by Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Teaching without Walls
Today, texting is the preferred communication method for most young people. It is used to get immediate answers to questions, find out what friends are up to, send grocery lists to oneself, reply to voicemails, and even end relationships. I’ve seen many educators express concerns about how texting is fragmenting writing, grammar, and spelling skills but I have another question that I’m probing. Are online classes allowing our students to hide behind text? Despite the prevalence of free to low cost, easy-to-use, web-based multimedia tools (which are commonly associated with the web 2.0 era), most online college classes only require students to participate with text based communications — discussion forums and blogs.
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