Student Analysis (Cohort E) by Alaiyo Kiasi-Barnes https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone "Social Media" Articles en-us 2017-09-20 15:43:08 UTC 2018-10-09 14:48:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Prizecup.png Bart Tolentino bartraymun_tolentino https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290754432 "Southeast Missouri State University writing instructor Eric Sentell said in an email to the Southeast Missourian that since he began teaching six years ago, he's noticed a difference in the quality of students' writing. 'Students are more likely to commit certain grammatical errors because they use the conventions of texting, tweeting and Facebooking in their formal academic essays.'"]]> 2018-10-09 14:13:55 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290754432 Wendy Bickersteth https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290754539 When I was beginning high school in 1994 boys knew not to reveal weakness and insecurity. Girls didn't seem to like guys who vocalized vulnerability. Athletes usually projected stereotypically masculine traits: along with imposing physical size, aggressive, even belligerent confidence, an easy stance, gait, and casual presence, the signs of being comfortable in their own skins. ]]> 2018-10-09 14:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290754539 Israel Balbalec II https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290754662 "An online survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, in collaboration with the College Board and the National Writing Project in 2012, conducted among 2,462 middle- and high-school teachers showed while half of teachers say digital tools make it easier to teach writing, 18 percent say those tools make it more difficult."]]> 2018-10-09 14:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290754662 Jennet Daniel https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290754799 "My students in 2013 are more comfortable writing about personal issues than were my classmates in the mid-late '90s." ]]> 2018-10-09 14:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290754799 Kiasi a_kiasibarnes https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290755434 "Our teachers really try to help our students understand the difference between formal and informal writing,"

]]> 2018-10-09 14:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290755434 Chloe Perry https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290755666 "For younger high school boys particularly, social networking has actually improved writing—not the product or the process, but the sensitivity and inward focus required to even begin to produce a draft that will eventually be worth editing."]]> 2018-10-09 14:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290755666 Bart Tolentino bartraymun_tolentino https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290755869 "On Facebook, even popular students post statuses in which they express insecurities. I see a dozen every time I log on. A kid frets that his longtime girlfriend is straying and wishes he hadn't upset her."]]> 2018-10-09 14:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290755869 Leslie Castro lesliecastro927 https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290755966 "68 percent of teachers polled by Pew say digital tools make students more likely to take shortcuts and not put effort into their writing. 46 percent said these tools make students more likely to "write too fast and be careless."


]]> 2018-10-09 14:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290755966 Kathleen Godshall https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290755998 'My students in 2013 are more comfortable writing about personal issues than were my classmates in the mid-late '90s.']]> 2018-10-09 14:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290755998 Wendy Bickersteth https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290756481 Occasionally, I see actual 'text language,' like using the letter 'u' instead of the word 'you,'" Sentell wrote. Most of the time, it's lack of capitalization, punctuation and apostrophes, Sentell said.

]]> 2018-10-09 14:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290756481 Jesusa Balde jesusa_balde https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290756605 Central High School principal Mike Cowan, a former English teacher, said texting language has become so commonplace, he even noticed a billboard between Cape Girardeau and Oak Ridge that used "U" instead of "You."


]]> 2018-10-09 14:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290756605 Iyanna Dorn https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290756663 "As a high-school English teacher, I read well over a thousand student essays a year. I can report that complete sentences are an increasingly endangered species. I wearily review the point of paragraphs every semester."]]> 2018-10-09 14:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290756663 Jennet Daniel https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290756764 "An online survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, in collaboration with the College Board and the National Writing Project in 2012, conducted among 2,462 middle- and high-school teachers showed while half of teachers say digital tools make it easier to teach writing, 18 percent say those tools make it more difficult."

]]> 2018-10-09 14:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290756764 Stacey Torbeso staceymarie_torbeso https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757002 "After all, we write for an audience and we write for ourselves too. I see students recognizing the value of tackling these topics with honesty. I notice that they are relieved when they do so."]]> 2018-10-09 14:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757002 Israel Balbalec II https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757178 "My observations have reaffirmed the widely held notion that the Internet is no refuge from the pains of adolescence. It's a really bad neighborhood. On Facebook and Twitter, students humiliate, jeer, and shame one another. They engage in antisocial, even criminal behavior—leaving belligerently racist comments on links, harassing classmates with derogatory posts.]]> 2018-10-09 14:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757178 Sydney Foust https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757380 "Half of teachers say digital tools make it easier to teach writing, 18 percent say those tools make it more difficult."]]> 2018-10-09 14:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757380 Jennet Daniel https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757387 "Also, I was a boy once, and so I understand them better than I understand girls. The emotional distance fostered by Facebook and other sites can encourage a healthier candor."

]]> 2018-10-09 14:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757387 Nneoma Nnakwu https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757575 "I observed a significant reduction in those errors and an increase in the overall quality of my students' writing. But some capitalization, punctuation and apostrophe errors still creep in every now and then."]]> 2018-10-09 14:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757575 Daisuke Mayama daisuke_mayama https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757717 "Keyboarding itself doesn't have an effect on grammar and formal writing, but with people relying more on electronic devices, physical handwriting also is disappearing"]]> 2018-10-09 14:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757717 Jennifer Greer jenny_greer22 https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757816 "I see students recognizing the value of tackling these topics with honesty. I notice that they are relieved when they do so. Sometimes students address the same topic in several essays over the course of the year, updating me, their confidante, on the status of a specific situation. When they share these essays with the rest of the class, they turn the two-way conversation (their writing, my feedback) into a network. Writing isn't just about the spilling of guts, obviously, but the transparency encouraged by social networking has laid the foundation for this freedom."]]> 2018-10-09 14:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757816 Jesusa Balde jesusa_balde https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757821 As a high-school English teacher, I read well over a thousand student essays a year. I can report that complete sentences are an increasingly endangered species. I wearily review the point of paragraphs every semester. This year I tried and failed to spark a senior class protest against "blobs"—my pejorative term for essays lacking paragraphs.]]> 2018-10-09 14:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757821 Kathleen Godshall https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757835 '"Everyone speaks and writes differently for different audiences, but some students struggle to switch between the informal codes of texting and social media and the more-formal codes of standard written English and academic or professional writing. After noticing increases in text language and other grammatical errors, I began emphasizing 'code-switching,' or adapting one's writing to one's audience," Sentell wrote.']]> 2018-10-09 14:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290757835 Immanuela Owusu-Ansah https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758028 "Social networking has dramatically altered how high-school boys deal with their emotions."


]]> 2018-10-09 14:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758028 Leslie Castro lesliecastro927 https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758233 "I have a Facebook page dedicated solely to my position as an educator. I don't send friend requests to students but current and former students can send them to me and I always accept. I don't post much, but I keep up with some students and share literature-related links when I delude myself into thinking they'll be of interest. ]]> 2018-10-09 14:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758233 Joelle Mbella Banim joelle_banim https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758630 "My observations have reaffirmed the widely held notion that the Internet is no refuge from the pains of adolescence. It's a really bad neighborhood. On Facebook and Twitter, students humiliate, jeer, and shame one another. They engage in antisocial, even criminal behavior—leaving belligerently racist comments on links, harassing classmates with derogatory posts."]]> 2018-10-09 14:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758630 Miasi Thompson https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758734 "For a while, Cowan said he fought texting, but he's doing it himself now. "Often I'll get comments that I've been texting in complete sentences. Now I'm going for declarative sentences. I guess I've even relented to some degree," he said.:


]]> 2018-10-09 14:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758734 Iyanna Dorn https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758767 Older students—those in their mid- to late 40s—are "totally lost" on that score, she said.
The two largest age groups served by the Adult Education and Literacy program are 19 to 24 and mid-20s to 40s. Atwood said it doesn't serve "all that many" in the 17- to 18-year-old range.


]]> 2018-10-09 14:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758767 Wendy Bickersteth https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758924 "If we have a disciplinary situation in school, we always invite the student to write a statement about what happened to try and get down to the facts of the situation. They'll write in that kind of informal expression. I see it more all the time. I think it is indeed an academic battle that faculty teachers are fighting ..." Cowan said.]]> 2018-10-09 14:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758924 Jade Diaz jade_diaz https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758954 "Everyone speaks and writes differently for different audiences, but some students struggle to switch between the informal codes of texting and social media and the more-formal codes of standard written English and academic or professional writing. After noticing increases in text language and other grammatical errors, I began emphasizing 'code-switching,' or adapting one's writing to one's audience."]]> 2018-10-09 14:20:00 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290758954 Bart Tolentino bartraymun_tolentino https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759043 In regards to code switching: 

"I observed a significant reduction in those errors and an increase in the overall quality of my students' writing. But some capitalization, punctuation and apostrophe errors still creep in every now and then."]]> 2018-10-09 14:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759043 Kathleen Godshall https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759180 '"It has affected students' ability to write and write coherently. They have to relearn what they might have already known, or learn new skills that they never mastered, because again, they're used to writing informally and now we're asking them to write with a much more formal ... purpose, defending their reasoning, and that's not what they're doing when they're communicating, oftentimes, between friends," Atwood said.']]> 2018-10-09 14:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759180 Kayla Quarles https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759275 "High school is cruel to all genders, an equal-opportunity destroyer of spirit and self-esteem. I'm focusing on boys because I've seen the phenomenon play out more intensely with them. Also, I was a boy once, and so I understand them better than I understand girls."


]]> 2018-10-09 14:20:25 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759275 Daisuke Mayama daisuke_mayama https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759281 "An online survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, in collaboration with the College Board and the National Writing Project in 2012, conducted among 2,462 middle- and high-school teachers showed while half of teachers say digital tools make it easier to teach writing, 18 percent say those tools make it more difficult."


]]> 2018-10-09 14:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759281 Jennet Daniel https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759334 "Hinkebein said students are taught cursive writing the second semester of second grade, and kindergarten through 12th-grade students are taught when it's inappropriate to use informal language. 'Our teachers really try to help our students understand the difference between formal and informal writing,' she said."

]]> 2018-10-09 14:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759334 Noelia Garcia https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759397 " I don't send friend requests to students but current and former students can send them to me and I always accept. I don't post much, but I keep up with some students and share literature-related links when I delude myself into thinking they'll be of interest"



]]> 2018-10-09 14:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759397 Jennet Daniel https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759847 "However, while Facebook and Twitter have eroded writing conventions among my students, they have not killed the most important ingredients in personal writing: self-reflection and emotional honesty. For younger high school boys particularly, social networking has actually improved writing—not the product or the process, but the sensitivity and inward focus required to even begin to produce a draft that will eventually be worth editing" ]]> 2018-10-09 14:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759847 Wendy Bickersteth https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759856 Atwood said economic and education background affect electronic literacy, as well. "If you were raised ... middle class or above, you're probably technosavvy," she said. "People in some of the lower income brackets, not so much," because they haven't had access to technology.]]> 2018-10-09 14:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290759856 Joelle Mbella Banim joelle_banim https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290760023 "On Facebook, even popular students post statuses in which they express insecurities. I see a dozen every time I log on. A kid frets that his longtime girlfriend is straying and wishes he hadn't upset her. Another admits to being lonely (with weepy emoticons added for effect)..."]]> 2018-10-09 14:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290760023 Bart Tolentino bartraymun_tolentino https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290760127 "Ruth Campbell covers K-12 and higher education for the Southeast Missourian."]]> 2018-10-09 14:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290760127 Jesusa Balde jesusa_balde https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290760272 "'I observed a significant reduction in those errors and an increase in the overall quality of my students' writing. But some capitalization, punctuation and apostrophe errors still creep in every now and then.'"]]> 2018-10-09 14:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290760272 Bart Tolentino bartraymun_tolentino https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290760369 "Andrew Simmons is a writer, teacher, and musician. He has written for The New York Times, Slate, and The Believer."]]> 2018-10-09 14:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290760369 Iyanna Dorn https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290760488 "Our teachers really try to help our students understand the difference between formal and informal writing," she said.But students come to school "already immersed in technology," Hinkebein noted.


]]> 2018-10-09 14:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290760488 Sydney Foust https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290760609 "I have a Facebook page dedicated solely to my position as an educator."
"A few times a week though, I log on and observe what students post.
My observations have reaffirmed the widely held notion that the Internet is no refuge from the pains of adolescence."


]]> 2018-10-09 14:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290760609 Jade Diaz jade_diaz https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761155 "Current and former students can send them (requests) to me and I always accept. I don't post much, but I keep up with some students and share literature-related links when I delude myself into thinking they'll be of interest. Current students often send me requests without thinking of the possible consequences of being Facebook friends with a teacher. I have made it a policy to avoid bringing a student's posts into a conference with a parent or counselor unless required to do so by law. A few times a week though, I log on and observe what students post.

My observations have reaffirmed the widely held notion that the Internet is no refuge from the pains of adolescence."


]]> 2018-10-09 14:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761155 Jemimah Boakye https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761182 " At age 14, I was small, smart, and artistic. I wrote well, but the prospect of writing anything that would permit even a teacher to know what I really thought terrified me. Spilling my guts in a writers' workshop with my classmates would have been social suicide"]]> 2018-10-09 14:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761182 Wendy Bickersteth https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761204 Many of my students grow up in households in which machismo reigns supreme. They've never been allowed to cry. Their mothers and sisters cook and wash the dishes and clean. They've been encouraged to see themselves as dominant, powerful, swaggering, sullen men, not sensitive and reflective men, powerfully kind, confidently open. Fostering those traits is a woman's responsibility, like housework. In this sense, Facebook is a genuine outlet for the young men I teach.]]> 2018-10-09 14:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761204 Ramiya Shelton ramiya_shelton https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761302 "Becky Atwood, coordinator of the Cape public school's Adult Education and Literacy Program, said her students are excellent at texting, because that's their primary written communication. Older students—those in their mid- to late 40s—are "totally lost" on that score, she said. The two largest age groups served by the Adult Education and Literacy program are 19 to 24 and mid-20s to 40s. Atwood said it doesn't serve "all that many" in the 17- to 18-year-old range."


]]> 2018-10-09 14:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761302 Immanuela Owusu-Ansah https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761342 "At age 14, I was small, smart, and artistic. I wrote well, but the prospect of writing anything that would permit even a teacher to know what I really thought terrified me. Spilling my guts in a writers' workshop with my classmates would have been social suicide."



]]> 2018-10-09 14:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761342 Bart Tolentino bartraymun_tolentino https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761399 "When I assign narrative essays, students discuss sexual abuse, poverty, imprisoned family members, alcoholic parents, gang violence, the struggle to learn English in America—topics they may need to address, not merely subjects they believe might entertain or interest a reader."]]> 2018-10-09 14:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761399 Stacey Torbeso staceymarie_torbeso https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761407 "Also, a lot of the assessment tests students take in high school or adult education programs are computer-based.
"They have to have the ability to keyboard and communicate their thoughts in that manner," Atwood said. "The use of pencil and paper is going away."
]]> 2018-10-09 14:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761407 Dedric Boyd https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761753 ""Students are more likely to commit certain grammatical errors because they use the conventions of texting, tweeting and Facebooking in their formal academic essays. Occasionally, I see actual 'text language,' like using the letter 'u' instead of the word 'you,'" Sentell wrote. Most of the time, it's lack of capitalization, punctuation and apostrophes, Sentell said"]]> 2018-10-09 14:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761753 Joelle Mbella Banim joelle_banim https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761909 "Despite the Drake pics captioned with the rapper's soft-headed couplets, the fight videos, and the countless time-wasting surveys and games that pollute the average high- school student's feed, I see the online social universe my students traverse as an improvement over my high-school terrain."]]> 2018-10-09 14:24:02 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761909 Iyanna Dorn https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761953 My observations have reaffirmed the widely held notion that the Internet is no refuge from the pains of adolescence. It's a really bad neighborhood. On Facebook and Twitter, students humiliate, jeer, and shame one another. They engage in antisocial, even criminal behavior—leaving belligerently racist comments on links, harassing classmates with derogatory posts.


]]> 2018-10-09 14:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290761953 Olaoluwa Adewoye olaoluwa_adewoye https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290762208  Mainstream mid-90s rappers had cold-blooded personas. Even [rock singer for Nirvana] Kurt Cobain mumbled through interviews, only opening up in cathartic song, where the rawest admissions could be obtuse and readily cloaked in distortion.]]> 2018-10-09 14:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290762208 Noelia Garcia https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290762330 "The Internet has ruined high-school writing. Write the line on the board five hundred times like [cartoon character] Bart Simpson. Remember and internalize it. Intone it in an Andy Rooney-esque grumble."



]]> 2018-10-09 14:24:38 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290762330 Jennifer Greer jenny_greer22 https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290762378 "Meanwhile, teachers in the Pew study "expressed concerns about the 'creep' of informal grammar and style into 'formal' writing, as well as students' impatience with the writing process and their difficulty navigating the complex issues of plagiarism, citation, and fair use.""]]> 2018-10-09 14:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290762378 Shainah Lagrana https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290762552 "Instead of being mocked for revealing too much, students who share in this way win likes and supportive comments from male friends. Perhaps part of it is the fact that girls appear to appreciate the emotional candor and publicly validate it with likes and comments, giving boys the initiative to do the same. In high-school halls, guards stay up, but online, male emotional transparency is not only permitted but also celebrated."]]> 2018-10-09 14:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290762552 Dedric Boyd https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290762643 2018-10-09 14:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290762643 Jennet Daniel https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290762672 "Southeast Missouri State University writing instructor Eric Sentell said in an email to the Southeast Missourian that since he began teaching six years ago, he's noticed a difference in the quality of students' writing." ]]> 2018-10-09 14:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290762672 Jennet Daniel https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763051 "When I was beginning high school in 1994 boys knew not to reveal weakness and insecurity. Girls didn't seem to like guys who vocalized vulnerability." ]]> 2018-10-09 14:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763051 Stacey Torbeso staceymarie_torbeso https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763064 "Instead of being mocked for revealing too much, students who share in this way win likes and supportive comments from male friends."]]> 2018-10-09 14:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763064 Daisuke Mayama daisuke_mayama https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763066 "Students are more likely to commit certain grammatical errors because they use the conventions of texting, tweeting and Facebooking in their formal academic essays. Occasionally, I see actual 'text language,' like using the letter 'u' instead of the word 'you,'" Sentell wrote. Most of the time, it's lack of capitalization, punctuation and apostrophes, Sentell said."


]]> 2018-10-09 14:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763066 Israel Balbalec II https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763067 "Students are more likely to commit certain grammatical errors because they use the conventions of texting, tweeting and Facebooking in their formal academic essays. Occasionally, I see actual 'text language,' like using the letter 'u' instead of the word 'you,'" Sentell wrote. Most of the time, it's lack of capitalization, punctuation and apostrophes, Sentell said.]]> 2018-10-09 14:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763067 Ibrahim wade https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763099 " Atwood said economic and education background affect electronic literacy, as well. "If you were raised ... middle class or above, you're probably technosavvy," she said. "People in some of the lower income brackets, not so much," because they haven't had access to technology .


]]> 2018-10-09 14:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763099 Leslie Castro lesliecastro927 https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763248 "An online survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, in collaboration with the College Board and the National Writing Project in 2012, conducted among 2,462 middle- and high-school teachers showed while half of teachers say digital tools make it easier to teach writing, 18 percent say those tools make it more difficult."


]]> 2018-10-09 14:25:59 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763248 Jemimah Boakye https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763297 "Individually these may seem like small-scale admissions. But the broader trend I have witnessed in the past few years stands in sharp contrast to the vigilance with which my generation guarded our fears both trivial and deep. In this sense, social networking has dramatically altered how high- school boys deal with their emotions."]]> 2018-10-09 14:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763297 Wendy Bickersteth https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763357 Cape Girardeau public school students, for example, start learning keyboarding in kindergarten to get them used to technology, curriculum coordinator Theresa Hinkebein said. But she noted kindergartners already know how to operate smartphones and have computers at home.]]> 2018-10-09 14:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763357 Kayla Quarles https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763529 "Central High School principal Mike Cowan, a former English teacher, said texting language has become so commonplace, he even noticed a billboard between Cape Girardeau and Oak Ridge that used "U" instead of "You."


]]> 2018-10-09 14:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763529 Jennet Daniel https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763603 " 'I guess you could argue it's not a loss, but it's a displacement, a change. I'm not so sure how far you can change and still continue to communicate accurately,' Cowan said."

]]> 2018-10-09 14:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763603 Olaoluwa Adewoye olaoluwa_adewoye https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763616 When I was beginning high school in 1994 boys knew not to reveal weakness and insecurity. Girls didn't seem to like guys who vocalized vulnerability. Athletes usually projected stereotypically masculine traits: along with imposing physical size, aggressive, even belligerent confidence, an easy stance, gait, and casual presence, the signs of being comfortable in their own skins. Even the scrawniest punk guitarists wore hoodies like armor and possessed a prickly toughness seasoned by the experience of having been bullied in middle school.]]> 2018-10-09 14:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763616 Ramiya Shelton ramiya_shelton https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763768 "I have a Facebook page dedicated solely to my position as an educator. I don't send friend requests to students but current and former students can send them to me and I always accept. I don't post much, but I keep up with some students and share literature-related links when I delude myself into thinking they'll be of interest."]]> 2018-10-09 14:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290763768 Iyanna Dorn https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290764071 On Facebook, even popular students post statuses in which they express insecurities. I see a dozen every time I log on. ]]> 2018-10-09 14:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290764071 Olaoluwa Adewoye olaoluwa_adewoye https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290764225 As a high-school English teacher, I read well over a thousand student essays a year. I can report that complete sentences are an increasingly endangered species. I wearily review the point of paragraphs every semester. This year I tried and failed to spark a senior class protest against "blobs"—my pejorative term for essays lacking paragraphs.]]> 2018-10-09 14:27:14 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290764225 Jennet Daniel https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290765000 "A kid frets that his longtime girlfriend is straying and wishes he hadn't upset her. Another admits to being lonely (with weepy emoticons added for effect)." ]]> 2018-10-09 14:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290765000 Daisuke Mayama daisuke_mayama https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290765190 However, while Facebook and Twitter have eroded writing conventions among my students, they have not killed the most important ingredients in personal writing: self-reflection and emotional honesty]]> 2018-10-09 14:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290765190 Jennet Daniel https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290765443 " 'I observed a significant reduction in those errors and an increase in the overall quality of my students' writing. But some capitalization, punctuation and apostrophe errors still creep in every now and then.' "

]]> 2018-10-09 14:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290765443 Jennifer Greer jenny_greer22 https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290765741 ""I observed a significant reduction in those errors and an increase in the overall quality of my students' writing. But some capitalization, punctuation and apostrophe errors still creep in every now and then.""]]> 2018-10-09 14:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290765741 Daisuke Mayama daisuke_mayama https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290765858 Atwood said economic and education background affect electronic literacy, as well. "If you were raised ... middle class or above, you're probably technosavvy," she said. "People in some of the lower income brackets, not so much," because they haven't had access to technology.]]> 2018-10-09 14:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290765858 Jennet Daniel https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290766263 "It's a really bad neighborhood. On Facebook and Twitter, students humiliate, jeer, and shame one another. They engage in antisocial, even criminal behavior—leaving belligerently racist comments on links, harassing classmates with derogatory posts." ]]> 2018-10-09 14:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290766263 Jennet Daniel https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290766891 " Occasionally, I see actual 'text language,' like using the letter 'u' instead of the word 'you,'" Sentell wrote. Most of the time, it's lack of capitalization, punctuation and apostrophes, Sentell said."]]> 2018-10-09 14:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290766891 Olaoluwa Adewoye olaoluwa_adewoye https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290768914 I have a Facebook page dedicated solely to my position as an educator. I don't send friend requests to students but current and former students can send them to me and I always accept. I don't post much, but I keep up with some students and share literature-related links when I delude myself into thinking they'll be of interest. Current students often send me requests without thinking of the possible consequences of being Facebook friends with a teacher. I have made it a policy to avoid bringing a student's posts into a conference with a parent or counselor unless required to do so by law. A few times a week though, I log on and observe what students post.



]]> 2018-10-09 14:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290768914 Sydney Foust https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290769061 "On Facebook and Twitter, students humiliate, jeer, and shame one another. They engage in antisocial, even criminal behavior—leaving belligerently racist comments on links, harassing classmates with derogatory posts."]]> 2018-10-09 14:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290769061 Dedric Boyd https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290770246 "Over the next year, Atwood said, her program will launch a transitions course in which adult education and literacy staff will work with students on the next steps to take after earning a high school equivalency diploma.

"Because that or a high school diploma will not be enough to earn a living," she said." D


]]> 2018-10-09 14:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290770246 Jemimah Boakye https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290770686 "I guess you could argue it's not a loss, but it's a displacement, a change. I'm not so sure how far you can change and still continue to communicate accurately"]]> 2018-10-09 14:35:08 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290770686 Alexis Takam https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290773482 "I guess you could argue it's not a loss, but it's a displacement, a change. I'm not so sure how far you can change and still continue to communicate accurately."]]> 2018-10-09 14:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290773482 Alexis Takam https://padlet.com/a_kiasibarnes/diction_tone/wish/290774669 "68 percent of teachers polled by Pew say digital tools make students more likely to take shortcuts and not put effort into their writing. 46 percent said these tools make students more likely to write too fast and be careless."


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