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Bonjour & bienvenidos, We are a group of ISB (International School of Beijing) teachers who are trying to create a global collaborative project based on the Flat Classroom Project model in French and/or in Spanish. As of March 12th, 2009 we are at the brainstorming stage. Basically, we are trying to tweak the 10 flatteners identified in the Flat Classroom Project so they relate specifically to the areas of language and culture. We are open to ideas...

=**Group 1 and 2: The New Age of Connectivity **= //Flattener #2, p 60-77 // The second flattener is identified as our ability to not only author our own content, but to send it worldwide with the 1995 launch of the Internet. Netscape and the Web broadened the audience for the Internet from its roots as a communications medium used primarily by 'early adopters and geeks' to something that made the Internet accessible to everyone from five-year-olds to eighty-five-year olds. (8/9/1995)  ==**Group 1 Topic: ' ****Connecting the World Online****' ** == · Provide a perspective from your country on Internet connectivity: development, access methods and statistics · Conduct a digital divide comparison and discussion based on country and regional news and issues (Are there digital divides between countries, within the countries themselves? What is the impact of limited Internet availability on education and industry?) TWEAK #1: The [|Digital Divide] & [|Endangered Languages] Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, argues that “The reversal of the current trend of biodiversity loss and degradation will only be possible if it is tackled in an integrated, interdisciplinary manner that combines different fields, ... namely education, science, culture and communication”. Can the Internet--as a tool of culture and communication-- preserve linguistic and cultural diversity while being dominated by English and its cultures ?  What are the effects of the dominance of English and its cultures, if any, on the digital divide? 

In 2001, there were 61 computers per hundred people in North America, and only 1 per 100 people in sub-Saharan Africa. Regions with the greatest linguistic diversity are also the ones with the most endangered languages (for instance, Melanesia, Sub-Saharan Africa or South America) What is the impact of the digital divide on linguistic and cultural diversity? How do you understand the relationship between biodiversity and linguistic and cultural diversity?

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Key Words: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> digital divide, access to digital information, endangered languages, linguistic & cultural diversity, biodiversity, interconnections between biodiversity and cultural/linguistic diversity, languages without a writing system, Internet diversity <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">

==**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 2 Topic: ' ****How the World Wide Web has Changed the World****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">' **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> == ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Discuss the development of the WWW (Netscape etc) and associated protocols ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide a perspective from your country on WWW standards and issues ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Conduct a discussion about the use of the WWW in education and business (local and global perspectives) <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">TWEAK #2:

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Key Words: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> online culture (s), online languages (s),

=**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 3: Work Flow Software **= //<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Flattener #3, p 77-93 //<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Free workflow software was developed, allowing people from around the world to collaborate and work together on projects using a shared medium. The ability of machines to talk to other machines with no humans involved. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ==**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 3 Topic: ' ****How Work Flow Software can Enhance Productivity and Communication****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">' **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> == ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It has become more important to standardize software and devise platform compatibility in order to be able to work more efficiently between programs and between users: Discuss a perspective on this in relation to business and education ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide current scenarios and examples of work flow software to support your comparative discussion eg how does a Mac OS PC 'talk' to a PC running WinXP? What are the most common applications that promote interoperability: packages and Web 2.0 ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How does the concept and practice of work flow software enhance/improve productivity and communication: give specific examples ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How must education change to instruct students in collaboration? How must industry change how they train their workforce? How cultural and geographic (time zone) issues impact collaboration? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">TWEAK #3: Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyperspace <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] The growth of the Internet has increased the need for standardization to ensure that the solutions adopted by various operating systems are compatible and that [|texts] sent from one computer to another are legible. Moreover, standardization is indispensable so that browsers and search engines such as Google recognize queries in<span class="wiki_link_ext">different [|scripts]. The ISO/UNICODE system currently covers the characters and symbols of some <span class="wiki_link">50 scripts that support at least 244 languages. There are 6000 languages in the world. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Does the Internet help preserve linguistic and cultural diversity or does it encourage, by its standardizing nature, the dominance of certain languages and cultures at the expense of others? In other words, will minor languages be in a better position as a result of their dissemination on the information superhighway or will they, on the contrary, crash against the dominant languages on the information superhighway?

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<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Key Words: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> software standardization, standardization of communication & linguistic diversity,

=**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 4 and 5: Uploading **= //<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Flattener #4, p 93-126 //<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Communities <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|uploading] <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> and collaborating on online projects. Examples include open source software, blogs, and <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Wikipedia] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. ==**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 4 Topic: ' ****The Changing Shape of Information****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">' **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> == ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide an historical account of the availability of information. Refer to developments in participating countries and make global comparisons ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Discuss the impact of the Internet and how uploading has changed the way we find, use and transfer information ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide specific current examples related to business and education of consumers also being producers of content that is "uploaded." <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">TWEAK #4:

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Key Words: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> online collaboration, information consumers to information producers, end of expertise, democratization of expertise, everyone's an expert, relativism of information

==**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 5 Topic: ' ****Why we should be promoting Web 2.0 Tools for Sharing Information****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">' **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> == ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide an outline of essential Web 2.0 tools (Blogs, podcasts, wikis) and discuss developments and trends in the participating countries ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Discuss essential social and ethical issues to do with using Web 2.0 tools in both education and business. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide current scenarios and examples of using Web 2.0 as an effective collaboration and communication tool <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">TWEAK #5: UN Refugee Program--Microsoft to set up Community Technology Learning Centres to provide training and computer education for refugees. Using computers to seek out news about their homeland, to stay in touch with their home countries, their family and friends.

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Key Words: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> applications of Web 2.0 tools, collaboration & communication tools, illiteracy, population migrations,

=**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 6: Outsourcing **= //<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Flattener #5, p 126-136 //<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Outsourcing has allowed companies to split service and manufacturing activities into components, with each component performed in most efficient, cost-effective way. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ==**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 6 Topic: ' ****Globalization and Outsourcing****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">' **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ==

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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> The terms "outsourcing", "offshoring", or “nearshoring” are often used to refer to the movement of jobs from regions with high labor costs, such as the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan, to countries with relatively low labor costs, such as India, China, and the Philippines. Already commonplace in the manufacturing sector, outsourcing has recently spread to the service and high-tech industries, affecting workers who are traditionally among the most highly-paid and highly-skilled in their home countries. In fact, U.S. market research firm Forrester Research, predicts that by 2015, 3.3 million U.S. service jobs, totalling $136 billion in wages, will move offshore, fuelled by advances in digitization, the Internet, and high-speed networks. ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Discuss ways technology has changed the way people do business with each other and give specific examples from around the world ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide evidence of how the development of outsourcing has changed job opportunities and created new areas of expertise and opportunity in both areas. Discuss this in relation to both sides of the world (eg offshore tutoring) ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Discuss what job skills are necessary for the 21st Century and how this impacts on plans and trends in education for your country and the rest of the world <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">TWEAK #6:

Telemedicine in Francophone Africa

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Key Words: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> globalization, outsourcing, offshoring, nearshoring, split service & manufacturing, from high labour costs areas to low labour costs areas, offshore tutoring

=**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 7 and 8: In-forming **= //<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Flattener #9, p 176-185 //<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Google and other search engines are the prime example. "Never before in the history of the planet have so many people-on their own-had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people", writes Friedman <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. ==**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 7 Topic: ' ****Google Takes Over the World****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">' **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> == ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Explore and discuss the development and impact of Google and other search engines on the concept of In-forming ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Compare global perspectives on using a search engine such as Google: developments and trends ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide current scenarios and examples of the impact of Google on education ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Discuss the business aspect of Google as an example of the impact of Internet connectivity and the potential for business development and possible monopolization <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">TWEAK #7: The question is whether the Internet promotes individual and local expressions and therefore heterogeneous culture, or whether it serves as an instrument for dominant organizations (and nations) to increase markets and reinforce common homogeneous dispositions?

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=<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> = <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Key Words: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> democratization of information, monopolization of information, the changing face of literacy, the changing face of illiteracy

=**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 8 Topic: ' ****Personal Learning Environments and Social Networking****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ' **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> = ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide an historical account of the development of social networking and PLE's  ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Discuss the approaches taken locally and globally to the use of social networking tools for education ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide current examples of how business and education use Web 2.0 tools to connect and deliver/find information <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">TWEAK #8:

FACEBOOK: Engaging Men and Boys on achieving Gender Equality []
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=**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 9, 10, 11: The Steroids **= //<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Flattener #10, p 185-199 //<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Personal digital devices like mobile phones, iPods, personal digital assistants, instant messaging, and voice over IP <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Emerging and new technologies ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Digitized content (connections, protocols and standards) ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Mobile: anywhere, any time, through a variety of devices (wireless connectivity) ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Personal: By the individual, for the individual, on their own device ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What does the flat world look like taking into account all of these new forms of collaboration? ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The first steroid: Computing power ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The second steroid: Breakthroughs in instant messaging, peer-to-peer networks ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The third steroid: Breakthroughs in making phone calls over the Internet (VOIP) ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The fourth steroid: Videoconferencing ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The fifth steroid: Advances in computer graphics ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The sixth steroid: Wireless technologies and devices ==**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 9 Topic: ' ****Mobile and Ubiquitous****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">' **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> == ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Explore and discuss the development of mobile and ubiquitous computing from a global perspective, giving specific examples from personal use and from other areas of the world ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide evidence of how mobile and ubiquitous computing has impacted on education and business ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide current examples of the emerging new tools (devices and methods of connectivity) that we should all be taking notice of now <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">TWEAK #9: Always On Naomi S. Baron says : "Our 300-year-old written culture is on the verge of redefinition. It's up to us to determine how and when we use language technologies, and to weigh the personal and social benefits--and costs-- of being "always on"

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==**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 10 Topic: ' ****Virtual Communication****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">' **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> == ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Explore and discuss the use of online and virtual communication tools such as VOIP, peer-to-peer networks and video-conferencing ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Find current evidence of how these being used in education and business in your respective countries ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Discuss social and ethical issues to do with the digital divide, security and privacy with the use of virtual communication in each country <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">TWEAK #10:

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==**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group 11 Topic: ' ****Wireless Connectivity****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">' **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> == ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Outline the development of wireless connectivity for your countries (Internet and mobile devices) ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Explore and discuss how mobile and ubiquitous computing has impacted on education and business ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide examples of current use and trends in this area <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">TWEAK #11:

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