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It’s design week! Students kicked things off by designing clocks that represent the lens that they will be studying “cycles” through.
In the afternoon we were lucky enough to have a visit and presentation by artist Ross Palmer Beecher, who shared some of her recycled artwork and talked about how Americana and politics play a part in her creativity.
by Bill
Your Digital identity is when you buy something on the nets, credit card or whenever you use anything with a LCD screen on it and/or a plug, virtual this. Like, in the New York drum school the players are using guitar hero for learning and the army with the trauma patients with fear.
Video games; parents hate them; kids love them, and the army to? Yes that’s right the army is now making video games to train soldiers of the arts of war without being there, at least for now. Dan emery the owner of the “New York City Guitar School” says that the students of his school are enjoying learning and are turning to old classic rock via the video game “Guitar Hero 3” witch uses a plastic guitar to play the notes of the screen. The screen has notes to play songs. And the guitar has keys that you can press.
Ok get this scientists have made a drug to erase fear. How they proved it is by getting a family of lab rats and exposed them to a cricket noise and a beeping noise then after 20 seconds they get a shock. The scientists do that 3 time to get the rats afraid of the noises. Then they exposed the rat just to the cricket noise and injected them to a drug that makes them forget. So next time the rats get the noise of the cricket they don’t freak but not with the beeping noise. The scientists are thinking of doing the same thing with video games and veterans/patients with severe trauma by watching what happened.
Games they can’t be all bad Entertaining and fun. saving soldiers from bad memories and exposing guitar players to the classics. They are also good for getting the parents redder and throats sorer. Yes there’s down side and yes there’s good in the games to, like trauma and jobs. But still video games were for kids and no active competition, like you want to play baseball but no field and it’s just you and your friend.
Sources
Popular science mag December issue
Video games + a lot of time = job opportunities?
by Sierra
I think that you should ask kid’s parents before you get them a technology related toy. I think that because some parents have different opinions about their kids using the computer. A lot of parents think that if it’s educational then its great but if its social they are a little bit skeptical. “Just as you wouldn’t spring a puppy on a family as a surprise, you should check in with parents before you give a tech toy.”
You wouldn’t ask a parent to get a board game but you would you were getting them a cell phone. That’s because a board game they always know who they are playing with and a person can’t stalk you from a board game. But you would ask to buy them a cell phone because any one can call you and you can call any one.
The first article that I read was about how kids were getting thing like stuffed animals that connects to the internet but the parents didn’t know that it connected to the internet and when they found out about it they weren’t sure that they liked it. They wanted their kids to have it but their wasn’t a lot that they could do about it. See the link above to read the entire article.
There are bad ways that people could use toys that can connect to the internet but there is also there is good ways too. One of the good ways is that some companies make toys that help younger kids learn. Why kids use these toys is they aren’t complicated and they are made especially for kids there age. Here is a link that explains more.
Ithink that little kids learning about how to use computers is a good thing because then they can understand it more when they are older and feel more conferrable on the internet when they are older, but I also think that if kids are on the computer it is not good because then they won’t do anything else and they will be lazy and out of shape. “Allowing children to access technology at an early age will allow them to be far more discerning and feel more comfortable with the technology they will need in the future.”
hat is why you should ask the parents and you should know about the toy that you want to buy for a kid.
by Forest
I did research on Ask Eraser, a part of the Ask.com search engine that disables the engine’s ability to gather personal info from users. Without Ask Eraser engaged the engine could place cookies (pieces of software that a website puts on your computer), find out your personal info such as your name, and phone number, address, age, IP address (the location, or “call number” of your computer on the internet) It could possibly even take info such as credit card number, social security number or bank account number.
This sort of information would go into your digital identity, the trail of ones and zeros you leave behind every day you use tech. It can be used to find out something as harmless as what you ate for lunch or something as malignant as the aid to a murder (don’t go nuts, the chances of that are about one million to one) but you need to be careful.
On most search engines every time you type something in and press enter it automatically records your IP address and what you’re searching for. This info is usually kept inside a database and not read by anyone, but if it’s there there’s always some risk of info leakage.
Unfortunately Ask Eraser comes at a price, the second article states that when you go to Ask.Com, Ask Eraser itself places session cookies (identifying “name tag” cookies that enable websites to remember you) to record your preference of having Ask Eraser on. With these cookies in effect it could also extract identifying information from your computer without your knowledge.
With that on the table it really comes down to you, pick your poison. Do you trust Ask.com in default or Ask Eraser mode, both? Nether? Both of them have the downside of putting your personal info at risk. When I first wrote my thesis I only saw one side of the argument that Ask Eraser helps to prevent internet crime. But as I did more research the size of the catch 22 really became apparent. I do not recommend Ask Eraser simply because it implements the very thing it supposedly targets. This can rightfully classify it’s creators as un-trustworthy hypocrites.
Sources:
http://lifehacker.com
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9836002-7.html
by Isaac
Digital identity is when you give information of your self or people give information about them selves and put it up some where so others can read it. People often lie about their digital identity on places like MySpace and Facebook so they don’t get stalked. People also are careful about the pictures and information they put on the internet.
People that use Facebook are getting stalked even after they leave the site. Facebook is using a program called Beacon that traces your activity and where you go after you leave the Facebook site. It is not really a predator or stalker but it’s the people who monitor and make Facebook who watch you. That is not good because those people can watch where you go and if they want to they could post stuff about where you went and then the people who help you with stalker could be stalking you.
People on MySpace are getting stalked because they are not careful about their information that they put up. If you don’t set your settings right anyone in the world can see your pictures, comments and writing and will be able to figure out stuff about you. I think people should be more careful about the information and the pictures they put on because people could find out more about you.
Beacon could also be good to find out what kind of things you like. For example, web sites that you like and stuff like that. But they could also just have a survey that asks what kind of sites you go to and it wouldn’t be a problem because people wouldn’t get stalked. Everybody would be safer if they used a user friendly tracking device.
People are not checking their security and more careful about their posted information. The result of this is that people are getting stalked. People are also getting stalked be the website itself. Facebook is using a program to find out where people are going after their done using their website. I think it could be of some use to find out what people like to make the website better but I don’t think their using it for that. If they are using it for that then they should prove that they are or just get rid of it. Over all I think it is a bad program and they shouldn’t use it.
by Owen
Digital Identity is another life you have online because you can be from the UK but say your from Canada. So my digital identity story is about teens breaking up on IM and how they avoid awkward conversations like that. I agree with them for avoiding conversations like that.
The first article that I have takes polls on how many kids use it for making or breaking dates. I think they should avoid conversations like that because they could be read by a third party and may hurt feelings of other people. Also the person might just be joking but you can not really tell if someone is joking on IM.
This article really relates to my first article in that the polls are the same but they think that teens are more likely to use IM in such a way as to make/break dates. I still have my opinion that I had in my last paragraph that teens should not do stuff like that.
I agree with teens that are avoiding conversations like that. The articles are connected by saying the same polls but different ideas. I do not have IM but if I did I would want my making/breaking dates to be a personal thing. My opinion is that a third party could read something personal on IM so I don’t think teens should do that.
by Karayah
To me digital identity means online life that may not make very much since it just like something that you have to protect. Like you can’t just put any picture on the internet because any person cold see and make it there own. For example taking your photo and posting in on ex rated site with out your consent, with out ever finding out who did it, or away to stop the person that posted it. So I would define digital identity as something that you would need to be more private with rather than to just post it to the public.
When I first read You are famous worldwide I was some what mad because I put my self in that situation and if that would have been me I would have been highly upset. Having a photo of me posted almost all around the world with out me giving my consent is not what really bothered me. It was the fact that they had the nerve to make fun of me. So while making money off of me without me seeing any of it. While the whole time I’m getting embarrassed. Another thing that would really make me furious is that they might never face the consequences of doing that to me.
When I was reading “Laptop thief shown on web fined” by NZPA, NZ HERALD STAFF it made me think about when my cousin. He was hit and killed by anonymous driver. The only information that we had was the color and the type of car. At the time we did not have any other clues on the case that was the only information that we had, some how the case was put on TV through Americas Most Wanted. When that episode was posted they had a call back from a viewer saying that they had recently bought a car similar to that description. They also stated that the person that bought the car from was in a hurry to sale it. Turns out that was the vehicle that was use to kill my cousin. So I’m some what happy that there are things like You Tube and Americas Most Wanted that could should things like that. Cause if not they would never found the killer of my cousin.
After all these very incredible stories I can even more tell you what digital identity means. To me it is something you just can’t forget about if something happens if something happens. Once again it’s a very important think that any age group needs to be careful with.
I thought my articles that I picked out were connected was that the person that it happened to won’t ever do something like that again and that they were both humiliated. I think this will connect to tech in lots of way like now we (tech class) will under stand that the computer and the people on it are not all fun and games they are serious matters.
Over the past couple of months we’ve explored various digital identity issues: caller ID spoofing, search engine history, social networking sites and more. 7th graders have done a great job of talking about ways that technology CAN affect someone’s life, but today we moved away from the computer lab to talk about digital identity and HOW it currently relates to student life.
We discussed how digital identities can be:
We talked about reasons that someone might exaggerate when interacting online. Some reasons are:
We conversed about what can happen when someone’s real identity and digital identity split apart too far:
We talked about what might happen as a result of an unmanageable digital identity - things like be mean to someone or hurt someone, try drugs or alcohol, or act in crazy and dangerous ways. This happens because when a digital identity becomes popular, we get scared that our audience might leave us if we go back to being our regular selves.
Students related this discussion to nice people who swear when playing XBOX live, actors who become the characters they portray, and MySpacers who live in their computer life, not their real life.
Finally, we talked about how trying on identities in the real world is fairly safe because there are adults and friends who really know you on hand to give feedback and help you when you make mistakes. Online, however, people are often encouraged to act in ways they wouldn’t in real life, such as talking about drugs or suicide. Online there aren’t always adults or friends around to give you feedback about your actions, and the crazier a digital identity the more popular they often are.
by Savannah
Digital identity is like a trail of information you leave behind every time you go on the internet. If someone finds that trail then it is pretty easy to find important information like your name, phone number, and address. People can even find you through your parents or siblings. Some popular electronic toys connect kids the internet and they can meet people that their parents won’t want them to talk to ad if the parents don’t know then they can’t stop it.
f you are planning on getting an electronic toy for a kid you should talk with their parents first because if the toy could get them in contact with a predator online, and if that happened they probably wouldn’t want them to have it. Also I think a lot of predators would get that toy that is very popular to kids to get in contact with them. Some little kids don’t know any better when someone who seems nice asks them questions like their name. Reference 1
In the article they decided they would start to take rain checks on the Wii.I think they shouldn’t take rain checks on the Wii because if they just start giving them out then they don’t know who will pay them back or just run off with the game and not intend to pay them back. If someone dose do that them they could find them but they probable don’t want to go through the trouble of finding them to get back the game. A lot of people probably won’t take the game ad run but, if someone decides to steal one and gets away with it other people might try that and they will end up losing money replacing the game or finding the person. Reference 2
I think the two articles go together because they both talk about electronic games and how people may agree or disagree Both games connect to the internet and that means if you got either games the child receiving them would be in danger of meeting people on the internet. Like with the first one when they think it is safe to ask the parents before you get them a toy that connects them to the internet, some parents might not care when others might throw it away. Then with the article about the Wii, the makers of it might think it is a great idea others might see it as a chance to get a free video game.
8th grade student Chris has been testing out the animation features of Google SketchUp Pro. Here is a sample movie of one of his latest models:
Flash Video: