Digital Literacy and Responsibilty

I completed an Everfi course. The course is a digital learning platform. It is interactive so you stay engaged. The modules covered these topics: Using a Computer, Wireless Communication, Viral World, Internet Resources and Credibility, Creating Multimedia Products, Digital Relationships and Respects, The Future of Technology and You

Computer Choices

I once had to buy a new computer as you guys know. I forgot to mention the importance of comparing specs to other computer. It can make a difference, bigger isn't always better.In our day and age microchips and sim cards are much smaller than before. Just a quick recap, things to compare are the RAM. Not the trucks you silly nilly. RAM is the Random Access Memory. It is one of the more important parts along with the CPU is a Central Processing Unit. That carries out instructions. Computers are always changing. 20 years ago, computers looked like this. Huge, not much mobility if at all. This is an Older model.

 

 

Today they look like this. Portable, light, many more features and colors.

Wireless Comms

Phones are huge, super important. Now you can call your mom who is in a spaceship. While your swimming underwater. Nobody would have thought for Tech to come this far. And nobody knows where it'll go 20 years from now. Everyday advances are being made. Along with all of these advances come dangers though. Texting and Driving is a huge danger that everyone who is on a road faces. You are distracted from the road and that is dangerous, to yourself and everyone in the car with you. Also the people in other cars. Keep it simple and if you decide to text while in the car don't drive. Let someone else. Things like this happen when texting and driving

 

The Interweb

People aren't stupid. They see things differently and are better at different things. Technology has  made communication and things of that nature better, but it also makes identity theft possible and people can ruin your life. By using your cell phone # in a post, you can be tracked down. The Gov't does this, bad guys can do it too. Find out every teensy detail and strip you of everything you love and have. So don't put in any extra fluff when it comes to social media. Here is what you really need:

• First Name
• Last Name
• E-mail

Another quick tip is to customize your settings, not just your profile page. You determine your own privacy settings, not default settings.

It sounds ridiculous but it's possible to overuse technology. You can spend too much time using it. That overuse is really easy also. You don't realize it and 9:30 you start looking at iFunny then the next time you see the time, it;s your alarm going off to get ready for school. To keep technology use in check, plan to do other things with people. Interact, go to the park or the mall. Hangout with some friends and turn off your cellphones. Just savor the moment.

WWW.Credibility.gov

IF you are on this blog, you know what plagiarizing is. Copying a work or not giving credit to somone when credit is due.  Just cite your sources and you won't have to worry about plagarizing.

 

You know you will get a 0, possibly be suspended and probably detention. Why go through allof that when you can just cite sources?

R E S P E C T

Watch out friends, people will bully you on the Web. It is worse than in person, because in person you can hit them in the throat. Cyberbullying isn't cool. It's cold and wrong. Express yourself with a computer or anyway you want, don't let some bully on the internet hold you back. Just exit the tab and keep doing what you love. Technology will help you express yourself by letting you change things. You can't make dubstep without it or mess with photo lighting.
Copyright is the right to copy or distribute a work. Taking a picture from someone and saying it's yours is an infringement, it is a little bit like plagarism. Before I forget, if you are cyber bullied, tell an adult. Save the messages already recieved, close the tab and wait to show an adult. My generation will have to start the revolution to end cyberbullying. We are going to have to confront people we do not like.

  

Future Tech

As you know, technology has advanced. With those advancements, many careers are now broader also the way things are done have changed. 50 years ago, the military would need a man to have eyes on a target to send artillery to obliterate it with explosives. Today in 2014, you can send a UAV drone to a target see everything you want and sent exact precise coordinates, better effect an precision than 1964. Doctors can perform surgery with robots or just let the robot play surgeon.

 

STEM:

• Science-Doctors, Reseachers, Chemist
• Technology-Webpage Designer, Advertisment
• Engineering-Architect, Military, Aerospace
• Math-Teaching, Biomathematics, Finance

STEM makes up jobs that we need people, and the Technology has made knowledge and skills in these careers so much more important. There is no telling where technology will be by 2020, so we need to take more classes that intergrate technology. To prepare to have everything we need on a screen. I think in under 3 decades, we won't have any hard copies or paper money. Everything will be credit or debit.