to connect," Rowan said.
  • in much the same way that reclusive youths turned to television and gaming systems in the past, so might today's teens turn to computer screens and smartphones.
  • so there's no creativity, there's no imagination, no self-initiation," Rowan said.
  • The ability to self-regulate -- that is, to manage our own emotions and behavior -- is being undermined, too,
  • When Children Text All Day, What Happens To Their Social Skills?
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    "Social Skills" slide for Team B. Yellow highlight= further evidence from article Blue highlight= team B's info on slide
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    Parents have a long list of concerns about children using technology: Will they be hurt by cyber bullying? Or meet with online predators? Will their homework suffer because they're texting 100 times a day? Are they sexting? But what about a more basic question like, Will they be able to hold their own in conversation?
Janelle Taylor

Team A's Citation Page - 0 views

I asked team A to send me their citation page. This is what I received. - Slide 2: Text Messaging: Basically Addictive or Essentially Additive? http://www.decodedscience.com/text-messaging-basic...

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Janelle Taylor

Texting Makes U Stupid: EBSCOhost - 0 views

  • According to a survey carried out last year by Nielsen, Americans between the ages of 13 and 17 send and receive an average of 3,339 texts per month. Teenage girls send and receive more than 4,000.
  • According to the most recent survey by the National Endowment for the Arts, the proportion of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 who read a book not required at school or at work is now 50.7 percent, the lowest for any adult age group younger than 75, and down from 59 percent 20 years ago.
  • we are falling behind more-literate societies
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  • According to the results of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's most recent Program for International Student Assessment, the gap in reading ability between the 15-year-olds in the Shanghai district of China and those in the United States is now as big as the gap between the U.S. and Serbia or Chile.
  • children who don't read are cut off from the civilization of their ancestors.
Janelle Taylor

Text messaging and literacy | Language Debates - 0 views

  • Texters usually want to send messages quickly
  • shortening words or purposely misspelling for ease
  • Woronoff (2007) thinks so. He describes texting as a “habit forming menace [which] can influence kids to spell incorrectly”.
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  • ‘new language’ may replace Standard English and young people will become unable to use our language ‘properly’.
  • There has been evidence to support this claim. For example, The Daily Telegraph (2004) published an article entitled “Pupils resort to text language in GCSE exams”. It explained that some teens misspelt words and used textisms in their GCSE papers. Despite this, The Daily Telegraph then later published an article in 2011 supporting the opposite point of view. The heading read “text messaging ‘improves children’s spelling skills”.
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  • English Language undergraduates at the University of Chester (UK ) review debates and controversies in the world of English Language and Linguistics
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    Team B's "Sentence Structure" slide Blue highlight= what they used in their slide Yellow highlight= further evidence/proof Pink highlight= direct contradiction in their article 
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    I don't find this to be a credible source in that the site is a series of brief research essays that don't take a side on the matter. They are neither pro-text language or anti-text language and have support for both sides in the essay that Team B selected as their source.
Janelle Taylor

How Is Text Messaging Affecting Teen Literacy - College Essays - Shambre19 - 0 views

  • Text messaging can affect a person’s social skills, writing skills, driving skills.
  • money that people spend on phones and texting can cause financial hardship.
  • has begun to have a detrimental effect on people’s writing skills.
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  • some of their grades dropped to the spelling errors
  • writing skills have turned into sentence fragments because of the limited space that they put texts into sentence.
  • “Among the 64 percent of students who say they incorporated text language in their writing, 25 percent said they did so to convey emotion and 38 percent said they have used text shortcuts A lot of students’ vocabulary and grammar is also affecting their literacy.”
  • They seem to have the phones that will spell the word for them so they don’t have to worry about spelling.
  • Teens seem to break up with their girlfriend or boyfriend with just a text message.
  • spend more time texting than to hanging out there their friends and family.
  • can prevent introverted people becoming confident.
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    Team B's Sentence Structure slide- second source Yellow highlight- additional info Blue highlight- what was used in their slides
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    This is not a credible source either because the site requires a membership to view the whole essay and there are no visible sources cited to a non-member.
Janelle Taylor

Definitions of Literacy - 0 views

    • Janelle Taylor
       
      This article shows the evolution of the word "literacy." 
  • "Literacy not only involves competency in reading and writing, but goes beyond this to include the critical and effective use of these in peoples' lives, and the use of language (oral and written) for all purposes."
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    This article was used to support Team B's use of multiple meanings for "literacy," ie- socially, grammatically, etc.
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