'IM-speak' infiltrating classrooms

I found this article from MSNBC.com for another class, but I think it can relate to ours as well. This article discusses how students are creating new errors in their essays due to internet talk. Junior high and high school teachers say they all nationwide see a trend that is bothersome to them. These words are so common in their life now that they can't remember when not to use them. It is a subconscience act. One specific educator, David Warlick of Raleigh, N.C., sees the instant messengers as a phenomenon that should be celebrated. He claims that teachers should credit their students with inventing a new language ideal for communicating in a high-tech world. I don't know how many teachers would agree with him, but he gives an opinion on the other side of the argument. The article says that most students realize by the time they get to college not to use this type of talk. When discussing this article in my Issues in Digital Culture class, my teacher says she still finds some mistakes using IM talk in papers.