http://rampages.us/karenli/ – link to draft.
It will probably need a lot of revising, editing, and adding more information. I will work toward the final over the weekend.
http://rampages.us/karenli/ – link to draft.
It will probably need a lot of revising, editing, and adding more information. I will work toward the final over the weekend.
When I first opened the page, I see this picture… and the logo…
I like the logo of this documentation, it is not too simple but not complex. At first I was wondering what does the picture have anything to do with this piece of work, I still wonder after I finished reading the piece. Each section has an image at the end, which I assume “closes” the point and allows the reader to be ready to transit to another factual point. Also at the start of each section the first letter of the first word is enlarged, I felt with a few styling with the fonts and images makes the document not as boring to read. The references at the end of the documentation shows evidence of the factual statements and if readers wants to learn more. In most articles or documents that I’ve read for this class there is several advertisements throughout the piece, but this has nothing but the document. The document allows the readers to easily read and understand the contents.
Zotero, a computer-based tool was exposed to us this week. My classmates and I are starting or soon-to-be starting our inquiry projects. With the aid of Zotero, we are able to research on our topic more efficiently. Zotero allows its users to manage their research information easier because it is in one individual section. I think this will be a great tool to use for this research project.
Last week’s concept experience, I was given the task to write a metaphor about “digesting” other people’s works. I think with this tool, finding information and typing up assignments will be easier and more efficient because it is organized into lists on Zotero.
Lickler, Engelbart, and Nelson believed that computers are supposed to be the aid for humans with their “heavy-duty,” to fasten the process and not to completely do the work for humans like Zotero does. I believe they will probably like the new computer-based tool because in their articles they stated about how technologies will continue to advance. With the human mind, they know that there will be people coming up with new ideas to advance the current technologies.
The recognition of that arbitrariness, and reconsideration among broader and more general alternatives, awaits us. All the previous units and mechanisms of learning, scholarship, arts, transaction and confirmation, and even self-reminder, were based in various ways upon physical objects—the properties of paper, carbon paper, files, books and bookshelves. To read from paper you must move the physical object in front of you. Its contents cannot be made to slide, fold, shrink, become transparent, or get larger.
But all this is now changing, and suddenly. The computer display screen does all these things if desired, to the same markings we have previously handled on paper. The computer display screen is going to become universal very fast; this is guaranteed by the suddenly rising cost of paper. And we will use them for everything. This already happens wherever there are responding computer screen systems. (I have a friend with two CRTs on his desk; one for the normal flow of work, and one to handle interruptions and side excursions.) A lot of forests will be saved.
The computer display screen saves a lot of forests, and benefits the environment by leaving a safer habitat for animals. Saving trees will help make the world a better, greener place. Having the computer screen as a universal utility has many pros. Of course using the display screen is much greener and saves a lot of paper. It is also an easy access to get to.
Using the display screen allows access to many different things especially in school. Many schools now using the computers for taking tests and researching information for projects and assignments. This generation has all types of electronics and as the year goes on, the devices become more convenient. We are now able to use electronics to do what we want as a substitute for paper and news articles. The world is now revolving around these electronics for an easier lifestyle.
My interest is on justice, therefore my inquiry project will be related to it. There are different races in the world; many that work, learn, and friends with us. It is stated that everyone is created and treated equally within the justice system, but is it really true? Are people of different races really treated equally with the system? I thought it would be a great argumentative topic because there are many example cases and history about the inequality of different races.
I kept thinking over and over if it’s not mankind that invented the computer we would not have such technology as we do now, it is not really the computer doing all the work for us. When I think, I enjoy the quietness and peacefulness so I can absorb any ideas that may come to mind. At first it is very calm and soothing being alone thinking about things, but after thinking for a long time it feels like everything is being blocked.
Newer and more advanced technologies provides a better and faster use than the previous ones. People become curious and interested in the newer technologies as they are exposed to it. The present day technologies allow for easier ways to save data records and researches. When an individual has questions or struggles that they are going through, they can turn to a computer to get the answers easily by typing in a simple question or word.
In one sense of course, any man-made system is intended to help man, to help a man or men outside the system. I instantaneously began to think about how the humans who currently work in restaurants and businesses will be replaced by machines in the future. Present-day computers are designed primarily to solve pre-formulated problems or to process data according to predetermined procedures. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends.
I am planning to major in forensic science and I took 2 years of criminal justice back in high school. I’m excited about the future of being able to work with other forensic scientists to help polices crack the case. In order to research about my topic, I browsed the net. Anything that a computer can do can also be done manually, but just slower and probably not as efficient. The mankind does not need computers, but with it, it will be so much faster and easier. Though without computers, everything would be harder to record experiment results and other data records. I’ve learned through another classmate that technology cannot surplus human beings due to their lack of “logic and emotions.” As I keep browsing through the net I keep going back to Google like Vicky to find other alternative links that is related to my topic.
Science has provided the swiftest communication between individuals; it has provided a record of ideas and has enabled man to manipulate and to make extracts from that record so that knowledge evolves and endures throughout the life of a race rather than that of an individual. Computers are programmed and used by its user in the way they want to use it. One day we could say that computers are not able to do a particular task for us, but then the next day, people figure out a way to make it possible. But what we haven’t realized is that scientists have made them so well they have the capabilities to surpass our intelligence.
My final conclusion was that while we may use 100% of our brain, our mind will never have reached full capacity. In other words, the human mind neither learns nor acts by large leaps, but by steps organized or structured so that each one depends upon previous steps. There is nothing that can really be done in one single step, it is always completed in several steps. Each step that we take is like a building block until it is complete. Although the size of the step a human being can take in comprehension, innovation, or execution is small in comparison to the over-all size of the step needed to solve a complex problem, human beings nevertheless do solve complex problems.
Digesting other people’s work is pumping air into a balloon. As you digest other’s works, the balloon will continue to expand. Stores sell packs of x numbers of balloons, but it is our job to blow up/pump air into a balloon. As each pump is given the balloon is expanded, which provides a definite shape. As I digest other students’ works I feel that I’ve learned something extra, something new.
Although the size of the step a human being can take in comprehension, innovation, or execution is small in comparison to the over-all size of the step needed to solve a complex problem, human beings nevertheless do solve complex problems. It is the augmentation means that serve to break down a large problem in such a way that the human being can walk through it with his little steps, and it is the structure or organization of these little steps or actions that we discuss as process hierarchies.
Every process of thought or action is made up of sub-processes. Let us consider such examples as making a pencil stroke, writing a letter of the alphabet, or making a plan. Quite a few discrete muscle movements are organized into the making of a pencil stroke; similarly, making particular pencil strokes and making a plan for a letter are complex processes in themselves that become sub-processes to the over-all writing of an alphabetic character.
Out of the whole article this passage caught my attention. I believe it is true. A step that a human being take is small compared to the amount of steps it takes to figure out a complex problem. There is nothing that can really be done in one single step, it is always completed in several steps. For example, cooking doesn’t take just one step to be prepared. It takes time and ingredients. There are several steps in completing tasks. For example, this assignment requires each student to read the article, then pick out a passage that catches our attention, and lastly create a nugget with that passage. These are not the only steps. There are always GIFs or image searching and publishing the blog post to be viewed by others.
Each step that we take is like a building block until it is complete.