The website Education Week is a form of a blog central with many different topics, ideas, authors, etc. The article I chose to read was called "Technology in Education."
There was no clear author of the article, but the organization, Education Week, was clearly stated at the top of the website no matter where I was on the site. The article, although written in 2011, had over twenty different sources cited at the bottom. The URL of the website contained an ".org" at the end, meaning it is a government-sponsored website. The rest of the links on the website led to different articles, ranging in topic, viewpoint, and length.
All of the claims in the article "Technology in Education" were supported by facts and outside sources, leading me to believe that they are not purely opinions of the author. The material presented was covered in depth, with five subtopics for support, each having its own section that was usually about five paragraphs of information and statistics.
The sources that the author used were mostly from other articles on the Education Week website, but each one provided more information on what the "Technology in Education" article was siting them for.
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A widely debated topic, education in the education system today is either beneficial or harmful in our schools. "The rapid evolution of educational technologies also makes it increasingly challenging to determine what works best. Longitudinal research that takes years to do risks being irrelevant by the time it is completed because of shifts in the technological landscape. The iPad, for instance, became popular in schools soon after it was released and well before any research could be conducted about its educational effectiveness." ("Technology in Education") With the always-changing nature of the education systems, technology itself, and the people involved in both, it is nearly impossible to keep up in an effective way.
Part 2:
Using EBSCO, I found the article called "Faculty Views on eTextbooks: A Narrative Study" by Jenny Bossaller and Jenna Kammer. This article was very well laid out, having different paragraphs for each argument and many facts to support each one. It presented both the pros and cons to the argument about eText in the classroom, and had interviews of faculty members to support both sides.
In comparison to the website that I used for Part 1, this article was much more formally written, as well as being more thorough with the information. In both instances the authors seem like experts on the topic, but the second one, the academic journal article, seemed to go much more in depth into every argument.
Resource from article: Bok, D. 2004. Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Chesser, W. D. 2011. “The etextbook Revolution.” Library Technology Reports 47 (8): 28–40, 58
Works Cited:
"Technology in Education - Education Week." Education Week American Education News Site of Record. Education Week, 1 Sept. 2011. Web. 8 Oct. 2015.
"Use of Technology in Education." Photograph. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2015.
Bossaller, Jenny, and Jenna Kammer. "Faculty Views on ETextbooks: A Narrative Study: EBSCOhost." EBSCO Publishing Service Selection Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2015.
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