Great Job Team!!!

Great job Khalid. Your resources surely supports our position and is well written.

How did the writing go Tiffany? I know I was probably to close to time to submit to add information, but I am sure You did a good job. So You can post here a copy of the final paper submitted so all can see. Here is what I was trying to propose at the last minute anyway.

First of all according to Stuart Wolpert, Senior Media Relations Representative at UCLA, who reported in 2009 that the cause of this drastic decline in literacy is due to technology. Mr. Wolpert's report was based on the in depth research of Patricia Greenfield, a distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children Digital Media Center, Los Angeles CA. Patricia Greenfield has analyzed more than 50 studies on learning an technology, use of computers, the internet, and video games. In Mr. Wolpert's article he quotes Patricia Greenfield's statement that " reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not". Patricia Green field is quoted again by Mr. Wolpert in his article stating that " more than 85 percent of video games have shown that they can produce many negative effects, including aggressive behavior, and desensitization to real life violence. Take the columbine shootings for instance. According to the History.com Staff in an article published in 2009 "There was speculation that the gunmen, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, committed the killing because they had been bullied, were members of a group of social outcasts called trench coat mafia that was fascinated with Goth culture, or had been influenced by violent video games and music;" However right after this follows the statement " however none of these theories was ever proven". Of course the speculation can not be proven if the shooters are dead. But the speculation had to come from investigations conducted after the shootings and from statement from people who knew the shooters. However I came across another bit of information from an article by a staff writer name Tia Ghose from Live science.com published December 19, 2012. Tia Ghose reported in his article a statement by Tony Frarrenkopf, a forensic psychologist in Portland, Ore., who has created psychological profiles of mass shooters. In this article Tony Farrenkopf stated that in the established profile of a shooter, " school shooter often harbor anger and paranoid delusions, have low self-esteem and hang out with an outcast group, and that they also tend to be obsessed with guns, and violent video games or movies.

Was the theory correct concerning video games and music being a major part of the motivation behind the Columbine Shootings.

Was the theory correct concerning video games and music being a major part of the motivation behind the Columbine Shootings.

Are video games providing motivation for school shooters.?

The effects of Facebook on literacy.

The effects of texting on literacy

The effects of the internet on literacy skills

Let's do it!

Proper evaluation of Internet content.

Television, video games are producing a definite decline in literacy among children, and adults.