Bosses, Social, Comp and Dial Articles

The article's "Bosses peak in on Facebook" and "Social Networking has Hidden Dangers" to me are one in the same article. You should know that anything you post online on a "social network" could at any time be viewed by anyone. You can have your Facebook, MySpace etc. account hacked at any time and your information shot all across the globe. The rising in popularity of social gaming is a major player as well. Many people will accept invites from anyone so they can add them to their gaming applications thus giving a wide open gate to future employers. Sometimes we rely way to heavily on technology and don't realize that it's flawed. As the articles state, you can't just hit delete and all the mistakes you made miraculously disappear. There will always be a digital footprint. Imagine the archaeologists who find old dinosaur bones, now imagine a "Computer Archaeologist". In 80 years from now, that picture of you naked, drunk and pretending to hump a fire hydrant is found and sent to people from all over the world under the title "Drunk Idiot with a tiny pickle". Is that really how you want to be remembered? I don't want to be somebody that discourages women from posting naked pics of themselves, so I just used a guy title.<< hahaha let's see who's actually reading this. It all comes down to personal responsibility. Know what you post and keep some things private. It might be a good idea to keep certain things off of your computer in general. Hackers love to not only destroy your computer files, but also to steal and exploit them

The article "Computer's leave classrooms" has good points on both sides of the spectrum. Having a podcast or something beforehand then using class time for questions can be a good thing and keep students interested. The ultimate goal is education and not just passing. Students would have to spend extra time before that class to take in the pre-lecture material. That might not be too bad except when you consider the possibility of all classes with the same format. A full time student would have to deal with studying pre-lecture material, then going to the lecture, and then doing the homework for each class, making a rather large and possibly more stressful college experience. Both sides have valid pros and cons.

The article "Dial M for Mobile" was really interesting. It makes some really good points both ways. Relying so much on technology can be an extremely dangerous thing, but you can't hide from it either. Using them interactively in the classroom might be a bit much. While I can understand the desire to integrate technology into the classrooms, it doesn't mean that history class or English class needs to teach students how to use cell phones. The many distractions that could occur may hinder the learning process rather than help it. I do find the correlation between the two of these articles interesting. One article wants to remove some technology from the classroom and one wants to add more.