How Slang Affects Students in the Classroom
Are social media and text messaging negatively impacting high school students?
The way students communicate with one another through social media and text messaging is creeping into high school classrooms across the country.
Slang terms and text-speak such as IDK (I don't know), SMH (shaking my head), and BTW (by the way) have become a common sight on student assignments, befuddling some high school teachers who are unsure how to fix this growing problem.
Terry Wood, a foreign language teacher at St. Mary's Ryken High School in Leonardtown, Md., has seen a "dramatic decline" in the writing abilities of her students "due to Tweeting,