Michael Wesches video and the article, The New Literacy both agree on the fact that the Internet is changing the way people think as learners and improving writing skills. Clive Thompson's article directly relates to the video. This article is a part of a magazine and the video is a part of the website YouTube.
What matters in the article is that something so simple is improving writing skills. Not by just a little bit but by a lot. Literally improving by grade letters. Before the Internet no one ever did as well as they do now. Now studies can prove that people who use the Internet now do better than those who don't. From video posts, blogs, and social networking you're learning more then you would ever think. From a personal perspective i know that every time I'm on the Internet I'm learning better comprehension, word choice and punctuation. Most of the time before the Internet and social networking after school was done no one used all they knew. But if you give the writing a purpose then teens will use what they know in blogs and Internet posts.
In class were posting blogs and mostly doing our work on the Internet which i think is going to accommodate everyone. This will teach even horrible writers in our class at least to get better. I personally don't believe that writing on paper really helps that much other then maybe improving your handwriting. Also while you could be done with a piece of writing online you would still be working on, on paper. It would be the same work but in half the time.
With the Internet people all over the world can share information with people who don't know the info. even if they don't know that their doing it. Jobs today even include the Internet and its more effective and faster than hand writing. If people didn't have the technology to share things with other people then we wouldn't be the same and neither would our writing. Sharing just words on the Internet makes up a huge part of us. It proves that the Internet has a very big purpose in writing.
If people are so advanced in thought and writing now how much more will they advance in the future? It makes me think about how far we've come and how the world would be without it. Its amazing how people can just be online having fun chatting with their friends and actually be learning something. It has changed my perspective on writing a lot because i never knew that what i was typing on the Internet was actually improving my comprehension. I can't wait to see how the world is going to advance in the future...
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