Double Journal Entry 10

"Many students learn to
solve specific types of problems, but
they are unable to adapt and improvise
in response to the unexpected
situations that inevitably arise in
today’s fast-changing world."



I think that this describes the education extrememly well these days. Student are programed to use punctuation, solve equations, etc but when something that isn't normal occurs student are often lost and clueless.

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Website Evaluation

The website I chose is form the New York Times website but the author of the article is not stated. There is no information about the author that I can find and information about the organization isn't stated on the page the the article is on but I'm sure you could find information about the organization. you can contactthe New York times company but the author's contact information is not listed. I don;t believe the information is biased in any way, it is more factual and based on the results of studies. Emotion isn't really used to persuade anyone again, it's mostly information about the results of studies. The information does seem consistant and complete and it is fairly well written and simple to understand. It is not necessarily important the the date in on this information

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Instructional Strategies

I chose messaging Shakespeare. It discussed incorperating text messaging into class work in order to help stundents summarize information. the teacher alowed students to send emails and texts to each other to answer questions as part of a group. It would be effective because a text message can only hold a certain ammout of characters which forces student to decide what the most important parts of the information is.

Double Journal Entry 3

" For example, in a study I did of college students' instant messaging conversations, out of 11,718 words, only 31 were "online lingo" abbreviations, and only 90 were acronyms (of which 76 were LOL). In a study of college students' text messaging, my colleague Rich Ling and I found a few more lexical shortenings; yet the grand total of clear abbreviations was only 47 out of 1,473 words, which is hardly overwhelming."

I am rather surprised by these statistics. These days kids are always talking in online lingo, they even go as far as to use it in face to face conversations. With that being said to see that this study showed that out of over 11,000 words only 31 of them were considered to be online lingo is kind of amazing and to see that 76 of the 90 acronyms were "LOL" is pretty shocking to me.



Baron, N. S. (2009, March). Educational leadership. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Are-Digital-Media-Changing-Language¢.aspx