Michael Cooney
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Senior Editor

Is tech killing kids’ vocabulary?

Opinion
Apr 1, 20051 min

Reader’s Digest has released a survey stating that almost half of the adults questioned fear new technology is diminishing the vocabulary skills of today’s youth.

Wow, that would be very, very, very

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Michael Cooney
by
Senior Editor

Michael is a senior editor with Network World focused on deciphering the strategies of many core high-tech vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE and IBM. Michael has been writing about the industry for more than 33 years and has won coverage awards from ASBPE and FOLIO. He has a BA in Journalism and Technical Writing Certificate from The Pennsylvania State University.

He can be reached at michael_cooney@foundryco.com.

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