Critical Thinking Project Part 2: The Triple Revolution and Your Mobile Village

Critical Thinking Project General Guidelines

Grading Rubric CT2 (wiki help)

Your first contribution was a reflection on your in-person social support networks. For the second part of your critical thinking project, you will turn your attention to your mobile village and elaborate on your “preindustrial village” by examining the Internet, Social Networking, and Mobile Revolutions—the “Triple Revolution”—in your everyday life. Go into some detail about how your interactions with internet technologies and online social networking (e.g., through the use of emails or social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter), and always-available connectivity on mobile devices (e.g., mobile phones, netbooks, and tablets) play a part in shaping your mobile village. Also in your discussion, compare and contrast how you draw from face-to-face/door-to-door social support networks and your online/mobile networks. If you do not use email, a social networking site, or a mobile device, then you may speak to how the use of these technologies factor into shaping someone else’s online and mobile social support network. Be sure that this person is someone you know fairly well. Lastly, consider whether and to what extent you, or someone else, is a “networked individual.” Provide reasons for why or why not.

For this part of the project, and for each of your remaining contributions, you will be expected to draw from scholarly resources to enhance your exposition and to support your reasoning. Use these resources to strengthen claims and support insights. You can draw from peer-reviewed journal articles or chapters from scholarly books to satisfy this requirement. You should also draw from the assigned textbook that we use for this class, but that text does not count toward the scholarly resources requirement.

• Go to the page you created in the class wiki for your CT2 project (you will find a link to the wiki on our MyGateway class site navigation menu and in the "Assignments" area, or use this link to access the wiki outside of MyGateway--if you are not logged into MyGateway, you'll be prompted to log on).
• Discuss your mobile village and the “Triple Revolution” in your everyday life. Provide details about your interactions, or the interactions of someone you know fairly well, with internet technologies, online social networking (e.g., through the use of emails or social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter), and always-available connectivity on mobile devices (e.g., mobile phones, netbooks, and tablets) play a part in shaping your mobile village. (250 words minimum)
• Compare and contrast your face-to-face and door-to-door social support networks with your online/mobile networks. What are some of the key differences between the ways in which you rely on these networks for social support? (125 words minimum)
• Are you a “networked individual”? Why or why not? We want to see critical thinking. (125 words minimum)

Additionally, you are expected to integrate the following:

• At least 3 images throughout your page.
• At least 3 “external” hyperlinks (i.e., links to sites on the World Wide Web) into your text. Do NOT simply copy URL addresses (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/) and paste them onto your page. These will not count toward the minimum requirement. Use the wiki features provided in the user interface to create your external hyperlinks.
• For the remaining parts of the project, your images and external hyperlinks should reflect the substantive matter of your exposition. They should be relevant to the assigned topic, and not simply “add-ons” aimed at filling space.
• Scholarly resources. Integrate and annotate (i.e., interpret for the reader) information from 2 scholarly resources. These can be either peer-reviewed journal articles or chapters from scholarly books. If you quote verbatim from your resources, you MUST use quotation marks! Paraphrasing is also an excellent way of demonstrating your understanding of the material and ability to distill information. Whether you quote directly or paraphrase, you MUST include citations in your text and a reference list at the bottom of your wiki page! Otherwise, your work may be mistaken for PLAGIARISM!
• In this class, you will be using the American Sociological Association (ASA) style to cite and create your reference lists. Here are some Quick Tips for ASA Style http://www.asanet.org/documents/teaching/pdfs/Quick_Tips_for_ASA_Style.pdf
• Appropriate spelling and grammar are crucial elements. This is a university-level course, and I expect your work to be free of mechanical errors. Check your spelling and proofread ALL of your work to insure grammatical correctness and ease of reading!

Finally, you need to review the work of at least four other students and post comments (minimum 125 word--constructive critique) on their wiki pages (you'll find a place to add comments near the bottom of every wiki page). Your Comments are due by Thursday, March 5 by 11:59 PM. You must email Prof. Keel with the names of the students on whose work you commented and include the text of the comments in the email (no attachments). If email notification is not made, comments may not be evaluated.

For help working on a wiki page, see Prof. Keel's video tutorials on "Working in a Wiki, "making links," and "inserting images" in the Wiki Help folder of the class MyGateway site (Critical Thinking Projects). See also: Wiki Help and Tips and the "Wiki User's Guide." Be sure to review the changes made to the wikis since I last updated these tutorials.

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