Comments on: Think of it as Data Compression – Texting OK for Learning http://www.hg2s.com/blog/2010/01/20/think-of-it-as-data-compression-texting-ok-for-learning/ Ranting & Raving on Instructional Design, Education & Technical Training Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jack McShea http://www.hg2s.com/blog/2010/01/20/think-of-it-as-data-compression-texting-ok-for-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Jack McShea Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:25:38 +0000 http://www.hg2s.com/blog/?p=998#comment-31 Mike Masnick at TechDirt has been following the Texting-Literacy Debate for the past five years and has posted a summary of no less than six prior studies that corroborate Dr Wood’s findings that texting does not harm literacy skills. Masnick cites: University of Toronto <a href="http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/060731-2474.asp" rel="nofollow">study</a> “<a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson" rel="nofollow">Clive Thompson on the New Literacy</a>” in Wired Magazine “<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126965.300-texting-can-b-gd-4-ur-kids.html" rel="nofollow">Texting can b gd 4 ur kids</a>” in NewScientist among the supporting examples. His summary article is well worth the read. http://techdirt.com/articles/20100120/2326407852.shtml Mike Masnick at TechDirt has been following the Texting-Literacy Debate for the past five years and has posted a summary of no less than six prior studies that corroborate Dr Wood’s findings that texting does not harm literacy skills. Masnick cites:

University of Toronto study

“Clive Thompson on the New Literacy” in Wired Magazine

“Texting can b gd 4 ur kids” in NewScientist

among the supporting examples. His summary article is well worth the read.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100120/2326407852.shtml

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