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Yolonda Alston
Eng101
Professor Alicia Bolton
18 July 2012
Annotated Bibliography: Technology of the Youth over the Older Generation
Technology has a big impact on today’s education. There are different types of technology that
kids can use. Kids are more willing to accept change and use it to their advantage. In Amy Goldwasser’s
article”What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” argues that the internet has a more positive effect on
today’s youth in respond to the older generation’s blame that the internet is responsible for the decline
in kids actually reading literature. Kids today read and write on their own free will via social networks,
blogs, etc. Social networking is the number one way to get kids to stay focused in school because that is
how they communicate in today’s world. Kids are more willing to accept change and use it to their
advantage. Technology has a big influence on today’s youth life than the older generation gives it credit
for.
Integrating Media into the Classroom: Theory and Research. “What Media Can Do For My Students?”
Films Media Group, 2005. Films onDemand. Web. 15 July 2012.
<http://digitalfilms.com/PortalPlaylist.aspx?aid=3503&xtid=34583>.
In “What Media Can Do for My Students” from: Integrating Media into the Classroom: Theory
and Research, we learn that youth will understand and participate more with multi-media. Like for
instance, John Condon, the science teacher at Skyridge Middle school thinks that “ the youth will do
better in school, better test scores and performance, and captive their attention and focus more in class
with the entertainment of multi-media.”It also focus on how bring experiences to the classroom help
give a better perspective with the visual aid. Another example is when Becky Kozak the student from
Celebration high school in Florida says that “ when the teacher describe that the jellyfish is a purple dot

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in the water it doesn’t mean anything but, when she show the actual picture it gives a better
understanding of the jellyfish.”
This film gives an excellent view of how today technology is actually helping the youth learn in
school. Multi-media illustrate experiments that are impossible to do in classroom. Sharon Porter who is
an electronic resources specialist at Eastern Oregon Universitythinks“that youth are more connected to
multi-media than the boring lectures.” She also says that youth who are not school like found that learn
is better by auto visual. The film gives great on how visual learning can help kids stay focus and
understand better.
This source will help my research paper by explaining why multi-media is actually useful to the
youth. It shows how multi-media catch their attention and participating in classroom during lecture
time. It will also explain why the teachers should include it in the lesson plan.
Integrating Media intothe Classroom: Theory and Research. “Future of Media in the Classroom.” Films
Media Group, 2005. Films on Demand. Web. 15 July 2012.
<http://digitalfilms.com/PortalPlaylist.aspx?aid=3503&xtid=34583>.
In “Future of Media in the Classroom” from Integrating Media into the Classroom: Theory and
Research, we learn that Technology is at our fingertips. Technology is taking over the world. It is a
wonderful experiment in the classroom for the students. If all the teachers can learn how to get adapt to
using technology it would help with the kid’s attention and learning styles in schools.
Technology provides us with unlimited access to information and communication. John Condon,
a science teacher who teach at Skyridge middle school think that schools should have “more interaction
between media sources such as websites, DVD players, and digital / streaming sites. He would also like
to have “sound activated environments to do commands in the classroom while he lectures”. This will
make the youth really enjoy school lesson and come to school ready to learn.

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This film will help by showing how technology is going to help in the future. How it will be a
great way to help the youth succeed in education and teachers. Also, how the youth can get their
assignment off the websites and watch DVD to get a better perspective of the lecture.
Paulson, Amanda. “Schools Weigh Risk and Benefits of Facebook.” Christian Science Monitor 27 Sept.
2011: n.pag. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 15 July 2012.
This essay argues about how digital media in class should be banned. Mr. Collins, who teaches at
Missouri’s Clayton High School, not long ago that he was” among many teachers and students who
opposed a recent attempt by the Missouri legislation to ban most interactions between teachers and
students over social media forums like Facebook”(par. 2). Instead of fighting to ban digital media we
should find a way to use it in a learning way that will catch the youth attention.
This essay shows how to use the social media in education properly. “We need to have some
sort of rules and guidelines for the use of social media… but the goal should be to educate our students
on what it means to participate in the world in which they live, “rather than simply banning certain
sites,’ says Williams Stites, technology director at Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey and
blogger in chief at Ed Social Media, which explores the role of social media in education(par. 4). It also
show how the principal find a way to fit social media in schools because technology is the way of
communicating with the youth of today society.
This source will help with my counterarguments. It will discuss how not to banned social media
from education. That social media is the best way to communicate with the youth. Social media is one of
the important aspects of technology that will help with better education skills.
Prensky, Mare. “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.”The Digital Divide.Ed. Mark Bauertein. New York:
Penguin, 2011. 3-11 Print.

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Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants defines digital natives which aretoday’s student who uses
technology, and digital immigrants are the teachers who are trying to adapt to technology. Digital
immigrants believe that learning should be the old fashion way by using textbooks and by telling
lectures. Digital natives think it would be fun to use technology in school, which would be more
interesting than boring lectures.
What Digital Immigrants and Natives are trying to do is teach both legacy and future content
(Prensky 8). “Legacy” content includes reading, writing, arithmetic, logical thinking, understanding the
writings and ideas of the past, etc., all of our “traditional” curriculum ( Prensky 8). The digital immigrants
think instead of using technology all the time. Let the students do some logical thinking so, they can
understand what is going on in their writing, reading and math. “Future” context is to a large extent, not
surprisingly, digital and technological ( Prensky8). Future context would help with their history and
English class to do future research.
The source will help with my paper by showing the definition of new technology and tradition.
Technology show how the students can use software to help with assignments. Also, traditional can help
with logical thinking.
Springer, Marilee. Brain – Base Teaching: In the Digital Age. Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development, 2012. EBook Collection (EBSCOHost). Web. 14 July 2012.
Marilee Springer basely talks about the different type of technology styles in education. She also
talks about how the school have to get adapt to the digital learning instead of the traditional way which
is boring lectures and textbooks. The book always focuses on how the youth of today brain is set for
digital learning and communication.
The book is not really helping with my source to much but, it has a few ideas that related to my
topic. Like for instance, “ Computer games, cell phones, blogs, and web sites certainly provide visual
information but many provide interactive link, verbal communicate, and the opportunity to move

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around as you please while using these learning and communicate tools” ( Prensky 7). Mostly youth
learn better by visual because it is more engaging and interesting. Another example is “ The kind of
demands our students will face in the 21 century require that we provide many different kinds of
learning environments” ( Spenger 43). The different kinds of learning environments is social networking
and internet that is the two aspect that seem important to the youth.
The source will help with explaining of the learning environment. It doesn’t really express that
much about technology in education only on how it deal with the brain. It talks a little bit about how to
with the digital world.
Toppo, Greg. “Making Students Literature in the Digital Age.” USA TODAY 25 July 2011: A.2.SIRS
ISSUESResearcher. Web. 25 June 2012.
The essay “Making Students Literate in the Digital Age” talks about how the principal of New
Milford High School in New Jersey let the students use digital media in school to help with education. In
Toppo’s essay, he maintains that “the internet as we know it is the 21st century; and, it is what these
students have known their whole lives.” They’re connected, they’re creating, they’re discussing, they’re
collaborating” ( Toppo 1).
This essay is trustworthy because it shows how social media does work in education. For
example, in class teachers routinely ask kids to power up their cell phones to respond to classroom polls
and quizzes. This is a great idea to get students attention and to participate in the classroom. According
to Karen Cator, the U.S. Department of Education’s director of educational technology says “the internet
is not going away, and we need to do everything we can to make it safe and wonderful place for
children.” Basically, Karen Cator is saying stop bad talking the internet, and see how the internet is
making a good impact on the youth’s education.

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This essay will be helpful in my research paper by explaining how social media helps in
education. It will also help explain how the internet is a good source of information. The internet is also
great aspect of learning with all the research they can do.

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Works Cited
Integrating Media into the Classroom: Theory and Research. “What Media Can Do For My Students?”
Films Media Group, 2005. Films onDemand. web. 15 July 2012.
http://digitalfilms.com/PortalPlaylist.aspx?aid=3503&xtid=34583
Integrating Media into the Classroom: Theory and Research. “Future of Media in the Classroom.” Films
Media Group, 2005. Films on Demand. Web. 15 July 2012.
http://digitalfilms.com/PortalPlaylist.aspx?aid=3503&xtid=34583.
Paulson, Amanda. “Schools Weigh Risk and Benefits of Facebook.” Christian Science Monitor 27 Sept
2011: N.Pag. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 15 July 2012.
Prensky, Mare. “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.” The Digital Divide. Ed. Mark Bauertein. New York:
Penguin, 2011. 3-11. Print.
Springer, Marilee. Brain – Base Teaching: In the Digital Age. Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development, 2012. EBook Collection (EBSCO Host). Web. 14 July 2012.
Toppo, Greg. “Making Students Literature in the Digital Age.” USA TODAY 25 July 2011: A.2.SIRS ISSUES
Researcher. Web. 25 June 2012.

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