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1.       Topic that comes to mind.

a.       The research question that comes to mind is about disabled children. There is no mention of assisted technology in the classrooms of those that are disabled for whatever reason.

b.      Disabilities and classroom technology

2.       I used the key words technology and schools and disabilities. I found the articles were more in line with assisted technologies. I was looking for information applying to General Education Classes that have children with all levels of abilities. I found the Pew work did not seem to address that area and I felt curious. I ended up using Disabilities and classroom technology. It was here I found the article in Educational Leadership which appears to be an academic journal. This article didn't address what I was looking for but I did address the Pew articles summation that there is a gap in technological learning by school and income. This article What’s missing from Teacher prep, states ““We needed to learn how to integrate technology.” New teachers and their mentors were interviewed to gather data about teaching methods for new teachers and the stumbling blocks the need to overcome. I feel this is a growing problem and our schools are not able to keep pace with the amount of children that would benefit from the technology they could be accessing.

Chesley, Gary M.Jordan, Janice. "What's Missing From Teacher Prep." Educational Leadership 69.8 (2012): 41. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 21 Mar. 2013.

3.       A: Authority  Educational Leadership is a periodical for teachers written by experts

S: Sources   Google and K-12

P: Purpose  To offer advice and solutions, articles and service advertisements for educators

E: Evenness   yes it does

C: Coverage Yes it gets to the root of the problem.

T: Timeliness May 2012

4.       I think the Pew article did a good job of identifying there is a gap in the industry of educating yet it really did not offer up much of a solution. Although my original research keywords yielded an article that went in a different direction, I found that it held some answers that were only brought up by The Pew group. There is a classroom gap and some of the nation’s children are being subject to that old class thing. I feel that today the better schools still have more money to higher better teachers and they are still falling short of the technology opportunity in the classroom.

Once we start to address the gap in instructing our educators in the best methods of technological instruction we first need to establish what that is. We are developing so fast the advances are so immediate we are just now recognizing we need to have benchmarks for all the children not just the smarter ones. Applying the technology of cell phones and tablets will give all of the children the advantage but I feel the less wealthy ones would feel that benefit the most. These are the children least likely to have access to the technology on an every day basis.

 Not only is it a struggle for some schools to get the items they might need to be effective the teachers are just now being taught effective technological learning by their own experiences. I think the educational system will have a lot to contribute when our classrooms can keep up with my tech savvy Three year old granddaughter.