Assignment 3: Annotated Bibliography

Completion requirements

To do: Make a submission To do: Receive a grade

Important

It is recommended that you do not begin Assignment 3 until you have received your graded Assignment 2 from the Open Learning Faculty Member.

Overview

In this assignment, you will complete an annotated bibliography with six sources. Your bibliography will include two articles from the reading list in this course. In addition, the bibliography will include at least four new sources that you will find for this assignment.

The readings included in the course are considered seminal works on the topics. Such articles are often older but show the history of the issues and how they were originally handled in academic publications. The newer works, the ones you find in your own research for this assignment, can show a fulfilment of or a contrast to the predictions and directions of the early articles.

Here are the articles on our course reading list:

• Bennett, S., Maton, K., & Kervin, L. (2008).The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence. British Journal of Educational Technology, 39(5), 775-786. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00793.x
• Bullen, M., Morgan, T., & Qayyum, A. (2011). Digital learners in higher education: Generation is not the issue. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 37(1), 1-24. doi.org/10.21432/T2NC7B
• Gordon, C., Juang, L., & Syed, M. (2007). Internet use and well-being among college students: Beyond frequency of use. Journal of College Student Development, 48(6), 674-688. doi: 10.1353/csd.2007.0065
• Jones, C. & Healing, G. (2010). Net generation students: Agency and choice and the new technologies. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 26, 344-356. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00370.x
• Junco, R., & Cotten, S. (2011). Perceived academic effects of instant messaging use. Computers & Education, 56, 370-378. doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.08.020
• Margaryan, A., Littlejohn, A., & Vojt, G. (2011). Are digital natives a myth or reality? University students’ use of digital technologies. Computers & Education, 56, 429-440. doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.09.004
• Turkle, S. (1999). Looking toward cyberspace: Beyond grounded sociology. Contemporary Sociology, 28(6), 643-648. doi: 206.123.160.232

Reminder: Before submitting your assignment, please be sure you are familiar with the “Academic Integrity” section in the Course Guide.

Topic

The general topic for this assignment is “the impact of digital technology.” You will need to significantly narrow down the topic to a specific focus that interests you. For example, you can explore the impact of digital technology on education, on political participation, on interpersonal communication, and on business strategies. You could also focus on the impact of digital media on different aspects of our wellbeing, i.e., social, psychological, physical, occupational, etc.

Instructions

Conduct research into your chosen topic. Avoid reiterating arguments made in the course articles, which you examined in Assignments 1 and 2. Instead, consider how you can extend and update the discussion as you explore a current issue. Develop a well-focused research question, and produce an annotated bibliography using the Outline Template provided below as a guide.

Note

You do not have to submit your Outline Template. Later, in Assignment 4, you will write a research paper using this research material. The quality of your work now will affect your final essay in that assignment.

Your annotated bibliography should include a range of arguments and discussions on your topic. Select your sources from scholarly backgrounds and a variety of perspectives. You will begin with the two articles that you selected from the course reading list. To these, you must add four new sources. Your four new sources must be recent, ideally published within the last five years.

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