Please submit any statements that you have as soon as possible so that I can submit our report before time. If you don't post any supporting statement then I have no way to credit you for any work in our final report.

Remember, this is due at 11:59 PM EST Tonight!

Sure is! I'm just waiting to see if anyone else has anything to contribute. I'm getting ready to post the final report so that everyone can view it before I submit it.

2.4 Misinformation Debate: Team B "Old-School"
https://groups.diigo.com/group/24-misinformation-debate-team-b
Contributors: Thomas Chapman, Brooke Smith, Khalid Dookie


Our goal as a group is to effectively refute the statement that technology increases literacy skills. It is evident in society that technology has created an impact on literacy. Through use of resources such as social media and texting, usually an individual does not have adequate time to reflect on the information that was just thrown at them. We should encourage print media more often over visual media in attempt to save important comprehension, critical thinking, and literacy skills that are gained through use of print media.

Thomas Chapman found heavily supporting news articles about technology's damaging effects on literacy skills. One of which, an article by Becky Barrow describes a survey done by an educational magazine, Booked. The study found that out of 214 secondary schools, 70% of schools' principals believe Facebook and Twitter are bad for literacy. Tsol Keoshgerin, chairman of Booked, stated that, "This is a worrying snapshot of literacy standards."1

As stated by Khalid, "By proper definition of Literacy, the ability to read and write. There is no doubt that technology has had its effects, however the relation between literacy and technology can be confused very easily. The methods may have changed over the decades of how we gather information but the skills needed to absorb that information is still a primary function of what being literate really is...

We must give ourselves time to reflect any information read and really think about the context at hand, technology places the gap between the traditional book and watching a film based on a book, think of it in the sense of any book you have read that's been made into a movie. Which depiction is clearly more detailed and deep? Not to say it's a bad thing to enjoy the movies but reading the books on many films shows how much more there is to a story than a 2-3 hour featured film can process, of course not everyone will agree.

The statement here being, technology can be effective however it lacks the essential mind exercising needed to develop the most basic of reading and comprehension skills. Therefore technology has NOT contributed to an increase in literacy skills but instead provides more access to information, which are two completely different things. Critical thinking and reflection are important processes that lack in visual literacy when compared to printed literacy as it gives us less time to really analyze."



Sources:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/is-technology-producing-a-decline-79127.aspx

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v4n2/waetjen.jte-v4n2.html

Now that everyone is on here, let's wrap this all up!

I will be glad to type up the final position and send it out to Ms Harkins before midnight tonight. Send me any statements you have with any sources you've found and I will put them all together based on what gets sent to me.

And also, Thank you guys for being active with our group! If you have any questions, feel free to email me at smithbrooke@fullsail.edu.

And also to clear up any confusion, If it says that this assignment is completed under the Activities tag on your Connect Board, It's probably because you've commented on the board. Our assignment has not yet been completed and submitted. If you have statements you would like to add to our position, please post them here so I can gather all of our information.
You can see that Thomas has bookmarked credible articles, made annotations and highlighted supporting evidence. That is great! You can do that if you'd like or you can post a link here to any article you've found attached with your supporting statement.

What i'll do is take all of that information and put it into a report with everyone's names accredited for their work. I will take all of our cited sources also and put them into a cited page so that we aren't stepping over any plagiarism boundaries.
Here's a good tip to always remember; work smarter, not harder.

Thanks again everybody!

I agree with Thomas, very well stated. Sure to make an impact in our position for this debate!

Tsol Keoshgerian, the chairman of Booked, a magazine for schools, says "This is a worrying snapshot of literacy standards" An article by Becky Barrow

Those are both very good ideas for our group name! Considering that we are debating against technology for this assignment, something "Oldschool" is would immediately define our position.
If anyone would want to design a logo or make any other suggestions or statements, it's great to post them here or you can start a new topic.
It's good to get immediate email alerts for this group that way you know as soon as something is updated or posted!

"Technology (through television, texting, Facebook posting, and the Internet), has contributed to a increase in literacy skills." Our goal is to effectively refute this statement.