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What is more important - learning how to use Twitter or learning about history?
- Thread starter Jake
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We must face the possibility that the abbreviated signaller's English used for texting & tweeting, however useful in context, has a malign influence on linguistic development. The ability to choose words with appropriate connotations to express, accurately and concisely, shades of meaning and attitudes is not developed if telegram-writing is the preeminent mode of communication.
If this is true (and it probably is) then not only History but other humanities including language and literature should take priority.
Children will learn to 'tweet', only too willingly, in their own time. School exists to transmit skills and knowledge that children might not otherwise acquire.
If this is true (and it probably is) then not only History but other humanities including language and literature should take priority.
Children will learn to 'tweet', only too willingly, in their own time. School exists to transmit skills and knowledge that children might not otherwise acquire.
Joe Schulz
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History is the single most important subject that any school can offer.
It should not take a long time to learn to 'Tweet", but history is a long term thing. I don't see where it would be one or the other. It's like saying should somebody learn to use a computer or learn English. You can do both and it might help if some of the computer saavy types could spell and use grammar, too. Texting and tweeting are great things today for quick and instant communication, but it seems to be taking away the ability to actually write.