Annotated Bibliography
Bulger, S., & Watson, D. (2006). Broadening the definition of at-risk students. Community College Enterprise, 12(2), 23-32. Community colleges support at risk students. Those that have issues in reading, writing, and technology. Authors do a review of literature on the topic of at risk students to see if technology will help them excel in writing and reading. Researchers included many factors that needed to be considered before making a decision about the benefits of using technology with at-risk students. The data can be used in either a qualitative or quantitative study in the future.
Castek, J., Hartman, D. J., Leu, D. J., Coiro, J., Henry, L. A., & Zawilinski, L. (2007). Thinking about our future as researchers:
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This paper goes in detail about the challenges that are ahead and different opportunities that will help navigate through the issues. The article ends by giving several steps that will help prepare students for the new literacies in the future. The authors give suggestions on how educators can use technology to help enhance writing skills among students.
Dixon, F., Cassady, J., Cross, T., & Williams, D. (2005). Effects of technology on critical thinking and essay writing among gifted adolescents. Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 16(4), 180-189.
This study compared critical thinking into two writing samples from gifted students. The first writing sample was given in the beginning of their 11th and 12th grade year. The first writing sample was handwritten and the second essay was completed on the computer. Students was randomly picked for the second essay. Gender-specific results were given at the end of the study. Boys used more tools to help them with their writing. The computer is correcting most of the writing for students. Girls performed the same on both essays. Data shows that computers have a remediating effect on males.
Edwards-Groves, C. J. (2011). The multimodal writing process: changing practices in contemporary classrooms. Language & Education: An International Journal, 25(1), 49-64.