Thursday, September 20, 2012
How will the next generation read and write?
In my opinion, i think the next generation will read and write the same as we are writing today. While kids are texting and slang words may get worse, kids are still being taught proper grammar in the classrooms and there writing ability wont and shouldn't change to much. I think that personally we make a big deal about how kids are communicating through there phone, but kids don't write like that in an important english essay, or a homework assignment. I do however believe that reading will become a lot worse for the next generation. I think this because everything is online now and sooner or later kids wont even know what a textbook is, because i think eventually everything will be online.
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As current prices show, many ebooks are much cheaper than a full textbook. This has a lot to do with the amount of resources required to create a book, but I also think this may be companies trying to get people to switch to ebooks. Ebooks are convenient, as long as your nook does not get wet or have its screen broken, in which case you loss all of your texts at once. I can definitely see textbooks becoming less popular, although I am not sure if they will be wiped out fully. I also think that, even if textbooks are converted, novels and cookbooks will remain primarily in print form.
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DeleteI agree that texting does not interfere with students' ability to write intellectually. However, I hope that textbooks are not wiped out completely; we need them to keep as artifacts for history.
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