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Does texting help or hurt students? Does it help develop writing skills or does it impact grammar and spelling? This post discusses these issues and the research. This article looks at digital writing as it relates to traditional writing. What type of digital writing is most common? What types of writing do students value? Some of the findings in this post may surprise you. 
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"If you've ever looked at a teenager's text message and thought it looked more like a kindergartener's scrawl, you might not be far off. Middle school students who frequently use "tech-speak"—omitting letters to shorten words and using homophone symbols, such as @ for "at" or 2nite for "tonight"—performed worse on a test of basic grammar, according to a new study in New Media & Society." The survey was only 226 students (Grade 6 - 8) so the sample size is small. Some of the interesting points were that students who received text message that used "tech-speak" were more like to send messages back in "tech-speak" and it did not matter if the students were male or female, although "teenage girls usually receive twice as many messages per month as boys do."
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