Articles tagged with: Twitter and School

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.  more

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Communicating with more than words

..rovides a vast array of channels for all types of communication: web pages, SMS, email, twitter, and the list goes on and on. But despite the breadth of our communication channels, what we say still lacks the depth of face-to-face communicatio more

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UK Motorists Using Twitter While Driving

..ection of driving 'Tweets' from the past week: Tweet - "Driving with my knees and peeling an orange…Probably not the safest thing to be doing."Tweet - "Driving school bus"Tweet - "Irresponsible twitte more

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