Texting and Multi-modal Texts

After watch the TED talk above about the relationship between texting and language, I have a better understanding of both sides of the argument "is texting killing language?" I tend to lean more on the side of texting is taking away from communication, not necessarily language. I enjoyed the talk and I think that the video makes some excellent points that I have definitely not given any thought to.

The important things I learned from the video are

• the idea that texting is the decline of the writing ability  of young people is not true,
• that texting, called finger speech, allows us to write like we speak
• and that a new structure of language is coming out of our texting habits

But the most important thing that I learned is that texting is actually allowing an expansion of our linguistic repertoire.

 

I teach college math, so a way that I might use Blabberize to support learning in my classroom would be to use it for a topic that many students don't like. For example, logarithms. It would be entertaining to use a Blabbeize to show the steps used when solving log problems. With the less serious presentation of the log information, perhaps it would stick in the students head better. Hopefully they won't think of logs and cringe.