2: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL AGE (cont.) Flashcards
Many communication services developed
• People learn new languages easier and people around the world can become more educated
• Jobs have also became easier
• Entrepreneurs can start and run a company easier than ever before. It also impacts our work ethics by distracting us and causing us to lose interest in the task we are doing.
• This time period has created a shortage of jobs and making many jobs obsolete
Impacts of the Information Age
Huge criminal organizations rely on hacking
• Internet has turned society into homebodies
• People can do everything online e.g. shopping, communicating, bill paying, working, education, entertainment, even ordering food.
• This age made us very lazy and uneducated society.
• Too much information
• When thinking about digital age learners, we must understand that they are more overwhelmed, distracted and impatient than ever before.
Disadvantages of Digital Age
Additional skills
Communication (both written and spoken)
Literacy(Media Literacy, digital literacy, reading)
Typing
Critical Thinking and judgment
Problem Solving
Teamwork
Personal resilience
Reflection
New paradigms of communication in the digital age
From audience to user
From media to content
From mono-media to multimedia
From periodicity to real-time
From scarcity to abundance
From editor mediated to non-mediated
From distribution to access
From one way to interactivity
From linear to hypertext
From data to knowledge
Skills needed in the digital age
- Information is readily available and free.
- Customer controls interaction
- Competitive advantage
- Requires individual to be life-long learners.
- Navigate and interpret information.
- Digitally fluent.
the most important source of social change
technological innovation
Impact of technology in our daily living
Mobile phones
Social media
Video games
Online shopping
Online streaming
YouTube
people around the world become more exposed to technology this impacts on what
the values and expectations of the people in each country
changing nature of employment
- Many companies now allow employees to work from home and communicate with them via technology.
- Cloud-based document storage enables workers to share documents with their employer, and communication can be via email or by video.
- Automation of processes using technology has led to a fall in manual, low-skilled work, such as warehouse packing.
Major concerns about ecological issues
the environment, health of the people, and the energy we consume daily
Environmental issues are those where the manufacturing and use of computers has had a negative impact on the environment
• Resources are needed to in order for computers to be produced, distributed and used.
• Metals and plastics are used to manufacture components, while energy is expended in distributing equipment and in using it.
• Many computers, such as web servers, domain name servers and data centers, need to be left running continuously. This requires lots of energy to maintain.
• Additionally, businesses, organizations, schools and homes all now have greater access to technology
Many computer components are either hard to recycle or contain toxic materials
lead, mercury, cadmium
technological problems
People have new smartphones every couple of years. • Many organizations replace computers after three or four years. • Many people replace older technology before it fails simply because they perceive it to be old-fashioned or out of date. • Computers are made of heavy metals and dangerous chemicals.
What skill is needed in the digital age for the democratization of access to information has resulted in a shift in the distribution of power between government and citizen, retailer and consumer, manager and employee, teacher and student?
Information is readily available and free
What skill needed in the digital age for in order to survive and remain relevant, companies now need to quickly adapt to a constantly changing market?
Customer controls interaction
What skill needed in the digital age where being really good at learning how to do new things results in a competitive advantage?
Competitive advantage
What skill needed in the digital age where individuals must also adapt their skills to remain relevant in the job market?
Competitive advantage
What skill needed in the digital age that stresses the importance of creative problem solving and the ability to make connections across domains in order to drive innovation?
Requires individual to be life-long learners
What skill needed in the digital age that individuals must not only be able to find and navigate information but they also must be able to critically interpret that information?
Navigate and interpret information
What skill needed in the digital age where you must also be able to express your ideas effectively through digital media?
Digitally fluent
What do digital age learners want to be?
Empowered and collaborative
Some sociologists believe that this is the most important source of social change
Technological Innovation
People have become dependent to Technology
- Mobile phones
- Social media
- Video games
- Online shopping
- Online streaming
- YouTube
as people around the world become more exposed to technology this impacts on the values and expectations of the people in each country
Globalization
