Professor says kids no longer need to learn spelling and grammar because of smartphones - Yahoo! News

Professor says kids no longer need to learn spelling and grammar because of smartphones - Yahoo! News: Spelling and grammar are “a bit unnecessary because they are skills that were very essential maybe 100 years ago but they are not right now,” Mitra said. “Firstly, my phone corrects my spelling so I don’t really need to think about it and, secondly, because I often skip grammar and write in a cryptic way.”