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Education Issue Position Paper

Link here to due dates and topics

Using searching strategies you have learned, research one of the topics listed under Education Issues at the end of each chapter in your textbook.  Use a word processor to write an essay (500 words) taking a position on this issue based on your research.  Include at least 3 references in a bibliography (APA style - refer to a style handbook, if you are unsure of APA style).  Save  a digital copy for your files.  Turn in a hard copy on the evening that it is due.

Briefly report to the class the topic of your paper, your position and why.  Put a one paragraph summary (précis) on WebCT in your topics discussion area before the night it is due.  To do this, go to the discussion area in WebCT and use Compose Discussion Message with the subject being the topic that you wrote about.  Paste your precis in the message area.

• Identify and define the issue
• Clearly state your position
• Give reasons and examples to support your position
• In your conclusion summarize keys points and explain what you think should be done
• Carefully edit for spelling, grammar and usage errors

 See Position Paper Rubric (353605 ) for more details: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/view_rubric.php3?id=353605
 

Present your paper to the class orally, very briefly on the evening that it is due.  Be prepared to answer questions and defend your position.  Your classmates will respond to your precis in WebCT.  Use of visual aides or electonic supplements is highly encouraged.

Resources for Position Papers
From Now On
Learning & Leading with Tech
Education World
WebZines
Citing Internet Resources

Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (added 2001/05/24) http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/

ED Office of Educational Technology (added 2001/05/24)  http://www.ed.gov/Technology/

Education Week - Independent K-12 education insight! (added 2001/05/24)  http://www.edweek.org/

U.S. Department of Education (ED) Home Page (added 2001/05/24)  http://www.ed.gov/

Education and Technology Teaching and Learning with Technology professional resources for education and technology. (added 2001/05/24) http://www.tlt.ab.ca/tltresources/educationandtech_new.html

Other articles of interest

Web-Based Learning: Much to Gain, and Many Barriers
Education Week, May 2002

The Internet and the Upper Elementary Classroom: Making a Difference?
From Now On, June 2002

Kids Snap Communities in Internet Project (K-1)
Education World, September 2001

Building Knowledge: One teacher's experience combining technology and constructivism
Electronic School, 2001

Students Find Their Voices Through Multimedia (digital divide)
Edutopia: The George Lucas Educational Foundation

The New P.E. Curriculum
Edutopia: The George Lucas Educational Foundation

Students Shunning Animal Dissection Ritual
Oct 2 2002 - CNN.com
More and more high school students are trying to opt out of dissection. The pressure to cut back on dissections is even being felt in college and graduate programs. "There were few suitable alternatives when I taught, but now there are some extremely sophisticated virtual technologies," said Wendell Mohling, a former biology teacher in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, who is associate executive director of the National Science Teachers Association. (You can read NSTA's position statement "Guidelines for Responsible Use of Animals in the Classroom" online.)