Areas where ICTs are used Education ICTs: Mobile Learning: mobile devices with internet access and computing capabilities will soon overtake personal computers as the information appliance of choice in the classroom. Cloud Computing: provides the ubiquitous connectivity to access information sitting in the “cloud”. Ubiquitous learning: In addition to hardware and Internet access, it requires the availability of virtual mentors or teachers, and/or opportunities for peer to peer and self-paced, deeper learning. 10 Global Trebds in ICT and Education. (2010, 13 enero). October 9th, link: http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/10-global-trends-in-ict-and-education Science ICTs: Body Scanners: Body scanners allow doctors to find and treat conditions such as tumours in their early stages when the chances of treating them successfully are much greater. Organ Transplants: Computerised databases are used to help match patients who are waiting for organ transplants such as a...
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“ Internet and Cloud Services ” 🌐What is the Internet? It is a globally connected network system that uses a protocol (TCP/IP) to transmit data via various types of media. 🔎Browsers: Software program that allows a user to locate access, and display web pages. Ex. Firefox, Chrome, Puffin, Google Chrome, Opera... 🔎Search Engines: Services that allow Internet users to search for content via the World Wide Web. Ex. Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Ask.com, AOL... 🔎Cloud Services: Provide many IT services traditionally hosted in house, such as provisioning an application/database server from the cloud, replacing in-house storage/backup with cloud storage and accessing software and applications directly from a web browser without prior installation. Ex. iCloud, Dropbox, Drive, Blackboard, SkyDrive...
"The Good Place" My favorite TV Show is called "The Good Place", it is about a woman that dies and gets into "heaven" but realizes that there has been a misake because she is supposed to be in hell, so she tries to be a good person, but she causes a lot of problems. Later on she realizes that she is actually not in the good place, she is in the bad place but the people in charge are trying to make her life miserable while they make her think that she is in the good place. I like this show because it is really funny and the history is very well developed. Trailer S1:
“Networks and WWW” 🌐What is a network? It is a group of devices that are linked together through communication in order to facilitate resource-sharing among a wide range of users. 🌐Types of networks: LAN (Local Area Network): It spans a relatively small area and it can be connected to other LANs over any distance via telephone line and radio waves. MAN (Metropolitan Area Network): Spans an entire city or campus, it is formed when multiple LANs are connected; extremely efficient providing fast communication, they are used to build networks with high data connections. WAN (Wide Area Network): Exists over a large-scale geographical area, connects smaller networks, is used for larger geographical areas. WWW: 🌐What is it? It is a network of online content formatted in HTML and accessed via HTTP. Often referred simply as “the web”. 🌐It was originally designed in 1991 by Tim Berners Lee.