Analyzing Social Research

Article: "Cyberspace and Learning from the Electronic Journal of Sociology" (2002), written by Herb Thompson; Murdoch University, Murdoch Australia
Statement of the Problem: The challenge for teachers and learners is how to combine the strengths of the computer and the human brain to promote learning.
Literature Review: the author of this article gives many different sources from their findings. Thompson states that learning through the computer should be approached with caution, but that it also has "many possibilities for the production of knowledge." Seymour Papert (Papert 1993; 1996)…