Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Reflection on the essential question.

Essential Question: In what ways has technology influenced knowledge?

According to me, I think in todays's life, technology plays a great role in the knowledge gained by the people. As the technology is increasing, the people are using it more and more to gain knowledge. The internet plays a major role in the lives of the people. Most of the people depend on the internet for various reasons. Even for educational purposes, technology plays a great role and it is a very good source for increasing the knowledge. I think, talking mainly about Web 2.0, it can become a very good source for the development of the knowledge, a person can just not post what he/she thinks but it can be very helpful in the discussion of the ideas and the views of the people can be put forward and therefore the knowledge is spread.

Reflection on the essential question.

I think that it is very good to use the web 2.0 becuase it affect our knowledge in many good ways. By using web2.0 we get to interact with many different people and also culture. technology has developed a lot in few years. It also developes our knowledge of our surrounding too, so i think technology plays a very important role in each of our lives.

Planning

We have made some plans to proceed with this design cycle. The first step is to
investigate the problem starting with the basic research of :

  • what is Web2.0
  • the tools available in Web2.0
  • the software/hardware develpments to Web2.0
  • how it can be harnessed educationally
  • research on how we can make our product better
  • human ingenuity-How can technology assist in sharing of views?
  • environments-In what ways can environments influence technology choices?

After this, we are going to continue with the normal format of the design cycle by dividing the whole sections - Investigation, Design, Create into three equal parts so that everyone does an equal amount of work. This way, our project will work smoothly and finish off faster.