...thinking is focused questions Three principal questions for critical thinking What Why How “What?” Identifies the key message you wish to communicate. What is the benefit of your message for the audience ? What can they do with the information ? “Why?” Addresses the next obvious question that arises in the audience. “why should I do that?” “why should I think that?” “why should that be the case?” Following what the audience perceives as a natural route through the material. You have the audience on your side immediately. “How?” In the audience’s mind: how are they going to achieve what you have just suggested. Offer suggestions as to how they can act. Research Research Business Challenges Bundle by Braun (2008) & Wieringa and Heerkens (2003). There...
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...Tanya Meza English 091 Professor Archila February 24, 2014 Cell Phones Before internet was born, we had to research information in encyclopedias, libraries, or book stores. We communicated with people on landlines. Today, we have the internet conveniently located in our homes and cell phones. Advanced technology allows us to research an abundance of information all around the world. Dozens of websites and chat sites are everywhere ranging from educational, social, shopping, and gaming sites. Cellphones have evolved into smartphones and are no longer a luxury but a necessity because technology has become interlaced in our everyday lives. Technology causes schools technical hitches to keep up with the quick movement of change. One of the technical hitches that education leaders have to face is cell phone usage in classrooms. We want to believe that all students would act responsibly with cell phone usage in classrooms. In many cases, many students abuse policies. Cell phones in class should not be allowed because students can use them from cheating, disruptions, and cyber bullying. High school students may feel more tempted to cheat because they probably failed to study, have emotional/hormonal issues, or have involved themselves with the wrong crowds. High school is a very crucial time for humans because it is a transition in life from child hood to adult hood. These evolving students have parents at home that...
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...Change” In “ Mind over Mass Media” by Steven Pinker he writes how technology is not making us stupid, but is actually making us smarter: “ The Internet and information technologies are helping is manage, search and retrieve our collective intellectual output at different scales, from Twitter and previews to e- books and online encyclopedias. Far from making us stupid these technologies are the only thing keeping us smart.”(Pinker). The constant updates that these devices are giving us are yes, more convenient but not making us stupid. Pinker believes that the technology is very much distracting, but not if the users have some self control. Pinker said “ Distraction is not a new phenomenon. The solution is not to bemoan technology but to develop strategies of self-control, as we do with every other temptation in life. Turn off email or Twitter when you work, put away your Blackberry at dinner time, ask your spouse to call you to bed at a designated hour.” He argues that although these devices can distract us and interfere sometimes, they can easily be shut off to allow full focus. It is the users of these devices who are at fault, not technologies. In the essay, Pinker is very much disagreeing with Carr. While Carr takes the other side and argues that technology is altering the way we think in a negative way causing us to skim through things and expect the obvious answers, Pinker believes that using technologies like PowerPoint and search engines are causing us to be smarter and...
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...Urdaneta City University S.Y. 2014-2015 Student Experiences with Information Technology and their Relationship to Other Aspects of Student Engagement RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED BY: EDISON G. MILLET MR. RYAN JASON DELOS REYES WRITING IN DISCIPLINE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCTION In education, student engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and progress in their education. Generally speaking, the concept of “student engagement” is predicated on the belief that learning improves when students are inquisitive, interested, or inspired, and that learning tends to suffer when students are bored, dispassionate, disaffected, or otherwise “disengaged.” Stronger student engagement or improved student engagement are common instructional objectives expressed by educators. In education, the term student engagement has grown in popularity in recent decades, most likely resulting from an increased understanding of the role that certain intellectual, emotional, behavioral, physical, and social factors play in the learning process. For example, a wide variety of research studies on learning have revealed connections between so-called “non-cognitive factors” or “non-cognitive skills” (e.g., motivation, interest, curiosity, responsibility, determination, perseverance, attitude...
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...COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY TO STUDENTS’ LIFESTYLE AND STUDY HABITS Abstract This research study aimed to determine and identify all the possible positive and negative effects of using computer technology to the lifestyle and study habits of college students, particularlyfreshmen students in the nursing and information technology departments in Saint Mary’s University. Specifically, this study determined the different negative factors that affect a student’s level of competency in terms of critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Also, it determined major reasons why students use computer technology in their daily lives. Findings from the study indicate that using computer technology makes daily living easier for students when it comes to finishing their tasks and completing their school projects. We found out that most students use the computer to communicate with their parents and relatives who live abroad and to visit educational websites like wikipedia.org to help them in their school works and assignments. It also presents data gathered from the level 1 SMU students that they use computer not just to do their research projects, but also to entertain their selves by playing computer games like DOTA and counter strike. The data also shows that the student’s use the computer in signing up to social networking sites so that they can chat with friends be updated daily on what is going on around. The gathered data and results confirmed that using computer technology is a factor...
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...2006). A study made by the Insurance Institute shows that the use of cellular phones in combination with other activities can cause many negative effects. The same study confirms that those who cell phone and drive were four times more likely to cause crashes serious enough to cause injury (Leo, 2006). Unfortunately, this technology is affecting everyone, and it is cellular phone users’ responsibility to monitor the excessive and misusage of cellular phones because it is affecting our health, reflecting negatively on our behavior in public spaces and it is a genuine danger when associated with our daily routine activities. Walking, driving, and communicating are different tasks that require our full attention. Newspapers daily discuss incidents related to misuse of the technology. It is everyone’s responsibility to educate themselves and others about actions to take that will help us stop the problems before they happen. The primary reason why everyone should monitor the use of cellular phone is associated with health issues. In 1993, the cell phone industry hired specialists in the field. It took epidemiologist and pathologist Carlo six years of extensive research to prove that claims about cellular phones can cause cancer is correct. The results proved that radiation from a cellular phone's antenna could cause the formation of micronuclei-red flags for cancer-in the brain (Rotela, Abbott, & Gold, 2001). The radiation affects children more than adults because of the different...
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...study As we move into the 21st century, technology has greatly improved and has become better. It is continuously growing and changing in many aspects until now. It makes the people’s life easier than the usual and is greatly helpful and useful especially to the students. Technology invented gadgets like computers and laptops that students can use in their studies. These gadgets changed how students learn, process and obtain new or old information. These can also use when it comes to finishing their task and completing their school works because students can freely visit many educational websites. Students can also play educational games, which can help them improve their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. However, technology has also negative effects like other things. Like computers, instead of using it for research purposes, students tend to use it for playing games like DOTA and Couter Strike. Students also use it for just viewing or signing in their social networking pages. Computer is a factor that distracts or steals away the attention or the focus of the students in their studies. Students abuse the power of technologies. Computer technology has positive and negative effects in the lifestyle of the students. Computer were invented to help students and not the be abused by the students which brings negative effects. But, majority of the results that were gathered presents that most students agree that computer technology is a good material that helps in the study...
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...devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.” Over the past decade technology has advanced to greater heights than ever before. Doing research that once took days of reading books and studying in the local library with every other student, now can be completed with a simple Google search in the comfort of your own home. In todays current society, everyone seems to spend a vast majority of their time browsing the internet, viewing the media, or using any other electronic device that can provide a source of entertainment. Technology has invaded our entire lives and has become something that almost everybody uses and is nearly unavoidable. The matter at hand is will the rate our technology advances be in favor of society or will be bring its eventual downfall? The fact of the matter is, at the current accelerating rate that technology is growing is will affect us negatively. One of the main reasons technology is becoming a detriment in this generation is obsession. There are many of those who are already obsessed with todays technology. Now, according Susan Maushart, a mother of three teenagers says her children “inhabit” the media. Mrs. Maushart says “Did I say they do their schoolwork like that? Correction. They do their life like that.”(Maushart, Winter) This statement is true for for a good portion of society. Almost everything done has to be done with or includes some form of technology in a certain way. Susan says that...
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...lessening. The transportation enterprise has been too quick to adapt in vehicle assistance, and needs to research and study more into developing dangers on these technologies. New technologies are increasing the range of task at hand for any...
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...Employees Performance in AMA University A Research project Submitted to the College of Business and Finance In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Subject ITMA 570 Prepared by: Introduction Smartphone technology are growing so fast more than any other electronic equipment in the world and has improve our access to information technology. Smart phone applications for quick access and ease of service anytime anywhere . The usage of this technology on the personal and professional level is becoming a widespread nowadays. Casual observation shows that smart phone have taken the way people communicate in their workplace and affect their working performance. This comes as no surprise in the information technology world nowadays. Despite their popularity. One must consider whether smart phones are merely a workplace appropriateness or source of distraction. For instance, a worker attending a meeting can retrieve whatever information he/she needs while he/she is in the conversance room; however, that same worker can disrupt the meeting each time his/her phone rings. Arguably, there are pros and cons for the performance of the employee of using the smart phone in their work performance, but it is important to relies the potential liability that smart phone effect the employees performance. We are in a litigious society with a rise in the organization liability, Thompson and Bluvshtein (2008) (1) report that " … employee use of technology is resulting in greater rates of employees...
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...classroom use Paragraph 4 1. Counter Arguments: a. Those who are in favor of Tablets may argue that students can learn more material than using textbooks b. They also said tablets have infinite technological features that can be used for more effective teaching method. 2. Rebuttals: c. It has been proved that students who read from textbook will comprehend more than those who read from digital devices. d. Study shows that Tablet shifts focus of learning from teacher to Technology III. CONCLUSION Concluding Sentence: At last, even though many people may put their believe in the advances of technology, they should admit that the little-bit-old-fashioned-style of learning is more effective than using tablet A Tablet is Still Not a Book We all know that now we are living in a live surrounded with such technologies in every aspect of our life from the biggest to smallest things. Big thanks to technologies for making our daily life become so much easier than it was. Don’t you realize that our future is now in front of our eyes? Like cars that can...
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...This means as a child matures, they are required to navigate the ongoing changes in their life, in regards to their physical figures, but also social norms and expectations. Spending too much time on the web creates a higher risk for delayed development, emotional and behavioral problems during adolescence and early adulthood, even considering the various social contexts and the genetics of the child. Social media can become addictive. It often becomes a habit that compels teenagers to constantly check their phones. According to the Pew Research Center “ 72% of U.S teens text- message regularly, a third of them more than 100 times a day.” Eventually, the intermittent periods of time texting or on social media add up to a substantial amount of time that could be used more productively. The lack of these factors causes learning barriers and delays, failing grades, and obesity. Other effects include lack of time management, and disturbed sleep schedules. More teens are starting to notice the effect media has on their lives. Matt Richtel himself writes in his article “Growing Up...
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...CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Facebook is known to be the most famous social networking sites in the world. It was created by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin on Febuary 2004. Facebook was originally created for Harvard students only, for them to keep in touch when they were away from the campus, but the site has been now expanded worldwide and has about billion active users and majority of these are college students. With the rapid changes to our generation, youth is now more demanding in acquiring technologies that will suit to their needs, especially in their studies. Certainly, the access in Internet or in the World Wide Web is easy and there are many benefits can be gained. The use of this accessibility is applied mostly on the professionals such as medical practitioners, business tycoons, and even government officials. The purpose of their usage the Internet is different in terms of their needs and various marketers also applied their expertise on it. Apparently, the growing numbers of users are members of different social networking sites and most of them are students. Social networking such as Facebook, one of the largest social networking sites and many others has been plagued the websites of the Internet accessibility. Many individuals, mostly students and their friends are engaged in social networking. Social networks are made to entertain and to interact with the other people even if they are far away. Due to the nonstop change in cultural and social aspect and...
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...I do not have a much experience writing a rhetorical analysis. The last time I practiced with writing a rhetorical analysis was in High School but it did not consist of writing a 6 page paper. In High School we analysed short speeches but did not go in dept on writing multiple analysis. So when writing a rhetorical analysis on a blog for this semester I had to do more research on how to write a rhetorical analysis. The activities that were helpful were the outside assignment and class workshop. The outside assignments were helpful because they focus on teaching writing skills. When doing the assignments, it showed the pages to read and then gave a small test based on the readings. One of the assignments was on “Nouns and Pro-nouns” and it...
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...children a learning edge through the latest computer technology, a mammoth new study by German researchers brings some sobering news: Too much exposure to computers might spell trouble for the developing mind. | | | Key to the future: In Freeport, Maine, all seventh- and eighth-graders get their own laptop. | | | | By Melanie Stetson Freeman, courtesy The Christian Science Monitor | | From a sample of 175,000 15-year-old students in 31 countries, researchers at the University of Munich announced in November that performance in math and reading had suffered significantly among students who have more than one computer at home. And while students seemed to benefit from limited use of computers at school, those who used them several times per week at school saw their academic performance decline significantly as well. "It seems if you overuse computers and trade them for other [types of] teaching, it actually harms the student," says lead researcher Ludger Woessmann in a telephone interview from Munich. "At least we should be cautious in stating that increasing [access to] computers in the home and school will improve students' math and reading performance." With the rise of computers in classrooms has come a glut of conflicting conclusions about the actual value computers bring to timeless tasks of teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. For some in education, these results indicate how thoroughly this field of research has come to resemble that of the conventional wisdom...
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