Computer Science Article

Assignment #4

Final Assignment

CS 340 W Online Summer Term 2014

July 21, 2014 - August 15, 2014

Good Afternoon,

The course focus will be to study current applications of technology and how those current or future uses might effect society. You will be receiving emails describing the topics with some initial readings (internet sources). You will normally create a 4—5 page paper for each topic (with 4 or more references), unless directed to provide a longer or shorter paper for a particular assignment.

Your final assignment topic is to write an informative paper (4—5 pages of text with 4 or more references) and describe the following:

“Social Issues: The Effects of Computers on Children”

· Your paper content should be approximately 30% on the history,

· 30% about current use of technology,

· and then the remaining 40% of your paper

should be focused on the topic The Effects of Computers on Children, incorporate ideas from the “Digital Divide”

Here are some starting resources (they cannot be counted as references for your paper):

http://wikieducator.org/User:Vtaylor/CIS2/Fall_2009/Group_4#Social_Issues:_The_Effects_of_Computers_on_Children

http://futureofchildren.org/publications/journals/article/index.xml?journalid=45&articleid=201&sectionid=1308&submit

http://investigations.terc.edu/library/bookpapers/effective_use.cfm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide

A Starting Location:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=digital+divide&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=n8jkU_OiB9DsoATByYLAAw&sqi=2&ved=0CBsQgQMwAA

The informative paper will be due Friday, August 15, 2014 by 5:00 pm.

Please submit this paper and all the future papers through your WOU email account as an attachment either in a .doc or .docx format. Do not send as text in the body of the email.

Also now that the writing is very well-defined there is also a second paper which will be due. This will be an opinion piece that is slightly shorter, a 2—3 page paper on this same topic (with 2 or more new references).

The second paper, the opinion piece will just focus on only the positive or only on the negative aspect (not both).

In this paper you will address only the predictions about the future of “The Effects of Computers on Children” ;

· Do you believe these predictions are true (why or why not).

· Do you believe this use of technology will be either harmful or beneficial and why.

This opinion paper will be due on Friday, August 15, 2014 by 5:00 pm.