{"id":1637,"date":"2013-07-10T15:24:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T22:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2013-07-10T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T22:24:43","slug":"media-literacy-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/2013\/07\/10\/media-literacy-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Literacy in Action?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this article yesterday about students in Brazil practicing their English grammar and spelling by correcting celebrity tweets. I don&#8217;t particularly approve of prescriptive grammar myself&#8230;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?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/yourcommunity\/2013\/06\/school-kids-correct-celebrity-grammar-mistakes-on-twitter.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/yourcommunity\/2013\/06\/school-kids-correct-celebrity-grammar-mistakes-on-twitter.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-Cristina R.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this article yesterday about students in Brazil practicing their English grammar and spelling by correcting celebrity tweets. I don&#8217;t particularly approve of prescriptive grammar myself&#8230;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}