Net Effect of Globalization

According to the book 'The World is Flat' written by Thomas Friedman, Globialization has effected our life in many good ways. For example, outsourcing has make our life better and easy. He also mentioned that the creation of window and open sourcing has tide world tiny by allowing many people to access internet and share their own idea and opinion. These factors were believed to make world smaller and flat.
It seems like that the globalization is only a good thing. However, Globalization also has dark sides. For example, people in middle level's lifes are getting better although low level people's lifes are getting worst and worst. Since many information that contains unique ideas spread to all over the countriesm, it can ruin some country's culture or their religious belief. As we watched, in '30 days' the guy named 'crise' lost his job because there was foreign worker who could do his job easily in less pay but in better quality.

Three most valuable things i learn during POP

There are three most valuable things i learned during working on Population Project. They are advantage and disadvantage of CNG, and other new alternative fuels. During POP i really worked a lot on these because they were part of my research paper. I'm sure learning more about these facts will affect my future because right now the world citizens are concerning about Global warming and one of the way to reduce the global warming is finding new alternative fuels that would replace fossil fuel which are causing global warming by producing lot of harmful gases. If we don't find better new alternative fuel that reduce harmful gases, our future will be terrible. As i mentioned on my research paper, if we just leave the situation like this, our next generation probably might have to live in special suit with helmet that contains fresh oxygen to help them breath. To avoid this future i think learning about these thing are really helping me to change my future.

Feedback - April 13-17 - Technology and Schools

What are the main visual elements?
A family

What issue is this cartoon about?
Conflict between Technology and school life

What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
Technology is ruining our next generation's future.

What evidence in the cartoon supports your opinion on how the cartoonist feels?
If you look at the cartoon, the male who seems like father of the kid looks kind of tired and if you look at the dialogue, it starts with 'well,' and this kind of tell us that he knows

Why is this cartoon ironic?
If you just read the first sentence of the dialogue, it sounds like a conversation between boss of the company and one of his worker but if you look at the cartoon, actually the father is talking to his son

How does this cartoon relate to our study of technology and the future?
As we use more technology in school, we talk less to our parent. And in future we will only think like electronically and lose our creativity

What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
Make the dialogue little bit bigger because i thought the dialogue was very effective

Plan for POP project

Day -1
- Look graphs for data analysis
- Start making note cards which contains information to write the research paper
- More research

Day -2
- Make a graph for data analysis and start thinking what i will write about this graph
- Make more note card, also put them together(put them in the order) and write outline
- little more research

Day -3
- Statistics - write rationale that gives support for my choice of data
- With the outline start the 1st draft

Day -4
- Statistics- summary of my graph (use of mean, median, mode, rage , slope, exponential growth, exponential decay, or quartile and calculation that shows my work
- edit my 1st draft

Day -5
- Summary - interpretation of my data also explanations and other following
- write 2nd draft

technology?

In my word, technology is an idea that has something to do with creation that modern people like to follow which help them in lot of ways. This idea is mostly use in electronic way and sometime it can be harmful to human. But technology is not only relate to electronic stuff but i think it also relates to other topic such as art, sports, etc.

5 most and 5 least important technologies used today-

5 most
- Computer
- Mobile phone
- Camera
- Refrigerator
- Microwaves

5 least
- Radio
- Old version of disk drive
- Automobile
- I pod
- TV

I think the amount of technology we use in AES is not that many because during the lunch time there are more people who spend their time at the rock or play sports than spend their time in computer lab. Also when people use computer, most of their reason is to do their homework or to print out something. But the situation will be different once people leave the school; when they leave school, first thing they do is to look up their mobile phone or listen music with their i pod. It not that people are not using enough technology in school but school doesn't allow students to use thier technology much as outside of school.

Vonnegut and Technology

"Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work—not the damn fool computer.”"

I agree with him even though I love my my computer. Until now, I thought it was computer and other machines which modernized this world. But sometime I wonder what will happen in the future if this pattern continue. If you watch some movies about robots in the future they are smarter than us and do every thing as we say. But I think this is wrong. As Kurt Vonnegut said it's us who should be doing the becoming, not the technology. In the story 'Harrison Bergeron' in the year 2081 every people have little mental handicap radio in their ear or they are too stupid enough to not recognize their own son. It was their damn technology which made them stupid monkeys who can't even recognize their own son. These technology sometimes also make me stupid monkey. I sometimes I think what if this computer do my all homeworks. In another Vonnegut's story 'The Euphio Question' These stupid people put the signal that make people happy on the radio to earn lot of money. They think those sound make people happy but actually these sound make people old, not only physically but also mentally. Now they become the creature who can't breath even a minute without those sound. Today, technology make many peoples' life easier but in other side they make people fat and they are dehumanizing us!

Feedback March 9-13 - End of Quarter 3 Feedback

My second goal was to improve my reading and writing. To be more specific I planned not to make spelling mistake and make sentence better. But I think my writing skill hadn't improved as much as my reading skill. I think this happened because of my grammar. I missed articles frequently and my sentences always confused reader by putting past, present tense in same situation. If I improve my grammar it will also help me writing a 'POP' research paper.

so my goal for this Quarter is,..... :
- to improve my grammar (Articles, punctuation, tenses)
- do research and get good data for my population project
- finish the population project before the due date. (work in process and finish it early)