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Bulger, S., & Watson, D. (2006). Broadening the definition of at-risk students. Community College Enterprise, 12(2), 23-32. Community colleges support at risk students. Those that have issues in reading, writing, and technology. Authors do a review of literature on the topic of at risk students to see if technology will help them excel in writing and reading. Researchers included many factors that needed to be considered before making a decision about the benefits of using technology with at-risk students. The data can be used in either a qualitative or quantitative study in the future.
Castek, J., Hartman, D. J., Leu, D. J., Coiro, J., Henry, L. A., & Zawilinski, L. (2007). Thinking about our future as researchers:
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This paper goes in detail about the challenges that are ahead and different opportunities that will help navigate through the issues. The article ends by giving several steps that will help prepare students for the new literacies in the future. The authors give suggestions on how educators can use technology to help enhance writing skills among students.
Dixon, F., Cassady, J., Cross, T., & Williams, D. (2005). Effects of technology on critical thinking and essay writing among gifted adolescents. Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 16(4), 180-189.
This study compared critical thinking into two writing samples from gifted students. The first writing sample was given in the beginning of their 11th and 12th grade year. The first writing sample was handwritten and the second essay was completed on the computer. Students was randomly picked for the second essay. Gender-specific results were given at the end of the study. Boys used more tools to help them with their writing. The computer is correcting most of the writing for students. Girls performed the same on both essays. Data shows that computers have a remediating effect on males.
Edwards-Groves, C. J. (2011). The multimodal writing process: changing practices in contemporary classrooms. Language & Education: An International Journal, 25(1), 49-64.
Michaela Cullington, author of “Does Texting Affect Writing,” declares texting does not affect students writing. Cullington uses facts to support her overall claim, and gets many teachers’ opinions on the subject. The author did not use valuable sources, which questioned her overall purpose. Cullington used a lot of her own opinion throughout the text, but lacked supporting facts. The story has many flaws, making Cullington argument on how texting is not affecting students writing, not reliable.
In her essay "Does Texting Affect Writing?", Michaela Cullington presents her argument that texting does not impact formal writing written by students. She discusses the concerns presented by many people about how texting language can transfer into writing, but through the use of personal experiences and credible sources she discusses how this is not true. Her use of multiple different studies and situations help boost her argument and allow the reader to truly see how students actually do formal writing. She presents a strong argument as to why those who believe students don't have the control and knowledge to write formally, instead of with text speak, are wrong.
The influence of textspeak on teenagers' writing is a polarising concept with both fans and critics of texting weighing their opinions. In her essay, "Does Texting Affect Writing?", Michaela Cullington, a previous student of Marywood University in Pennsylvania, outlines her investigation into whether or not texting affects writing. Cullington analyzes the critiques of texting and why critics believe that texting has a detrimental affect on teenager writing. Along with the critics,
In this essay, I will argue about how technology is our most important literacy sponsor for our development of literacy. As a young child, my mother always used to forced books on me. Every other day was reading day and I would have to read a book to my mother. I would always look at her and cry because I hated sitting down and opening up a book that was longer than my instruction manual for my video games.
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Brittany Flores BA 101 02 Dr. Bacon October 27, 2017 Book Review 2: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid The "Base of the Pyramid" or the "Bottom of the Pyramid" (BoP) is a phrase that is used to describe a socio-economic classification for the 4-5 billion people who live in developing countries with an annual income that is less than $1,500. It is also a developing field of business strategy that focuses on products, services, and enterprises that serve those 4-5 billion people. The efforts in trying to solve the issue of poverty have been misguided.
ers Bldg, University ParkPA 16802USAhag5@psu.edu Henry A. Giroux Cultural studies seems to have passed into the shadows of academic interests, replaced by globalization and political economy as the new millennium’s privileged concerns among left academics. Yet, cultural studies’ longstanding interest in the interrelationship of power, politics, and culture remains critically important. Matters of agency, consciousness, pedagogy, and rhetoric are central to any public discourse about politics, not to mention education itself. Hence, this article argues that the promise of cultural studies, especially as a fundamental aspect of higher education, resides in a larger transformative and democratic politics in which matters of pedagogy and agency
Book Review Hayden Mary and Thompson Jeff (2008): International Schools: Growth and Influence, UNESCO: International Institute for Educational Planning, Pages – 90, ISBN: 978-92-803-1320-8. This booklet, International schools: growth and influence, is 92nd in the series of Fundamentals of Educational Planning has brought forth about International schools have a long history and have grown steadily worldwide in the recent past. Many people, including educators and policy planners, know minimal about what is an international school, about its experiences and practices. Authors have rightly placed it, that in few regards, international schools are a well-kept mystery. In this booklet, the authors dive profound into the sources and development of international schools and their impact in the time of globalization and contend that the wonder of international schools ought not to be kept mystery.
The article does a significant job of providing evidence. The narrator gives experiences with students and compares and contrast students from the fifties to students now. The narrator talks about how writing is different and how students imaginations are not as good as they once were. The purpose for the article is to show how technology is slowly starting to rupture to imaginations of children.
Not So Fast” Andrea Lunsford researched students’ writing for 30-plus years to see what effect new technology has on how students learn. Lunsford discovered that students are actually improving their own writing skills with the help of mass media. Not only does it allow students more access to educational resources and information, but it also encourages students to do more creative thinking and writing outside of class which Lunsford refers to in her article as “life writing.” In her research she recalls the account of a student who sent a friend a text message which was completely informal and would be considered unprofessional by most piers. However, the same student also sent a very formal and professional report to her faculty adviser later on.
Not So Fast”, conducts her own study with a few colleagues to take notes on how students writing skills are changing. She decides to conduct another one twenty five years later to see how much the writing skills have changed since technology has been updated and became more available to students. She found that “students today are writing more than ever before.” Although we still have the same amount of writing errors as before, the patterns of errors are different. Many people argue that technology is only making our writing skill worse, this study helps to prove a different theory.
Higher education infrastructure and policies of a country represents a vital parameter to measure growth rate and capabilities to face challenges. Now market for higher education is global and universities and higher learning institutions are operating cross countries.. Standards and outputs are measure at international level based on various parameters. The outputs in terms of theses and dissertation are considered as an success indicator for academic/ research community of the country. Large number of institutions have system to keep ETDs on their websites and institutional repositories.
ARTICLE 1 Annotated Bibliography Azevedo, Ana., Gerhard Apfelthaler, and Deborah Hurst. 2012. “Competency Development In Business Graduates: An Industry-driven approach for examining the alignment of Undergraduate Business Education with Industry requirements.” The International Journal of Management Education. 10: 12-28. DOI:10.1016/j.ijme.2012.02.002
Mary W. Kiarie (2006). Educational services for students with mental retardation in Kenya. International Journal of Special Education. Volume 21 (No. 2) The article was to inform the readers that research on educational programs for mentally retarded individuals, especially in other countries is scarce.
Another piece of evidence that supports the belief that social media ruins people’s writing is an the Pew study, many students are careless. Campbell writes “46 percent said these tools make students more likely to ‘write too fast and be careless’” (Campbell 23). One can see the truth of this by looking at “OMG:Social Media May Wreck Your Kid’s Writing.” Though advocates of this view, including this author, may concede that it can help kids writing, she might also reply that it hinders more often than