Fullsaila4's List: Khris

• Despite complaints that Twitter kills language, there's evidence that social media can be used to enhance reading and writing.
• JUNCO: OK, first, you know, let me go tweet it - no. Twitteracies are new social and academic skills being developed through the use of social media like Twitter
• JUNCO: Yeah, but - so I think about it in two ways. First, social media are just transforming traditional literacies. So take for instance, information literacy skills - the ability to like locate, evaluate, and effectively use information. That's been transformed through social media use.
• JUNCO: We now rely on the Internet for so much of our information needs and social media allow users to share information quickly, which can lead to a quick spread of incorrect information. So you just have to develop skills to evaluate these newer media, and unfortunately they get very little of that in school. The other part of that is that youth are developing new literacies by using social media through the process of informal learning. And so learning that isn't happening in the schools and formal educational settings.
• there's research to show that quote-unquote text speak, is actually related to stronger reading and writing skills.

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