Has Teachnology impacted my literacy at all?
It's kind of funny that I'm answering that question on an online blog, it most definitely has! In fact I think technology has played a huge part in my literacy, second only to books, and maybe school. Okay definitely less than school but a lot nonetheless. This is just my personal experience, I know that some people don't concern themselves with correctly punctuating or attempting to write well when communicating over the internet or through text messages. And how can you blame them, when everything digital seems so temporary and quickly forgotten, correctness seems unnecessary. Being correct takes extra time, but many (myself included) feel that regardless of where one is writing, one should at least make an effort to maintain a standard of quality. Now I'm beginning to sound snobby, I'm not saying I've never made a mistake typing and not bothered to correct it, I definitely have. I just try to keep myself in top "writing shape" not habitually ignoring grammar and spelling in text messages and emails because it's easier that way.
Anyway technology has affected my development greatly and I think I manage to read more in a day of surfing the web than I do in a sitting of reading a good book, probably because casually surfing the internet doesn't yield much writing layered with metaphors or messages that need to be found. Unless that's what you're looking for.
Good point. When i write text messages i don't pay much attention to grammatical errors but it's simply because i'm in a rush to respond to who ever i'm texting. The negative out come of this is that throughout 9th grade I would look over something i wrote and notice that i wrote "wat" rather than "what." That's technology's impact on my literacy.
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