Are We Thumbing Our Way to Illiteracy?

Saturday afternoon we went to Glendale's oh-so-stylish Alex Theater for a screening of The Best Years of Our Lives.

Frequent text messaging causes young people to have stunted writing skills, according to a report from an educational commission in Ireland. According to a Yahoo! News story about the report, Irish school children are increasingly writing in "short sentences, simple tenses and a limited vocabulary."

And let's not even talk about punctuation.

This topic generated a lot of discussion among the MC101s, or at least those who weren't working their thumbs throughout the medianote.

Gabcast! Club MediaNote #39