Classroom At-Large

Jump to TED video here.

Thoughts? Agree? Disagree? Compelling arguments? Did he say anything that never occurred to you? Anything you find a little fishy?

It’s a good read (jump to the article here) with SEVERAL links to stories about research pointing to the benefits of new technologies for writers and how it’s helping students write.

I love the last paragraph:

This is really fascinating when you think about it. Historically, many people haven’t been that concerned about their writing, because it didn’t matter. But, the more it matters, the more seriously they take it. This certainly doesn’t mean that everyone has become a good writer — far from it (just view any open comment forum). But, when people really care about what they’re saying, they tend to get better at it, and the internet gives more people more reasons to care. As for all the bad writing out there? It’s not a sign of the destruction of written English. Those people probably wouldn’t be writing much at all without the internet. So it’s actually a step up, relatively, from what they would have been doing in an alternate internetless universe.