Updated: July 2018 The Impact of Social Media Conducting Independent Enquiry About Social Media Part A (3 lesson-version) sociology.hku.hk/impact-social-media
Welcome to Independent Enquiry Study ! Structured Enquiry Approach • School-based assessment • 20% of your DSE final mark • Research on any issues related to the DSE LS curriculum • Submit a report of not more than 4,500 words
A Step by Step Guide Part A • What are the issues I should focus my research on? Part B • What concepts and methods are relevant to your IES? Part C • What areas should I explain in detail for my enquiry issue? Part D • How do I formulate an argument? 3
Part A: Problem Definition What are the issues I should focus my research on?
1. Getting You Thinking…… • What socially significant issue do you feel interested in? • What are the debates related the issue? Let’s take social media as an example!
Video Watching: Why do you think that social media is significant to research on? (p.4) Watch this video at: https://youtu.be/Pr2lJ3efShk Social media is very popular and its impact is widespread. • Social media changes the way people communicate with each other. • Studies of social media may have policy implications etc. •
2. Choosing a Controversial Issue a. What’s debatable? (p.6) • The impact of social media on education. While some people believe social media has detrimental effect on academic • performance of students, others believe that social media benefits both formal education and informal education. b. Whose view might be relevant to the debate? • Students, teachers, parents etc.
3. Choosing Your Focus Questions Enquiry question: How does social How do teachers and students use social media? media affect education? How useful do parents from various socio-economic classes see social media in terms of their children’s formal and information education? How do teachers develop school policy to regulate the use of social media in school?
Kahoot: Which of the enquiry questions are good?
Good Enquiry and Focus Questions Are: • Controversial • Allows you to discuss from multiple perspectives • Specific enough • Feasible to collect data to research on • Focus questions are relevant to the enquiry question
Your Turn…… P.9-10 of Student Pack • What is your enquiry issue and major enquiry question? • Why is your study significant? Who might the results be useful for and why? Could your results be used to create social policy? If so, how? • Why is your study significant? Who might the results be useful for and why? Could your results be used to create social policy? If so, how? • What controversy(ies) are you going to discuss in your IES? • What do you aim to achieve? • What focus questions do you ask? • Who do you want to study? • Where would you base your research and why?
If you are interested in debates related to social media… Check them out on p.4-5 Education Individualism Privacy and many more… Culture Gender relations
Upcoming… How do I identify and define key concepts? How do I choose my research method?
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