User:Hjohnson19/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Digital media in education

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article to edit because I have a lot of interest in the subject of how digital media and education come together. After reading through it, I could definitely see some areas where I could add details and important information. I also chose this article because in the world that we live in, digital media has taken over education. Digital media has been in the classroom for years and it will be the future of education. From projectors to laptops to tablets, there is always going to be a form of digital media in classrooms. My first impression of this article was that it was pretty short for how important the topic is. It only has 5 headers and not that much information under them. The organization of it wasn't that bad, but it could definitely use some tweaking. Lastly, there could be more benefits and opportunities from digital media in education.

Evaluate the article
Lead section

The lead section of this article does include a concise and clear introductory sentence that describes the article’s topic. The lead does not include a brief description of the major sections of the article. The lead section does not have any information that is not included in the article. The lead section for this article is very concise and includes all the important information needed to get an overview of the topic.

Content

Throughout the article, all of the information is relevant to the topic of digital media in education. All of the content is up-to-date, but there is some content that is missing. Under the subheading “opportunity through digital media”, there could be more opportunities that digital media has created throughout the years. So far, there is not that many there and it is not very detailed. Also, there is not that much information under that heading compared to the rest of them. Another part where there could be more information added is under the “Covid-19’s Impact on Education” subheading. Because we are still in the pandemic, there are a lot of new articles coming out about how digital media has impacted education a lot throughout this time. I could add more information relating to the different impacts specifically. Lastly, under the history section, I could maybe add a “digital media throughout the years” section where I show the different digital media that were used in classrooms from year to year. This article does not deal with an equity gap. This article does address topics that are up to date and does not underrepresent populations or topics.

Tone and Balance

This article is very neutral. It does not talk in a way where it agrees or disagrees with the subject of digital media in education. There are no claims that appear heavily biased toward one side or another. Under each heading, each one represents it equally and non-biased. The article does not attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position. This article talks about how digital media in education is used and the different aspects of it.

Sources and References

When reading through the article, all of the facts and studies that were talked about were back up by relevant sources. The only section that did not have that many sources was the “Benefits and Implication of Digital Media in Education”. This section only has one source that backs up the statements that were said. Most of the sources listed are from the past 10 years except a couple of them. One of the sources are from 2000, one is from 2006, and one is from 2007. All of the sources are written by a diverse spectrum of authors. There are no sources that are websites and news coverages. About half of the sources have links to access the pages, but the ones that do work are all academic sources. Although they are, there needs to be more than 13 sources for this article.

Organization and writing quality

This article is well written because it is easy to read and concise. After reading it, I have seen a couple grammatical errors in the article. They are not major, but they should be fixed even though it does not affect the understanding of the topic. This article is kind of organized well, but it could be better. I would prefer that the section about COVID would be either on top or right below the opportunities section. I think this because COVID has brought digital media in education to a whole different level.

Images and Media

This article only includes 3 different images. They all have general captions that explain what they are. The images in the different sections do enhance the understanding of the topic, but I feel like there could be better ones. Especially under the COVID and surveillance sections, there could be images to help the reader understand more about the subject. They all adhere to the copyright regulations, but they are out of date. They are not laid out in an appealing way.

Talk page discussion

Under the talk page, there is only one comment and it is about the opening sentence. It is related to that some of the wording in the opening sentence is too broad and that they need to be more specific. It also shows that this article was the subject of 5 past students from 2019 to 2020. On the main page of the article, it shows a couple issues about it. Some of them are that it is written like a personal essay and that it needs cleanup to meet Wikipedia’s quality standards. Wikipedia talks about this subject the same way as we talked about it in class.

Overall impressions

The article’s overall status is in the middle. There are many positives about it, but there are also some downsides. Like I mentioned earlier in the evaluation, there are some sections that need more information in them and some sections that need to be reorganized. The article can be improved by making sure each section gets the equal amount of information as the others. I would assess the articles completeness as underdeveloped. It is not poorly developed, but it is not perfect. There is definitely work to do and information to add to make this article complete.