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How is cyber-language ("LOL speak") affecting students' literacy and use of standard English?
Duanesburg Central Middle School
Delanson, New York
Taping Date:
October 14, 2009
Location:
WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium
339 Central Avenue
Albany, New York
Running time:
56:30
Members of the eighth grade class from Duanesburg Central Middle School in Schenectady County discuss how literacy ands standard English are being affected by new media and cyber-language. Panel includes Judith Langer, Distinguished Professor at the University at Albany and Director of the Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA); Bill Densmore, Director of the Media Giraffe Project; and Peter Shea, School of Education and College of Computing, the University at Albany.
Moderated by WAMC’s David Guistina.
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