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Article Evaluation
The article that I have read talks about the aspects of technology education which covers the topics of technology in classrooms and learning abilities. Throughout the article, the information stayed consistent talking about technology in classrooms and giving examples of each. There was nothing that distracted me only occasionally when I was reading the article and it went off on a tangent about technology and the history, not so much pertaining to the classroom technology. Nothing is out of date, however at the top of the article it states that more citations are needed to verify this source. I think that the authors could go a little more in depth with the surveys and studies that were taken from the teachers in the school systems.

The tone of the article is very modest and very neutral. There are no notions that the author is stating a biased opinion towards the article and they are only stating the facts of computer technology and only the facts.

The links work and bring you to the credible sources of where they say they are from. All of the sources support the claim of the article. All of these sources are credible and link you to the appropriate page where the author found the neutral information.

On the talk page, there are about three discussions; one agreeing with the points touched on, one strongly disagreeing but not really backing up their point of why, and another one that agrees with the article. Wikipedia mentions that the article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. The talks seemed pretty appropriate in the way that they went about discussing their viewpoints.

Article Selection
I have found a new source titled "Computers in the classroom." The content of the article relates directly to the context that is inscribed within the text. There are given facts and sources from where that information was found and there are reliable direct links to redirect you to other topics within this article. I would say that mostly overall, the article has a neutral view of standpoint however, it only talks about the good that technology has brought to the classroom, and barely touches on the idea of negative computer uses in the classroom. Every clam does have a citation however, they are spaced apart very far and I am unsure if there is more information that needs to be cited more frequently. Some of the citations are reliable but there are about half of the sources that are cited, but there is no link bringing you to the correct original source. The writer took notice to his citation flaws and will fix them ASAP as soon as he figures out how to use the citation templates.

I chose the first reference in the reference list because it was a very reliable source that led to many good incites on the topic of computers in the classroom. The source claimed that computers were oversold and underused which means that the demand is high however, the uses of them is low.

Article Edits
Ineffective Use (18)

A survey collected data from 306 in-service teachers from eight secondary schools. One concept that was found in the research was that for the individual category, which included personal skills and feelings, saw that anxiety and computer self-efficiency had an impact on the teachers ability to teach. Through different organizational skill sets, technology could either be stressful and negative or reinforcing and positive for teachers.

Applications (14)

In fact, research was conducted to see how technology could help the visually impaired in the classroom. It showed that the visually impaired students found technology is better for them, compared to the regular paper. This demonstrated that they can learn for themselves in a classroom. In this case, the iPad2, helped increase the reading speed of those visually impaired compared to the large printed text on paper.

Applications 3rd paragraph (14)

For example, "Teaching with Technology" is an annual survey that asks teachers about technology in the classroom. Survey findings found it was found that 38.37% of teachers said that technology has had an extremely positive impact on education and 36.63% said that technology has mostly had a positive impact on education.