ETECH Flashcards
refers to the process of giving yourself, or other people, the capacity to achieve a specific end-goal
Empowerment
refers to computer technology that we use almost everyday, which enable us to do tasks that, in the past, required professional help
Empowerment Technology
The ability to use digital technology, communication tools, and/or networks to define, define, create information or knowledge and be able to communicate this information to others
Technology Literacy
an open-source information space where documents are identified by Uniform Resource Locators interlinked using hypertext links and accessed via the internet.
World Wide Web (1989)
The one who invented the World Wide Web (WWW)
Tim Berners-Lee
Known as the Read-write Web, Web if Interaction or Participative Web.
Web 2.0
known as the semantic web or web of data
Web 3.0
Composed of many technologies and techniques that make smart things “intelligent”
AI and Advanced Machine Learning
virtual personal assistants, like Siri and Google Home, that perform some human assistance functions, making tasks easier
Intelligent Apps
refers to the physical things tat are imbued with machine learning capabilities through rigid programming. (google car, drones, smart appliances)
Intelligent things
refer to the immersive technologies that are now dominating the market. Basic virtual reality is now accessible to consumers through different wearables, like VR boxes
Virtual and Augmented Reality
refers to the dynamic software model of a machine or a thing or system that uses data from various sensors to do autonomous actions such as comprehension, reaction, and improvement of operation.
Digital Twin
a type of distributed ledger in which value exchange transactions are sequentially grouped into blocks
Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers
Siri on Apple devices and Cortana for Windows devices helping us as virtual personal assistants
Conversational System
enables users to have an optimizes solution for targeted endpoints in the digital mesh as well as a continuous experience as they shift across these different channels
Mesh App and Service Architecture (MASA)
platforms that enable a digital business
Digital Technology Platforms
constant processing of information requires better, ultra-efficient architectures to handle the demand
Adaptive Security Architecture
a systematic inquiry that attempts to provide solutions to existing problems and questions using facts and data.
Research
Evaluate the information you gather from your sources. Consider the benchmarks for evaluating a website: currency, security, scope, and authority
Check your sources
Be specific when entering queries into search engines
Ask good questions
Be persistent in looking for more information regarding your topic.
Go beyond the surface
You may not find the exact answer to your query, but bits if data are scattered all over the internet.
Be patient
Remember that everything on the internet, has its own respective owner.
Respect Ownership
Social media and other information tools like Wikipedia and online forums are useful when doing research
Use your networks
one of the most popular search engines, Owned by Google
Google Search
a simpler way to search for scholarly literature on the internet
Google Scholar
scholarly publications released in a format accessible via the internet.
Online Journals
a non-profit electronic library that as a free-to-access collection of digitized materials.
Internet Archive
another digital library that offers premium fee-based access to mainly academic materials that are normally not available for public use.
EBSCOhost
another digital library that is primarily licensed to academic, scientific, and other research and educational institutions. Part of ITHAKA, a non-profit organization.
JSTOR
Is the information up to date ?
Currency
Does the site ask too much personal information?
Security
Is the information in-depth?
Scope
Does the information come from a trusted expert?
Authority
a new branch of ethics that is concerned with standards of conduct in the use of computers
Computer Ethics
protect the rights of people to maintain legal ownership of their works and ideas.
Intellectual Property Laws (IPL)
writing a material that you’ve read in your own words
paraphrase
proper _______ must be observed when referencing existing material
Citations/cite
recommended in order to avoid misquotation or misinterpretation
Quoting
a word processing application developed by the Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Word
what color indicates that the word is misspelled
Red
what color indicates that there is a grammatical error
Blue
