Multiliteracies in ELA Classrooms

Media Literacy in Action?

July 10th, 2013 · No Comments

I came across this article yesterday about students in Brazil practicing their English grammar and spelling by correcting celebrity tweets. I don’t particularly approve of prescriptive grammar myself…but I thought it was interesting how polite the students were when they tweeted the corrections. I wonder if were they given explicit instruction in being nice on the internet. Is politeness something that should be a part of online literacy? What do you think?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/06/school-kids-correct-celebrity-grammar-mistakes-on-twitter.html

-Cristina R.

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