CARS MODEL

My topic is on how or if at all adults feel about adapting to new technology. I’m interested in whether or not they are pressured into learning it by their kids to keep up with them, with work to be the best employee, and medically to keep up with all this new medical equipment. I find this topic to be important because we all need to understand the difficulties faced by the older community and how they me busting their butts to catch up without us knowing. We need to give them credit and maybe assist them a bit more. It’s been shown that they indeed is a gap between young and old and also that the older generations are somewhat pushed into learning new technologies. I don’t think my research is biased because many quantitative studies have been done to show the facts. Also many articles that I have researched have discussed or interviewed older people first hand. My paper will deal with examining how much pressure is put on these “golden oldies” and how we as a society could ease this pressure and provide more help to them. It’s a fact of life that without new technology you don’t stand a chance, so let’s help these older people out.

Definition Entirely

I feel that my research paper for core 4 is going to be mostly fact based. My topic on whether or not adults are pressured by society and their kids to adapt with current technology has to be fact based, much like Malcolm X’s argument of being in prison and learning to read and write. He states what he went through and how he learned, all the facts that contributed to his literacy. My research is going to be comprised of scholarly articles and family interviews. All of these sources are factual. All the information I used is going to be gathered from scholarly articles that have conducted research studies or surveys, both factual and not definition. For example one of my sources deals with an Air Force Scientist who studies how adults compared to the younger individuals when it came to using new software. He studied I believe 118 subjects and came up with conclusive evidence supporting my claim that adults are not as good with technology as their children or younger generations. He also discusses how around 80% of adults experience some psychological blocks that inhibits their learning of new technologies. All that research is purely factual. In establishing or disproving my point of adults being pushed into using new technologies, I must use facts! The research paper would be considered invalid and unreliable if I had an argument of definition rather than of fact. If I used definition for my paper as Wysocki and Johnson-Eilola it wouldn’t work. They were defining and explaining what digital literacy was, and what should be considered as digital literacy. I on the other hand want to prove or disprove that adults are pressured into becoming fluent technology users. My research paper needs to include facts, and a lot of them at that. When relating or referencing my family members I will be using “factual” information provided to me from them. I am trying to explain how adults feel about technology and that could only be done I believe with facts gathered from studies and published surveys. The only definition portion of my research paper with defining is when it comes to who I consider to be adults. What age do I draw the line at and consider them as “older”? This is the only part of my paper where definition as used by Selber could be applied to my core 4. To properly discover how adults relate to technology facts are needed, in bulk. Bottom line is my study will be an argument of fact completely.

Thoughts On Research

I Believe most of my sources are on the same page as far as the technology gap that exists between generations. Some of my research articles focus on how adults have witnessed a complete change in the technology they once used. These same sources seem to indicate that adults are overwhelmed by it all and are trying to simply catch up with the most basic forms of technology used today. Their focus is mainly on how in today's day and age you must be able to use technology or you stand a difficult time in relating to others. I have a few research articles that discus how the older generations compared to the younger when it came to effectively using technology. One of these in specific discuses an experiment where information communicative technology (ICT)was used to measure the gap between old and young. The rest of my research focuses on how adults have a difficult time learning new things, and then i applied it to technology. I also have some information given to me by some family members about their thoughts and how they have coped with technology.
My research seems pretty good but may lack a little bit of depth to it. Many of the articles state the facts or what they have observed, which is fine, but i feel a lot is possibly left out.