Monday, April 26th Presentations

I'm going to sound like a broken record, but everyone has done a great job with their research and their topic choice! I haven't been bored yet in class.
Emma's report about Depression in College and how it affects academic performance generated some pretty thoughtful responses from the class. It seems like it comes down to what the parents and schools should do to help their student. If you are still looking for a counter-argument, apply your findings and look for sources that may believe parents and schools are not a factor in causing student depression -- very hard to do, but its what the counter-argument is. You could also look into differences in the size of the school like Mary offered, but it sounds like you have looked into that also and found no correlation. Overall it sounds like you've done a great job researching.
Joey presented his topic on Educational Technology and how recent technologies have worsened or helped modern education. While it seems like a broad topic, Joey said that he has not found much information on preschool education which was what he wanted to concentrate on. However you mentioned a lot of readings in class that we did that can relate to your topic. If you want to add to your paper, you could probably use these readings as resources for your paper to generate more of a conversation or add to your argument. You could also go in depth about the teachers not wanting to adapt to the technology (or not being able to) and how schools have attempted to educate those teachers. And awesome Pokemon.
Katherine's topic concerned Media's influence on Education during the Cold War, which I felt was extremely focused and the most original topic we've had so far in class. Yes, I would stick with the historically-oriented time frame for your paper. At this point you can improve on your paper by finding more resources and finding any secure evidence that Cold-War education caused some of the rebellions in the 1960s. The media is a vast source -- use it to your advantage!
Wednesday is the final day! Make it an amazing day of presentations! Yay!