The Question Concerning Technology

but where a middle school or high school student could experience flipped learning is new to me. This idea is great because there were several times I assigned a reading as homework in hopes of having engaging conversations and questions in class, only to ask a question from the assigned reading and just experience awkward silence. I would love to be able to flip my science classes thus allowing my students more time in engaging conversations and lab experiments. Normally in my class there is a…

Fourth Amendment, as our technological world progresses. Olmstead v. United States and Katz v. United States are two similar cases, that exemplify the progression of the Fourth Amendment. Both of these cases are based around police wiretapping. The question in both, do the police require a warrant when there is no physical intrusion of privacy? In Olmstead v. United States(1928), Roy Olmstead was knowingly breaking the National Prohibition Act, by selling, handling, and transporting alcohol.…

Does Google really have all the answers? It sure seems like it with its limitless amount of resources. Almost every question has an answer, and Google can access them all. We use Google almost every day to know more whether it is to prove someone wrong or just to know more. Arguments have been made that Google can make people dumb or smart, but neither one is true. The truth is that we have become more dependent on the search engine for the information. We now lack to will and desire to truly…

You and Me Can Slow Down Technology Have you ever worried when a new form of technology has been presented to the world? Did you think the world would benefit from it? Brooke Gladstone says in her graphic text “The Influencing Machine” that technology innovations actually benefit the world and there is no reason to panic over them. Gladstone makes her inquiry in response to many writers’ publications, the main being Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making us Stupid?” Gladstone refers to Carr’s…

In the article Marketing is Everything, Regis McKenna, describes the transformation of marketing throughout the years as technology became more advanced, marketing has shifted to a consumer focus instead of a profit focus. As McKenna has stated, “Marketing has shifted from tricking the customer to blaming the customer to satisfying the customer. (McKenna, 1991)”. Although it may seem as though this phrase is an overstatement, it is actually demonstrating the growth of the marketing industry and…

“ Revolution of Self ” What is self? It’s a question that billions have tried to pin point over millions of years and yet to this day there isn't one concrete answer for this question. Writers such as Henry Thoreau and Ralph Emerson are two of the main authors that are looked at for a better definition. Both writers both agree that to truly be yourself you have to stop relying on others for who you are and not being afraid of questioning others. Both writers touch on the fact that…

often result in a high number of civilian causalities. Because of this, action should be taken by the government to ensure that the number of civilian causalities are reduced during drone strikes. Because Congress has already funded research efforts concerning drones, Congress should spend additionally funds to research the areas that will be subject to drone strikes to ensure that a drone strike will not result in an excessive amount of civilian causalities. Also, there is fear that if drones…

no one of those. If anything the Dark Mountain Manifesto is the complete opposite of environmentalist literature. At first, however, it was not obvious that this article was meant to be post-environmentalism, post-green revolution, and post-green technology. The heavy usage of rhetoric and alluding language makes it clear that the author does not want to immediately give away his argument but convince the readers through creative writing. His main argument challenges the concept of…

Can you imagine a car that doesn’t require a driver? The concept of a driverless car may seem simply preposterous to the simple minded folks of the 21st century. However, the concept of a driverless car is becoming a reality and many forms of this technology can be seen on the roads today. Driverless cars are being researched and designed which are based on the ideology that this car will be help the individual users and the economy of a country. Although many are enthusiastic about these cars,…

categorizing my peers as populars, loners, jocks, and nerds. It was in having personal relationships with people from these different social groups that I discovered that the differences between us were minuscule. As a young woman interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) there were plenty of times where I felt like I was at a disadvantage compared to the boys in my year. Those…