User:We Th Spring 2008

Hello World!! My name is Theresa

Rainbows End....Or Maybe Beginning

Objective I propose to create a wikipedia page dedicated to the ideas shown in rainbows end. I plan on showing how the ease of the internet at your fingertips will change the way we know education.

Interest This is interesting because this is something that touches everyone practically. We have all participated in the same type of test taking, research paper writing society for as long as we can remember. However, with Rainbows end in mind the way we learn things now will seem like ancient times to our children. This to makes teaching much more difficult because teachers and professors alike will be constantly challenged to come up with more creative assignments to test a students knowledge on a topic.

Background reading I will use Rainbows End to obtain my ideas and also read articles on wikipedia and google scholar to try and find research showing how not only the internet, but cell phones, text messaging, and pictures are changing the way tests are administered and how teachers are trying to relly less on internet related subjects in there projects and more on a students creativity.

General Plan: My general plan is to find certain passages from rainbows end showing how the internet is so readily at their finger tips and how teachers must go to great lengths in establishing assignments which still test a childs knowledge. I am hoping that with these examples and back up information found on wikipedia and google I will be able to show how technology is slowly taking over the educational world creating an unfair advantage for the more "technically savy" students making teachers go to great lengths in creating a fair playing field.

Collaborators I will be working alone