This week's lesson was on ICT and world change. ICT- Information & Communications Technologies, which includes Mass Media, the Internet, Interactive telecommunications, Wireless and so on. Indeed, technology has brought drastic change with regards to ICT. It is evident that we have progressed a lot ever since the past. Many forms of communications were being introduced. I shared this during the 1st TC lesson and that was; i remembered that when i was much younger, pagers were still in existence. However, just a leap of 10 years or so, instead of having pagers, we now have the iphones, blackberry and so on.
Many forms of ICT were introduced and what caught my attention was cloud computing. I've never heard of this term before. Cloud computing is Internet based computing where shared resources, information are provided to computers and other devices on demand. I like the idea of cloud computing as it is really low cost which lessens the burden on business owners. Seeing this, it really shows how much technology has advances, where with cloud computing, you need not require a large amt of capital to start your business and still able to reap as much benefits and profits.
ICT the driver of world change? We've discussed on drivers of change last session and is ICT one of the contributing factor? I feel that it has a part to play. The different forms of communication that has been introduced drove change. From tv and radios, we now have computers, laptops, mp3 etc. It has really changed the way people communicate and changed the different forms of entertainments that are available. Like what reading 2 stated; How ICT can change the world. As more people can afford communications due to drop in cost of devices therefore mkt more efficient. With increasing in number of people who are linked by mobile communication devices these days.
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity" Albert Einstein. I agree with him. Albert Einstein was referring to the use of nuclear weapons that US used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which led to the downfall of Japan. Though ICT is useful, it was misused in this area. Not only destroyed the land, it affected the citizens, disrupted their lives. Hence, we have to be responsible with every ICT invention and not misuse it for the wrong purpose. Falling back on reading 2 as well, where it states that existing communication has its flaws. It enabled global warfare, crime and that powerful technology will be used by the powerful to maintain and extend power. These all actions actually misuse the purpose of ICT.
I found that the presentations this week were really engaging especially the one on the forms of reading. It showed to us clearly the change that was brought about. In tackling one of their questions; How will the future platform of information reading affect the next generation of students, whereby learning will be fully technologically based. I feel that students will be over reliant on technology. Also, they have to bear in mind that there'll be times where technology may fail us and that we may in turn becomes slaves to technology. Hence, i feel that we should not over-emphasize the use of technology in every area of our lives.
Overall, i felt that this week lesson was interesting as it brought us through how much our world has really changed and made us think of what will be happening in the future with the never ending advancement in the area of ICT.
Class rating: 8/10
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