"The rampant use of social media/texting slang by teenagers is largely due to increased accessibility to mobile phones. How does that effect writing skills? ..."
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"Can elementary-school children show off their best writing on a computer? The research arm of the U.S. Department of Education was curious to learn just that. In 2012 it handed out laptop computers to more than 10,000 fourth-graders and asked them to complete two 30-minute writing assignments ..." 
Education Gap's curator insight,
April 12, 2016 2:17 PM
"The use of the computer may have widened the writing achievement gap."
Students in the 20110 research were different than the 2012 students but the large samples of students adjusted to mirror the nation's demographics give trustworthy research. Schools should try to spend some time teaching young student how to type and edit on a keyboard to prepare them for annual tests by computers. -CH 
Amy Argenal's comment,
April 28, 2016 10:24 AM
Great way to use the prompts! And always have 3 points!
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