E-Portfolios Come of Age. Leaders vs. Managers….. Are they really different? | The Practic. Eight ways to kill an idea : FLIRTing with the Crowds. The Work of Jonathan Harris. Virtual Morality. Technology is dragging morality into some deep and murky philosophical waters, forcing us to reexamine our understanding of it as many of us choose to become actors in virtual worlds. By putting choice and consequence in closed virtual worlds where we can kill without harming others or facing punishment ourselves, we are forced to reconsider the case for moral behavior. New videogames such as Grand Theft Auto IV and online communities such as Second Life, invite an increasingly large percentage of society to participate in fantasy worlds where we are invited to experience life without rules – to be the bad guy or the sexual deviant.
The implicit suggestion of these products is that, like gravity, morality does not necessarily exist in a virtual world. Morality and consequence can be switched off. Anything goes. It’s an attractive proposition, one that undoubtedly contributed to the record breaking sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, which took in over $500 million in its first week. 100 Free Tools to Tutor Yourself in Anything | Online Classes.or. Gartner: Loosen up on social networks, security | Deep Tech - CN. ORLANDO, Fla. --OK, IT managers, it's time to loosen up. That's how analysts advised Gartner Symposium attendees here Monday, arguing that corporate computing departments shouldn't block social networking and that security shouldn't completely lock down communications with the outside world. And even if information technology authorities want to shut down such activity, they can't. "Banning access to social media from the corporate network is futile," said Carol Rozwell, a Gartner vice president.
"The world we live in is digitally enabled and socially connected. " The advice reflects the transformation of the information technology world as the Internet steadily pervades more and more corners of everybody's life. Overall, companies must acknowledge that not everything is under control of their own top-down administration, said Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner. "We're moving from control to greater autonomy," Sondergaard said. He is no Pollyanna. Steven Pressfield Blog | A Video Series and Blog from Author and. Spa City fifth-graders first in region to learn on smart phones. SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Half the students in Kristin Passaretti's fifth-grade class at Lake Avenue Elementary School already stash cell phones in their lockers during the school day.
With the introduction of "cellular computers" to her classroom on Monday, Passaretti has a new way to bring the technology out of the dark and use it to expand her students' learning. About 23 fifth-graders and three teachers in the school are participating in a pilot program that has them using the hand-held devices -- essentially smart phones with Internet access and miniature keyboards -- that they use to find, store and share information in their science, math, English language arts and social studies classes.
The devices don't have the ability to make calls or send text messages. "They're not allowed to use (cell phones) in school. On Thursday, Passaretti taught a science lesson about the properties of light to about 20 fifth-graders. "Kids want to pick them up and play with them," Passaretti said. Nettuts+ | Web development tutorials, from beginner to advanced. Museum Box Homepage. Phony Cancer Scares Debunked. The Danes, relatively inactive on the world scene since their conquest of Greenland and invention of that delightful pastry, have conducted one of the best health studies yet revealing that there's no apparent link between cancer and cell phones.
Researchers at the Danish Cancer Institute (who, remember, don't want you to get cancer) followed more than 420,000 cell phone users, nearly a tenth of the Danish population, and found that their cell phone habits did not increase their risk of any type of cancer. The results were published last week in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Brain cancers can take many years to develop. The most reassuring aspect of the massive Danish study is that some of the cancer-free subjects have been using cell phones for more than 20 years. Yet most scientists aren't surprised by the result. Study after study has been showing no evidence of cancer precisely because there's no plausible reason for cell phones to cause cancer. Technology = worry. Innovate: Past Issues. CBE Leadership Meeting information and updates - CBE Staff Intra. Terms of Use Access to this system is limited to Calgary Board of Education (CBE) authorized activity. Do not attempt to logon to this system unless you are an authorized CBE user (AR1061, Security of Information Resources). Any attempt or unauthorized access, use or modification is prohibited and subject to penalties as outlined in Chief Superintendent's Administrative Regulation AR1062, Acceptable Use of Electronic Information Resources.
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