Text messaging
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Text Messaging
The Pros and Cons of texting
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Let’s Play A Game!....
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Decode these text message phrases... GO!
* btw• L8r
* fyi• asap
* ttyl• lol
* zzz• b4 gr8
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The advantages of Text Messaging
A positive light shed on the text message phenomenon
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Text Messaging and Libraries
• Condensed versions of classic literature made into texts
• Information about the availability of requested library materials
• Over-due book reminders through text messages
• Ask a librarian a question through a text message
• Market library services and events through text messages
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and Text Messaging• Business Listings
• Driving directions
• Movie theatre locations and show times
• Weather Conditions
• Stock Quotes
• Dictionary Definitions
• Product Price Comparisons
• Simple fact-based questions (source will be provided)
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Two-way text messaging used with deaf students at the secondary level
• Increase in independence of deaf adolescents
• Text messaging reduces parents’ worry and anxiety about child’s safety and well-being
• Increase in literacy skills
• Increase in deaf students’ attendance of after school activities
• Increase in teamwork and socializing skills
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The Disadvantages of Text Messaging
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CHEATING!!!
• University students caught using text messages as a means of cheating on exams
• Small cell phones make it easy to sneak one in during an exam and use it to retrieve answers from either friends or the internet (i.e. Google)
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Text Messaging and teenage sleeping habits
• Teens are text messaging one another throughout the course of the night and not receiving an adequate amount of sleep..... making them tired during the day.
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Text Messaging and its impact on driving performance
• Text messaging is a driving distraction
• Increase in accidents due to text messaging
• Road safety concerns for all drivers
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And to conclude…
• Text messaging is a new, rapidly evolving form of communication
• Text messaging is crossing into the realm of mainstream culture; becoming a very common practice