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Kids Improve Writing Online
aelfric35 writes "Ben Franklin advised his son not to allow schooling to interfere with his education. Even though many have disparaged the effects of IM on schoolchildrens' prose, some kids are actually becoming better writers by participating in online communities. Henry Jenkins writes in MIT's Technology Review about how some kids are gaining writing and editorial experience far beyond what their schools can offer by participating in Harry Potter fan fiction forums (sorry about the alliteration)."
"...alliteration"? I guess the better writing and vocabulary doesn't apply to me.
I LeArN3d 4ll mah SkillZ OnliNe. it iz teh b3sT wAy d00d!!!
I can see the handwriting on the wall, soon the buggers' invasion will allow Locke and Demosthenes to obtain unprecedented political authority! Something must be done!
Ah, I can remember it like it was yesterday... Back in the day, downloading erotic stories from BBS's, printing them on the trusty old Epson dot-matrix, and reading them before going to bed. Porn has improved my reading skills and my imagination.
Even today, I'm sure it still has the effect of improving hand-eye coordination and strengthening my forearms.
Three cheers for porn!
You mean, you are a "looser?" Because then your comment would be an ironic and ontopic post.
> When I see "loose" being used in place of "lose", my blood starts boiling.
Me to.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Looks like you loost an "o".
uh oh.. i'm sobering up. I don't htink i should have posted that to /. ah well, shit happens. :)
-I DDoSed your mom.
With what? Magic wands?
*tiptoes away and mumbles something in lowercase to placate the dreaded lameness filter*
"Every valid combination of words in the English language has been attributed to Mark Twain at some point in time."
--Mark Twain
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
Me to. Ahaha... teh funny.
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I get my interpersonal skills through Slashdot, you insensitive clod!
Seriously though, why do people think home schoolers get locked into basements and forgotten? They *do* meet other children, whether through things like scouts or sports or not. We aren't a bunch of recluses, you know. We don't try to stick a floppy in someone's mouth.
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
Okay, maybe I'm just drunk, but I read the headline "Kids Improve Writing Online" about 100 different ways before reading the blurb and seeing what the poster meant. Now that I understand that kids are improving their writing abilities by communicating in online forums, the headline is still pretty ambiguous. Perhaps the kids should improve writing slashdot. online.
porp
Teh 'k' is implied
You're doing it wrong.
you'll end up teaching them more about English grammar than they ever would have otherwise learned.
I think the exception to this is my high school spanish teacher. She didn't know English and she didn't know Spanish. We argued for 3 weeks whether the word "Spanish" in the sentence "We are in la clase de la Spanish" (yes, that's how she said it) was an adjective or a verb. She argued in favor of the verb. Ah, public education.
One funny thing to note is she once gave out referrals (passes to go see the principal) to 2 students for "sending psychic messages during a test." The kids were staring at their papers very intensely and, to her, were apparently communicating answers psychically. Another one of her students jumped out of her second story window while she was teaching class, and she didn't know until he came back upstairs through the door.
becoming a better writer... more than I would of ever written
It would seem you still of a way to go.
Maybe you should try enabling that option in Konqueror, that way you can finally make sure your spelling is correct.
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Sounds like my Spanish 1 teacher. The worst part is when we learnt about families and she got pocessives all wrong.
"Okay class, how you say 'jour hermano's padre' in espanol?"
"Padre?"
"No. Es is tio"
*under breath*"Maybe in your hillbilly family"
We all failed the test for putting down the correct answers. One other fun thing to note is when one girl in our class showed another what happens when you spray hairspray on a cigarette lighter. She was told to "quiet down".
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
and she got pocessives all wrong.
;-)
You didn't?
i liked the beginning of your post, but it's way too long. u should b using more abbreviations, so i can read the hole thing.
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