Lizet Gutierrez - Teacher Blog

For my first article I read, Equivalency of Paper Versus Tablet Computer Survey Data .  This article emphasizes on the differences between surveys on paper and surveys online, on a tablet.  The most common online surveys are through email.  The downside to email surveys is that most people ignore them.  However, what if the person just does not understand what the survey is asking and decides to just not do it?  Well, we are not sure what exactly happened because it is via email and it is to the person’s discretion whether he/she decides to do it or not.              On the campus of a midwestern university, 292 college undergraduates were invited to participate in the survey taking, but only 258 accepted.  About 133 students took the survey on paper and the other 125 students took the survey on a tablet.  At the end of this experiment, I believe it is safe to say that it is most reliable t...

Technology plays a major part of our lives, whether we want to admit it or not, it does.  We use it daily at work, school, and even at home.  Technology is at our fingertips.  For example, most of us, if not all of us always have our cell phone in our pocket, handbag, or hand. In the article, "Summon the Comfy Chairs," it talks about the Walt Disney Mary Poppins Movie and how the furniture moves at just the snap of Mary's fingers.  The article then later presents the idea of things like this eventually becoming a part of our reality.  Besides having moving furniture at the snap of one's fingers sounds, I cannot imagine them having a personality!  That's a little creepy.  What if you command you bed to make itself but it refuses to do so because of their personality? In "Teaching Robots Right From Wrong," they talk about how Japan, Europe, and the United States of America are building robots to be able to care for the elderly and disabled. ...