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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

manner they desire, even in something as simple as a Facebook status and they can fill it with grammatical mistakes and spelling errors galore.

 

People instant message and send texts and e-mails using text lingo. They pay no attention to the way words are spelled because this is all done at lightning speed. This mindlessness is all fine and dandy with new technologies providing people with fun ways to interact. However, these small and seemingly insignificant oversights could have large effects on peoples’ capabilities to write well.

 

If anyone were to look at a typical day’s posts on Facebook, they would probably see many people confusing “their,” “there,” and “they’re.” “It’s” and “its” are also commonly misused, along with “to” and “too.”

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It’s enough to make anyone who respects great writing go crazy.

A 2010 Kaiser Foundation study showed that elementary aged children use on average 7.5 hours per day of entertainment technology, 75 percent of these children have TV's in their bedrooms, and 50 percent of North American homes have the TV on all day. Gone is dining room table conversation, replaced by the "big screen" and take out.

It's important to understand that you can’t getyour childto care about homework, choresor hygiene just because you do. What you can do is help them complete those tasks and reach certain goals regardless of how they feel about them. You do this by offering something important to them, in order to get them to complete something important to you. What do kids value? Screen time. In other words, phone, Internet, TV andvideo games.

As the Medical Director of Florida Hospital for Children’s Healthy 100 Kids program, I know that when it comes to childhood obesity, too much screen time may add to unhealthy habits that can last a lifetime.  In general, kids today prefer spending hours watching TV or playing with their tablet computer instead of heading outdoors to a park or getting active with friends.  

 

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), children and adolescents should spend a maximum of 1-2 hours of “screen time” per a day.  

 

AAP has estimated that the average child can spend upwards of 7 hours of TV, internet usage and video games per day!  The scary thought is that everything else is taking a back seat including: quality family time, reading, homework, and exercise.

This study investigated the use of text-message abbreviations (textisms) in Australian adolescents and young adults, and relations between textism use and literacy abilities. Fifty-two high school students aged 13–15 years, and 53 undergraduates aged 18–24 years, all users of predictive texting, translated conventional English sentences into textese using two methods: writing messages down and typing them into mobile phones. Participants produced a variety of textisms, and in both translation methods, adolescents and young adults used textisms in nearly identical ways. This was true for the proportion and types of textisms used, textism categories produced and consistency with which textisms were spelled. The use of textisms was negatively correlated with scores for reading, nonword reading, spelling and morphological awareness, but some of these relationships were accounted for by participants' usual text-messaging frequency. For these age groups, concerns that frequent texting may mask or even contribute to poor linguistic skills cannot be dismissed.