Spell check has ruined me as a student and especially as an English major! I know there is a so much more to English tan spelling, but I am not confident in my spelling with checking it on spell checker first and that is a shame. I've always seen myself as a lover of writing, but now I see myself more as a lover of typing. I have excuses for not wanting to take notes or write out a paper first and I don't think I'm proud to say that.
I like the idea of technology for the reasons of quick productions of essays, but like Gilmore mentioned it should not be an editing tool, but isn't it? Technology is taking over. Computers are teaching grammar and a little syntax. Technology is teaching people how to become teachers, nurses and CEO's with online classes. Embrace it, Gilmore says, I agree to a certain extent, because it gets out of control, I see it in college now. I like blogging, chat rooms set up for a particular class and even using projectors to correct work on site. Students still like to write, so how can we improve this? Technology needs to be limited in school and teachers need to teach students how to become independent editors instead of relying heavily on spell checker. So when is it too much, when do we stop embracing and stop letting technology do our jobs for us?
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