Personal Digital Assistants By: Rudolph Thomas A PDA is a digital organizer‚ or personal digital assistant that can be comfortable held in your hand (it is also called a handheld computer). It is designed to fit in a pocket‚ run on batteries and be used while you ’re holding it (Computer Concepts‚ pg. 7). It can function as a cell phone‚ send faxes‚ read email and be used as a personal organizer. It uses among other things. PDA ’s use a stylus‚ or pen‚ rather than a keyboard. It ’s
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Education for Digital Natives The article “Digital Natives‚ Digital Immigrants” by Marc Prensky discusses the changes in information processing by the students of today due to the rise in digital technology of the last few decades. He argues that because of digital technology‚ students learn in a drastically different way than the generation before them‚ leading to a disconnect in how to successfully teach them. I agree with Prensky and support this claim by noting popular and successful vloggers
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Eliana Dockterman’s article concerning Digital Parent Trap discusses how some want their children to have technology and some don’t. In Dockterman’s article she uses dependable evidence‚ reasoning‚ and highly academic word choices to prove a strong point about technology. First Dockterman uses dependable evidence in her article to get the readers attention to think about technology. She uses the fact “While there are dangers inherit in access to Facebook‚ new research suggests that social-networking
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It is mistaken that death is evil. The questions that people have asked themselves for thousands of years about the soul being mortal‚ or immortal still continues today. Socrates‚ an ancient Greek philosopher‚ had his arguments that death is not an evil‚ but a new beginning. Eventually‚ Socrates was sentenced to death by Hemlock‚ after a synonymous vote of the jury. Some philosophers think that what Socrates said to his defense only got himself deeper into trouble‚ but some think Socrates rightfully
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Kodak’s current position in digital imaging is focused on three areas: 1. Image capture (digital cameras) – cameras are still not boosting profits‚ but Kodak has secured 15% of the market‚ and have boosted advertising spending towards s more integrated marketing effort 2. Services (online photo manipulation) - spent significant dollars on R&D developing software 3. Image output (digital kiosks‚ inkjet printers‚ paper and inks) – network of 19‚000 kiosks at retail stores are highly profitable
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variation is one of the oldest and one enduring issues in man’s efforts to understand the human behavior. Psychologists have used the term cognition to describe the psychology result of perception‚ learning‚ and reasoning‚ as well as the two mental abilities that they tried to measure which are intelligence and creativity. When talking about all the processes a person has to go through to reach his/her thoughts in order to communicate with others‚ he/she has to use the three most important building
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Performance VS Ability "Thinking is easy‚ acting is difficult‚ and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world." Like this quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‚ we were taught that life is about what we do‚ rather than what we know. We were told that putting our ideas into action is better than just simply having an idea. There is a huge correlation between setting a goal in life‚ setting out to achieve that goal‚ and actually making it happen. There are so many dreamers
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the digital divide and its effects’ The term ‘digital divide’ refers to the breach between those who have access to information and communication tools such as the internet and those who do not. It is commonly thought that the digital divide is mainly between the rich and the poor; however there are many other factors that lead to this. These factors are characterized by community‚ ethnic‚ technological and age groups. Therefore‚ this essay will be focusing on the explanation of the digital divide
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The digital world‚ especially its omnipresence and highly structured environment‚ has introduced a new sort of rhetoric which holds a significant effect on identity. Digital rhetoric theory has come about as a result of communication occurring via various electric formats (Plessis 2013 p. 2). The Internet functions as a source which promotes “rethinking of identity as anonymous‚ fluid‚ and unfixed” because of its collaborative nature (Hess 2014 p. 3). Users are always interacting with the readily
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Digital Library What is digital library? There is no unique definition for it. If we go to Wikipedia‚ I snipped the important definition as follows; “a library in which collections are stored in electronic media formats and accessible via computers. The electronic content may be stored locally‚ or accessed remotely via computer networks”. From the scope of Digital Library from Stanford University would say; "at Stanford University‚ some discussion was held as to what did we mean by the term "digital
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