The Family Center on Technology and Disability

Re:Peer versus teacher/parent/therapist "standards"

This message was posted by David Davis on Mar 03, 2008.

I am in the same boat with a lot of new technologies. A decade ago I was pretty current in technology but now I find myself having to work to catch up. Part of the reason for this is reflected in this online discussion. The technology tools that I use on a daily basis to be productive are very different from the tools that many young people are using today. So if I were to decide what someone needed to learn to do based on the way I worked it would be for a workforce based on the past, not on the future.

Here are a couple of interesting online resources to help with text messaging (something many people consider an emerging language).

Text Messaging Abbreviations . guide to writing and reading an emerging language
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/textmessageabbreviations.asp

Text Message Translator . instant translation from English to txt lingo or txt lingo to English
http://lingo2word.com/translate.php