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An opening quote from a Blog Entry which caught my eye:

"As the school year begins, be ready to hear pundits fretting once again about how kids today can't write—and technology is to blame. Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into "bleak, bald, sad shorthand" (as University College of London English professor John Sutherland has moaned). An age of illiteracy is at hand, right?"

Read the full Blog entry here: features Andrea Lunsford from Stanford University. Interesting reflections!

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson

 

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