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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Blogging helps encourage teen writing - eSchool News
A new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project explores the intersection between teens, technology, and writing.For most media outlets that reported on an important new survey measuring the impact of technology on teens' writing skills, the big news from the survey was that emoticons and text-messaging abbreviations are creeping into students' formal writing assignments. :-( Buried beneath the alarm of writing "purists," however, was a promising finding with equally important implications for schools: Blogging is helping many teens become more prolific writers.
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