Part 1 - What are some of the educational claims of popular tablets, laptops, and mobile devices? Do you believe that these claims are valid? Can such devices increase accuracy and speed of research projects? What advantages and disadvantages do you see in online research? How might you plan a research project to find the best and most reliable academic resources for a project? How do your approaches differ from those of your classmates?
Part 2 - Locate an advertisement or commercial that implies research study results. Describe the claims made, and discuss how differences in sampling of the population might create biased results. Discuss what could account for the bias results.