Crowdsourcing

Universality is the ability to use one company’s hardware in combination with another company’s hardware. The idea of universality was supported by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak who built his first computers for Apple, the Apple I and the Apple II, to be compatible with all other company’s data and connection types. Steve Wozniak’s feelings about openness are highlighted in an essay written by Tim Wu called “Father and Son” which also details how Wozniak’s partner Steve Jobs felt the complete…

Project Classroom Makeover, by Cathy Davidson. In Project Classroom Makeover, Davidson introduces the use of iPod as an educational experiment, and this is the early stage of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is one way of collective learning; students would collaborate together, come up with creative ideas, and then share these…

Brianna Tanguay FYS: Google Play in Pop Culture Chapter 6: Courting Supporters for Independent Media Summary: In Chapter 6 of Spreadable Media: Courting Supporters for Independent Media. JFG discusses distribution and promotion. When there’s a lack of promotion budgets, distribution is often used through social media. It reviews the change in “modes of production, alternative genres of content, and new relationships between producers and audiences” to spread media content. (JFG 232) The free…

Zainab Jafri Mr. Ballinger ENG-101-ML 27 October, 2016 Technologically Dependent Society Michael Moss’s The Extraordinary Science of Junk Food, An Elephant Crackup? by Charles Siebert, and Cathy Davidson’s Project Classroom Makeover all report that as society is progressing in a more innovative direction, we are using technology and advanced research to better our way of living. The Millennial generation is slowly becoming aware of how toxic processed foods truly are, therefore advancement in…

Cutting Edge Classrooms In Cathy Davidson’s piece “Project Classroom Makeover”, she voices her concerns about the lack of quality of todays education system. She thinks that America’s classrooms haven’t evolved enough to prepare students for our advanced society full of new challenges and networking. She argues that by adding more game play into curriculum, learning could become more engaging and interactive for the young students of the twenty-first century. Games are a way to add a whole new…

Makeover", Davidson denounces others falsely apprehend ideas on how technology and crowdsourcing is influenced by the new type of education. Personal involvement uncovers the truth and solution to a situation, but too involved in the situation while obtaining excessive information can also lose their views of the bigger picture.…

1. How can Wikipedia maintain and grow its ability to harness the crowdsourcing of its “Wikipedians” to maintain high quality (and quickly updated) content? If Wikipedia can demonstrate effectively the potency of innovation in a competitive weapon it will simultaneously create and destroy value. Firms must be able to innovate while also fending off competitor’s imitation attempts. A successful strategy requires both an effective offense and a hard to crack defense. The reason for Wikipedia’s…

expertise one has, there will always be more insights and ideas working with a group of people. The term “crowdsourcing” was coined as technology bloomed through the world and it gave a perfect example of what should be added into learning environments. Collaboration like what the students did in the iPod experiment gave way for success and personal achievement; it was inclusive. Crowdsourcing juxtaposed to formal education shows how teaching in hierarchies paves the way for the…

Both articles, Cathy Davidson’s “Project Classroom Makeover,” and Sherry Turkle’s “Selections from Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other,” illustrate the educational innovation in combining both technology and education. Both authors incorporate different learning techniques, and finds one to be better than the other. The text from Turkle’s “Alone Together” focuses on the effectiveness of individuality and personalized learning against customization and…

3. Energy Efficiency: With the passage of time a lot of improvements and developments are made but these innovations are limited to hardware and software development and very little work was done for enhancing the power consumption and storage capacity. Some applications are running at the cost of great power consumption like location sensing etc., which also affects the execution speed. These applications include GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth etc. One of the techniques used to reduce the power…