This article is appropriate for the "haves" and not for the "have-nots." What I mean by this are those students who have digital gadgets, particularly cell phones. This article presents this amazing statistic. According to the Pew Research Center, one in three teens sends over 100 text messages a day! Only 33% regularly talk face to face. Given that knowledge, is it any wonder so many teens have such trouble with conversations? Students need to know that there is no more important 21st Century skill than being able to sustain confident, coherent conversation.
My Students Don't Know How to Have a Conversation. Paul Barnwell. 4.22.14. The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/my-students-dont-know-how-to-have-a-conversation/360993/
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