We’ll be looking at the Pew Research Center’s article that explores this issue. Reference: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/808/writing-technology-and-teens

Top of the show:

• A wonderful AIR app for Friendfeed is Alert Thingy Friendfeed is a way to keep all of your self-generated content in one place and a way for you friends to view and comment on that content. Alert Thingy is a clean app to manage Friendfeed from the desktop.
• I also mentioned Facebook as a way to keep connections with former students and reconnecting with former classmates.

The report is called: Writing, Technology and Teens (Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them).

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