I am not sure of all that I will write. I haven’t finished yet. I am a former psychology major, so a reflection paper is something of a personal thing to me. I have never before achieved a 15 page reflection paper, let alone one that involves theories and other students opinions. So this will be my first time, and hopefully my last. Long papers are not my favorite thing, it is one of the reasons pursuing a doctoral degree holds so little interest for me. The other reason is that I do not ever want to be called "Dr. Laura".
1. Introduction/Thesis
a. What is Service Learning
b. What is Digital Citizenship
i. Theories
ii. Digital Divide
2. My interactions
a. Work
b. Margaret Grundy Library
3. Web 2.0
a. Effects on Libraries
b. Effects on Citizenship
4. Conclusion/ Lesson’s Learned
Bibliography (Not complete, still working on)
Halahoan, C. (2007, November 14). Hip-Hopping the Digital Divide. Buisness Week Online, Retrieved November 20, 2007, from Academic Search Elite database.
Dervarics, C. (2007, October 18). High-tech Help on the Way. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 24(18), 14-15. Retrieved November 20, 2007, from Academic Search Elite database.
Nicholson, P. (2007, March 9). The Intellectual in the Infosphere. Chronicle of Higher Education, 53(7), B6-B7.
Galuszka, P. (2007, March 8). Digging Out of the Digital Divide. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, 24(2), 20-22.
Metcalf, D. (2007, February). Reducing the Digital Divide. American Libraries, 38(2), 29-29.
Lewis, A. (2007, January). Digital Divides the Poor. Education Digest, 72(5), 71-72. Retrieved November 20, 2007.
Swaminathan, N. (2005, November). The Making of a Good Samaritan. Psychology Today, 38(6), 33-33.
Brescia, W., & Daily, T. (2007, Winter). Economic Development and Technology-Skill Needs on American Indian Reservations. American Indian Quarterly, 31(1), 23-43. Retrieved on November 20, 2007, from Academic Search Elite database.
3 comments:
Hi Laura-
Your reference to Dr. Laura cracked me up as I just finished reading Jennifer Neilson's Practically Perfect where she takes all pop psychologists advice and applies it to her life as an experiment!
Anyway, the outline and bib look good but I can't really tell what questions you are seeking to answer.
Kate
Laura I completely agree with your comment about the required length of a "reflection" paper. I understood a reflection paper to be something that is soley my thoughts on a topic. This seems more like a hybrid between a reflection paper and a research paper. Either way, I think the outline you have so far is a great start, if not all that fleshed-out at the moment.
I share Kate's concern that your approach so far is not geared to answering a specific question or adding new approaches and insights to a particular debate or set of issues. Rather, it seems more oriented to criticizing the assignment. Professors in fact do get to choose assignments; this is a fact of life in universities. Writing and research is as useful to Masters students as it is to any other student, from elementary education to PhD studies. Instead of emphasizing your resistance to the assignment, I advise you to formulate a serious approach. If you want to write a personal diary entry, that is appropriate for your blog. If you want to get a good grade on a term paper at a top-10 MLIS program, be prepared to do some serious work. Please reference the rubric online for guidelines:
http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu/doc/Rubrics/DC/ReflectionPaperRubric.pdf
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