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Article Evaluation
== "Classroom Climate" - This article gives a brief but clear explanation on how the climate in the classroom is an important if not the most important part of our education system. The article goes on to explain how it is up to the teachers and educators to start making lessons and general topics more interactive and less of a chore. It also goes on to say how Education needs to become less of that chore mindset and more of the enjoyable experience because it will help engage the student into the lesson and pay better attention and have importance and interest to it. There is little information said in this article however with few sources simply because there hasn't been a lot of work done to this article and I believe there could and should be more added. In this article as well towards the end it goes on to say how the teacher needs to observe the students life and things that could be going on within their home and take this all into account, because a teacher who connects and understands their students provides a better education and creates that enjoyable experience which education should be. - There does not seem to be any bias or influence into this article as there are sources from multiple origins such as one from Indiana University and another from Cornell University and as well Stockholm University. The Stockholm University author is in the department of special education and touches on how that social interaction is a crucial part of the curriculum and goes on to say how the focus has been shifted from the human emotion to who can get the highest grades. However, with this article it is fair to say that this is simply an opinion and not fact as there is no research brought up or sources cited proving these statements which is unfortunate as any evidence to back it up would be interesting to read. - When looking at the talk page, there is no conversation about this article and there is no rating for this article. However, this article is apart of the Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. From this article there is no real talk about it and this topic was brought up in class during the miller readings and how the social aspect of a classroom is and can be the most vital part of the education system especially in todays world with modern technology everybody tends to be in their own world and has little interaction with each other. ==

Article Contributions
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 * 1) For my first contribution I am going to add a section into the article about the use of Technology taking away from the social aspect and changing the climate in the classroom. My addition is going to be as follows "Without a classroom where students can form friendships and relationships with their peers, they may not learn the same social cues as regular students. Without any real face-to-face time with their teacher, they may take the classes less seriously."
 * 2) My second contribution is going to be adding a statement from one of my sources saying "Oral Presentations and group collaborations, students will learn to be dynamic in how they learn and interact with others."
 * 3) My last contribution is going to be adding in a sentence to this article regarding how the increased use of technology can lead to the replacement of teachers which would completely remove any social aspect of a classroom climate as the students would be learning from a robot or a machine and would not have that teacher student connection that is essential. My source for this statement is coming from this article. http://www.edudemic.com/technology-pros-cons./  ==