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In the article The Prime Reasons of Global Warming, the author Carl Ganser discusses the causes of global warming. As he mentions, several governments, institutes and universities are still trying to figure out what are the exact causes of global warming. Ganser mentions that as time goes by, is more clear that people need to start taking action towards Global Warming, although there's many countries and people that are aware of the occurring and have already started taking action.
In Social Anxiety and Technology the author Tamira Pierce did a study by examining teens, and the use of the socially interactive technologies. For example social sites, cell phone/ text messaging, and instant messaging. The position that social anxiety plays on how teenagers communicate with others from technology or face to face.
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In Social Anxiety and Technology the author Tamira Pierce did a study by examining teens, and the use of the socially interactive technologies, for example social sites, cell phone/ text messaging and instant messaging. The position that social anxiety plays is how teenagers communicate with others from technology or face to face. The people that participated were 280 high school students, statistics indicate that from those students, 35%-40% said they use cell phones/text messaging and online sites around one and four hours daily . In which females use more cell phones and social networks than males. After these results it comes to a conclusion and affirms a relationship between social anxiety, meaning students seem to be more comfortable to talk through phone, text or use social networks than talking face to face. Females tend to feel more comfortable communicating through phone or computer than males.
In this talk, Tom shows 7 ways how games can help us when we use it in education. If only our mind can be addicting to education as in games, then that's a reward to our brain.
In the video clip from TED talks Ali Carr-Chellman, an associate professor of education discusses how we can use something that is popular with boys to engage them in learning; because in schools today curriculum are set towards girls achieving more than boys.
"We are makers of our own world and how much technology is involved in our world." Others are more creative in our making, some artistically and some simplistically.
Gaming becomes a huge topic that goes on throughout life. Many people would talk about their games, for example Farmville and helping out by sending things and other related subjects. Also as you go on it slowly goes and connect yourself to other games and topics that are going through.
Jesse Schell talks about how video games was once fantasy base and now has penetrate into reality.He gave examples of how life would be like if it was a video game and how we would benefit from it. Games have grown into technologies and it will keep on growing.
Orff, an architect talks about a new way to help us to have a better, cleaning environment. She explain about a hero that change make a differences to our water sources and the species around us. This new hero that she introduce are OYSTER!!!
Young people are increasingly using social networking sites (SNSs) like MySpace and Facebook to engage with
others. The use of SNSs can have both positive and negative effects on the individual; however, few studies identify
the types of people who frequent these Internet sites. This study sought to predict young adults' use of SNSs and
addictive tendency toward the use of SNSs from their personality characteristics and levels of self-esteem.
Here is a photo music of Thai Featuring V8 using Se7en music instrumental. The song is called Going Crazy. Its a great song. Just listen to the lyric. This song is subscribe to 454 life entertainment.
The book "Why We Hate Us?" By Dick Meyer is about how we as American have too many option and things to buy or do that we sometimes can't afford to achieve that goal. So then we blame ourselves for not reaching that goal.
The video is about how music touches someones heart. With the sounds of music, it would cause an individual emotion to rise up and start show sympathy around others.
The article, "Flash Mobs: Social Influence in the 21st Century" by Anne Duran, explains the many ways flash mobs are used throughout the world by social media, such as cell phones and websites in order to come together as one and organize the event. He also gathers participants of the flash mob and asks them specific questions regarding the event and their experiences.