Living in Digital World Essay

People may not have realized this yet, but the zombie apocalypse has already started. From living rooms to coffee shops or on the streets of any neighborhood, mindless de-animated sacks of meat spend endless hours consumed and mesmerized by their digital devices. These human husks have the appearances of the living, but lack free will as they are chained to the screens of their televisions, laptops, or smartphones. These technological devices have changed everything in modern society; it has…

Photos have changed from being a source of freezing a moment to remember to actually becoming the moment. With the new types of media and the need to show off what is being done in a visual manner has resulted in people capturing a moment rather than living in it. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the evolution of photography and photo editing and the ultimate psychological effect of the visual distortion of reality. History of Photography The art of photography dates back several…

Thinking that, even if the digital camera did evolve into a better product, it would not be for years and not to the extent where it would make their product worthless. In the end, because they were too afraid of losing money, by venturing into the unknown with this new technology…

“Imagine mankind as dwelling in an underground cave with a long entrance open to the light across the whole width of the cave…” (Plato). In today’s society, people are blind to everything except what is shown to them. This cave is the current world and technology is blinding everyone, keeping them narrow-minded. Students use technology almost daily in school and it is hurting their education experience. Technology is mainly hurting students in education because it contains a lot of false…

for example as a baby boomer, I know why the term “dial a number” is used for entering a phone number, and why we never asked the person we called “Where are you?”. Socially they seem minor but they were part of my experiences. The example of the digital social society is one that is changing incredibly fast so now Anne Hornsby ethnography of surfing the net (Hornsby 1990) already seems outdated with references to BBS, Usenet and MUDs, but it does hold much about the society and the early rules…

be a digital age learner. The Student Learning Capacities involve being a Critical Thinker and Inquirer, being Academically and Personally Accountable, a Communicator and Collaborator, being Globally Aware and Culturally Competent, and being a Digital Age…

My Response to Ritchin and Balsamo. From the four reads of the week by Ritchin and Balsamo, my main takeaway from Ritchin was the advancement of digital photography and how it has made it easier for photographers to tell their story through imagery, plus the added effect that tells a false story and Balsamo the unconscious consequence of technological innovations on culture. “Photography, as we have known it, is both ending and enlarging, with an evolving medium hidden inside it as in a…

DIMENSION SEVEN: THE RELATION OF THE OLD TO THE NEW Defining change and a digital workplace Change is inevitable. Change is significantly apparent in ‘New learning’ or ‘21st learning’ as there is a substantial amount of research contributing to the idea of transforming learning environments, in turn, changing ‘classroom’ or ‘learning space’ dynamics. Change can be relative. Cuban (1993) explains that for some teachers substituting textbooks, deciding to implement technology such as computers…

Going further into this digital revolution, textbooks are an obtrusive object of the past that should be replaced with tablets in the K-12 school system. As a matter of fact, the great debate of whether to exchange heavy obtrusive textbooks for light, portable tablets has been going on in the school systems for years now. There are cons to this act, but there are many more pros that override the negatives. To help students move into the digital era and be more involved, schools need to…

pillar of digital living room. In this case, audio and visual content would be accessed on demand. In addition, the content could be networked across different devices (Forbes). However, just like was the case with the PC industry, the company experienced stiff competition. In the same week that the company brought its iPhone, its competitor Microsoft introduced the Home Server that sought to support digital content in one’s house. There were also other competitors like Sony that provided living…