User:D eunoia/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Social Media in Education

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this Article because Social Media has drastically became a normal thing for children (Generation Z/Generation Alpha) to use, in next few years it will be apart of every school. This information is important for the future to come and the information has to be correct. When I first viewed the page, I thought it was very short compared to how I would've thought.

Lead Section:
The article has some good information but you can easily tell that it needs more in-depth information about how social media is within our schools and incorporates in our education in each level (Elementary, Junior High, High School and College Levels). The introductory sentence goes straight to the point, however, it does not give as much information as it should. It should tell us more on how it came about to put social media ( or any internet related) in the schools, who allows it? The lead fails to give us bits of information from any of the sections below, which is not okay if we just want a quick overview of the article we read. The lead should have more information, very short and lack fundamental information.

Content:
Most of the content is relevant to the article, However, there were some things within these sections that were not really explained or needed to be in the article at all. For example, from the section, Student Devices, it is stated "Study from Maqableh, Quteshat, Masadeh and Huda Karajeh in 2015 did not provide any negative impact of social media on students but focused on the ignorance of academics due to spending a lot of time on social media." I wouldn't have a sentence about this specifically unless there's more information on it. There should be a section about the ignorance due to spending a lot of time on social media, which is a negative impact. Also, in the apps and services, this section needs more information about companies that create education apps/section like Apple education, Microsoft free applications for students, etc,. Overall, the content looks neutral; does not indicate biased.

Tone & Balance:
The article is in a neutral tone. I feel that in the section, Student Devices, the e-learning platform topic was under represented. They only stated that it was effective to students but not how or even what it was specifically.The social media concept is being depicted throughout the article which is good. The article does not attempt to persuade readers to either side, however, this day and age social media is apart of the educational dynamic we know of now.

Sources & References:
Majority of the information has reliable secondary sources, some are articles that are from years ago that I believe cam from a biased source. I think that the ones that have older sources (articles from the 2000-2010) could be updated. Because it lacks information about the specific apps and social media being used for education, I would say that it is not thorough as well and needs more information from new sources. The links that are on the article work and are easy to access.

Organizing & Writing Quality:
The article can be read easily however, it is not concise enough. This is an article that looks "ongoing" as it does not have enough information for the reader to understand everything about social media within education. The article has certain areas that have wordy sentences and grammatical errors.The article has good sections, but it need more information. In addition, the article needs more sections as well as this is an article that will need to be updated periodically as technology is dynamic.

Images & Media:
The article does not have photos. The photos that could be added is: The generations in years, pictures of technology children use for school, graphs that show the increase of technology in schools.

Talk Page Discussion:
There is not much conversation within the talk page, there are only two people; first was just giving their opinion on how the article is and the second just asked about creating a section about teachers using social media within education. The article is of interest to Wikiprojsects but I feel it needs more information to have a big impact on readers. We have not spoken much about this specific topic in class, however, we are currently on social media within our education daily.

Overall Impression:
Everything within the article is relevant and there is good information. Every section looks neutral and has no bias input, however, the sections need to be expanded on. I do feel that the article is underdeveloped and is missing many topics that should be covered. There is some unfinished areas within the sections that should be expanded on and images are needed. The article is clear and very easy to read. It is shown as low-importance in the scale and is apart of five WikiProjects (computing, culture, sociology, education, media) as of now. Sources within the article were up to date and reliable, yet it is possible some information needs to be update as some thing may have changed since the start of the article.