User talk:Mikerumd

Computers in the classroom

Hi and thanks for this new page. Is that an original research paper? — Timneu22 · talk 16:01, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~Indeed it is.~~ I am planning on adding several new segments (opinions, effects) in the future, in the meanwhile if someone could link that article to other pages it would be much appreciated. Mikerumd (talk) 16:02, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Original research is discouraged on wikipedia, however, this article does seem like it has some worthy content. That being said, it seems like it needs lots of work to meet the standards of an article. Examples:

No categories
No inline citations
The article is written in an essay-style, with text like this trend is expected to continue....

I'm not sure that this article has content that isn't already in this category. Plus, there are no links to this article; was the topic really necessary? Overall, it seems like userfying the article until these problems are addressed may be the correct solution. — Timneu22 · talk 16:11, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What? I think I'm misinterpreting what you're asking here. I wrote the article, yes, but I didn't actually do any of the "research" that I cited in the article. Second, if you use the search function to check the number of articles that include the text "Computers in the classroom", there are quite a few articles that could easily link into this but simply don't right now. Once this article moves to a higher quality standard I'll start going through these articles and linking in.

As for the topic being worthy... yes, I really think so, use of computers in education is extremely relevant both in the news and in the history of the development of modern computing. I have checked dozens of articles on here relevant to education and technology, and not one has given a comprehensive outline of the evolution of computer usage in the classroom. There isn't a topic on this right now simply because nobody has bothered to write one. There's no reason we can't start somewhere, right?

I understand that you're trying to keep Wikipedia clean but what I'm asking is to have a day or two to clean this up before moving this into userspace. I've seen hundreds of articles here that have been left with "stub" or "needs work" templates and people are generally willing to leave them alone for improvement for months at a time if they are relevant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_State_Defense_Force for example), and this is hardly something I'm just going to abandon.Mikerumd (talk) 16:29, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]