Title: Silicon Valley School that doesn't compute
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=all
Synopsis: Waldorf Schools are a string of schools around the country that dismiss the idea that computers and technology are aids in helping kids learn in schools and instead the schools try to encourage kids to use hands-on learning instead to help learning progress, their are no computers in the classrooms at all.
Stakeholders: The kids who go to Waldorf schools and their families and people who are wondering if technology does or doesn't help kids learn better in school
Social and Ethical Issues: Everybody is using technology, it's a part of our daily lives including in schools and these schools are isolating kids from learning to use the technology that they will have to use once in the world and out of schools which might make it hard for them to adapt
Area of Impact: Education
Opinion on Issues: I think this isn't a very good method, kids should learn to use technology from a young age since our society is more or less centered around the use of it, everyone uses computers and smartphones for the most part, so why not have these kids learn also how they can be tools to help them learn?
Agree or Disagree with Waldorf School: I disagree, because like I said before, isolating these kids from technology might hinder them more than help them
Monday, October 24, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Warmup: Amazon Re-writes Rules of book Publishing
Title: Amazon Rewrites the rules of Book publishing
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-publishing.html?_r=1
Amazon is starting to publish books books on their own, they are publishing now122 different books in regular and e-book form. They hired people who have experience in that field to work for them, in short, amazon is becoming a all-in-one place for book buying, selling and publishing.
The stakeholders are authors and other publishing companies, authors now have a choice to publish with amazon and in short, cut out the middle man which was publishing companies. Publishers are scared because amazon is now going to try and take over the publishing business now also.
The area of impact affected is Business and Employment, because this is strictly for business. Amazon is doing this to make more money since if they publish their own books than they would be cutting out the middleman which was the publishing companies, it also affects employment because since they started a publishing section of amazon, they have to employ more people to work on that section of the company.
Future changes that might occur is that amazon will slowly start to do more and more so that they cut out middlemen for all sections of their company, maybe they'll start to publish music artists or produce movies.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-publishing.html?_r=1
Amazon is starting to publish books books on their own, they are publishing now122 different books in regular and e-book form. They hired people who have experience in that field to work for them, in short, amazon is becoming a all-in-one place for book buying, selling and publishing.
The stakeholders are authors and other publishing companies, authors now have a choice to publish with amazon and in short, cut out the middle man which was publishing companies. Publishers are scared because amazon is now going to try and take over the publishing business now also.
The area of impact affected is Business and Employment, because this is strictly for business. Amazon is doing this to make more money since if they publish their own books than they would be cutting out the middleman which was the publishing companies, it also affects employment because since they started a publishing section of amazon, they have to employ more people to work on that section of the company.
Future changes that might occur is that amazon will slowly start to do more and more so that they cut out middlemen for all sections of their company, maybe they'll start to publish music artists or produce movies.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Warmup: "Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control"
Summary of the article: There is a new way to hack voting machines that will be used in 2012 for elections which is disturbing, but even more disturbing is the fact that it can be hacked in a way that leaves no trace behind, and only costs a mere $10.50 worth of equipment to do it and the knowledge in the field of science that even kids as young as 8th grade learn.
The stakeholders are everybody in America, because if the system used to choose our leaders can be manipulated, it could lead to, in a worst case scenario, get a candidate elected that wouldn't have been elected otherwise, and if that said candidate was maybe viewed as un-qualified or un-worthy to be president, it could put our whole country at risk.
The area that it would impact would be all of them, because candidates each have different views on each of these areas and depending on who would be elected, some areas might be helped more than it usually would or some areas would lose needed funding or help.
The advantage is that voting machines make vote tallying easier to add up and more organized. Disadvantage is that they can, as you can see here, be manipulated.
A solution to the issue at hand simply would be to design new voting machines and/or different programs for them that cannot be hacked as easily, or they could do hand balloting, but the disadvantage to that is that it would take much, much longer to tally up all votes in all states.
The stakeholders are everybody in America, because if the system used to choose our leaders can be manipulated, it could lead to, in a worst case scenario, get a candidate elected that wouldn't have been elected otherwise, and if that said candidate was maybe viewed as un-qualified or un-worthy to be president, it could put our whole country at risk.
The area that it would impact would be all of them, because candidates each have different views on each of these areas and depending on who would be elected, some areas might be helped more than it usually would or some areas would lose needed funding or help.
The advantage is that voting machines make vote tallying easier to add up and more organized. Disadvantage is that they can, as you can see here, be manipulated.
A solution to the issue at hand simply would be to design new voting machines and/or different programs for them that cannot be hacked as easily, or they could do hand balloting, but the disadvantage to that is that it would take much, much longer to tally up all votes in all states.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Open Source: iOS
Open Source Code -> Safari
Who Maintains it -> Open source means anybody can add and/or maintain it
What it does -> Safarai is Apple's internet browser
Number of Users -> In the year of 2011, a average of 4% of all the people in America use Safari as their primary internet browser when using a computer
Who Maintains it -> Open source means anybody can add and/or maintain it
What it does -> Safarai is Apple's internet browser
Number of Users -> In the year of 2011, a average of 4% of all the people in America use Safari as their primary internet browser when using a computer
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