Write a brief paper to answer the following questions. The paper should be typed and double-spaced and conform to basic rules of APA style. Be sure that the paper is double-spaced, with 1 inch margins, in a 12 point font, and with numbered pages. Each answer should be approximately 2-4 pages long. Under no circumstances should the entire paper be fewer than 5 pages or greater than 10 pages (page counts do not include your title page or an optional page dedicated to references). As you write your answers to these questions, keep in mind the length guidelines. Each question could be answered in a brief paragraph or an entire 30-page paper. Neither is acceptable. Think deeply about what Burbules and Callister have said and reflect on it in an intelligent way.
1. Describe how access and credibility issues impact you personally.
What access and credibility issues do you face on the Internet and what
access and credibility issues do you not face? Be sure to give specific
examples from sites you do and do not visit and communities in which
you do and do not participate.
2. How is privacy defined, explicitly or implictly, at your school (or if you are not at a school, a school you attended recently or are familiar with)? What issues of privacy do students and teachers face that could be different? How might they be different? Describe how the differences might be better or worse.
3. The authors put forth the idea that costs and benefits of new
technologies cannot easily be weighed against one another as they argue
for a "post-technocratic" view of technology. What do they mean by
this? Do you agree? Why or why not?
This page was prepared by Dr. David M. Marcovitz.
Last Updated: November 1, 2011