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Could Texting Be Good for Students?
Let's face it: Texting is here to stay. The average 13- to 17-year-old sends 2,900 texts a month, according to the market research firm Nielsen. And while it might be a punishable offense in most schools, some teachers say that texting has educational tie-ins and that it can teach positive language skills, the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina reports.
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And a new study from California State University researchers has found that texting can improve teens' writing in informal essays and many other writing assignments.
Txt savvy 4 2morrow
When you consider the increasingly digital lives of young people -- called "generation text" - you realise how important it is to explore the effect of cellphone texting on learner literacy.
Shrink your twitter messages. Cool little tool (140it)
I wonder if we could use this tool to turn shakepeare into text format? LOL
From a learning point of view, we could do it and then give it to the learners to write over into proper english... (evil grin)
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