Assignment Instructions
Please post a response to a minimum of 2 topics posted to the discussions tool – section four. Your response should thoroughly address each question as well as substantial content to validate your answer. You may choose to compare and contrast, look at advantages versus disadvantages, or how the topic adds value to our economy or society.
You are also required to post a minimum of two posting to your peer’s responses to the questions. Your postings should add value, additional information, or a new perspective on the response you peer posted.
Digital literature and its impact on learning.
Similar to Digital media, digital literature is words that work on digital codes. “Digital media (“Formats for presenting information” according to Wiktionary:Media) like digital audio, digital video and other digital “content” can be created, referred to and distributed via digital information processing machines.”
- How has digital literature influenced change in lifestyles and what are the ethical implications of these changes?
Technological opportunities for people with disabilities
Many technical tools are available for people with disabilities. People with various disabilities are able to do what many people without disabilities take for granted when access needs are incorporated into mainstream products or when adaptive devices are readily available. Listed below are just a few examples.
- adapted computer keyboards and large button key pads
- computer software zoom and large print features
- closed captioning for video products
- web browsers that work for people with visual problems
- E-mail text or audio messaging
- pagers that vibrate
- talking caller ID
- Expand on these technologies through example and present additional technologies that are available to assist people with disabilities so they have more opportunities as they co-exist in our society.
Case Study:North Dakota Center for People with Disabilities (NDCPD)
Review the following link. Summarize the various efforts NDCPD is involved in to provide people with disabilities new opportunities through technology.
Technology changes that will affect future society
Identify 5 new technologies that will affect future society. Will these affects have a positive or negative influence on society?
Biometrics
“Biometrics refers to two very different fields of study and application. The first, which is the older and is used in biological studies, including forestry, is the collection, synthesis, analysis and management of quantitative data on biological communities such as forests. Biometrics in reference to biological sciences has been studied and applied for several generations and is somewhat simply viewed as “biological statistics.”
More recently and incongruently, the term’s meaning has been broadened to include the study of methods for uniquely recognizing humans based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits.”
- How are biometrics being used in technology.
- What are the implications of using biometrics in technology – from a positive and negative perspective?
Nanocomputing
Review the following links on nanocomputing.
- Centre for Quantum Computation
- Nanocomputing: When Will It Happen? – InformIT
- NSF Workshop on Nanocomputing
- Summarize your interpretation of nanocomputing and explain how it will affect our future society.
Energy
- Choose an energy industry such as oil, petroleum, electricity, coal etc. and discuss how technology has impacted the advancement of this industry.
- How will these advancements continue to influence our society – both positively and negatively?
Section #4
Via the Assignments Tool, please submit a minimum 4 content page, doubles spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman paper summarizing the questions for each of the topics presented for section four.
