In today's world, technology is constantly changing from a new paperclip to an improvement in hospital machinery. Technology lets people improve the way they live so that they can preserve their own personal energy and focus on the really important factors in life. Some people focus their energy on making new innovations to improve transportation and the health of people that may save lives and some people focus on making new designs of packaging CDS. Technology is significant in everyone's life because it rapidly changes what is in the market. But, some new innovations of technology are ridiculous because they serve no purpose in helping mankind.
In Ellen DeGeneres' article ,"This is How We Live", describes all the examples of ridiculous innovations of technology, omitting how technology does help mankind, saying that technology is negative for mankind, and basically eliminating all the positive that technology has to offer. © ) . She believes that technology is hurting the people of America because requires hardly any physical activity and it tortures us. For example, when she says, " We just push a button and stand there. Take the car window. Someone decided that having to crank the window down yourself was too hard. I don't want to churn butter, I just want fresh air ' So we got a button to do it." (DeGeneres 588) She also believes that this technology is making Americans so lazy. "We're just so lazy. We used to have breath mints. Now we have breath strips that just dissolve on our tongue. Can we not suck anymore?" (Degeneres 589) Ellen decides to criticize all the new innovations because it is ridiculous that technology must be put in food so that we do not have to have any tongue action in sucking a breath mint.
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...rocess unfold shows that human beings are not as productive as they would like to be with all the modern innovations constantly changing.
In this essay, I attempted to combine two sources and analyze them each by itself first and then combine it at the end. I think I did a good job analyzing and interpreting what Ellen DeGeneres was saying in her article. This essay was more difficult than the other essays for me because it is hard to apply the examples and try to combine two different sources to make a compare and contrast paper make sense.
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Latterell, Catherine. "Technological Somnambulism." Remix: reading and composing culture. Ed
Langdon Winner. Boston. Bedford/St.Martin's: 2006.p 594-599
The DOT (also know as USDOT) Number is an ID for federal safety regulations. The MC Number is your "Interstate Operating Authority." This is the $300 fee I believe you were referring to. The cost is dependent on Authority. 'Permanent Authority has a filing fee of $300."
As a middle school math teacher in Chippewa Falls, WI, Steven Reinhart often found that even his extensive planning and detailed lessons yielded less than high achievements from his students. He wanted to know why, that no matter how perfect his lessons were, his students’ level of achievement was so low. It even caused him to question his own methods of teaching. So Reinhart developed an idea to commit to gradually changing his ways of teaching by 10% each year. With the goal of simply teaching a single topic in a better way than the previous year, he “collected and used materials and ideas gathered from supplements, workshops, professional journals, and university classes” to achieve this goal (Reinhart, 2000).
When conducting this interview, I have learned a lot about the different differentiation strategies that my host teacher uses in her classroom and how they are both similar yet different from tracking students in the classroom. This has informed me on what skills I want to possess in my future classroom and what I want to do to make my students the most successful they can be when learning mathematics.
In conclusion, there has been multiple concerns about technologies and how it's affecting our lives and people around us. It is been a back-and-forth subject matter on both sides and they are equally even. Even though technology is somewhat a bad thing it's also a good thing. There are many peoples in the world who says that technology is not good for you and it harms you etc. But all like this are wrong because almost it is not possible to ignore technology in your daily
Next, I will have the students draw a ten and ones chart on their whiteboards and I will give them a problem to put in their chart to subtract with regrouping. We will discuss how to solve this problem while we use our base ten blocks to show why borrowing a ten from the tens place creates ten ones to help us regroup. Furthermore, I will give the students each a piece of scratch paper and tell them problems to write down and solve using their base ten blocks and showing a ten and ones chart. There will be four problems all together. The instructional materials used for this lesson are whiteboards and base ten blocks. The assessment to monitor student learning during the lesson is the use of the individual whiteboards while I observe what they do and write on their boards and a quick quiz with four questions that I will collect.][The identified area of struggle for the three focus students were to correctly identify the tens and ones place so they could correctly regroup a ten to the ones when subtracting two numbers. The strategies used in my re-engagement lesson were to review the place value and have them use a tens and ones chart when subtracting so they would remember the place values when subtracting with
People have become overly dependent on technology. After the discovery of North America, founded by Christopher Columbus, people have become fixated on “The New World.” It allowed people to advance towards better opportunities and to start new beginnings. With the rising growth of technology, it has become an efficient, purposeful manipulation of the now material world. It is power that is applied through a machine or tool to perform a certain skill or technique. The United States, compared to other countries in the world, have the greatest standard of living with its accessible technologies. Since the 21st century, the use of technology has increased―technology is used for everything because it has become a requirement to function in today’s society.
The article reviews and describes the six instructional principles that math interventions at the Tier 2 level must incorporate in an effort to assist struggling students and close the achievement gap. The first principle, instructional explicitness, was created in response to the fact that students with math disabilities benefit from explicit instruction where teachers explicitly share the information that students need to learn (Fuchs). The second principle, instructional design that eases the learning challenge, aims to eliminate misunderstandings by using precise explanations and carefully sequenced and integrated instruction; and utilizes the assistance of a tutor in an effort to minimize a student’s learning challenges as well as provides a set of foundational skills that students can apply (Fuchs). The third principle, a strong conceptual basis for procedures that are taught, is often overlooked causing confusion, gaps in learning and the failure to maintain and integrate content that was previously mastered, which leads to the fourth principle, drill and practice (Fuchs). Drill and practice should contain cumulative review, the fifth principal, which relies on the foundational skills taught earlier and the use of mixed problem types (Fuchs). The sixth and final principle, motivators to help students regulate their attention and behavior and to work hard, include tangible reinforcements that must be included to assist students who have frequently experienced failure and thus no longer try because of fear of failure (Fuchs).
In the following paper I am going to attempt to discuss the hindering effects of technology. How technology affects the laziness of our children, desensitizes our otherwise compassionate human race, and may eventually lead us to our doom. Also in this paper I will attempt to discuss some benefits of modern technology as relating to family and communal prosperity. Since the invention of Eli Whitneys cotton gin back in the 1800s men have had their brains full steam ahead on the idea of technology and its advancement into our everyday lives. Leading us up to the present day where we can have a hot cooked neucro meal at the push of the button. Our music no longer has to be cranked by hand, in fact our latest CD players can hold up to a hundred CDs or more. So what's wrong with quick hot meals and hours of aural pleasure? To that I say nothing, but for example; weve come up with these microwaveable dinners full of long unpronounceable words, and we start to feed these to our children nightly. Then after dinner the kiddies get into their un-smoged turbo diesel Benz and pop a CD into the player then they crank the music up to 90db. Ten years from now your kid is going to be nothing but a def ball of preservatives. What I am getting at is this, the advancement of technology only leads to an escalation of our demands for more wants and needs. Example; Henry Ford makes a great car. Now-a-days we need a fast, fuel burning, back firing, confederate flag wavein, diesel truck. Ok so what about TV? Well, TV was a cool invention; then we got color TV, then a remote for the TV, next surround sound, VCRs, video games (more remotes), and finally today, what do we have? Epileptic Japanimation.
Technology is unavoidable in our modern lifestyle. You wake up, you use technology; you use technology while cooking, while eating, while driving. While you’re lying in bed before you fall asleep, you use technology, technology wakes you up in the morning. Is all the technology around you good for you, or is it harmful to your health? Was our society healthier or safer before all the advancements? So many questions and concerns about all of the technology we crave, but there are very few people who know the answers. Technology affects all parts of human life. It can create jobs, motivate people to get active, and assist people in learning, but this does not balance out that there are dangers that follow the use of technology.
At this very moment, digital technology is connecting millions of people to the things they love, but what about tomorrow? Although the things that make us human have not changed, the ways that we connect with one another has. With digital technology, we are building a smarter future, where clever innovations will change the way we live, work, and play for the better. Life has and will become even easier and give us more time to focus on the things that are important to us. We will continue to work faster, making smarter decisions that concentrate on the big picture. We are making our cities progressively more intelligent, clean, safe, and more responsive to the here and now. The exponential growth of digital technology will profoundly reshape all of human civilization. Our world is sufficiently more advanced than it was ten years ago, and as computing power doubles every eighteen months, these computers will inevitably become smarter than the human race. Without technology and innovation our society will not survive, however, some worry that the unpredictable nature of this future technology could have adverse affects on the human race. Will they be dangerous and eventually take over our world; or will they be eager to help solve problems that have forever plagued society, such as crime, violence, wars, and health issues.
Technology has affected the world today in so many different ways. Today, instead of toddlers to play with coloring pencils and watercolors, they fiddle with iPads and other electronics. Also, people of older generations have no choice but to adapt to modern technology. It is often said by philosophers, that technology is a developing field of science. When it comes to this topic, most of us will readily agree that technology has made living generally easier, by making what the world has to offer more accessible wherever you are. Where this argument usually ends however, is on the question, “are people overdependent on technology?” Whereas some are convinced that it is in the favor of the good of the people, others maintain that it shall lead to self-destruction. Today technology has made a great population of the people dependent on it, the average human can’t go twenty-four hours without it.
There is no doubt that the accomplishments made through technology are astonishing. Technology has made amazing impacts on everything from science in space to medical science to the devices we use every day that make our lives easier. People are living longer and better than ever before, but we can’t forget how to live without it. “Just because technology is there and makes something easier doesn’t mean we should rely on it so much that we can’t think for ourselves,” (Levinson).
Throughout out this semester, I’ve had the opportunity to gain a better understanding when it comes to teaching Mathematics in the classroom. During the course of this semester, EDEL 440 has showed my classmates and myself the appropriate ways mathematics can be taught in an elementary classroom and how the students in the classroom may retrieve the information. During my years of school, mathematics has been my favorite subject. Over the years, math has challenged me on so many different levels. Having the opportunity to see the appropriate ways math should be taught in an Elementary classroom has giving me a
Imagine living in a world where technology didn’t exist. That iPhone you have, computer you’re reading on, or even that nice car you drive, all gone with a single blink of an eye. The world you would be living in would be nothing but an empty, dark and cold place. You would have to learn to adapt to a new way of life. That’s why today, with the incredible breakthroughs in technology, the world is becoming more and more evolved. The technology we use today, whether it is the simple things we take for granted, like a refrigerator, to the incredible medical innovations that are saving lives, all benefit us in many ways. People in today’s generation have become so adapt to technology that others, mostly people of older generations, are beginning to think that they are becoming too dependent on it, but my experience shows that although technology is relied on a lot today, it has also provided us with many benefits along the way.
Technology has its advantages as well as its disadvantages, some of the advantages are that it makes connecting to people much easier, simpler and in addition, it makes our everyday life simpler in ways people 50 years ago never imagined it would. Not only that, it makes life much more fun and convenient. Now, tackling disadvantages, technology has led us humans into creating weapons of mass destruction and turned us into mindless irresponsible creatures who depend on machines to build everything and get everything for us, forgetting the consequences of health issues such that affect us personally and the ecosystem as a whole. Like everything out there, needless to say, technology has advantages and disadvantages, and we shouldn't forget that the advantages overshadow the disadvantages. Let us not forget that it helped us know achieve and made cultural interactions much easier.