Muntaha Mahmud

10/20/2010

• The fact that careers are all but selected for students in India and China also allows them to focus more in particular fields, providing them the opportunity to take classes in that field before they are even out of high school. This drastically contrasts with American high school students who usually do not even think about their careers until they are preparing to apply to colleges and may even change their intended careers halfway through college. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Why?
• I think is a good thing, because, it helps students to experiment with their own interests, and they want to work on. But if students have a goal, they might get into trouble at the end. In India and China, students decide what they are gonna do in future, it helps them to make different choices, and also they can think about back-up options about what they are gonne do if they fail to get thwe goal, so from my point of view, its a good thing, and student should get a chance to decide by themselves what they want to do in future.

• I think the students chosen to represent Americans were a pretty good depiction of some of the top students we have here. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
• I agree, because in America most of the students are basically more interested in extra-curricular activites and also students get into jobs before graduating from high school, there are very less students who totally focuses on academic stuffs, From my point of view, American students have more areas to focus on, in here they dont need to face lot of pressure on studies.

• The purpose of viewing the video was to demonstrate a flat world - made flat by competing economies in China and India. And that happened because of the dot.com bubble which laid down the fiber optic cables connecting our country with theirs via the Internet. Now that you've finished viewing the video, what are some of your thoughts? Was it worthwhile to have viewed this video? Has it made you appreciate what you have? How can we say the world is flat and global all at the same time? Don't those images cancel each other out? Explain.
• The video shows us different styles of studying in different culture, in America students get a lot of times to get involve in other curricular activities, most of them start earn by their own at the age og 18. But in India and China, students dont get enough time after completing their school work, and other tution things. But in other way they get focus on their future occupation and make choices of what they are gonna do in future. I dont feel very proud about our school-system, but also, students in India or China they are not getting space of their other works in life. But in America sutdents are gaining experience of real life. On the other had they are not gaining propoer academic knowledge, which can various problems in future.

10/12/2010

• Technology in classroom
• Three remarkable things, are, 1st students dont have equal internet access- it relates with the Equality of access issue, 2nd not all students are comfortable with using computer- it relates with People and machines issue, and 3rd one would be there is not enough computers in schools, so this relates with the policies and standards issue.
• Equality of access is one of the big issues in this topic, because all students are not having equal access in internet to do their school work.
• "Downsides of technology"- one professor found one of her students who used laptop accessively did 11% worse than her other students. The use of internet is rapidly increasing and its causing students to loose their grades in school. It can be solved by limitng the time they are gonna spend online, it can be happen by engaging them with other activities.

10/052010

• What Will Facebook Reveal On Wednesday
• Could it be the oft-discussed but even more oft-denied facebook phone? Mark Zuckerberg said: "At the end of the day, when people say 'building a phone' they actually can mean very different things," And if its not a phone, we are waiting for facebook to fire up a human-powered search engine.TechCrunch makes a few additional guesses, including an iPad app, a beefed-up version of Places or an expansion of Google Credits to become a site-wide currency.
• The users and the administration group are the stake holder, because whatever changes its gonna take, that gonna make some effect in these peoples lives.
• It kind of relates with the Globalization and Cultural Diversity, because facebook is a social networking site, and globalize with peoples in other countries, and if facebook is gonna make some changes thats gonna make it easy for everyone to globalize.
• This issue is really interesting for me, because I have a facebook account and if it release anything new, it might get easier for us to socialize.

9/27/2010

• Facebook and Skype may friend each other
• Facebook and Skype are getting ready to announce a "significant and wide-ranging" partnership that would integrate text messaging, voice chat and Facebook Connect, according to a report. For those who already use Facebook's instant messaging system within the program, incorporating Skype's video chat would be yet another reason to spend more time within the walled world of 500 million users.
• The users and the authority of both sites are the stakeholders. The users are going to get more scope to interact with people. And that can be the center of attention of the people.
• Globalization & Cultural Diversity:- It can be one of the Social & Ethical Issues in this matter, because by inventing it, people may get a wide way to interact with others, from different region.
• Art, Entertainment & Leisure:- by creating this, people will get to know more about other kind of arts, entertainment and can spend their leisure time doing this
• It can be a great new thing for the people who likes to interact with others, on social networking sites, and can get a chance to exchange their opinion, that can help them to spread their minds.

9/21/2010

• Twitter was hacked this morning
• Twitter counter onmouseover security flaw.This morning when the users tried to access in Twitter, they couldn't! because it was hacked, impacting thousands of users of the popular microblogging site. This particular hack of Twitter.com was especially crafty, as it was enough for Web surfers to move their mouse cursors over links to activate the links, which sent them to spammers destinations, such as the one million followers of a former British prime minister, who found themselves inexplicably at a hardcore porn site based in Japan.The hack affects users of the Twitter site, and hasn't impacted users who use third-party applications, such as Tweetdeck. TechCrunch (Europe) also has an update that indicates users of the new Twitter interface, mostly here in North America, were also safe.
• the users of Twitter and the administration groups are the stakeholder, because they had to face a lot of troubles.
• It relates with peoples privacy and anonymity- which means to keep a restriction on what people can access in social networking sites, also security is a major key term for this, lack of security can make this kind of problems later in future again.
• This article relates with me, because I also have a twitter account, and if the site gets in kind of problems like this, it can cause me, to loose my private information.
• By creating more restricted privacy can solve this kind of issues, and the administrator should make a privacy rule to prevent this kind of problems.

9/17/2010

• Samsung takes on Apple iPad with Galaxy Tab
• Samsung's assault on Apple is underway, as the company unveils its plans for its new tablet PC as well as a new service that allows consumers to purchase or rent TV shows and movies on their Samsung mobile devices. Analysts say there is plenty of room for other entrants. Since the iPad launch, several companies have announced plans for products that tap into this market. And as many handset manufacturers have done in the past, tablet PC makers are turning to the Google Android operating system as the foundation of their products. Dell, Acer, Motorola, and LG Electronics have each said they have plans to make Android-based tablets. The Galaxy Tab could be among the most competitive in the near term, according to RBC Capital equities analyst Mark Sue.
• People and Machines- People can get other options than Apple iPad to experience the accessability.