Samiha Choudhury

10/18/10

1. 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 suggest that this could be a good thing because it is helping them prepare for a specific career that they dream to have. Yet, if they had another career as their first choice and the second choice is what their studying now and if they change their mind or aren't able to get their first choice, then they can stick to the studies now and get their second choice. In this case, they have chances because at the end they known if this study or career is good for them or not instead of studying later and find out if they're successful or not. However, if they start their studies later but are unsuccessful then it's just a waste of time. 

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10/12/10

• in the Classroom
• Summary: The first thing is that only 19% of 12th graders uses computer daily for school work everyday. This is surprising because I think that these people probably spend their time with friend, chat, hang out, etc. This relates to people and machine because it seems to be that they're not focused on their school work that much.
• The second thing is that 14% of classrooms in the United States have internet access and this is showing that they migh haved a different type of teaching system for teaching such as a white board or chalk board. Therefore, they don't have equalitiy of access because not all have access to internet.
• The third thing is that 85% of schools in the United States have multipedia computers and this is showing that they don't have their own intellectual property (they don't don't own computers) because they can't afford to buy one.
• One thing that I would likely change is for all the people to have access to internet by giving computers to them because now days there are works, hws, etc which can't be done without a computer. For example, if your doing a research project there might be some information you need to find on the internet which can't be found on some books. So, you can't always rely on books and other materials.
• One downside of technology is that two-third of teenagers in United States use internet for writing shortcut. This seems to be a problem because people seem to purposely forgot the "English" language. Now they start to use this text language in their schoolwork.

10/5/10

• the Powers of Persuasion
• Summmary: A director from the Persuasive Technology Laboratory at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, named B. J. Fogg talks about how technology has been influeing "behavior." Frogg teaches people persuasive technologies for determing the behavior and been directing people to Facebook and Google. A book that he is writing is called "Facebook taps into our need to belong" which involves the concept of psychology of the social-networking site. There, Frogg is working on his different projects so he can successfully find the answer. The stakeholders are B. J. Fogg, the Cambridge, Massachusetts company Vitality, a graduate student from the Stanford University, Zaw Thet (Stanford's graduate student), and Scott Kleper (graduate student from Stanford). One of the student who worked with Frogg had named persuasion filed "captology" because this refered to the topic computers as persuasive technology. Throughout his studies he had learned many new and interesting ideas about persuasion techonlogies which is said in this qoute "Technology allows you to trigger behaviors in new ways, motivate in new ways, then simplify, automate, and scale up," Frogg says to to the people. This article is an example of equality of access which means that anyone can access some type of thing. In here, anyone can view his experiment of Persuasive Technology such as his articles, web sites, books, etc. For the impact, this would be Science and Environment because it's dealing with Persuasive Technology and how the behavior acts. I think that this is something that's new to me because Frogg is trying to introduce the people about Persuasive Technology which I've never had heard before.

• Frogg states about his thoughts about Persuasive Technology projects which can benefit peoples' health and behaviors that effects the environment. In fact, many designs for Persuasive Technology are being tested such as the clinical trial, University of California, San Diego, for seeing if text messages, electronic nudges, etc would benefit the college students so that this can imporve their eating habits.

9/29/10

• while driving bans don't work, may actually hurt, study finds
• Summary: There have been researches from Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI)had stated about people text when they are driving. Although, this had now became a major issue because this is causing all the people to get injured or even being killed. "Textng bans haven't reduced crashes at all. In a perverse twist, crashes increased in 3 of the 4 states we studied after bans were enacted. It's an indication that texting bans might even increase the risk of texting for drivers who continue to do so despite the laws," is said by Adrian Lund who is from the Governors Highway Safety Association Governor's president. His opinions infers to how this is risking the people's lives. The stakeholders are Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) researcher's and Adrian Lund who wants to best help for preventing drivers from accidents, crashes, being killed, etc. The Social and Ethical issues is policy and standard because many people don't follow the rules and regulations of VA. Therefore, they break the law and thinks that they can get away with texting when driving. The impact is Arts, Entertainment,and leisure because this is impacting on how people disobey the laws and being careless by texting. Sine Lund says that he want to ban about texting when your driving. I agree with Lund about texting because the more people will text the more problems there will be. On the other hand, this makes me feel mad because I don't understand why people with common sense do crazy things.
• In California (January 2009), Louisiana (July 2008), Minnesota (August 2008), and Washington (January 2008) there have been millions of people who died from texting during driving. As you can see, there were many losses for just doing one mistake. The more they continue to do this the more effect it will take during later years.

9/21/10

• New Compass Uses Light Beams to Detect Magnetic Field
• Summary: There are new compasses that uses light beams for detecting Magnetic field was created stated by a group of physicists. The compasses beams light through the rubidium atoms which can measure the size and the orientation of the magnetic field. Inside the compass there are build-in local magnetic field in order to find the direction and also it rebuilds the compass itself. The stakeholders are Zibrov along with his colleagues and they had tested the compass for pinpointing the compass at the right direction. They had eventually trapped the rubidium-87 atoms at the 113 degrees Fahrenheit. This relates to people because this would affect them. The compasses only have little energy for use and it's not that big. To me, it seems to be a modern invention of compasses and it is easier to use. Also, this tool might be helpful for education uses. I think that there should be better compasses.

• The New compasses can detect directions for magnetic field.

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• Hack Turns $170 Media Viewer Into Tablet
• Summary: This article is about how hackers have hacked electronically had made Webkit-basic browser for using the device program in order to run all the applications. This had became a big issue because they used "tablet" for puting it in to ipad. The people that controls the information should have more security systems from preventing hacking.
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