Literacy news
Poet Laureate says texting is an ideal springboard to writing poetry
6 Sep 2011
Today’s Guardian features Carol Ann Duffy and her thoughts about the benefits of technology in literacy.
Hardly a week goes by without a warning about how educationally detrimental it is for children to spend hours of every day screen-gazing and message-sending. But now there's a note of dissent – from the Poet Laureate, no less, who says she believes texting is an ideal springboard to good poetry-writing.
Duffy said:
The poem is a form of texting ... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language – it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. We've got to realise that the Facebook generation is the future – and, oddly enough, poetry is the perfect form for them. It's a kind of time capsule – it allows feelings and ideas to travel big distances in a very condensed form.
See the full article here.
