How Can Instructional Technology Make Teaching and Learning More Effective in the Schools?

In the past few years of research on instructional technology has resulted in a clearer vision of how technology can affect teaching and learning. Today, almost every school in the United States of America uses technology as a part of teaching and learning and with each state having its own customized technology program. In most of those schools, teachers use the technology through integrated activities that are a part of their daily school curriculum. For instance, instructional technology creates an active environment in which students not only inquire, but also define problems of interest to them. Such an activity would integrate the subjects of technology, social studies, math, science, and language arts with the opportunity to create student-centered activity. Most educational technology experts agree, however, that technology should be integrated, not as a separate subject or as a once-in-a-while project, but as a tool to promote and extend student learning on a daily basis.

Today, classroom teachers may lack personal experience with technology and present an additional challenge. In order to incorporate technology-based activities and projects into their curriculum, those teachers first must find the time to learn to use the tools and understand the terminology necessary for participation in projects or activities. They must have the ability to employ technology to improve student learning as well as to further personal professional development.

Instructional technology empowers students by improving skills and concepts through multiple representations and enhanced visualization. Its benefits include increased accuracy and speed in data collection and graphing, … Read more

The Authorized Procedure and Technological innovation in the 21st Century

Technologies has linked its way into just about every single facet of human lifestyles. For your edification, this continuing discussion, as effectively as an addition to prior study formats. In presenting this informational passage, the legal procedure is just just one more profession that has been conquered by engineering.

We are mindful of the court docket stenographers and PC’s that record and keep track of our authorized program, but what about the C.G.A. Method? The Laptop Produced Animation Presentation can be admitted into our American Court Technique. Admissible Proof in felony trial(s) has been recorded as a precedent situation dominated on by the Supreme Courtroom. As reported by Asher Hawkins, of the Lawful Intelligencer, differing arguments by six Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices concluded that a Lackawana Common Pleas Choose properly admitted the use of CGA all through a first-diploma murder situation in 2002. CGA has been portrayed on various television displays these types of as CSI Investigation(s) and Criminal offense 360.

Justice Sandra Schultz Newman wrote, “Culture has turn into more and more dependent on desktops in organization and our private life…” She went on the say, “With every single technological progression, the observe of legislation will become much more refined and commensurate with the need to shed any techno phobia and develop into a lot more keen to embrace the improvements that have the potential to enhance the performance of the legal program.”

Prosecutorial teams, together with Forensic Pathologists and Crime Scene Reconstructionists offered a murder case to the … Read more

How To Find New Technology Articles

We are living in the future and there are new devices, gadgets and smart computers coming almost every day of our lives. It can be hard enough keeping up with our own day to day life, little lone staying up with today’s technology as it seems to fly pasts us so fast that it all begins to blur together. This is one reason that finding great resources for tech related information is very important to those who live a digital life. It is very important to not only understand the technology that is at hand, but the technology that is coming soon as well.

Many online tech blogs have many posts coming out every day, this makes it seem like they are sharing a lot of information. The fact is that many times these huge tech blogs spend more time cranking out small tidbits of information to keep their blog active than they do taking the time to do real informative posts. This is one reason why many consumers who are looking for the real low down on technology products and gadgets start searching for new technology articles instead of blogs. These articles give more in depth and informative content to the reader. Many times product reviews or other gadget updates can be found in these formats. This is one of the best ways for those who are considering a new gadget purchase to get all the information they need to make an informed decision.

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Emerging Technology Is Changing How You Can Do Business

I love technology, and we’re fortunate to be living at a time when most of us are experiencing the great evolution of technology. For instance, we have cars that are out on our streets driving themselves. We have incredible advances in medicine and have eradicated diseases. And, as the U.S. shifts from government to public and private partnerships, I’m sure that we’re going to see incredible achievements in the space industry as humanity seeks to create a society that will thrive beyond the boundaries of Earth. The success of the reusable rocket by SpaceXin 2017 is a step in the right direction. However, technology can also be straightforward and affect our daily lives and businesses.

Zoom Room

In my company, one of the technologies that have fundamentally shifted how my team, client and our vendors relate to each other and work is Zoom. Zoom is one of the top video and web conferencing platforms on the market.

I love the technology because my team is spread out across the U.S. and even in Europe. Every single week we’re getting online with prescheduled or unscheduled Zoom meetings in our conference room, which we now call the Zoom room. People can join us at a moment’s notice from anywhere they have internet access using their desktops, tablets or smartphones.

OWL Labs

After using Zoom for a couple of months, we went one further for one-touch conferencing, which is supported by OWL Lab 360 degree camera and microphone. What does that mean? It … Read more

Technology Empowers Engineering Firms To Improve National Infrastructure

Human beings are creatures of habit, and most are loath to move out of their comfort zone. This perennial truth is apparent in many areas, but in technology, its impact appears formidable and challenging, with potential to bring about national disasters.

American writer and Professor of Biochemistry, Isaac Asimov, speaking at the Newark College of Engineering in New Jersey, once said, “I discovered, to my amazement that all through history there had been resistance… and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance… to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money… as a result of the change.”

Professor Asimov’s comments are astute in observing bridge inspections in the US. One could even say truer words were never spoken. As the world’s only super power, the US is expected to set standards for the rest of the world to follow. So it seems incredulous, even shocking, to observe antiquated methodology still used extensively in inspecting the country’s vital bridges. Why? And, even as technology advances, bridges are still being inspected manually. Why?

And it is certainly not for the want of a viable alternative. Doug Thaler, President of Infrastructure Preservation Corporation (IPC) said, “Modern technology greatly empowers Inspection and Engineering staff today. Traditional infrastructure inspection methods are over 50 years old and quite outdated. New technology provides quantitative data that makes inspection far more effective, and also allows DOTs to better allocate existing funds within their current maintenance … Read more

Current Affairs: The Next American Economy by William Holstein Technology Clusters and Ecosystems

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an unemployment rate of 9.2 percent in June 2011. That number remains frustratingly consistent each month as millions of Americans struggle to find work.

It’s clear that many of the jobs lost over the last several decades, and during the Great Recession of 2008, are extinct. It’s said that the definition of insanity is repeatedly doing the same thing, yet hoping for different results.

Government stimulus packages and extended unemployment benefits are Band-aids for what, William Holstein, author of the new book, “The Next American Economy-A Blueprint for a Real Recovery,” identifies as structural challenges in America’s economy. Holstein has traveled the United States writing about globalization and economics for major business publications.

How will our country reinvent its workforce for the 21st century, and in what industries? Holstein believes our economic rebirth lies in technology clusters and ecosystems.

Following is a cross-sectional synopsis of America and how it’s revitalizing itself with technology clusters and ecosystems. Discussed too, are lessons for all Americans Holstein addresses regarding the country’s current economic challenges.

Technology Clusters
Clusters promote knowledge-sharing and product innovation. They also champion technical and business processes by providing thick networks of formal and informal relationships across organizations. Clusters tend to happen by accident and are difficult to create.

Orlando’s technology cluster is based on computer simulation and modeling; and is rooted in part by U.S. military and major defense contractors’ decision in the 1950s to locate operations in the Orlando area. Disney’s influence … Read more