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• 13 Jul 15
  

  koreyhaman

  This is a great article on using texting/tweeting as a form of communication in the classroom! It's great to hear leaders from such great organizations like the National Writing Project get on board with talking about the opportunities in this area. Sterling is right - we can't ignore it.

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• 13 Aug 14
  

  chefzatoichi

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  • According to the recent Pew Internet & American Life Project report "Writing, Technology, and Teens," 64 percent of the teens surveyed admitted that some form of electronic-communication lingo has crept into their academic writing.
• 14 Jul 14
  

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• 18 Jul 12
  

  sambookston

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• 27 Jun 12
  

  Lee Hall

  "eenagers are writing more than ever, they recognize the importance of formal writing skills, and they want exactly what they need -- more writing instruction in school."

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• 16 Mar 12
  

  Tammy hegler

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• 29 Jul 11
  

  Tammy Brown

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• 11 Nov 10
  

  Daniel Ballantyne

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  • 4U, FWIW: Free Verse by Phone

      

    iirc
     u thnk txt &wrds r doa
     but omg rotfl bout that @shmh
     'cos ov cors, imo, 2moro will ch8g 4 us &4u
     QFT: ppl r str8ng & lng str8ngr
     th4, i activ8 ur txt 4u
     w/lnks & soh fwiw &hope u
     h/o 2 w/e u can
     & now pls gt bc 2 yr hw
     yer PAW
    

     

    -- Kevin Hodgson, Western Massachusetts Writing Project
• 19 Sep 10
  

  chris conrad
  • "In the days when only half the population graduated from high school, many people didn't need to write well. That's not true anymore. We need literacy skills,"
  • "The answer is not, 'We should ban texting.' That's absurd, and also impossible. It's much more about giving students an opportunity to write so extensively and so often that their writing develops. Those errors will disappear if there's a sufficient amount of writing going on."
  • guiding exercises in text translation
  • form of multilingual focus
  • It was fascinating for me, and I think useful for them, to think about what it means to multitask. The next step is to start to figure out when it's okay to be in text mode and when it's not, based more on internal controls than on teacher controls

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• 04 May 10
  

  Joan Hanor

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• 27 Mar 10
  

  Joe Rodes

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• 10 Mar 10
  

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• 02 Feb 10
  

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• 15 Jul 09
  

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• 14 Oct 08
  

  hickstro

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• 19 Jun 08
  

  Kellie Ady

  Interesting article on using texting to teach writing.

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• 12 Jun 08
  

  David Bill

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• 11 Jun 08
  

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  Kevin Hodgson

  My Text Poem gets published here!

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  Mark Spahr

  good article with ideas for using texting lingo in the classroom

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• 05 Jun 08
  

  Jeremy Zweiacker

  Cindi Rigsbee, a sixth- and seventh-grade reading-resource teacher who was named the 2008-09 North Carolina Teacher of the Year, has seen electronic-messaging shorthand show up in her students' writing since the advent of email.

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  Joe Rodes on 2010-03-27
  This article discusses how teachers have seen an increase in shorthand showing up in papers and student assignments. "Cindi Rigsbee, a sixth- and seventh-grade reading-resource teacher who was named the 2008-09 North Carolina Teacher of the Year has seen electronic-messaging shorthand show up in her students' writing since the advent of email. "I'd say something about it to the kids, and they'd respond, 'This is faster,'" she laments. "Now, when I say something, they don't even realize they're doing it. That's what worries me." This article will prove to be very useful for me because it can be used as a rebuttal for the Washington Post article that claims teachers are the problem, not texting. The Post article stated that texting would not be an issue if teachers were more active and more engaging. This article, which interviews the Teacher of the Year, would suggest that teachers are not in fact the problem.

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