In the article Digital Natives‚ Digital Immigrants Marc Prensky asserts that if digital immigrant educators wish to reach digital naives they will have to adapt. Prensky’s claims are a response to the fact that teachers don’t believe that they should have to adapt in order to teach students. With the rapid change change of students and technology the interests and focuses of students have shifted. In addition to this change in students‚ the educators are remaining the same causing a communication
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1 ICT SYSTEMS AND THEIR COMPONENTS 1. WHAT IS ICT? Information Communication Technology is the use of technology for the input‚ processing‚ storage‚ and transfer of data and the output of information; for example‚ traditional computers doing tasks such as sales processing by entering sales data to produce output information such as an invoice. 2. WHAT IS A SYSTEM? Any activity that involves the capture of data as input‚ the processing of data into information and the production of information
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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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Joshua Budhai 1/23/13 Period:G Digital Native or Digital Immigrant? Today’s students today grow up around technology in a far more advanced way then past generations. We are constantly surrounded by electronics from an early age and are submerged in this technology so much that it makes us “Native” to its use and our understanding of it is enormous because of this. This concept is called being a “Digital Native”‚ in contrast there are those from older generations
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* SONET Digital Hierarchy * Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) is a standardized multiplexing protocol that transfers multiple digital bit streams over optical fiber using lasers or light emitting diodes (LEDs). SONET was designed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for the USA public telephone network in the mid 1980’’s due to the breakup of AT&T. With the breakup‚ numerous regional telephone companies were created and those companies encountered network problems working
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WHAT IS “STRESS”? “…a physical‚ chemical‚ or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation” Merriam-Webster dictionary WHERE “STRESS” COMES FROM? KIND OF “STRESS” Positive stress • • • • • • Work promotion Marriage New baby Perfect golf game Graduation …. Negative stress • • • • • Financial difficulty Traffic Illness Loss of job Death of a family member • … IMPACT OF “STRESS” ‘Touching’ Therapy
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7 Ways to Reduce Cost August 7‚ 2007 By Ron Pereira 4 Comments I finished the book Gemba Kaizen by Masaaki Imai. It was quite good and I highly recommend it. It is chalk full of excellent tips like 7 ways to reduce costs in gemba (as Mr. Imai phrases it). They are: 1. Improve Quality: Imai stresses how good quality is a prerequisite to making lean work. He even speaks about things like control charts which you don’t find mentioned in many lean books. 2. Improve Productivity: Productivity
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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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presentable. Thanks to technology‚ most of these issues have been touched upon and improved. With inventions such as the steam engine‚ the water frame‚ the cotton gin‚ and the spinning jenny‚ our modern day might not have been so fortunate or plentiful. With the help of these inventions in the industrial revolution‚ post-revolutionary inventors and entrepreneurs were given the inspiration for their creations that led to the efficient lifestyles we live today. Although these new technologies made life a bit
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Technology I INTRODUCTION Technology‚ purposeful human activity which involves designing and making products as diverse as clothing‚ foods‚ artefacts‚ machines‚ structures‚ electronic devices and computer systems‚ collectively often referred to as “the made world”. Technology can also mean the special kind of knowledge which technologists use when solving practical problems (for example‚ designing and building an irrigation system for tropical agriculture). Such work often begins with a human
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