How+has+Technology+and+the+Internet+Affected+the+General+Attitude+of+College+Students

Question:hi people

How is technology and the internet affecting college age youth in schools. This question is a truly interesting one, at least to me, seeing as I am a college student myself. The presence of the internet and technology is impossible to ignore, and for the most part, fully embraced by our culture. I'm trying to find out how this presence has affected, changed, or formed our generation of college age students.

from this question, the following inquiries came to mind,

- What happens when you bring technology into the classroom - What new fields of work is technology bringing us, and does the current education prepared for them - with the internet, do students have the ability to "outlearn" their professors, and if so, do professors take preemptive actions to tackle it. - Does the internet create a "know it all" mentality, and if it does, does the student truly know it all - With young adults being saturated by more and more technology, does the traditional teaching method of lecture truly become ineffective. - Does the internet teach us, is it possible to not only learn, but to retain and use the information given to us from the internet. - Is the internet the new "wild west", an open format just waiting to be capitalized on, could anyone invent facebook? And does this act as a motivation against school? - How is this information highway called the internet affecting college students mentally, that is to say, is this vast database of content making it harder to figure out "who you are", and how does this affect decisions in school? - Does this kind of access require schools to not only teach information, but teach how to teach yourself, how to seek through information yourself? - Does technology affect how a group collaborates.

My plan of study is as follows:

- Observation of students in the tech center. - interview a diverse sample of college kids, and also kids the same age who don't attend school - research in the school library for general studies on young adults, the way they behave, the overall pyschology of a college aged kid. - Interview teachers, professors, and all other forms of educators to get their "side of the story" - Search the internet, perhaps in a more delicate way, to approach the computer with no pre conceived notions of how it works, try to understand it from a more simplistic and naive way.

Im sure I will be using more methods than this, but for now, this is my plan.

OK - you might want to focus on a smaller subset of college students since there is so much variation in this group. Consider focusing on those who are "addicted" to social media or those who are "reluctant" to use it. Or perhaps you will compare and contrast those who consider themselves "experts" from those who consider themselves "novices." Using a contrast technique of some sort can help you position your work as original and give you more precision and depth in your research and writing.

SOURCES AND ANNOTATIONS:

1. [|http://web.ebscohost.com.libproxy.temple.edu/ehost/detail?sid=5980189a-f89f-4db2-8248-930e4d45239a%40sessionmgr4&vid=1&hid=24&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=eric&AN=EJ897857]
 * ~ Title: ||< Beyond the "Digital Natives" Debate: Towards a More Nuanced Understanding of Students' Technology Experiences ||
 * ~ Author(s): ||< Bennett, S. ; Maton, K. ||
 * ~ Source: ||< Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, v26 n5 p321-331 Oct 2010. 11 pp. ||

Annotation: This source will be a good start for a better understanding of exactly what a digital native is, and perhaps more importantly, what a digital native is not. Because my research paper is going o be based on interviews and the true thoughts and feelings of college students. This text goes into parts of being a digital native that I have yet to learn about, and will obviously be a huge help in crafting my questions.

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 * ~ Title: ||< Evolving Patterns of Working: Do They Matter? ||
 * ~ Author(s): ||< Boyle, Roger David ; Efford, Nick D. ; Neagle, Royce J. ||
 * ~ Source: ||< European Journal of Engineering Education, v35 n6 p667-677 Dec 2010. 11 pp ||

Annotation: This text was interesting because it talks more about whether this is even worth studying, are we really all that different? This text is going to be important for questions, to see if people this age really feel the same as their older counterparts, or if they feel in another way entirely.

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 * ~ Title: ||< Digital Learners in Higher Education: Generation Is Not the Issue ||
 * ~ Author(s): ||< Bullen, Mark ; Morgan, Tannis ; Qayyum, Adnan ||
 * ~ Source: ||< Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, v37 n1 Spr 2011. 24 pp. ||

Annotation: This source kind of puzzles with the second, giving me a balanced point of view so that I don't end up asking the same questions that have been already asked and answered. For example, if I ask a respondent a question about how they felt towards being a certain generation, and how much they think it means. It would be nice to compare to this data, perhaps unfold some sort of guise we thought to be true, but in fact is something else.

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DOI: 10.1177/0273475311410845 2011 33: 131 originally published online 1 June 2011
 * Source**//: Journal of Marketing Education//
 * Author**: Christopher Buzzard, Victoria L. Crittenden, William F. Crittenden and Paulette McCarty
 * Title: The Use of Digital Technologies in the Classroom : A Teaching and Learning Perspective**

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Annotation: This source may be a little less useful to me than the previous sources, but it will help me bring it back to the class, which is good for my audience (my teacher)

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TITLE: Net generation or Digital Natives: Is there a distinct new generation entering university?  **AUTHOR: Chris Jones****, Ruslan Ramanau****, Simon Cross****, Graham Healing** SOURCE: The Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom  Received 30 April 2009; revised 14 September 2009; Accepted 15 September 2009. Available online 15 October 2009. [] Annotation: This question is similar to mine, which why I'm hoping that this source will help me avoid reproducing an already performed study. This source, i'm planning, will help me find new avenues of possibility and spark questions of my own, and perhaps those will be the inquiries that make my paper original.

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