Module 6

As a leader in educational technology, what can you do to help make emerging technologies valuable to others, while maintaining gender, cultural, and socioeconomic sensitivity?

The first thing would be to work side by side with others to learn the benefits and barriers the technology may present to different people. This would give me more information about various users and make me more aware of and sensitive to aspects that influence the audience. My field is k-12 education. Socioeconomics is a factor with technology when it comes to public schools. A goal I would have is that all public schools would have the capability for families to access their server at no cost whether through wireless or some other manner. If schools had to provide laptops, netbooks, tablets, or other mobile technology to families for access they could. In this way, all of the students would have the same access to information for learning as well as tools for communication and collaboration. All learners would have the same benefits in learning despite socioeconomic factors.

Module 5 blog

Initially, I turned to my computer as a source to view the movie for Module 4 but was unable to view it for free. I am not a member of Netflix so move on to trying movies on demand on my television. None of the movies we were required to view were available on demand so my next thought was to drive to the local Block Buster video store. Well, the store was closed so I returned home and the following day, I drove to the public library and checked out the Blade Runner movie at no cost.

I would argue that the competition between DVDs and video on demand is an example of Red Queens. With increasing returns, there are two technologies competing in which one of them is chosen and the other disappears. Red Queens leaves more room allowing two competing technologies to surge ahead of others because of intense competition. Currently, both DVDs and on demand videos are both leaders in movie viewing and are not causing the other to disappear.

On the tetrad I would say that DVDs enhanced VHS tapes and obsoletes VHS also. I think on demand movies enhance DVDs and other movie viewing sources with the speed and convenience of access. I do not think that on demand features have made obsolete any other media yet. Both DVDs and on demand retrieve recreational film viewing and revert to older forms of movie media such as films.