http://www.streamingmagazine.com/iowa-girl-wins-u-s-texting-title/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:58:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.streamingmagazine.com/iowa-girl-wins-u-s-texting-title/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Joseph Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:29:03 +0000 http://www.streamingmagazine.com/?p=421#comment-181 What in the world do we need these kinds of competitions for? Is that really a talent or a skill that should be rewarded? For crying out loud - or is that FCOL? - kids have enough meaningless distractions without promoting stuff like this. Come on. Give her a trophy if she invents new texting software, but for texting? I guess you could say it's a typing skill, but it's all acronyms anymore. I just see language skills going south along with critical thinking and problem solving. What in the world do we need these kinds of competitions for? Is that really a talent or a skill that should be rewarded? For crying out loud – or is that FCOL? – kids have enough meaningless distractions without promoting stuff like this. Come on. Give her a trophy if she invents new texting software, but for texting? I guess you could say it’s a typing skill, but it’s all acronyms anymore. I just see language skills going south along with critical thinking and problem solving.

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