Could Texting Be Good for Students?

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I've never thought of texting that way! I'm 14 and I know that my language hasn't gotten worse because of texting, see? I think texting should be allowed at school, just not during classes. It is a good way of communication with people, and can be positive.

Natty:D of FL 7:20PM November 22, 2009

Texting is bad and that's all im saying peace out ppl of usa and ext.

unkown of IL 5:57PM November 22, 2009

Let's face it: Texting is here to stay... The average 13- to 17-year-old sends 2,900 texts a month. According to the market research firm Nielsen. And while it might be a punishable offense in most schools, most teachers say that texting has educational tie-ins and that it can teach positive language skills!

Mrs. Steitz of LA 11:57AM November 21, 2009

I Support texting in schools but only to be used during break times and lunch times only. Schools need to post rules and guidelines on what they can or cannot post. We have to be extremely careful to monitor what is going on while students are texting each other. Some fights have escalated due to warnings and threats made by students. Very similar to social networking and cyberbullying. There must be a way to monitor these types of messages. The benefit of having this new way of communications is already being used by teachers, students, administrators and parents. We use the texting to remind students about up coming school events, meetings and even job roles. It has it's potential but for now, until we all can uniform how we manage rules about about texting in schools. Geeral feedback from the community from various schools and countries should also provide feed-back. Let's not forget the parents and our prevention groups.

Cathrina M. Palomo 4:35AM November 16, 2009

Okay for quick updates on activities when going from place to place, but not okay for replacing conversations that are meant to contain length and quality. Having texting in class would be good when involving a projection screen, so that students may post their responses to a lab, debate (maybe), presentation (maybe ending questions/response) or other group-involved lecture. That is my opinion. 1-11-11-2009

Jennifer of GA 1:12PM November 11, 2009

We need to embrace this new form of communication. Languages are always constantly evolving and this is just part of it. Let's face it, languages have way too many spelling rules and children are spelling the way they think they should.
It seems to allow them to communicate so why not support it? We want children to develop critical thinking skills and be creative and as soon as they do, what do we do? We and all the academia get offended, upset and stifle it. Why not teach etiquette and proper use? As always, education is the key and like always, it falls on the shoulders of the institution that we know as school!

Mike 10:40PM October 31, 2009

I have found that my son has become a better writer since he has been texting I encourage him to text rather than telephone and as for the abreviations, I text him back in perfect grammatically correct, well structured prose. I know that he is a visual learner and I think that providing him with constant visual examples of good writing will prove to be beneficial in the end.

saundra of NY 7:16PM October 29, 2009