Facebook, Twitter ‘harm students literacy’: Principals claim children are so distracted by the sites they don’t bother to read books
Children’s literacy is being damaged by social media, Principals claim. They say pupils are too distracted by sites such as Facebook and Twitter to bother to read a book. As a result, thousands are poor spellers and have little understanding of grammar. A survey of 214 secondary school heads found that 70 per cent […]