Zero-Thumb Game: How to Tame Texting | Edutopia
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Saved by 10 people (1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-06-01
- A_armstrong on 2008-08-11 - Tags 21stlearning
- Tgustafson on 2008-07-08 - Tags texting , writing , edutopia , teaching
- Mmkrill on 2008-06-23 - Tags edutopia , texting
- Kellie80 on 2008-06-19 - Tags teaching , writing , cellphones
- Dancallahan on 2008-06-18 - Tags education , language , literacy , writing
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Cindi Rigsbee, for example, makes sure her students know when text language is appropriate and, more important, when it's not. She talks frequently in class about types of writing, the intended reader, and the evolution of language. At the beginning of each school year, she introduces a discussion about the way English has transformed over time. "We look at Old English, Middle English, and what was contemporary English in the time of Jane Eyre. Then I show them a MySpace page."
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guiding exercises in text translation: pulling up a MySpace page or a lingo-drenched school paper and asking students to translate the writing into standard English. Or they ask students to translate passages from classic literature into texting speak to demonstrate their comprehension of the writing and to create a form of multilingual focus, similar to how learning a foreign language tends to enhance a student's understanding of his or her native tongue.
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