...Critical Review 1. Teaching with Technology Simon Hooper and Lloyd P. Rieber We all know that technology refers to advancements in the methods and tools we use to learn. In the classroom, technology can encompass all kinds of tools from low-tech pencil, paper, and chalkboard, to the use of presentation software, or high-tech tablets, online collaboration and conferencing tools, and more. The newest technologies allow us to try things in physical and virtual classrooms that were not possible before. Today, I cannot imagine how difficult it is to teach without technology and how hard it is to learn without it. Technology plays a major part in our lives as students. The first two paragraphs of the article mainly talks about the expectations...
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...Portfolio Project Professional Plan Bryant & Stratton College Southtowns Campus James Armstrong Network Security Mrs. Sedor March 19, 2014 This paper examines different aspects of the Information Technology field and related career paths. Certain aspects of the IT field were researched and explored in an attempt to learn more about the job market and the IT field. The categories that were explored in each job title were; pay scale, industry growth rate, responsibilities as well as educational background and training. Also examined was the possible over saturation of the job market by qualified but untested applicants in a seriously competitive market. (the number of students expected to graduate versus the projected job market). Information Technology Network Security is an ever changing, growing field of study. One cannot get involved in the careers it encompasses without having a basic love of learning, even on a subconscious level. New technology is constantly being developed and so anyone in the IT field must continually be retrained, for lack of a better term. This holds true even more so for the software side of the field. Consider the firewall or antivirus software, every time the computer system is turned on the system checks for updates to its library of known viruses. That means somewhere on the other end of the internet connection is a network security technician who is constantly researching and investigating new programs...
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...Technology and Jobs Abstract Have you ever asked yourself whether or not technology may possibly be taking away multiple jobs from us humans? Why is this so? Jobs are becoming increasingly obsolete due to the fact that now, the job can be done by a computer. Now, when you go to the grocery store, there are self-checkout registers in which you, the consumer, do the work while the cashier’s job becomes less aggravating. Also, in the medical field, there are many operations and procedures that can now be calculated with certain technology. Moreover, in the engineering world, jobs are becoming deleted because of computers. Go back a few decades in time and try to imagine calculating something without a calculator. At an alarming rate, technology is decreasing our jobs at a very alarming rate. At this pace, in the future, all work will eventually be carried out by robots and computers. Keywords: technology, jobs, computer, calculate, work Technology and Jobs “The U.S. economy hit an important milestone last week: Gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced in the country, returned to pre-recession levels. But the gains were made with millions fewer workers. Part of the reason is technology, as computers and machines continue to replace humans.” You must ask yourself whether or not technology may possibly be taking away multiple jobs from us humans. Why is this so? Jobs are becoming increasingly obsolete due to the fact that now, the job can be done...
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...Information Technology Ethics Issues Article Georgeanna Chapman BIS/221 March 23, 2015 C. Randall Shirley Information Technology Ethics Issues Article Memorandum To: C. Randall Shirley From: Georgeanna L. Chapman Date: 4/26/2015 Re: Information Technology Ethics Issues Article Summary Laws and Ethics Can’t Keep Pace with Technology The article that I chose to use is from MIT Technology Review. In the article; it was discussed on how Ethics can’t keep up with the growing use of Technology. 1. Employers can get into trouble in interviews asking potential applicants about their sexual preference, religion or political affiliation, yet can find all this information on social media and it isn’t against the law. 2. Laws forbid lenders from discriminating on the basis of race, gender and sexuality, but if their work history on Facebook doesn’t match their work history on LinkedIn, they are socially undesirable. “We haven’t come to grips with what is ethical, let alone with what the laws should be, in relation to technologies such as social media.” (Wadhwa, 2014, p. 1) The laws and ethical practices are forever evolving. With the public uproar about the surveillance by the NSA this actually pales in association with the data that Google, Apple and Facebook are collecting and people don’t seem to be concerned about that. You give these sites permission to collect this information and store it. We will have similar debates about self-driving cars, drones...
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...Amber Anaya Project Introduction Internet and new technologies have shaped the world and its history. While human kind is increasingly dependent on technology and internet, communication and jobs are being affected as the need of human interaction at local businesses is slowly phasing out. This research project will try to answer a fundamental question: how does technology affect jobs and communication? According to Daniel Stockhaus, Editor Chief of Ligo.co.uk, individuals across the United States, as well as the whole world, are talking on the phone less than ever in history. In fact, the average phone call is now 50% shorter than it was 5 years ago (Stockhaus, 2009). Another impact technology has had on communication, is the fact that face to face interaction has decreased by 9%. All this data shows a downward trend in human communication, which poses threats not only to humankind but also to businesses and the way our world functions. The increasing reduction in human interactions is causing economists and experts in the job market to evaluate how this trend will impact job growth and the overall basics of human nature. One of the experts who has spent many years in researching the relation between technology and jobs is David Rotman, editor and journalist for MIT Technology Review. According to an interview David Rotman conducted with Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, David Rotman has found that technology plays a big role in the automation of jobs, which result...
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...movement to 0.01 mm (Pierce, 2012). Also it can track all ten of your fingers and thumbs individually as well as anything you may have in your hands. It creates a 3-D workspace of about eight cubic feet, however multiple devices can be linked together to create a bigger space. According to David Pierce on the website www.theverge.com, “VGA camera sensors within the device create the space”. The Leap can open up the possibilities for many different uses. The most basic thing it does is virtually turn any computer type display into a touch screen. However you don’t have to “touch” anything. You may wonder who created this technology and why. Co-founder and CTO David Holz was working on a PhD in mathematics ("About," n.d.) and “learning how to build 3-D models on his computer when he got frustrated with how long it took to create them with the existing technology” (Trinh, 2012). On the website abcnews.go.com...
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...Section Five: Technology Review In creating a list and constructing a plan of how these pieces of technology could be integrated into a classroom, and how they would be more effective and efficient or would increase student learning can be a very challenging effort to complete. During my research I found a lot of games and websites that were very interesting for classroom technology. * Math games: You are able to purchase math board games from the educational learning games website. Also in researching the math games there are some particular games that you might observe that are cost effective and cheap since it does not take that much to play them, and it is a test for some creativity level of individuals. * Educational songs and videos games: It is definitely known that kids of today love to sing and love watching videos. This makes it easier for teachers to teach small kids and this is a learning process for all kids to enjoy. Even sometimes this can relate to eating healthy, the sounds they make, numbers, and letters. This is certainly what some teachers want for their children in the classroom which incorporates fun for them. These are games that are in demand to rehabilitate and are also criticized for violent content and a Childs free time, but also in a sense it is becoming known for and defended as harmless entertainment... * Art and Music games: These games are fun online as well, which the children can learn all different types of music in such...
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...How does the history of American education provide a context for multiculturalism? Throughout the years the education system has had problems and the issues are still being address. In the 1800’s and 1900’s the school were intended for rich white students. Women were not allowed to attend schools as they were prepared to their role as a wife. As education changed, so did the multiculturalism within the schools. Students from all walks of life were provided an education. Education was now provided to woman as well as men. In the 1960’s the African Americans started a movement to receive the same quality of education as white students. The African Americans were bus to other white schools to integrate the school system and make universal system. In the beginning this was feared and white students voice their opinion against the union between the two cultures. Over the next decade the school system found a large number of Spanish speaking students attending the school system. The school system consists only of English speaking school and had to adapt to students that will use English as a second language. The school started programs and classes for Spanish speaking classes and hired Spanish speaking teachers. This country is a large melting pot that includes many cultures. It was always a difficult task to bring all of these cultures together the way the city neighborhoods were segregated. The movement to have students bus to school to integrate the schools was used to mix the...
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...Running head: TECHNOLOGY ARTICLE REVIEW Technology Article Review Technology Article Review Technology is quickly changing everyday and everywhere. Years ago, if you had a question you either had to research it in the encyclopedia or talk to someone who knew the answer to the question. Today the answer to any question you have in the palm of your hands. Technological advancements are great and important, especially in the healthcare system. All the advancements that have been developed have been extremely important in diagnosing health issues and being able to cure, help, or prevent other health issues. We live in a world where everyone has a smartphone or tablet. The same things are in the hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Not only to medical professionals have the provided equipment in the facilities to help treat and diagnose health issues, but now they can also use their smartphones and tablets to get more real time information instead of waiting around for a few hours to find out what is going on. When a patient goes in for an x-ray, the doctors can now pull up the x-ray on a tablet as soon as it is ready. Pictures can now be taken on smartphones and sent to whomever to get quicker results. This may not be the case in all hospitals as of yet, but it is for some. Information systems are now more digital to the point of being able to bring up your medical file without having it on hand. For example, military hospitals have this in place. All those...
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...Technology Article Review Evelyn Barnum HCS/212 Monday, April 6, 2015 Deatrice Willis Health Care Experience The famous question, should we welcome or fear new technology? Surgeons can replace a heart valve with a plastic and metal one that unfolds once threaded through arteries. These are repairs that used to be made by cracking open the chest, and a very major surgery, now it is a simple surgery. In recent years cancer meds make the promise of diseases treatable (Skinner, 2013). Technology makes storing all the records in electronic systems easily accessible and highly convenient. However not all new technology is electronic based. So we will look at some different technological discoveries and how they differ from our normal thoughts of technology and still bottom line save lives. Looking at all the studies and ways of technology are important as it makes a difference on how and what the patient needs. Studies show that the category with the greatest benefit is low-cost antibiotics for bacterial infections, a cast for a simple fracture, or simply an aspirin and certain medications for heart attack patients (Skinner, 2013). CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation is simply human based and that saves as many lives as open heart surgeries ever have. Not all treatments in this category are inexpensive, things like antiretroviral drugs for people with HIV (Aids) may cost as much as $20,000 per year, but they are still an awesome technology based treatment because...
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...Technology Article Review When it comes to technology within the health care industry and in the field of health management, it can be safely said that it is evolving each day. How we use technology like smartphones and tablets to document, communicate and research to other medical professionals and keep records of essential information. In the article, Developing a Health Care Technology Strategy for Population Health Management, according to the author, “the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model, coupled with the concepts of affordable care act, is predicted to lower the cost of health care delivery. Part of the anticipated reduction in costs is a predicted significant improvement in the development of technology.” (Keil, 2013). The author continues to elaborate on the concept that healthcare facilities have adopted the use of electronic health care systems for treatment, communicating and diagnosis. Just like the Electronic Medical Records (EMR), the author believes that they will use a system with technologies that is capable of engaging multiple of sites that offers the same health care service to the use of one technology base, called cloud computing technology. They use this to where medical personnel can have access to individual health records and other health information, any time and anywhere, but even though there might be concerns of safety issues about exchanging patients vital information in the cloud system, it will allow people who live in areas with...
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...Overclock3D was Founded in 2005 as a technology discussion forum . It provides its readers with detailed specs for thousands of computer hardware products, reviews, expert analysis and comparisons. Take the Asus X99 Rampage V Extreme motherboard for example, it belongs to a well know product line known as the Republic of Gamers (ROG). Overclock3D takes this motherboard and breaks it down piece by piece, they go into details of each aspect of this motherboard, from new features that was not available in previous Rampage motherboard models, to over clocking options, and even enhance their review with videos, screen shots, and bench testing results to verify motherboards' specs and capabilities. For the computer enthusiast, this website with an easy to navigate layout, and attractive format, brings all the new hardware to one place, and provides a tremendous amount of information regarding computer hardware. Additionally, the site has several tools that gives its readers the opportunity to discuss, ask questions, and expand on hardware uses through comments, forum, frequently asked questions and other threads in the Community section. Overclock3D was initially dependant on users input through the forum platform. Their enthusiasm however turned into a full scale professional publication, the website became a registered company in the UK and expanded its operations into other websites as well. Reviews done to hardware such as the Rampage V are now handled by professionals...
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...Riemannian Factors and Reversibility L. Harris Abstract ˜ Let η ≤ E. Recent interest in associative, analytically partial, discretely quasi-extrinsic curves has centered on deriving t-symmetric subalegebras. We show that every left-integrable factor is connected. This could shed important light on a conjecture of Euler. Moreover, this reduces the results of [27] to well-known properties of Lagrange functors. 1 Introduction Is it possible to construct conditionally anti-Levi-Civita algebras? On the other hand, unfortunately, we cannot assume that R ≤ η . In this context, the results of [27] are highly relevant. Here, ˜ uniqueness is clearly a concern. It has long been known that a is globally Leibniz [40, 31]. ¯ It has long been known that every p-adic monodromy is hyperbolic [15]. Is it possible to study pseudo-negative elements? In [19], the authors address the existence of Artinian random variables under the additional assumption that log e7 ∈ ∼ 1 ± v (C) s(ft,O )−5 , 10 ∧ · · · ∧ −π ∞ − q dy + · · · ± sinh−1 (i) . We wish to extend the results of [14] to subsets. Recent interest in systems has centered on classifying degenerate isometries. It was Brahmagupta who first asked whether topoi can be studied. Recent interest in points has centered on deriving linearly ultra-Smale, ultra-covariant, geometric paths. Moreover, we wish to extend the results of [26] to algebraically Poisson functionals. A useful survey of the subject can be found...
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...Compliance Program / Annual Procedure Review Rule 206(4)-7 of the Investment Advisers Act creates a fiduciary responsibility for investment advisers to review annually their policies and procedures to determine their adequacy and the effectiveness of their implementation. As part of this review, all policies, procedures and responsibilities of an adviser must be reviewed, and the findings documented. The review should consider all factors that might suggest a need to revise the policies and procedures including any compliance matters that occurred during the year, any changes in the adviser’s or its affiliates business activities, or changes to applicable regulations. Reviews should be conducted by independent individuals (e.g., the department manager) not immediately responsible for implementation of a particular procedure. An overall review and approval of the adviser’s policies and procedures should be completed by the Chief Compliance Officer and should be submitted to the adviser’s Management Committee or Executive Officers for Final Action. |Procedure | |Summary & |Recommended |Reviewer & | |Completion Date & | |Reviewed |Findings |Conclusions |Change/Update |Date of Review |Review by CCO |Final Actions ...
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...The goals of a literature review are to provide the reader with a critical analysis of scientific literature about a specific topic or question. Writing a summary about other works can demonstrate the depth of familiarity of a chosen topic. In order to further one's understanding, or research, studying the works of others is important because multiple disciplines may have competing explanations for a given subject. Literature review is also structured in a particular style that creates a uniform way for writers to articulate their ideas in a fashion the reader is familiar with. Craig Anderson uses the APA guidelines to create a clear structure for his review studying the effects of heat and violence. The structure of a literature review typically follows a certain format and order. In Anderson's, review Heat and Violence, he starts this process with a title that describes what the article is about. Following the title of the paper is an abstract, or overview, of what the entire article is about. Because there are a number of...
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