Identity theft is where criminals obtain personal information such as your date of birth, bank account numbers, your mother's maiden name, your pet's name and so on.
These personal details are often used as questions by companies for you to prove who you are over the telephone. So, if the thief can answer these questions there is a good chance they will succeed in impersonating you.
This is bad news, as they could purchase things in your name, take out loans, even take money from your accounts!
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Teach ICT glossary - identity theft - 0 views
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Identity theft is where criminals obtain personal information such as your date of birth, bank account numbers, your mother's maiden name, your pet's name and so on. These personal details are often used as questions by companies for you to prove who you are over the telephone. So, if the thief can answer these questions there is a good chance they will succeed in impersonating you. This is bad news, as they could purchase things in your name, take out loans, even take money from your accounts!
TweetCall - Twitter by Voice - 2 views
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Update Twitter from anywhere by simply speaking into a telephone. 1-877-TWEETCALL is completely free, start using it today!
21st Century Education For A 21st Century Economy - 4 views
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"Work based skills are changing as more and more jobs are displaced by digital technologies. Software, apps and online technology such as Uber, Airbnb, Legal Zoom and TurboTax to name a few has already had an impact on many professions. Online shopping has eliminated tens of thousands of retail store positions. And with self-driving vehicles on the way, how many taxi, trucking, express delivery-and even aviation jobs-will go the way of the telephone switchboard operator? If history is a reliable guide, the technologies that are eliminating one set of jobs will create others: jobs that require twenty-first century-mainly digital-skills. The explosion in industrial robotics, for example, is eliminating thousands of assembly line jobs but it is creating a demand for people who can design, manufacture, program and maintain those machines. The questions are - what will the net impact on jobs be and how well are our schools preparing young people for those new, higher skilled jobs as we head toward the fourth industrial revolution?"
How To Create QR Codes To Use In Your Classroom ~ Mrs. Wideen's Blog - 1 views
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"A QR Code is a type of barcode that is readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera telephones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded may be text you want students to read, websites, or video. Ideas For The Classroom A very quick way to incorporate QR codes in your classroom is to simply create a QR code so students can get to a website quickly and efficiently. How many times have you written a website on the board for your students to go to and you get 10 students saying that they can't get to the website because they have typed it incorrectly? "
Earn Money With Iphone - 0 views
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More and more people are getting iPhones because they are so easy to use and they are so much more than just a phone. In fact many analysts are predicting that iPhones could replace many of the gadgets we currently use including mp3 players, laptops and standard telephones.
Project Information Literacy News Study: A new study on new adults and news - @joyceval... - 0 views
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"Dr. Alison Head and her Project Information Literacy (PIL) research team recently released the findings of a new national study on college students and how they consume and interact with a vast and deeply polarized news ecosystem. The News Study findings are the result of an online survey of 5,844 respondents and telephone interviews with 37 participants from 11 diverse colleges and universities. The research also included computational analysis of Twitter data associated with respondents, as well as a Twitter panel of 135,891 college-age people. In the study's press release, Dr. Head shared: News is fast, social, and visual and typically delivered to students in posts, alerts, tweets, and conversations that stream at them throughout the day. And young news consumers are left to assemble and interpret what news means, while many take this evaluative step, others do not. So what? The News Study's Executive Summary offers Five Research Takeaways as well as Six Recommendations."
France to impose total ban on mobile phones in schools - 1 views
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"rance is to impose a total ban on pupils using mobile phones in primary and secondary schools starting in September 2018, its education minister has confirmed. Phones are already forbidden in French classrooms but starting next school year, pupils will be barred from taking them out at breaks, lunch times and between lessons. Teachers and parents are divided over a total ban, however, with some saying children must be able to "live in their time". In France, some 93 per cent of 12 to 17-year-olds own mobile phones. "These days the children don't play at break time anymore, they are just all in front of their smartphones and from an educational point of view that's a problem," said Jean-Michel Blanquer, the French education minister. "This is about ensuring the rules and the law are respected. The use of telephones is banned in class. With headmasters, teachers and parents, we must come up with a way of protecting pupils from loss of concentration via screens and phones," he said. "Are we going to ban mobile phones from schools? The answer is yes." Studies suggest that a significant number of pupils continue to use their mobiles in class and receive or send calls or text messages."
Digitally Speaking / Podcasting - 0 views
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The weaknesses of using a tool like Gabcast are few. First, the recording quality that you'll get from a cell phone or a landline doesn't match the recording quality that you'll get from a microphone and a program like Audacity. What's more, while it is possible to edit a Gabcast recording----by downloading the file, working with it on your computer, and then uploading it back to Gabcast----it's not easy! That means your recordings will lack the "bells and whistles" that more polished podcast programs have
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The solution: Begin your podcasting efforts using a free podcasting service like Gabcast. What makes services like Gabcast so valuable is that student recording is done over the phone----whether that be a cellphone, landline or computer-based connection. Users dial a 1-800 number, enter a specific code that identifies their podcast program and then begin recording. It's as simple as that! What's even better is that your recordings are automatically posted on a Gabcast webpage, where listeners can access new content and comment on the recordings that you've added. Teachers who start with Gabcasting essentially get an all-in-one home for their podcasting efforts---no special tools or skills required (other than a telephone----and if you don't have one of those, ask your students. I guarantee you that there's a cell phone or two in a locker on your hallway right now!)
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But for me, the weaknesses are nothing when compared to the benefits of Gabcast. With little trouble, my students can record on any topic from anywhere. If we're on a field trip and they want to record their reflections, it's no sweat. All they have to do is dial a 1-800 number from their cellphones. If we're in the classroom and I want small groups of children to comment on a topic that we're studying in class, it's done. "Kids, go get your cell phones and working with a partner...." (Needless to say, that's one of their favorite parts of our day.) What Gabcast offers is immediacy. Students and teachers using Gabcast to record can begin podcasting today without having to take any continuing education classes or begging for resources to buy new digital tools. That kind of flexibility is what literally defines the work of the 21st Century----and it is the kind of work that teachers should be emphasizing in their classrooms. (If Gabcast is blocked by your school district's firewall, consider checking out Gcast or Podomatic. Both are similar services that may be of value to you in your efforts to get plugged in.)
RIL May Participate In 2G Auction | eGov Magazine - 0 views
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The Mukesh Ambani led, Reliance Industries Ltd is likely to bid for mobile telephone spectrum in the upcoming auction to complement its wireless broadband services with voice call facility. RIL is most likely to put a direct bid, a source privy to the development said. If for some reasons it is unable to make a bid by itself, the company may fund purchase of spectrum by another company and then acquire it.
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