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Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk
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How technology should be developed from this point to support education more?
April 22, 2009 - 08:44 AM
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Nowadays, technology has come to a point that is very useful for many things one of them is for education. Technology can help us to study easier. For example, using internet to research for reports. But, how technology should be developed further so it can enhance studying. I would like to see technology helps the disables more. Currently, technology can be well used by people with non-disability and it is coming to the point that technology will have less innovation, but people with disability still has some lack of these technologies so I think technology should be developed in a way that helps the disables more.
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Re: How technology should be developed from this point to support education more?
April 24, 2009 - 06:36 AM
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Technology is always evolving, and just the term Technology itself means innovation.
Aren’t scientists already working on new technology for people with disability?
Just a simple google search came up with this website:
http://www.lockergnome.com/computerwheelie/2007/02/15/new-technology-products-for-people-with-disabilities/
I know that’s back in 2007 but there are more sources, that was only the first link I saw in the search. What kind of technology are you meaning? Can you narrow down your generalizations a bit?
What do you mean help with studies more? Like what kind of technology are you imagining?
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Re: How technology should be developed from this point to support education more?
April 24, 2009 - 07:47 AM
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I think there are quite a few ways people with disabilities can access the world wide web. I think it probably depends on the type and severity of the disability as to how difficult it is to enable access. For example, sight-impaired people can be aided with larger fonts and more simple/obvious layouts. I think I saw at a conference once a machine that converts web text to braille. Ultimately, they will need to be described details of videos, but they can hear the soundtrack if possible.
For people who have little use of their hands or feet can use devices that can either track their eye movements or other body part movements to substitute the keyboard and mouse. In this regard, speech recognition technology can help, as can shape/text recognition technology (to reduce the need to use mice and keyboards and instead use drawing boards).
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Re: How technology should be developed from this point to support education more?
April 24, 2009 - 07:52 AM
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I think it is important for technology to enable people to create and think.
Often, technology is considered a means to make traditional tasks more easy. For example, word processors make editing and proofreading much easier, as with translating, referencing, etc. To take this point further, the current web has made publishing easier, thus allowing common people to publish and share content without going through the publishing press (for example).
Though by making processes easier, these technologies can free up time for us to think and create, I don't think that it is necessarily a certain outcome.
In saying that, I would think that because there is so much content out their, we HAVE to think more critically to decide what information is reliable/correct. However, sometimes I fear that a vast majority of people who have access to such information do not even put in the effort to think about what they are consuming.
What do you think?
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Re: How technology should be developed from this point to support education more?
April 24, 2009 - 08:10 PM
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Cherrie I agree with you!
I think that most teachers must cringe when they see Wikipedia as a listed source of information when marking research assignments. Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that is entirely user submitted it would be so easy to change just one line on there, and that one line can make the difference for passing or failing that paper.
And yet even I have taken what I read on there, and much of the World Wide Web as fact. It has only been recently that when completing research assignments I will actually take the time to check various websites and write down multiple sources of the same information. Because that normally means that if you can find it twice or three times it is fact.
I would also like to say that there are so many blog posts out there these days and this is evidence to the fact that the internet is a medium of outlet for us ordinary people to publish what ever we want and have it available to a world wide audiance.
This post was edited on: 2009-04-24 at 08:13 PM by: Newklear
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Re: How technology should be developed from this point to support education more?
April 24, 2009 - 11:51 PM
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I do agree that technology should be developed to help disables learning and create our critical thinking. It would be difficult for someone who are not normal to learn without technology. But nowadays, everything is changing in a better way. For example, someone who gets trouble with listening finds it easier when using auditory devices. But more important, we should remember that technology is a good tool for man to learn. It can alter our thoughts or our actions. It can make work smoothly but it can't have human's intelligence. Therefor, in my opinion technology should be developed to inspire our hidden abilities rather than replace our thinking.
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Re: How technology should be developed from this point to support education more?
April 25, 2009 - 09:46 PM
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Technology is really evolving so let's make the most of it to support education more.
Since technology is evolving because of continuous research with the help of the existing technology itself, I think that there is no need to be developed regarding the same. All we have to do is to make technology as a means toward educational progress or growth. If are able to adopt it, then education will be more enhanced and will be more developed as it is today.
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Re: How technology should be developed from this point to support education more?
April 29, 2009 - 07:36 AM
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I agree to all your opinions, but I think technology as well as software developers should include in their programming the options or the feaures that can assist people with disabilities... I know its possible and that it will also benefit those who are impaired.
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Re: How technology should be developed from this point to support education more?
April 29, 2009 - 07:40 AM
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In due time, it will be available.
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Re: How technology should be developed from this point to support education more?
April 29, 2009 - 08:09 AM
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I'm hoping for that Jessie because I know its impact for I have a cousin who is somehow blind and she is now a 3rd year Computer Science student major in software development and she is telling me that she wants to develop a software that will help her ease her burden evrytime she handles computer software and programming as well.
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Re: How technology should be developed from this point to support education more?
April 29, 2009 - 08:14 AM
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Great, Franmarie. In due time, she will. Let's hope for the best.
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