Texting In The Classroom...Gr8!

A very interesting article in the US News & World Report by Zach Miners on texting and students…

I think the concept of the positive impact of texting and students actually makes sense.  If you take out the traditional grammar and spelling issues, the content that one tries to get across is still the same but through this medium, students have found a more efficient way to communicate the same thoughts.  I think it’s great if we can get our point across more efficiently and save time.  Don’t get me wrong I still think that students need to understand proper grammar and tense along with correct spelling but for this medium it’s a great way for students to interpret traditional works and perhaps even different literature and try to integrate it into texting language…how innovative!

Here are more articles by Zach Miners…