Assignment:
Assignment: Students will write a position paper to convince teachers or school administrators to purchase a specific type of educational technology for a particular subject/grade level. Students will research the technology to provide evidence of its benefits for a particular instructional purpose, and why the benefits outweigh possible limitations. For example, students might select to advocate the use of cell phones to strengthen scientific inquiry in for middle school students or the use of podcasts to improve reading skills in elementary school.
Students will search the library databases and the free Web for four scholarly articles, including a quantitative research study, to be used as evidence in their position paper. In writing their position paper, students will both synthesize and critique the articles they use.
This is my position statement. My essay has to be a research paper based on this
My position: I am advocating for the use of social media tools in high school social studies classroom such as (edmodo, google+, facebook, twitter, TedED, Blogger, Youtube, etc) to increase historical thinking skills.
Essay Guidelines: It must include a title and some headers in your paper to divide up the topics in your essay. The paper should be at least three pages and up to five pages doublespaced. Be sure to cite sources within the text in APA style and include a reference list of sources cited at the end of your paper.