Final
Presentation
Assignment
and
Rubric
 
 Your
final
presentation
is
an
opportunity
for
you
to
share
your
research
paper
with
 your
classmates.

Your
presentation
must
include:
 
 ‐
an
overview
of
your
topic
 ‐
your
arguments
and/or
findings
 ‐
your
conclusions
about
the
topic.

 
 Your
presentation
should
be
professional
and
organized.

You
must
create
a
 PowerPoint
presentation
to
support
your
talk,
using
best
practices
for
presenting
 with
PowerPoint.

You
will
have
5
minutes
for
your
presentation
(you
will
be
timed
 and
cut
off,
so
practice
ahead
of
time).
 
 
 
 SEE
NEXT
PAGE
FOR
GRADING
RUBRIC
 
 
 Criteria Excellent
(5) Adequate
(3) Inadequate
(1) Total Volume,
Speaks
 Clearly,
Posture
 &
Eye
Contact Volume
is
loud
 enough
to
be
heard
by
 all
audience
members
 throughout
the
 presentation.
 
 Speaks
clearly
and
 distinctly
all
the
time,
 and
mispronounces
 no
words.
 
 Stands
up
straight,
 looks
relaxed
and
 confident.
Establishes
 eye
contact
with
 everyone
in
the
room
 during
the
 presentation. Volume
is
loud
 enough
to
be
 heard
by
all
 audience
 members
at
least
 half
the
time.
 
 Speaks
clearly
and
 distinctly
most
of
 the
time,
and
 mispronounces
1‐ 3
words.
 
 Stands
up
straight
 and
establishes
 eye
contact
with
 most
everyone
in
 the
room
during
 the
presentation. Volume
is
loud
 enough
to
be
heard
 by
all
audience
 members
less
than
 half
the
time.
 
 Does
not
speak
 clearly
and
 distinctly,
and
 mispronounces
 more
than
3
words.
 
 Does
not
stand
up
 straight
and
 establish
eye
 contact
with
most
 everyone
in
the
 room
during
the
 presentation. Content
 Shows
a
full
 understanding
of
the
 topic.

Displays
 critical,
original
 thinking.

 Shows
a
good
 understanding
of
 the
topic.

 Displays
some
 critical,
original
 thinking.

 Does
not
seem
to
 understand
the
 topic
very
well.

 Does
not
display
 critical,
original
 thinking.
 Criteria Excellent
(3) Adequate
(2) Inadequate
(1) Effective
use
of
 PowerPoint Background
does
not
 detract
from
text
or
 other
graphics.
Choice
 of
background
is
 consistent
from
card
 to
card
and
is
 appropriate
for
the
 topic.
Animations,
 Graphics,
and
Font
 formats
(e.g.,
color,
 bold,
italic)
have
been
 carefully
planned
to
 enhance
readability
 and
content.
 Background
does
 not
detract
from
 text
or
other
 graphics.
Choice
 of
background
is
 not
consistent
 from
card
to
card.
 Animations,
 Graphics,
and
 Font
formats
have
 been
carefully
 planned
to
 enhance
 readability. Background
makes
 it
difficult
to
see
text
 or
competes
with
 other
graphics
on
 the
page.
 Animations,
 Graphics,
and
Font
 formatting
makes
it
 very
difficult
to
read
 the
material. Completeness Clearly
addresses
 summary,
findings,
 and
reaction
 Addresses
 summary,
 findings,
and
 reaction
but
not
 clearly
 Does
not
clearly
 address
summary,
 findings,
and
 reaction
 
 
 
 _____
/
20
points
 Criteria Excellent
(2) Inadequate
(0) Time
 Management
 Presentati ...

1. Final Presentation Assignment and Rubric
Your final presentation is an opportunity for you to
share your research paper with
your classmates. Your presentation must include:
‐ an overview of your topic
‐ your arguments and/or findings
‐ your conclusions about the topic.
Your presentation should be professional and organize
d. You must create a
PowerPoint presentation to support your talk, using
best practices for presenting
with PowerPoint. You will have 5 minutes for yo
ur presentation (you will be timed
and cut off, so practice ahead of time).
SEE NEXT PAGE FOR GRADING RUBRIC
Criteria Excellent (5) Adequate (3) Inadequate (1) Total
Volume, Speaks
Clearly, Posture
& Eye Contact
Volume is loud

2. enough to be heard by
all audience members
throughout the
presentation.
Speaks clearly and
distinctly all the time,
and mispronounces
no words.
Stands up straight,
looks relaxed and
confident. Establishes
eye contact with
everyone in the room
during the
presentation.
Volume is loud
enough to be
heard by all
audience
members at least
half the time.
Speaks clearly and
distinctly most of
the time, and
mispronounces 1‐
3 words.
Stands up straight
and establishes
eye contact with
most everyone in
the room during

3. the presentation.
Volume is loud
enough to be heard
by all audience
members less than
half the time.
Does not speak
clearly and
distinctly, and
mispronounces
more than 3 words.
Does not stand up
straight and
establish eye
contact with most
everyone in the
room during the
presentation.
Content Shows a full
understanding of the
topic. Displays
critical, original
thinking.
Shows a good
understanding of
the topic.
Displays some
critical, original
thinking.

4. Does not seem to
understand the
topic very well.
Does not display
critical, original
thinking.
Criteria Excellent (3) Adequate (2) Inadequate (1)
Effective use of
PowerPoint
Background does not
detract from text or
other graphics. Choice
of background is
consistent from card
to card and is
appropriate for the
topic. Animations,
Graphics, and Font
formats (e.g., color,
bold, italic) have been
carefully planned to
enhance readability
and content.
Background does
not detract from
text or other
graphics. Choice
of background is

5. not consistent
from card to card.
Animations,
Graphics, and
Font formats have
been carefully
planned to
enhance
readability.
Background makes
it difficult to see text
or competes with
other graphics on
the page.
Animations,
Graphics, and Font
formatting makes it
very difficult to read
the material.
Completeness Clearly addresses
summary, findings,
and reaction
Addresses
summary,
findings, and
reaction but not
clearly
Does not clearly
address summary,

6. findings, and
reaction
_____ / 20 points
Criteria Excellent (2) Inadequate (0)
Time
Management
Presentation is 4‐5
minutes long.
Presentation is less
than 4 minutes or
more than 5
minutes long.
Criteria Excellent (1) Inadequate (0)
APA Style Source is accurately

7. cited
Source is not
accurately cited
Grammar Contains few to no
grammar errors
Contains more than
6 errors in grammar
How technology Impacts Students Grades
Running Head: Technology Impacts on student grades
Hallie Alongi
Living and Learning in a Digital Society
Sara Lohnes Watulak

8. How Technology Affects Students’ Grades
Abstract
The continuous evolution of technology has been received with
appreciation by a number of individuals. Technology is
responsible for the improvement of communication and has
heightened the level of interaction bringing up the idea of
globalization. Despite the positive characteristics addressed by
technology, parents are a concerned lot because of implications
technology has impacted on the young ones in the society.
Basically the questions these parents raise are whether
technology is an impediment in school performance or it is an
enhancer on the levels of studies undertaken by the students.
The minds of children can be referred to, as blank pages, which
can be written anytime with any content, ones the content has
been scribbled chances, are that they cannot be easily rubbed
off. The 21st century generation has a higher level of quick-
wittedness, which makes them more important on the duration
of their brilliance, therefore allowing them to fill in any content
very fast with the information at their fingertips. Such
information can be removed from a number of sources with the
fastest being from the Internet, games, televisions, and other
online platforms which are easier to access. This makes it
challenging for parents to control since; television sets are
always used in our daily lives, cellphones have become a
necessity, if not a requirement and generally technology is here
with us and it is to stay (Ritchell 2011).
In this paper I am going to depict how technology has become
an impediment in school going children. I am going to illustrate
the conditions that have simulated a 21st century child to
perform less as compared to a 19th century era kid. I will also
attribute some of the detrimental technological innovations that
are continuously posing a threat and if not properly managed
will be catastrophic to the school going children. It is important
to point out that there are always two sides of a coin (bad and
good); this means that technology itself is not bad, but if

9. overused.
As much as technology is important in educational purposes, it
can turn detrimental on a high scale if the instructors do not
take note of the manner in which they use it. Standardized tests
cannot be used as a basis for gauging the importance of
technology in classroom scenarios, since it hinders knowledge
application from the student’s perspectives (Ritchell 2010).
Some of the negative impacts of technology in classroom
scenarios are as discussed.
Factors Contributing To Lower Grades
Takes away learning time
Technology is never without its troubles, while in class ta
computer may develop mechanical or software problems which
in turn translate to failure of performance. This will mean that
the students in that class will lose a lot of time waiting for the
problem to be established and rectified. This in turn will drag
down their learning pace immensely. It is imperative to note
that the curriculum is always set and guided by given rules and
policies. This means that missing any particular lesson will
amount to an overload of work at the end of a particular
learning period. This gets worse if the whole state was to
undertake the same paper, there will be a significant amount of
discrepancies since a particular school did not cover all the
topics they were expected to translating to lower performance
scales (Martin 2013).
Lack of integration
Some students learn better by association and interaction, this
beats logic in employing the use of technology to such students.
The best method to use in such situations is to let the teacher
undertake their role personally without the need of a computer
otherwise such students will be a disadvantage. Use of the
technology fails to recognize the particular needs of individual
students. It treats all students as the same which is not actually
true. Some children have a higher span of memorability while
others have a higher degree of association techniques. Thus,
using technology in such classrooms will depict an irregular

10. graph that portrays lack of harmonized results. The best
approach to such is for the teacher to recognize each student’s
weaknesses and strengths and address them in the best way
possible (Gonchar 2012).
Game mentality
This is the highest syndrome, which is possessed by many
children. It can be articulated that according to research 75% of
children aged 6-15 years prefer to play a game instead of
learning through a computer. The main reason that different
manufacturers in the globe are because of the addictive nature
of the games designs this. This means that each time such a
child is left on their own, chances are that they will only
embark on playing games instead of indulging in studies. The
resultant effect of this is that their classroom performance will
drop to lower grades, hence the negative aspects of technology.
Lower Attention span
Children of today will spend their significant time on movies or
playing games. This illustrates that they are only left with
approximately 25% of their attention to concentrate on other
matters. Unfortunately, there may not be a willingness to
perform duties correlated with schoolwork and if asked to do so
they will just scribble through to rush to a movie or play an
online game. Just like the parents do, the children will
definitely be absorbed in the movies or television series most of
the times. Experience is one aspect which also triggers the
likelihood of development of a concentration span. For instance,
if a child is brought up in a family where parents take things the
way they come and never work hard for them then there is a
chance that children in that family will never work hard to
perform. Instead, they will opt to go for technological
components since they are more soothing (Klaus 2013).
Laptop use
Laptops have entirely replaced pens in present education
systems, this means that students rarely do write using pens
instead they just type and on most occasions prefer accessing
the online catalogues which have reduced the burden for them to

11. analyze the teacher’s notes. There is however, a huge problem
associated with this practice, student grades eventually starts to
dwindle. According to a Canadian research conducted on a
number of institutions it was apparent that those students who
use laptops in classrooms, while the teacher is teaching suffer
lower grades as compare to those students who embrace the old
fashion of writing small notes using a pen and a piece of paper.
The difference arises because of the degree of distraction in the
two groups. Those using laptops are more distracted by pop-up
menus and screen advertisements as compared to the second
group (Lebedev 2012).
Facebook and other social platforms impacts
People are beginning tor relate the letter “F” in Facebook
to the failing grades in school. Throughout all of the articles
that are being written, it is apparently that the fact that students
with social media, such as Facebook, are receiving lower grades
than the average student who doesn’t have any type of social
media. Multi-tasking has been the norm on various platforms in
the 21st century; people often try to combine various activities
together especially if they are technologically related. For
instance a student engages in texting, attending to music and
reading simultaneously. “Essentially this is a poor combination
of activities and the resultant effect is poor results” (Makela
2011).
Other negative impacts of technology in education
In the article it states that basically more than half of children
ranging from the age 2 to 5- years old can play computer games
while only 10 percent of those kids know how to tie their shoes.
It is becoming absurd that the normal activates of a young child
are becoming harder and less common due to technology. This
also depicts that such students will not be able to associate
learning principles without the help of technology. Thus,
overreliance on technology can sometimes turn detrimental, if
not monitored from an early age simply because the children
will just grow up to understand that a world without technology
is not livable at all (Costabile & Spears 2012).

12. Conclusion
Technology is always and will remain to be an important tool in
our world. It has brought a lot of significant aspects which we
could have missed out on if it was completely in-existent.
However, as discussed above its use must be totally regulated to
a given level beyond which it will be of harm than good. Not all
sectors of the economy need to be 100% computerized, some
sectors should allow people to approach problems without the
aid of a computer this applies to schools and any platform
which propagates for creativity (Bouchard 2014).
In conclusion, overuse of technology has led to detrimental side
effects in the school curriculum. Instead of students studying,
they engage in activities like watching movies, Facebook
interactions, twitter posts and any other social platforms which
are not generally important in their classrooms. The most and
common problem associated with technological advancement is
the rampant innovation of games, which has attracted a greater
amount of people.
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