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Verona High School
Humanities Department
Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than
3,000 texts a month.
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“Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of
civilization up until 2003.”Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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(Bohn and Short, 2009)
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“...we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization,"
--Prof. Andrea Lunsford, Stanford University
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November 3, 2008
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November 3, 2008
McCain Obama
620,359 supporters 2,379,102 supporters
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Obama had 403% more subscribers than McCainObama had 905% more viewers than McCain
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Note: The course of studies states that students from HBW may, upon recommendation, enter at Level III
in a language. This is incorrect.
Works Cited
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• Lenhart, AL, Ling, RL, Campbell, SC, & Purcell, KP. (2010). Teens and Mobile Phones. Pew internet and family life project. Retrieved January 13, 2011, from http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx
• Siegler, MS. (2010, August 04). Eric schmidt: every 2 days we create as much information as we did up to 2003. Techcrunch, Retrieved from http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/schmidt-data/
• Bohn, Roger, and James Short. "How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers." UCSD: Global Information Industry Center. Global Information Industry Center University of California, San Diego, Dec. 2009.
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