Texting, Tweeting Ought to Be Viewed as GR8 Teaching Tools, Scholar Says

[Francis Hult]

Science Daily

 

Texting, Tweeting Ought to Be Viewed as GR8 Teaching Tools, Scholar Says

 

The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But according to a University of Illinois expert in media literacy, not only are critics who argue that texting is synonymous with literary degradation wrong, they also often overlook the bigger role that texting and its distant cousin, "tweeting," could play in education and research.

 

Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at Illinois, says that schools and libraries should consider embracing texting and tweeting as a means of engagement rather than simply outlawing it.

 

 

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091210162224.htm

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