"Based on the CNN Special Report #Being13, we compiled a list of acronyms, slang and shorthand teens actually use on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram ..."
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Why should French teachers talk about teaching in English? After all, a good deal of professional discussion among French secondary school teachers of English will be with French colleagues: mentor teachers, peers, university tutors and inspectors. Via Shona Whyte 
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As an EFL teacher in a secondary school in Geneva I sometimes feel on the edge of everything; -the teaching PLN on twitter seems to be mainly UK based (maybe I’m missing an enormous vibrant community of motivated French-speaking teachers from my... Via Shona Whyte
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The poster above appeals to social networkers' self-mockery and I've completed it with a few questions to have the pupils/students decode it… - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Its author (kalokwong1 - on 9GAG.com, a fun sharing community) has selected a few social media networks to illustrate each of them with a mocking key-sentence. Some of these networks are worldwide famous, yet others might be less familiar to French pupils/students : that's why I've added a few questions and suggest clues, key-words and links to help pupils/students discover them. Hope it may be of some use to you -should it be, thanks for your feedback :-) |
In this article a man named Anderson Cooper talks about an article he had written a few weeks prior to this one about the acronyms teens use on social media. Cooper thought he was helping parents by giving them a list of acronyms that teens used on social media. Unfortunately, shortly after the article was published he received a lot of criticism from teens and their parents telling him that those were not acronyms that they actually used. Cooper then decided to write this article to apologize an also redo the list of acronyms by actually asking a group of teens about the acronyms they use. Now in this article his list seems to be more accurate and less stereotypical.
This article has a relation to government because it shows how sometimes the government doesn't take us kids into consideration when doing things. Teens and children usually aren't taken very seriously anymore, especially this generation. Adults look at this generation as out of control and chaotic. They are always stereotyping us, and yes some teens are like this, but it's not fair to say that we all are.
I feel as though this article is bias as far as actually taking teens sides.