I was looking at possibly doing my paper on Virtual Learning Environments: How technology and virtual environments are impacting our newest generation's learning styles.
Specifically, I want to look at the positive and negative aspects of these learning environments and how they are shaping the way that our kids learn. In the arugment I want to look at how virtual environments are being used in games to help kids learn, the social isolation aspect of these environments, and to what extent these environments have "expanded" or "retarded" learning capacities.
I chose to do this area of research because I have children of my own and want to understand more of "how they learn" and what is changing in their learning environments, specifically virtual ones.
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First and foremost, you have set up a report (anything that starts with "I want to look at" is a report, not an argument), so that will have to be addressed.
ReplyDeleteYou are already making assumptions that must be dealt with, for instance that virtual environments are anti-social, so that is something to watch for. Since you will not be able to prove or disprove anything that is a binary or is a "what if", and you aren't to do a report (e.g. "here's what I found, the end"), seize one very specific thing, link it to something else, and argue for the validity of the observation you are making.
Your proposal should have included what you plan to do (including which general topics from the course that you are going to link together) -- this means details and some depth -- what you plan to argue (this could include the argument or the research question in advance of the argument, with an hypothesis of the argument you potentially foresee), and how you plan to support the argument (which theories do you see yourself using on either side of your argument, etc).
All of those elements should be present in blog #9, yet with even more depth than I expected for blog #8, since you will have annotated sources and know how you will be using them in your argument.