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Tag: Generation txt

  • More info on Generation txt – It doesn’t hurt

    While I was away in Jasper, one of the profs had some of her recent work picked up by seemingly everyone and as it fits well with what I’ve posted before I couldn’t wait to get home and add it to my collection of research on sms speak, neologisms and the like. Connie Varnhagen has…

  • Sexting in the news again

    This time, BBC has picked it up again in two stories (first, second), just in time for parents to start thinking about back to school (at least in North America). While many of the other stories that I’ve brought up here talk about how it is essentially no different than passing notes in terms of…

  • Sexting vs “Spin the Bottle”

    It seems that there is quite a bit of coverage in the news media about a paper being presented Peter Cummings at the 78th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences that sexting is no worse than the old fashion spin the bottle. Cummings says: Technology does change things, and there can be very serious…

  • Making use of the intimacy of cells – for intimate purposes

    This is an interesting way to look at using txting to teach. The BART (Be A Responsible Teen) project is trying to use txting because: “Right now, with the face-to-face method we have been using, kids come in for one and a half to two hour long sessions,” Cornelius [Judith Cornelius, Assistant Professor of Nursing…

  • Da GBU on Txting

    After I spotted the new paper on texting last night, I noticed this morning that another one of the blogs that I read had picked up the same story, and had added a nice collection of pro/con articles: Positive studies on the effect of text messaging on student’s writing skills: Texts ‘do not hinder literacy’…