techno-mania Richmond Writing

techno-mania Richmond Writing A recent NYT article Texting May Be Taking A Toll is relevant for any teacher today, but it is particularly relevant for teachers of writing who wish their students demonstrated the same mania for their textual assignments as they have for texting. With 2,272 text messages per month, it works out to about 6.3 text message per hour in a 12-hour day. Thats no small amount of writing even in text-speak. But for all its popularity, text-speak is not sufficient to develop articulated ideas or express complex emotions, so our avid communicators need to channel some of this enthusiasm into more focused practice at expressing their ideas more fully, coherently and powerfully.   Rather than simply reject or resist the trend in texting, let us harness it for more productive purposes. And for when the cell phone is a constant class interruption there is the   cell phone jammer !