The District of Columbia recently invited hacking attempts to test their new e-voting system. Less than two days later the system had been completely compromised:
Candidates were altered
Votes were altered
Future votes could be redirected or blocked
Voting records were viewed
Secret voter IDs and PINs were viewed
The hackers also found evidence of in-progress attacks from Iran and China.
"This past month in the journal Pediatrics, researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York published the results of a study showing that text messaging could significantly improve the rate of adherence among young liver transplant patients. Using a program called CareSpeak, the researchers issued text messages to a group of 41 pediatric liver transplant patients. The text messages reminded the patients to take their medications, which ranged from one to three different pills once or twice a day. "
How the iPad is becoming an assistive device. In fact, I have a friend who is failing from ALS. She uses her iPad to type and have the iPad read out what she wants to say.
The excess use of technology in classroom can distract students. So how much should we rely on technology? do we still need to use tradional methods in teaching? which is better?