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  • Reportedly, “netspeak” is showing up in schoolwork and other formal writing.  Middle- and high-school teachers (and students) report usage of “u” for “you,” “2” for “to” (or “too,” or “two”), and other decipherable but bothersome mistakes: “shortened words, improper capitalization and punctuation, and characters like &, $, and @” (Lee).  A girl in Scotland famously wrote an entire essay in lingo indecipherable even to the Internet-savvy: “’My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2 go 2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :-@ kds FTF. ILNY, its gr8.’” (Ward).  Go to the end of this article for more and for the translation.
  • What’s more, so do the students; one sixteen-year-old said that “her ability to separate formal and informal English declined the more she used instant messages” (Lee).
  • Many fear the destruction of language’s charm and diversity.
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    "not only erodes relationships by dumbing down how people talk to one another but it also degrades the English language itself.""
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IS TECHNOLOGY AFFECTING READING AND WRITING? | Read BlogRead Blog - 0 views

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  • While pen and paper may be giving way to more efficient ways of recording words, the alphabet and our languages remain constant. The new technologies are not replacing them, they are adding to them. Now it is up to today’s teachers to ensure that the rules of reading and writing remain inviolate, no matter the format.
  • In the world of business and professional writing, the figure 4 does not mean ‘for’ and 2 does not mean the same as to or too. As a money- and time-saving expedient it’s not surprising these short-cuts have come into being, but they have no place in serious communication. We know at least one business head who immediately throws away anything that arrives on his desk using those shortcuts. And that includes job applications.
  • The teacher is the gatekeeper, the leader, the controller. It is the teacher who is there to help our students sift through the nonsense that appears today to find the truth. And truth is what counts in language.
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Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis? | UCLA - 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, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
  • "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades."
  • "By using more visual media, students will process information better," she said. "However, most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination — those do not get developed by real-time media such as television or video games. Technology is not a panacea in education, because of the skills that are being lost.
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  • 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.
  • Among the studies Greenfield analyzed was a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access. When students were tested after class lectures, those who did not have Internet access performed better than those who did.
  • These and other studies show that multi-tasking "prevents people from getting a deeper understanding of information," Greenfield said.
  • if you're trying to solve a complex problem, you need sustained concentration. If you are doing a task that requires deep and sustained thought, multi-tasking is detrimental."
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How Technology Affects Literacy Rates | 1education - 0 views

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  • Due to technology, things have changed.
  • The need to retain in the mind a particular spelling of a word isn’t as important as it once was. This is because word processors or programs will flag words it thinks are not spelled correctly.
  • The same can be said for bad grammar, depending on how the word processor is set up, it will correct grammar mistakes as the letter is being written.
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  • Text messages and instant messenger apps also can make the writer lazy.
  • Due to the limits of a text message, the writer can legitimately make short cuts in spelling to get more into the message. This has allowed the development of a new language culture, which has spread outside text messages and into instant messengers. Here people use spelling short cuts to speed the messaging up to a pace where a real time conversation can be made with ease.
  • We only have to browse the Internet to see that these language short cuts have spilled into situations where they are not needed or appropriate. We don’t need to know how to spell words properly any more, and people have become lazy knowing that their lack of literacy will be compensated by the computer. The risk is that language will over time become more simplified; or “dumbed down.” The risk is we’ll slowly lose the ability to be articulate and be eloquent in our writing, due to the decline in the diversity of the words we use to communicate with one another.
  • This has allowed the development of a new language culture, which has spread outside text messages and into instant messengers. Here people use spelling short cuts to speed the messaging up to a pace where a real time conversation can be made with ease.
  • Exactly the same could be said for numeracy. With the advent of electronic calculators we no longer need to make written or mental calculations.
  • Many of us have lost the skills we were taught in school, and can no longer do simple arithmetic in the head or on paper, and are dependent on an electronic calculator to solve simple equations.
  • The importance is for schools to keep literacy and numeracy alive.
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Technological illiteracy can hurt patients and schoolchildren | ScienceNordic - 0 views

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    "New technology can cause more harm than good in schools and hospitals if teachers and nurses don't fully know how to use it."
  • jpuryear13 on 08 Oct 14
     
    "New technology can cause more harm than good in schools and hospitals if teachers and nurses don't fully know how to use it."
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Is Technology Ruining Our Ability to Write? - Techlicious - 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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