Levy (2014) credits linguist John McWhorter from his Ted Talk in which he posits texting as a positive move back to a more oral form of communicating.
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Linguistic experts liken texting as writing practice in ways similar to that of children learning how to speak. However, texting offers experience in casual writing in ways that weren’t available 20 years ago (Thompson, 2013). Many faculty have a mental image of students who are together but talking to others, or even to people they are with, via texting. Texting has been criticized for creating poor writing habits and creating distracted learners. The mobile phone is the device of choice for teens who use texting as the centerpiece of their communication (Lenhart, Ling, Campbell, & Purcell, 2010). In the U.S., 96% of American adults own a smartphone (Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2019, June) demonstrating the continual growth of mobile devices for communication and information consumption. However, texting using a group app such as Cel.ly or the Google texting app allows students to create and consume on a mobile device using their chosen preference for communication, texting.Ĭommunication through mobile technology continues to grow.
In online/blended courses, the six-word memoir may be implemented using a variety of repositories such as an LMS, a blog, social media space, etc. Repurposing the six-word memoir format as an academic exercise has unlimited possibilities using mobile devices and the affordances of texting and social media. The idea was presented by Smith Magazine as a challenge, “Can you tell your life story in six words?” For example, “cursed with cancer, blessed with friends.” In popular culture, it has become a global movement now featured in the book Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs: by Writers Famous and Obscure, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker. Similar to the six-word story from the flash fiction genre, the Six-Word Memoir is a writing genre for telling a personal story in six-words. Tags: Assessment, Content, Digital Storytelling, Interaction, Memoir, Mobile, Reflection, Six-Word Memoir, Synthesis, Text Message Description
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