Final

Part 1:

The topic that comes to mind when reading this article is “Teacher & student digital communication.” This comes to mind because it makes me wonder how, in a perfect world where all schools have the same technology and all students have access to the same devices, things would change if there were more focus on digital classrooms and correspondence. My personal feeling is that it could help increase graduation rates and grades since we are coming into a very digital based society.

One question I would ask is “How has digital communication been integrated into schools already?” Some of the keywords Id use to look for this would be: digital schooling, school e-mail, digital classrooms, digital grading, digital high-school.

Part 2:

Being someone who uses Google for everything, I used Google Scholar. I felt this tool would give me more access to the appropriate articles. I went to Google Scholar and used a Boolean search. That search was digital AND high school AND teachers.  This search didn’t pull up what I was hoping to find so I switched it to digital AND classrooms AND teaching. This search brought up many articles that were appealing to me.

Hill, Janet, and Michael Hannafin. "Teaching and Learning in Digital Envoronments: The Resugence of Resource-based Leaning." Educational Technology Research and Development. 49.3 (2001): 37-52. Web. 20 Mar. 2013. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02504914>.

Part 3:

The first thing I did to check the trustworthiness of this journal article was to look up the publisher. They are a company that publishes books and journals from all disciplines. The next thing I did was look up the authors. Janet Hill is on the board of directors at Duke University and has also taught math at the high school and college level since 1972. Michael Hannafin is the head of the Technology Enhanced Learning department at the University of Georgia. I’d say that each author has a great background to have written the article.

Part 4:

The biggest thing that this article talks about is how the digital age has caused us to change many aspects of our social and economical resources. Some of the biggest being both education and work. My concentration was more on the educational aspect but I also felt that because I chose to include teachers as well as the students.

Not only has the change in how we access media and other forms of information brought a big change in how educate the youth of our country but also how we find information and communicate. We have gone from a pen and paper kind of society to e-mail and Internet kind of society.

One of the other major things this article talks about is how many of the older generations, mainly the ones that were taught the traditional way with books and having to do manual research, have serious doubts about how well learning digitally is working. This article was written in 2001 was it was before a lot of the online classes were used by colleges and even high schools so there wasn’t much hard evidence or many studies being done.

I’m sure that if they were able to see some of the advances being made and were given the option to update this article they would. I can tell that the authors are trying to have a neutral standpoint and not push for or against traditional or digital education but I can also see that both parties are for digital education advances. I’m also for digital education so I found this article enlightening and easy to agree with.