Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Teaching spelling and grammar is still vital in a technology-driven classroom

 Literacy and technology: teaching spelling and grammar to tech-savvy students is vital.
In a recent article for The Telegraph, Sugata Mitra, professor of educational technology at Newcastle University, claimed that in today's technologically-advanced world that there was no place for teaching grammar or spelling as the technology would correct it for us.
However, this argument falls down in one fundamental area – it relies on students having a high standard of literacy already. The

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