Educational technology

Technology and Culture: An Anthology is a collection of essays compiled by editors Melvin Kranzberg and William Davenport. Each of these papers were previously submitted to the quarterly journal of the Society for the History of Technology entitled Technology and Culture. The editors wanted to focus on the history of technology. However, they realized that technology’s history would also have to be explored in the social and cultural context’s. Therefore, they compiled essays that reflected not…

Technology has become a need for people all around the globe. Technology is the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science (“Technology”) Technology was created to make things simpler and help people with their day to day life. Recently, however, people have taken advantage of technology and used it in a…

responsible for something going wrong and hold them accountable. In this day, the common scapegoat relates to technology as many of the tasks we perform are assisted by information technology. However in the case where a project team is assembled and the particular outcome of a task is the production of some technology, and something goes wrong… who is the scapegoat then? The technology cannot be at fault for existing as it was created. In this instance, people are at fault and majority of the…

been changed by technology inside our minds because we cannot directly see the mental changes with our eyes. However, the changes brought by technology do exist, both subtle and obvious, and can be exposed by looking into our behaviors in everyday life. So how has technology influenced our thoughts and behaviors, and how should we adjust to the changes? The four articles written by Kevin Kelly, Nicholas Carr, Clive Thompson and Sherry Turkle about the relationship between technology and humans…

Technology is something that is constantly being used in our lives. The endless usage and continuous change of these tools are of equal importance to our mere existence. Each and every day, it seems as though there are new machines and devices with which we become captivated. In the endless attempts to make human life easier, we tend to opt for these new and evolving devices over the old-fashioned way of doing things – doing them without the use of modern technology. In All Can Be Lost: The Risk…

With the evolution of technology rapidly increasing and becoming more and more advanced, in correlation, the accepted knowledge concerning film and media are also changing just as fast. Since the birth of the cinema and Hollywood style movies, many philosophers and theorists have shared their knowledge concerning film theory. However many theories are having to be updated and even ruled out due to the advancement in technology. For many years these theories were commonly accepted with minor…

development, it now maintains 36 R&D centres around the world (Samsung 2015a, p.12), and aligned with manufacturing centres. Samsung had an $8.7 billion budget and a quarter of its workforce of 220,000 employed in R&D for 2011. The majority of new technology is developed in Asia and regional centres are involved in fine tuning those designs (Lev-Ram…

10 problems or opportunities facing the world today and the technologies that can help solve them I don’t personally believe any of these problems or opportunities to be great than others so this list will be in no particular order. I hope that our future is bright and that we will be able to utilize technology well enough to solve each of these. ▪ World Hunger – agricultural advances that will increase efficiency in farming and can increase water resources, development of crops that can…

everyone is convinced of the benefits technology has to offer. More specifically, many schools are struggling with the decision on whether or not to pursue tech-friendly classrooms. The big question in this predicament is if technology is advantageous. In order to ensure that the cost of technology put into schools is worthwhile, investors need to contemplate, the effect on student interaction, potential for student engagement, and the user friendliness of the technology being considered.…

specifications for a computer, few have even encountered the remarkable undertaking of selecting a sperm donor, but what about ordering, through a catalog, the specific genes, abilities, and cosmetic characteristics for a child-to-be? Although the technology for human genetic engineering and cloning has yet to be fully developed, the idea of “designer children” (Sandel 2007, 7) can no longer be thought of as a science fiction, rather society must recognize it wholly as a science and more…