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Abstract The state of the education system has moved to greater heights as compared to that in the past centuries. The 21 st Century has presented to us an education system that is technology driven in which ideas and innovations have outperformed both machine and muscle. That is to say, there is a lot that we can now achieve with technology that we could not even dream about in the past. To address the low level of literacy, economic matters and other workforce needs, technology has helped a great deal ensuring that no child is left behind. This research paper will highlight those areas in education that technological advancement has help boost, more particularly it will zero in on the concept of computing and the internet. Role of Technology in Education Computer and internet technology has completely brought a new trend in the global education that makes it possible for people to learn from the comfort of their homes, thanks to the online professional development courses. The internet has led to an unprecedented degree of educational content to a wide audience of students and tutors alike. And as they leave colleges into the workforce, students do so with a better understanding of how they can apply technology in their respective jobs in addition to what they covered in the usual curriculum (James L. Morrison, 1998, 2-4). It is therefore an open secret that technology has enabled tutors as well as students to explore, develop and expand their technical skills through interacting with others in the field all over the globe. Online coordination has broken all the education barriers that used to hinder learning, the students are now enjoying a wide range of ideas and contextual varieties. With he employment of the new technology, teachers have been able to get good tools that that can help them design and deliver lessons that give a reflection of the 21 st Century to motivate students and inspire their creativity. Every step to integrate technology applications in the education system has proved worthwhile in defining a new dimension of education reforms. To be precise, Computing has contributed greatly to peoples enrichment and enhancement, thus transforming their lives for the better. This does not only occur in the education field, but also in the areas of entertainment, business and communication…in a few years time we will be in what can be dubbed “the digital decade” [for luck of a better word]. The major challenge in using technology in education is on how to customize it in such a way that it would be effective in helping everyone realize their full potential, from a preschooler to a life long learner.
Glossary Web browser: An application that enables users to search for materials online and download them. Blogging: Posting of information on the Internet, in particular on the blogosphere, which supports posts on a wide range of topics. Blogs could focus on politics, diet, education, fashion, and farming, among others. Flash player: A type of media application that supports videos created in many formats. It should be downloaded from the Internet and installed on a computer. Hard disk: A storage medium that is used for keeping data in computers. Its volume is measured in the form of gigabytes. HTML5: A web language-based application that supports hypertext content. It is used to support video viewing and uploading. RAM (Random access memory): A type of memory that supports running applications in computing devices. Its size correlates with the speed of a computer. The Internet: A large interconnection of computer-based networks, which is designed to support communications across the world. The networks’ functioning is based on the principle of the Internet protocol suite that can link an unlimited number of computing devices. Searching: An act of looking for resources online (Morris 546). In this context, it would involve typing the keywords of videos on YouTube to locate them by titles. Uploading : An act of taking a video from a local storage medium, such as a hard disk, to the Internet. As a result, the video becomes available to watch on the Internet via a web browser. Introduction The adoption of technology has ensured that people can do things easier and more effectively. One of the greatest technologies that have gained pace in the last decade is the Internet. As far as YouTube is concerned, it is a website that was started by three people, who were former employees of PayPal (Burgess and Green 14). The firm has its headquarters in California, but it has a global presence due to online applications. It was created to enable consumers to search, upload, watch, and share short and long videos online. The following technologies are important in using YouTube: flash player and HTML5 (Burgess and Green 76; Lange 362). The technologies are designed to support a wide range of video content, including clips (video and TV), video blogging and educational videos. It is important to note that anybody can upload a video to YouTube. Over 90% of the video uploads are done by indiv
Nokia has been a leading seller of mobile phones in Europe and across the globe. The new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) decided to present new changes in order to make Nokia a leading competitor in the industry. According to Stephen Elop, Nokia Corporation had become insensitive about the changing expectations of its customers. The employees at the company had weakened Nokia’s core competencies. The company was no longer promoting its Research and Development (R&D) practices. The internal conflicts and competing agendas also affected the company’s business strategy. These job cuts would encourage innovative ideas and software development at the company. The practice would make Nokia a leading producer of smartphones. This decision was necessary towards improving Nokia’s responsiveness and agility. The leader would manage the company’s web services and software development practices. The new leader wanted to reduce the expenses incurred by the giant corporation. The approach will make Nokia an innovative and competitive firm. The leader wanted the company to recover its glory in the global market. This explains why Stephen Elop was ready to eliminate 1800 jobs even though Nokia was performing well. Nokia decided to hire an American as the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). There are several reasons to support this decision. To begin with, Nokia was the chief marketer of mobile phones in North America for very many years. New players had overtaken Nokia by 2009. Some of these marketers included Motorola, Research in Motion (RIM), LG, Apple, and Samsung. This situation explains why Nokia decided to hire an America. The new CEO would present the best incentives about the changing expectations of the American consumer. The company’s decision to produce GSM phones also affected its performance in the United States. The new leader from American would advise the company to produce CMDA mobile phones. These phones are widely used in the United States. Nokia had failed to respond to the shifting expectations and tastes of its American customers. The new CEO would make it easier for the company to respond to these tastes and preferences. The CEO would consider such aspects during the production of Nokia’s smartphones. The second reason was that Microsoft is a successful Silicon Valley giant. Stephen Elop would offer the best leadership styles and recruit competent web designers for Nokia. The decision would make Nokia the leading producer and marketer of smartphones in the United States. This explains why the company
America is a land with a rich history which has taken scholars a substantial amount of time in their bid to study it. This paper is about the slavery and the struggles that the slaves underwent and the revolution that took place in a bid to have the slaves freed and pronounced as equal American citizens. This is a very interesting topic that has been written about and that has been very well received as well as criticized. It is said that it may be possible to prove that African travelers may have landed in America before the Europeans did and in a bid to support this, there are some stone carvings of a Mexican era called Olmec that have facial features of Africans. Christopher Columbus was termed as the first man to discover America. In his expedition, he had a black navigator named Pedro Nino. When Christopher Columbus arrived in Hispaniola he was accompanied by Africans [1] . This is now currently called Spain. When they left Hispaniola, they were termed as free people and that way they were free by the time they were getting into the Spanish American colonies. Another man called Vasco Balboa travelled to the Pacific Ocean and with him were about thirty Africans. When all this was happening the Europeans had not yet set foot in America. Slavery was not a new thing and it did not start in America; it was only continued there when the settlers started streaming in. Hernan Cortez started a revolution for the Aztec Empire; black Spanish (Conquistadors) people were trying to resist him in a bid to set up their own kingdom [2] . The Africans who had been brought in from Africa were used as casual laborers in Mexico, Puerto Rico and Cuba. After Hernan defeated the uprising, they were awarded land by the Spanish King and they started farming. They were able to produce wheat in bulk. It is also in record that a run-away Moroccan born Muslim slave called Esteban and his friends had tried escaping from the slavery. They boarded a small boat in a bid to free themselves but many died in the sea and only a couple made it as they were washed ashore to what is today referred to as Texas. This Moroccan is the first known person of African accent to ever set foot in today’s Western part of the United States. Esteban was however included in an expedition that was commandeered by a Mexican known as Marcos Niza. Esteban was killed in this expedition in the town of Hawikuh and this today is known as the boarder
Background The world is facing challenges in expanding food production for its developing population. It is projected that the global populace will be about nine billion by 2050, hence the need to increase food creation by 50% proportionately (Pepe et al., 2018). Any augmented growth in population results in diminished access to water and land. Numerous pictures captured by promenades are grouped and stitched, forming several collections of ortho-maps. Afterward, these orthomorphic charts are fed into the geographic information systems (GIS) frameworks, where they are utilized during the evaluation, coordination, and execution of strategies. In spite of the devices serving as aerial eyes, their preference emerges from their ability to handle surveys and disseminate quality information after data gathering. According to their sizes, UAVs’ various classes are the very little, small, medium, and huge UAVs. The universal database containing robotic guidelines information was established as an enforcement bureau to provide the guiding principles for drone data. The main challenge affecting the utilization of small UAVs in numerous states is that they are presumed to be airplanes. Undeniably, these miniatured machines are by far and unquestionably different from the planes in many ways. Reworking on UAV enterprise can make it a significant undertaking in every field, especially in the agricultural sector. Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in Agriculture: Regulations and Good Practices The majority of the built-up areas such as airports and airplane take-off, departure pathways, and landing locations should be free from any obstruction of soaring objects. Drones are a menace to the aviation industry, and their reputation would be adversely impacted in the event they ram mid-air passenger helicopters (Patel, 2019). Consequently, UAVs are fitted with geo-barrier software which alerts the autopilot upon trespassing the no-fly areas and blocks them from hovering within the controlled zones. Automated briefs with provisional flying limitations in areas with wildfires assist in safeguarding approved fire-suppressing helicopters and facilitating fire squads’ safe operation without distractions. Geospatial environment online (GEO) software incorporates perpetual gliding restraints around nuclear power foundries, prisons, and other susceptible sites (Patel, 2019). GEO also supports the impermanent curtailment of big stadia crowds and nationwide security occasions. Additionally, it offers flexibility for d
Romanticism is a large-scale ideological and artistic trend in the culture and art of the 19th century, which replaced the cold rationalism of neoclassicism and Enlightenment. Romantics have elevated the importance of fantasy, emotions, feelings, and mental tossing (Steiner & Foster, 2020). The era of heroes with robust, bold, contradictory, and sometimes rebellious characters has begun in literature and art. These are figures like Byron and Prometheus, who either proclaim man’s greatness or become vulnerable in the hands of fate while passions overcome them. They embark on wanderings, climb the barricades, raise the banner of freedom, and do not know peace. Romanticism in painting rejected the rationalism of classicism and reflected the attention to the depths of the human personality characteristic of the philosophy of the Romantics. It grew up on the emotional soil of sentimentalism, but while preserving lyricism and poetry, it replaced sentimental sensitivity with dramatic manifestations of nature. Therefore, it is not necessary to associate this direction with religious motives – instead, with the romance of distant wanderings, travels, mysterious discoveries, and even revolutionary struggle. Unlike sentimentalism, there is no tenderness and tearfulness in Romanticism – it is the philosophy of the brave and strong. The characters in the paintings of romantic artists are similar to the heroes of literary novels: sensitive, often enigmatic, sometimes riotous, sometimes cruel, and often lonely. Many creators were immersed in studying the dark sides of human nature (Steiner & Foster, 2020). Hence, there was the interest of artists in the night, thunderstorms, and mysticism. To some extent, the romantic masters even returned to Baroque aesthetics with its dramatic intensity, passion, dynamism, chaos, and mysticism. The main feature of Romanticism as a direction in literature lies in the main conflicts and ideas. The main idea of almost every work is the constant movement of the literary hero in physical space. This fact reflects the confusion of the hero’s soul, his flowing, continuous reflections, and at the same time, changes in the surrounding reality. As in any artistic direction, Romanticism has its conflicts. The whole concept in this direction is based on the complex relationship of the protagonist of the work with the outside world. The main character is egocentric, but at the same time, they rebel against the vulgar, base, material components of reality (Steiner & Foster, 2020). This is manifested both in the actions and in the thoughts and ideas of a literary character. The most striking examples are the following characters of Romanticism – Childe Harold, the main character of Byron’s work Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage , and Pechorin – the main character of Lermontov’s work The Hero of Our Time . Thus, at the heart of any piece of the direction of Romanticism lies the gap between reality and the idealized world, and this gap has rather sharp edges. An example of contemporary romanticism is the film “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” The main focus is on the 16-year-old boy Ch
The introduction Some basic points While discussing the role of the Internet in business, some fundamentals on computer use must be considered. First of all, it is necessary to point out that computer technologies have inevitably changed people’s mode of life. In our days the new technological devices provide people with numerous opportunities. The thesis statement The role of the Internet in business cannot be neglected, as the World Wide Web can be regarded as one of the most powerful and effective tools for conducting business. The body The Internet and its impact on business Nobody will deny the fact that the Internet facilitates people’s work. For those, who are engaged in various business activities, the Internet seems to be of vital importance, as it allows communication with suppliers, customers, etc. As far as the Internet saves customers’ time, postage, mailing expenses, etc. its advantages are undisputable. The Internet help employees seek and use information as well as meet a company’s information requirements. The Internet and strategic decision making It is not a secret that for business – strategic decision making is of particular importance. For this reason, using information technologies is considered to be the key step employees are to follow. Thus, gathering external information is one of the most effective ways organizations are to rely on, in order to succeed. The most common activities, which companies use to collect certain information, are based on the so-called business intelligence. In other words, taking into account information the Internet provides various organizations with, one can conclude that companies’ demands for business intelligence have been increased (Pawar & Sharda 1997). The power of the Internet In our days, the Internet is recognized to be the major tool for a commercial revolution. In business, it can change everything – the way people work, interact, take decisions, etc. While making direct connections with consumers for the first time, most of organizations use the World Wide Web. “Others are using secure Internet connections to intensify relations with some of their trading partners, and using the Internet’s reach and ubiquity to request quotes or sell off perishable stocks of goods or services by auction” ( The Impact of the Internet on Business 1999). Moreover, it should be pointed out that the World Wide Web gives business people an opportunity to take their consumers into various markets, including new electronic marketplaces. On the other hand, lowering costs through certain demand chains is also performed due to an international computer network. The chairman of Intel Andy Grove is of the opinion that various commercial organizations are considered to be Internet organizations; if there are some of them,
The target-centric approach to intelligence describes a method of intelligence analysis that Robert M. Clark introduced in his book “Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach” (Clark 2006,11) in 2003 to offer an alternative methodology to the traditional intelligence cycle which had components that were task based but were isolated and had no room for questions and hence had no feedback directed transformation in it. There have been a number of reviews of this book till the last one in 2006 and these reviews have shown a growing improvement in the factors that were showing flaws in them. This book shows the whole process of creating a model and then feeding the research results into the decision making process. In this approach intelligence analysis has been redefined in a way that puts all the isolated parts of intelligence cycle model together with enough liberty for questions, feedback and changes in accordance with the purpose to improve this process unlike the usual model of intelligence cycle. This new model introduced called “conceptual model” (Clark 2006, p. 37) is a very good tool for understanding the whole process of target centric approach to intelligence. This model also had specificity that it can include all contributors, participants, and consumers which makes intelligence more collaborative. Each individual can question the model and get answers along the way. “The target-centric model is a network process where the information flows unconstrained among all participants, who also focus on the objective to create a shared picture of the target” (Clark 2006, p. 13). This book gives a logical explanation to all the components of the model for the collectors, analysts, policy-makers and everyone included in this model dealing with the process. This book in general is a very organized and convincing book to be read, it gives the information in a smooth flow and almost every aspect of the analyst’s job is discussed in sufficient detail that the reader should feel completely knowledgeable of how the analyst makes estimations and predictions, whether the reader is from any specialty of life. It has broadly talked about all the fields of life and has given examples which are very practical, Convincing, clear and real. This book really discusses the current state of analysis and for the present era it gives a very lucid interplay of the components of the model and also the way they can be manipulated for the better. The author provides an enormous amount of detailed information on how to apply the target centric concept to various types of intelligence problems through some original and useful ide
The article is titled “Unstoppable $100 Trillion Bond Market Renders Models Useless” and it is jointly authored by Dave Liedtka and Susanne Walker. The article examines the changing nature of the models that are used to value bonds. According to the authors of this article, the global bond market can no longer be predicted using the old bond valuation methods. The article appears in the June online edition of “Financial Press” and it encompasses views from several financial experts. The article also uses examples from some of the leading world economies such as Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The authors of this article begin by noting that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has reevaluated the methodologies that it uses to estimate the yields on bonds. The fact that the earlier methods of estimation have failed to work is the main reason behind this reevaluation. The article also notes that the Fed and central banks have stimulated the global bond market to a tune of $100 trillion. This stimulation has made it difficult for financial analysts to predict the outlook of the bond market. One of the cited incidences of flawed bond market prediction involves campaigns by central banks. These campaigns have sought to assure investors about the profitability of the bond market. The article refers to current data and statistics that indicate that the global average return on bonds stands at 3.89 percent. On the other hand, the average return on 10-year bonds stands at 2.48 percent. The disparity between these rates is a testament of how unpredictable the bond market has become. The New York Fed has updated its metric of predicting the productivity of 10-year bonds. The new strategy excludes all human-based predictions and only factors in the market prices. The authors of this article argue that even if most investors predict minimal yields on bonds, they are forecasting that borrowing costs will increase as the economy gains momentum. The yield of 10-year bonds is estimated to reach 3.25 percent in 2015. It is also noted that the United States’ interest rates have been near-zero over the last six years. This development has led to complacency among bond investors due to the low yields on bonds. Therefore, it is concluded that the United States treasury bonds are relatively expensive. The article quotes one investment expert who claims that “the treasury market is overvalued” (Liedtka and Walker 1). Central banks and the Fed are floating colossal amounts of money into the economy making it hard for financial analysts to predict the outcomes of the short-term bond market. The article also notes that the benchmark rates of the major economies stand at less than 1 percent. The Fed representatives attribute the current low benchmark rates to high unemployment rates and rising inflation. However, the authors of this article note that the bond market is still a viable in