The Boomerang Table : The Blog of 160over90 (www.160over90.com):
… enticing pastures of overly garrulous, wildly pretentious prose –uh, I mean write too much–it should come as welcome relief to anyone who pecks the home row keys for a living that people, in fact, are reading and writing more than ever.This new Wired article, citing a new Standford University study, states “that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That’s because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text.” The author Clive …

Langwitches Blog (langwitches.org):
… debate and connect around issues of Jewish values, history and text. Where they research Jewish communities – and to boot, learn the craft of photography. Welcome to The Jewish Lens experience. (tags: judaism photography projects )Clive Thompson on the New Literacy"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions. (tags: liter …

SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore (smlxtralarge.com):
… As we migrate from the industrial world to the nectworked society – many argue we need a new literacy to help us on our way. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pldms/2553479524/ Euan posted this on his blog last week viaClive Thompsonvia Earl Mardle I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization,” she says. For Lunsford, technology isn’t killing our ability to write. It’s reviving it—and pushing our …

The Education Business Blog (www.educationbusinessblog.com):
… Clive Thompson over at Wired has a greatshort essayon the modern revival of the written word in the age of social media. He cites work done at Stanford that shows that todays students are writing more than their parents - in fact 38% of their writing is has nothing to do with school. Better yet - they are writing for an …

Daily Kos (dailykos.com):
… it takes to get her kid orthodonture care on Medicaid. Just another one of those thousands of insurance horror stories. Crossing the continent, from San Francisco to DC, in 4:36 with time lapse photography: Clive Thompson looks at how anew kind of literacyis arising because of use of the internet -- and one that, contrary to conventional wisdom, is reviving our ability to write in new and exciting ways. …

Bloggers For Change (www.bloggersforchange.com):
… it takes to get her kid orthodonture care on Medicaid. Just another one of those thousands of insurance horror stories. Crossing the continent, from San Francisco to DC, in 4:36 with time lapse photography: Clive Thompson looks at how anew kind of literacyis arising because of use of the internet -- and one that, contrary to conventional wisdom, is reviving our ability to write in new and exciting ways. …

Notebooks.com (www.notebooks.com):
… Given the fact that more and more of our communicating is done with a keyboard and that wewrite more than any other generation, it’s no surprise that keyboards are the focus of many of our notebook reviews at Notebooks.com. We’re always asking ourselves. Is it springy? How big is it? Does it feel “right”? Many times the answers to these questions are …

Openned (openned.com):
… The modern world of online writing, particularly in chat and on discussion threads, is conversational and public, which makes it closer to the Greek tradition of argument than the asynchronous letter and essay writing of 50 years ago. Read the resthere. …

francesca frames (francescaframes.blogspot.com):
… la sintesi...che comunque i ragazzi di oggi scrivono molto,forse più delle generazioni precedenti, con le mail, con gli sms, nei socialnetwork, nelle cha t.... Oggi su Nova 24 trovo questo interessante articolo: " Clive Thompson suWiredcommenta i risultati di una indagine condotta dall’università di Stanford nella quale vengono evidenziati gli effetti positivi che internet e l’avvento della comunicazione digitale sta avendo sulla popolazione scolastica americana e sul suo livello di al …

Planeta Educativo - Un primer vistazo a la blogosfera educativa (www.aulablog.com):
… 0 votos Hace unos días Enrique Dans valoraba un artículo deClive Thompsonque había leído en Wired. Tanto uno como otro concluyen, a partir de los estudios de la profesora de la Universidad de  Stanford, Andrea Lunsford, que, lejos de perjudicar el desarrollo de las destrezas de escritura, escribir en medios digitales contribuye a …

EduCAP-TIC (www.iesgrancapitan.org):
… Hace unos días Enrique Dans valoraba un artículo deClive Thompson, publicado en Wired. Tanto uno como otro concluyen, a partir de los estudios de la profesora de la Universidad de  Stanford, Andrea Lunsford, que, lejos de perjudicar el desarrollo de las destrezas de escritura, escribir en medios digitales …

I Want to Teach Forever (www.teachforever.com):
… In addition to trying to make geeks cool, this month's Wired magazine also revealed somefascinating research on student literacy in the digital age. Stanford professor Andrea Lunsford studied five years worth of student writing in and out of the classroom (just about anything written in any medium you could imagine). What she found among the tweets, texts, academic essays and assignments is …

User First Web (userfirstweb.com):
… Internet & American Life Project Since that time, mobile phone use has climbed steadily among teens ages 12 to 17 – to 63% in fall of 2006 to 71% in early 2008. (tags: mobile teens research stats statistics demographics )Clive Thompson on the New Literacy"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization" The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. (tags: literacy writing education technology te …

Cátedra Procesamiento de Datos (www.catedradatos.com.ar):
… e verá, pero eso está cantado y es otro cantar. En una época en que muchas de las herramientas que estudiamos, desde las redes sociales a los teléfonos celulares, son demonizados y embajadores bárbaros, Clive Thompson nos lleva por el camino de losnuevos alfabetismos, en base a un estudio de análisis de escritura comandado por Andrea Lunsford de Stanford y cuyas conclusiones provienen del análisis de 14,672 piezas escritas por estudiantes (desde ensayos a tuits). Las conclusiones son interesantes: …

BiteMarks (blog.bitepr.com):
… to transform written communication seems, well, a bit extreme. But Professor Lunsford is confident that “we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization.”  Which brings us to PR lesson #3:According to Wired’s Clive Thompson, Professor Lunsford found that the university students in her study were “remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos - assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.” This has important …

InternetActu.net (www.internetactu.net):
… Pour la professeure Andrea Lunsford, de l’université de Stanford, rapporte Clive Thompson deWired, nous sommes au coeur d’une révolution de l’alphabétisation liée au numérique. Cette nouvelle capacité à trouver, critiquer et utiliser l’information (on parle de littératie ) dans la …

Dration's Weblog (dration.wordpress.com):
… языка не то что не хватает – их нет. via Tantana:любопытное исследование относительно языка и блогосферы, в целом да, наверно, блоги, резко …

text-gold.de (www.text-gold.de):
… Andrea Lunsford, Organisatorin der Studie interpretiert die Ergebnisse dieser Langzeitstudie sehr optimistisch: I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization (Quelle:wired.com) Ja, mein erster Gedanke war auch, dass man doch das Geplapper bei Twitter, Facebook, die Kommentare unter Artikel oder die Diskussionbeiträge in Foren nicht im Ernst als hohe Schreibkunst werten kann. Und ich kann mir vorstellen, dass einige …

ENGINE Industries blogs (engineindustries.com):
… Phenomenal (and brief) must-read:Clive Thompson on the New Literacy. You know how certain elderly saints o’ the Lord hang on to the notion that all these fly-by-night SMS -chatblogging and social-textbooking fads are bad for the children’s writing skills? That these flash-in-the-pan wikitubers are robbing …

Sleepless in NY (sleeplessinny.wordpress.com):
… Image via Wikipedia The Spetember Wired published 2 great pieces about education and how web 2.0 tools change its rules and character. Daniel Roth talks about how the new ‘cool geek’ could make education cool again and Clive Thompson is showing usa different angle on why technology is reviving our ability to write, opposite the wide spread opinion that powerpoints, texts and status updates has drained any essence of our communication and language. Ruth’s piece is well worth a read to see how some schools are showing enough flexibility to incorporate current technology and soci …