The New Literacy
"As the school year begins, be ready to hear pundits fretting once again about how kids today can't write—and technology is to blame. Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into 'bleak, bald, sad shorthand' ... [but the] first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them."
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson
"As the school year begins, be ready to hear pundits fretting once again about how kids today can't write—and technology is to blame. Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into 'bleak, bald, sad shorthand' ... [but the] first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them."
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson