Gowtami,+Anna

Q from Mrs. Gorski: Are the "rules" the same in both schools regarding access to social networking sites? For example, some schools deny access to these sites. Also, how will you be able to see if students are on these sites? How many classes (and what kinds) will you observe? Does the age/gender of the student make a difference? Q from Kegan - How will counting the number of students on these sites help you find //why// they are distracted? Comment from Ian: Different teachers have different rules and students know what classes they can or can't get on these sites in. Make sure to observe many classes and that they don't know what you're doing. Comment from Katy: Are you videotaping the students? How will you be able to see their laptop screens? Comment from Sarah: same question as kegan. Comment from Blake: Make sure to choose classes that don't contain any of the students in this sociology class. Comment from Andy: Make sure that the students that do check their phones or go to social networking sites are not done with their assigned work. Otherwise, you may tally up a student who has nothing else to but goe to the sites.

** Research Question: ** Why do students get distracted by social networks (computer) during class time? Even though they know it’s a wrongdoing?

To gather our data for our research project, we will observe classes that have laptops and take note of the habits of students on the internet and see how much they are on social networking sites, or chatting during class. We will tell the teacher about our research topic, but the students will not know why we are observing.
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-Computer -Video Camera
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Even though students in a high school know that they should not be on social networking sites or chat during class, they are distracted by these items during a significant portion of the class.
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Gowtami's Data
 * **Classes** || March 30th || March 31st || April 1st || Average % of students on social networking sites ||
 * Spanish 4 (16 students) || 11 students on social networking sites ** - 69% ** || 13 students on social networking sites ** – 82% ** || 10 students on social networking sites ** – 63% ** || 71% ||
 * Algebra 2/Trig (27 students) || 12 students on social networking sites ** – 44% ** || 14 students on social networking sites ** – 52% ** || 11 students on social networking sites –** 41% ** || 46% ||

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