"A Better Pencil' Part 2

After reading the second half of “A Better Pencil” and the authors take on literacy and technology it make me wonder if the two are creating a deficit in personal skills and human interaction. Don't get me wrong I live for the fact that I can whip out my cell phone and send an email to a teacher about that assignment I missed, but because of this I don't really know my teachers and they don't know me. With some people that we really don't want to meet in person or see this is a good thing but interaction is a life skill. When you’re in the work world you rely on face to face meeting and oral communication, so what happens when our youth are so used to sending “lol” or “jk” on their cell phone that they choke when it come to the required personal skills. It is also very hard to judge somebody by a text or email. There is much to be desired when reading a message, there is the lack of tone, facial expression, and physical action. A lot of the time I can tell a person is lying when they talk to me face to face just by watching how they react during the conversation. We miss this completely in text because of the neutral voice that it commands and lack of emotion.