Sunday, October 23, 2011
Close Reading #3
Facebook’s Impact on Student Grades
By REBECCA R. RUIZ
http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/fbook-grades/?scp=4&sq=facebook&st=cse
This article is pretty interesting because it relates to almost all high school student. I was surprised when I found this article, because I was surprised that someone finally care about grades enough to investigate. And I was even more surprised when I read the outcome. And now I can tell those parents who think "Facebook is the root of failing grades", you are only partially right.
According to Mr.Junco from Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania Facebook can actually make students participate in more extra curriculum activities. Students that use Facebook as a way to socialize with friends tend to have a higher grade. Yet students that don't socialize but still use Facebook a lot tend to have a lower grade.
Facebook is there for us to socialize with friends when we want and it is a way to contact people more efficiently as Ruiz tried to point out. More students participate in events outside of the school when they "shared links on Facebook or checked the site to see what friends were up to." But if students use Facebook as a way just to tell people how they feel each seconds, they tend to perform frightful academically.
Ruiz doesn't have a strong DIDLS involved in her article, but she does bring out the message of using Facebook as a way to communicate with peers and get in touch with multiple activities, even if it is school related. And don't use Facebook as a source for selfish use. Then Facebook will actually help students not just by being involved in the activities, but help in relation to school. And perform better at school. And if every student is able use Facebook efficiently then of course there won't be anymore parents screaming over your shoulder.
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I am a little confused by this essay. Unless I am mistaken, which is possible, you are suppose to use DIDLS to explain certain aspects of the article. To me, it appears that you simply analyzed the article without using DIDLS at all but used your own opinion combined with the authors to come to a conclusion. I know in your last paragraph you say the author does not use DIDLS; if that is the case I would suggest using a different article. Otherwise, a very interesting read. Good job.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting article, however it isn't right for the prompt if it doesn't use DIDLS. Your essay is well written but maybe you should choose another kind of article next time?
ReplyDeleteAs has been stated, we are supposed to pick articles that display particularly good usage of DIDLS, so although the article may have been interesting, it probably wasn't the right article to do one of these close readings on.
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