Making education relevant.

Mon, 2 Mar 2009
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I’m in no position to dispute either of the two formulas, simply because I haven’t sat down to work it out, and don’t really plan on doing so because it has no intrinsic value for me at the moment.

But I think an important lesson to be learnt here is this: the article caught my eye because it was a topic I was vaguely curious about, hence, my reading of the article. I’m shure the same would go for anyone else. So if we really wanna engage students in education, we should be teaching Math and Physics to students using examples like these, but adapted and modified to make it more relevant and applicable to their lives.

Texting and language acquisition/use.

Tue, 24 Feb 2009
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  1. Your little texting runt may not be illiterate. (via Lucas Ho)
  2. 2b or not 2b: David Crystal on why texting is good for language. (A link I found some time ago)

I’ve always believed we shouldn’t be so quick to decry text messaging and immediately linking the use of abbreviations in texting to language depreciation.

My argument would run somewhere along the lines that the shortened forms of the words are a form of simplification – duh – and code-switching – I won’t use this form of language in formal letters, and people who do that aren’t stupid, they just haven’t been as quick to realise what is appropriate and what isn’t. Or maybe they have different perceptions of appropriateness.

Above all, we must remember that language has evolved over time, and will continue to evolve, regardless of whether you like it or not. The best advice I can give: move along with the times, people.