As more schools begin allowing students to bring their own devices and actually use them in class, the debate around the value of "digital writing" -- texting, taking notes on mobile devices, tweeting ...

What is the difference between writing and texting? If you were to pose that question to youths from Generation Alpha — born starting in 2010 — many of them may be hard-pressed to answer. Members of ...

As I sit and grade my classes’ first essays, I realize, once again, that technology has affected our communication skills. Most people today have access to computers and mobile phones. Text messages ...

English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan sees the effects of students’ growing up in an age when communication is done in an abbreviated text language and where they depend on autocorrect to automatically ...

Lessons include videos modeling the writing process for teachers to use with their students in the traditional or flipped classroom format. Writing lessons include print and video modeling lessons in ...

Teachers and parents alike have voiced concern over whether texting, with its abbreviations, short-cuts, and odd grammar, hurts kids' writing skills. There has been little definitive research on the ...