Ryan Irwin

Assignment 1 Information Literacy

1.
a) The key words I used while conducting my search are mobile technology.
b) I used the education source database and also the
c) I chose this database because it is a very reliable resource that the college provides to all
students and should be taken advantage of.
d) MOCOFAN, Mugura, and Daiana HUBER. "TRAINING TEACHERS TO USE
MOBILE (HAND HELD) TECHNOLOGIES WITHIN MAINSTREAM SCHOOL
EDUCATION IN ROMANIA." ELearning & Software for Education; 2015, Issue 1,
P245-248, 4p, 24 Apr. 2015. Web. 20 Sept. 2015. (MLA FORMAT)
e) CATELLY, Yolanda-Mirela. "ENGINEERING STUDENTS' MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
PREFERENCES TOWARDS ECLECTICISM IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE
TEACHING." ELearning & Software for Education; 2015, Issue 2, P113-120, 8p, 23 Apr.
2015. Web. 20 Sept. 2015. (MLA FORMAT)

f)

2.
a) In the article I picked it talks about how teachers should use more mobile friendly apps
to teach in the classroom to adapt to the students. The article states that in the recent 5

years that just passed that students have become more and more dependent on their
mobile devices such as cell phones, tablets, kindles or e-readers. The author of the article
states he believes that with some sort of app that students could use in and out of the
classroom that students would become more interactive with their school work.
b) Fuhrman08, Toni. "Why We Should Build Classes Around Mobile Tech -- Campus
Technology." Why We Should Build Classes Around Mobile Tech -- Campus Technology.
N.p., 08 Sept. 2015. Web. 20 Sept. 2015.
3.
a) My key terms I used are technology in the classroom
b) VANSHUR, Ryan. "Technology in the Classroom: Distraction or Opportunity? CourseKey." CourseKey. HIGHER ED, 02 Sept. 2015. Web. 20 Sept. 2015.
c) The two search engines I used as bing and yahoo.
d)
Yahoo
Yahoo came up with multiple good articles that

Bing
Bing showed some good articles and also some

directly related to mobile technology in the

articles that had absolutely nothing to do with

classroom and added good insight into why it

the topic at all. In my opinion for bing to be

should be added and when it could possibly be

used I would have had to really narrow the

added. Found upwards of 10 plus articles

results down unlike yahoo. Found less than 5

directly realted.

articles related to the topic.

4.
a) It was written on 9/8/15 and hasnt been updated since.
b) Yes it directly relates to my topic about how mobile technology should be installed into
classroom use to get students more interactive.

c) The author is Toni Fuhrman I think she is qualified to write about this topic because I ran
a search on her name before choosing the site and noticed that she has written multiple
technology articles. I did not know who this person was before this assignment.
d) I have no reason not to believe the information in the article is trustworthy. The article is
based on nothing but fact that have been created do to an observation of an expert.
e) The purpose of this article is to inform and persuade students and teachers to use mobile
technology in the classroom to get everyone more involved in learning.