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Ben Johnson: Administration For Edutopia

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Ben Johnson is an educator who mostly writes for students’ learning strategy and the use of technology tools. Also, he is the administration for Edutopia. Edutopia is a nonprofit organization website started in 1991 by the George Lucas Educational Foundation. This source provides the actuality of cell phones in the classroom and the way to regulate it so that students won’t be distracted. It is the significant example of the rebuttal for my counterclaim, which proves that the distraction won’t be a problem after the regulation. Since it is published in 2015, the source is relevant to my essay topic.
EdTechReview.com is the website created for teachers, students and parents to make more right decisions of technology application in the education. Almost all of the resources published in this website contain the information of digital learning. This resource introduces the purpose, the method, and the feedback of an educational game: Play Brighter. It is accurate and unbiased because this is a report of how this game works by the invention team. It is a good addition to my research because this game is relevant to my first argument that students engage more by educational games. …show more content…

Tom was interested in the field of education and technology since he was a student. TomMarch.com is his creation that helps for better application of digital learning, and this source provides support for my argument. There are 13 advantages of digital learning mentioned in this article, I use the one named “100% classroom participation” in my essay. It is written in 2012 and maybe there is a bias because in the introduction of the article the author writes “please comment anything I’ve missed”. But still, this source acknowledges that digital learning is a better educational way with 13

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