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do come equipped with spell-checks, grammar checks, and every possible language answer a student could possibly question, at his or her fingertips.

Young people today are much more aware of language differences among cultures, expressions that may be used in a neighboring state, but not in their own hometown, how to design a web-page that is professional and eye-catching, who in Japan likes the same kind of music that they do, and words that are spelled one way in the U.S. and differently in England.

My parents may be more likely than my students to fully understand when to use the word "shall" as opposed to "will"; however, in many ways, I credit the internet for helping our young people become more language-aware and culturally savvy than any generation before them.

The internet can only be considered to be destroying writing standards among young writers if dry, formal, dogmatic script is all we wish to generate from these young writers. Active writing should model active living, and while I do feel that there will always be a need in much modern text for clear, formal, didactic, written publications, I also feel that there is more out there beyond that not only to be said, but also to be preserved; and who better to preserve it than the most active users of these varied forms of communication - our young people?

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