User:Tonyh2029

I am currently a student at De Anza College. I enjoy playing video games. I am currently registered in Professor Valerie Taylor's CIS 2 class. This is an aggregation of the work I have submitted for the class.

= Best Resources - Individual Project =

== Introductions ==

>>BEST<< How Refugee Parents use Facebook and WhatsApp to Teach Kids New Skills

The inclusion of a video in the article was well done, showing a Syrian mother demonstrating to her daughter how to stack household items. The video could be shared with other families, serving as education that allows children to learn vocabulary as well

as spatial recognition at a young age. This highlights what technology can be used to further education in the early K-8 years in a more innovative way.

20 Basic Rules For Digital Citizenship

This article helps people understand how they should compose themselves over the internet. Along with great visuals, this source details how one should comport oneself in an online setting much like how one would act in real life since there are many similarities in online communities

and real-life communities. The internet is very much like a social space, so many of the basic rules—in the article—can also be applied to real life as well.

== Privacy and Freedom of Speech ==

>>>BEST<<< SonicWall Phishing IQ Test

This quiz was really good at getting me to take a second look at what I thought was my excellent scam-proof internet identity. Although I managed to get 6/7 correct, the one I missed was a legitimate e-mail, leading me to believe that I still have a lot to learn regarding some of the

more conspicuous e-mails that are actually real. Overall, this is really good at determining one's net savviness.

Privacy Concerns in the Digital World

This article covers different types of privacy and questions the right to it, or if it's a social construct. It's really important to understand why privacy is a right, and not just a social construct in the modern age. This could answer questions like why people aren't giving up their

privacy. There are many blatant privacy violations in the digital world, and this article covers the many concerns that netizens have over their privacy.

== Intellectual Property ==

>>>BEST<<< 7 Life Skills Learners Can Benefit From Having Beyond School

Normalized school doesn't really teach students how to build social skills and relationships. The seven life skills mentioned here have sub-topics which cover areas like job-searching, financial responsibilities, and the like as people grow into adulthood.

This article really helps the reader learn about useful skills outside of academics that are learned every day in normalized school. This article covers matters that one may find difficult to learn inside of school due to the nature of its secular environment.

What Is Fair Use?

This site teaches readers the idea of fair use, and how created material isn't considered stolen if commentary/criticism is being done on it, or if it's just a parody. This makes sense, as there are a lot of Youtube content creators that generate a large income from

creating parodies of many trending games, and the like. Especially with the advent of the internet, the line between what is "Fair Use" or not is becoming increasingly blurred, and this helps redefine it continuously.

== Intellectual Property ==

>>>BEST<<< 7 Life Skills Learners Can Benefit From Having Beyond School

A normalized school doesn't really teach students how to build social skills and relationships. The seven life skills mentioned here have sub-topics which cover areas like job-searching, financial responsibilities, and the like as people grow into adulthood.

This article really helps the reader learn about useful skills outside of academics that are learned every day in normalized school. This article covers matters that one may find difficult to learn inside of school due to the nature of its secular environment.

What Is Fair Use?

This site teaches readers the idea of fair use, and how created material isn't considered stolen if commentary/criticism is being done on it, or if it's just a parody. This makes sense, as there are a lot of Youtube content creators that generate a large income from

creating parodies of many trending games, and the like. Especially with the advent of the internet, the line between what is "Fair Use" or not is becoming increasingly blurred, and this helps redefine it continuously.

== Crime ==

>>>BEST<<< Top Computer Crimes

This site identifies the top crimes going on today on the internet and helps users be on the lookout for similar potential crimes. Computer crimes are common on the internet, as their purpose is to scam, spam, or troll for their own laughs. Knowing what kind of computer crimes

exist in the world helps prevent oneself from being fooled by them. This article seeks to brief the reader on some of the various computer crimes out there.

A 12-point Checklist for Victims of Identity Theft

This is useful for victims who have experienced identity theft, or those who are worried about potential identity theft. In this article, there's a twelve-point checklist on what to do, if one thinks that one's identity has been stolen. It's worth it to go through each of the items on

the checklist. It's often very difficult to find out if one has had their identity stolen until it's too late, and this article tries to help you find out earlier if you've been affected. Modern technology really helps prevent this nowadays, but one can never be too careful.

== Employment, Education and Entertainment ==

>>>BEST<<< Dyslexia Visualized

This webpage utilizes special code to display what dyslexia is like for those without it. This is probably the most accurate representation of the experience that anyone could get to becoming close to understanding what it's like living with a jumble of letters floating around on their

screen constantly.

Open Textbooks

This resource very much easy to understand and enjoy. College students should be aware of this opportunity to read and download e-texts free of charge. Resources like this should be made more available and have more partnerships with universities and colleges. The costs of textbooks

add to an already outrageous amount of student debt for many, so if colleges could capitalize on this more often than not, it would be ideal. Open digital textbooks are the way of the future to where education becomes much more free and less costly.

== Midterm - Grand Challenges ==

>>>BEST<<< Transforming CO_2 Into Valuable Products

This article from Xprize speaks of a challenge on how to tackle the CO_2 problem that is becoming very prominent in our atmosphere which promotes polluted air. The challenge calls for people to submit designs and creations centered around this concept. CO_2 is a seriously big issue in

today's world, and it seems that it slips into the background every once in a while.

Pollution

Air pollution is a big problem in many cities across the globe. In some areas, the air quality is so bad that it is considered unhealthy for humans. This article highlights some methods to combat it. Even with regards to how this is a computer eccentric class, I still find a lot

of environmental conditions deplorable, and if what we have right now is considered 'acceptable', I think we're in big trouble if it gets much worse down the line. Whilst many are concerned with tech for comfort, I'm concerned more with tech for our living conditions for the time

being.

== Evaluating and Controlling Technology ==

>>>BEST<<< The Internet of Things

This article provides a general overview as to how technology will develop. It addresses the fact that we currently live in a world of AI, voice-recognition, and 'smart' devices like our phones. The 'IoT' concept is very easy to visualize once one gets word of it since assistive

technology is becoming more and more relevant as time goes on. A network of interrelated devices is becoming more and more common.

A Simple Explanation Of "The Internet Of Things"

The Internet of Things is formally defined here with examples of general household items that the reader can relate to. As people evaluate and control technology, the 'IoT' stands at the center point—people influence

technology and in turn, technology influences them. Visual media is plentiful in the article to explain how this assistive technology relates to the average being. Further expanding on the 'IoT', this article further outlines what it really means to have "an internet of things" and

covers a very broad scope of how this concept could potentially affect the globe.

== Risks, Failures and Responsibilities ==

>>>BEST<<< Medicine and Computers 

This article addresses the pros and cons of having health records being transferred to online storage. Digital storage benefits saves physicians time on paperwork, but internet security failures leave information vulnerable to being stolen by hackers. People generally agree that the

positives outweigh the potential negatives. The storage of such important information makes it much more easy to take care of a patient quickly, but it is also very difficult to keep it safe.

Hour Of Code

This is a great tool for anyone to get started with coding. Anyone can get started with just the click of a button for free. It is important that people are aware of or at least possess basic knowledge of coding as computers and

technology are becoming greatly relevant to just about anyone. This is a very good introduction to coding because anyone without any experience can get into coding by simply taking this short one-hour tutorial.

== Anytime, Anywhere ==

>>>BEST<<< MIT Open Courseware

MIT provides videos and course material of their classes online for free, and it is very accessible. This allows more people to learn and get a higher education since many aren't able to afford higher education. MIT open courseware is another prime example of how online classes are becoming

more and more ubiquitous.

Curiscope-Bringing Learning to Life

Curiscope has created a mobile app that teaches students about the human body. This app is rather interesting because I feel that we, as humans, tend to treat ourselves rather unhealthily in today's time, so it's important to know more about the

human body. Since we are more of an "on-the-go" culture now, maybe this will help us keep in shape more.

== Technology Advances, Social Trends ==

>>>BEST<<< Education And The Future of Technology

The future of education and technology are heavily interrelated, where technology will make it very accessible despite the capitalistic nature of many governments trying to make a quick buck off of it right now. In the long term, it will become very difficult to hide education from people

with how advanced technology will be to make it ubiquitous. In this video, people try to see where everything will be at a few years from now and wonder about how the people from the future would look back on the current present regarding the state of education and technology.

The Great Tech Panic: Robots Won’t Take All Our Jobs

It is not possible for robots to take over all our jobs in the future, as many may fear. Technology is advancing; however, there's a lack of evidence that they could take over everything in the future. This is one of the greatest concerns of today's age where people fear that machines and

AI will take over their jobs, and the truth is far from that. Human judgment will always be needed to manage AI unless there comes to be a point where it is entirely virtualized humanity, although that is very difficult to achieve by any means because of how many variables go into humans.