a. Negative, Effects, Internet, Education
2. "Negative Effects of Internet" Education AND students
a. I started by going to the Metasearch tool Dogpile to search for websites without the domain of .com in them. The Sites found were either unrelated to education or, to me, considered outdated. (information pertaining to 1997-2002)
I then tried the search engine Gigablast to see what it would find. The same results were brought up and I was reluctant to go to a site with .com as a domain for this class showed me that domains with .gov or. Edu could provide more direct information. After editing the search statement by including “NOT positive” and Grade schools, the results never changed. I ended up going to Google and clicking on a Link that contained most of must search terms and seemed partially reasonable.
b. "Negative Effects of Internet in Education" StudyMode.com. 09 2012. 09 2012 <http://www.studymode.com/essays/Negative-Effects-Of-Internet-In-Education-1085912.html>.
3. The ASPECT of the site I found is quite low
a.
A - The site is sponsored by itself
S - There are no sources to find
P - The purpose is to allow for Essays to be viewed and used by the public
E - It explains that the internet is useful but also harmful
C - It answers most of my question but not all as it is only a preview of the full essay
T - The essay was made in September of 2012 so
It is quite recent.
b. The Aspect evaluation of my site shows that this is a site that should not be trusted. The Authority is very low as it is sponsored by itself and allows the posting of essays by anyone who has signed up for the site. The site requires you to create an account to view the essay completely so the Sources of information cannot be accessed either. The Purpose of the essay is clearly shown and it shows that the entirety of the essay would work perfectly with my question. The Evenness of the site shows both that the internet helps provide information to students and education but the overall aspect of the Internet greatly diminishes the strength of students learning capabilities. The Coverage of the topic is great as in the short amount of info you can see, the info covers multiple points of views. The Timelines of the info shows that it was posted in September of 2012, which compared to other sites I found, was very recent. With the amount of cons to pros on this site, this would be a horrible place to gain credible information on the topic.
4. The article for this assignment is a great investigation into the use of the Internet and Digital tools in middle and secondary school education. This article provides a great insight into the statistical information of internet and digital education help, but it barely gives any information in how the technology actually helps the students. It gives no details on how it helps student’s abilities to “share ideas with other teachers” or “enabling interaction with students”. If this interaction is through a text or instant message, than the “major impact” isn’t that major as it provides no help to a student’s use of speaking skills or physical interaction with others.
Another problem that I find is that the Article does not give examples as to how or why students of lower incomes faced greater challenges with using the technology compared to other students. If the other students had an increased experience because they already had the technology of phones or computers at home than the data and evidence from this article cannot be trusted as the data is flawed.
The addition of asking the students and teachers how they feel about how technology or digital tools in education will help shape students skills is very nice as it allows for direct information gathering from the study. If the study was based solely on how a student navigated or completed a task through the use of digital tools, than the data would also be flawed or at risk as more tech savvy students would dominate the others. A personal response to a study or test and how someone actually feels about something can give the best results to any study.
