It is probably text messaging on cell phones that are making kids illiterate because they are using to many abbreviations to get their message across, although that can be looked at as modern slang. All languages have slang, idioms , street talk, that is the language of the people. As for computers, they should be a great aid in a students information, the problem is that the WWW has become more of a world bazaar rather than the information superhighway.
