User:SL/BestResources

1. Introduction
20 Basic Rules For Digital Citizenship 

This source gives a great understanding of how people should act on the internet community, and it sort of gives the rules of taking this online class. The informations are basics but really important. It makes me understand more clearly that we should treat the online community as the real one, which our behaviors matters. It got me think about what I've done in the past. when I though I can act more freely on the internet because no one would know who I am. Overall, this source gives great content and also great visual.

How Refugee Parents use Facebook and WhatsApp to teach kids new skills 

This article, by Matt Petronzio, talks about how Facebook or WhatsApp helps deliver the tool that would help refugee kids learn skills. This is a great start on getting us understand how meaningful these apps and technologies actually are. Most people uses facebook just to socialize with their friends without knowing that it has such a important usage, including myself.

BEST of this topic: 20 Basic Rules For Digital Citizenship

It gives a better understanding of the course in general, and the content is more applicable to our daily life.

2.Privacy & Freedom of Speech
'''What is the General Data Protection Regulation? Understanding & Complying with GDPR Requirements in 2019''' 

The article gives the reader a more detail understanding of what GDPR is. This connects to user's privacy and gives an example of how European's data privacies are protected.

SonicWall Phishing IQ Test 

This test makes the user see how well they can distinguish fake or real emails, with description at the end on what component makes it possibly a phishing email. It is more useful than a whole article talking about these features since it's more active learning if the reader takes the quiz him/herself.

Take Charge of Your Online Reputation 

This article gives a good reminder on how important online reputations are and how we should act online. It tells the readers some ways to "clean up" their online reputation with concrete ways to do (like, search up your name and see what it's there).

BEST of this topic: SonicWall Phishing IQ Test

It makes me understand how phishing emails really looks like, and the content make me memorize these concepts better since it is a quiz.

3.Intellectual Property
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) 

It is good to know that there was this kind of act to improve digital ownership. This article gives a brief understanding of how DMCA works and evolve.

The problems with digital art and why moving image is so important: a chat with Daata Editions 

Even though this applies to our daily life, which we listen to musics, see the artworks, but never care about the authors, or who really owns it. It is a good example of this topic -- Intellectual Property -- on the aspect which people tend to forget. Since every time I search up an image and use them, I never thought about who took this picture or made this masterpiece. This article really reminds me to be thankful for their authors.

BEST of this topic: The problems with digital art and why moving image is so important: a chat with Daata Editions

This article (even though just a part of it) cover the topic "Intellectual Property, " portraying the aspect that people don't usually think about digital ownership.

4.Crime
The Spy Inside Your Car 

This article actually shocked me, since I used a lot of voice-recognition technologies; I never think about that these devices would collect these information, which causes a vulnerability of privacy.

'''I've Been Hacked! Now What?''' 

This articles gives useful informations on what would prevent the hacked user from further being exploited, especially the first point. If the networks(or Wifi) is not connect, the hackers can't remote control the hacked computer because the wireless internet is what allows the hackers to exploit these vulnerabilities.

BEST of the topic: The Spy Inside Your Car

Since many people now use voice recognition devices, this is absolutely a good thing to know.

5. Employment, Education and Entertainment
Flipped Classroom 

This is a really concise video that gives a great understanding of the term "flipped classroom." I got a lot of compliments in the discussion on how clear and concise this source is.

Dyslexia 

This is such an amazing source that take the advantage of the computer on the education part; in traditional textbooks, even with so many descriptions on how people have this disease would see the texts, it could never make it so clear and make the viewer get such a good sense of the experience.

BEST of the topic : Dyslexia

This source really gives a good example of how computers and internet improves education, which would be impossible with paper textbooks.

6. Grand Challenge -- Global Learning
Reaching Rural Schools: Technology Makes Learning Possible No Matter the Zip Code 

While all people around us in the US, a well-developed country, have a access to internet and computer, it is surprising to know that there are still many rural areas in America that don't have the accesses to them. Also, it is good to know that there is project (ADEC) working on this

Technology helps Assam’s rural children learn better 

This source almost give a case study on how technologies helps improve education. The reader got to know more about the reason why it is the case, like it says that one of the reasons being children are more interested to learn.

BEST source of the topic: Technology helps Assam’s rural children learn better

This source gives a more concrete examples of how technologies helps people learn, while the first one is more on the general side.

7. Evaluating and Control Technology
A Simple Explanation Of 'The Internet Of Things' 

The "on and off switch" part is a bit confusing, but the video gives a great definition and the "How does it impact you" part gives a good explanations on my question on why IoT matters.

How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes 

This video gives a really clear basic understanding of how the internet works with great visuals and diagrams.

JavaScript technologies overview 

Since many websites and business use javascript, it is useful to look at some more details about it. This websites provides enough details for non-programmers, and there's always a link to a confusing term.

BEST of the topic: A Simple Explanation Of 'The Internet Of Things

This source is more sticked to this course, which talks about internet and people in general. It also gives the clearest explanation of the three.

8. Risk, Failure, and Responsibility
The 20 Most Successful Technology Failures of All Time 

This is a great list for the "failure" part of this topic. The descriptions clearly describe why they are considered technological failures. Since I've always use apple product, I'm surprised to know that Windows 8 was a failure. Good thing to know for the people who aren't familiar with Microsoft product.

Interactive Search 

This is a really cool search engine; the user can make it clear on what they're looking for, so the searching process is a lot faster.

Computer Security Risk 

It is more for a security class ... but it makes us understand more about what kind of risk we can have on computers and Internet.

BEST of the topic: The 20 Most Successful Technology Failures of All Time

This article talks more about the issue technologies can have with these real examples

9. Anytime, Anywhere
edX 

I never know there's such an amazing website for so many different classes, and most of them you can take it for free(without a certificate). I'm planning to use this website to take some classes in the future.

Voter Guide 

This website really emphasize the idea "anytime, anywhere." Now, voters can look up the informations online, which gives them more time to think about their vote so that the result of the vote will be more accurate.

14 of the best new apps to download now 

This list is actually really valuable. After reading it, I download so many of them and now I use these apps frequently; many of them really make my life easier, like otter; I use it to record my teachers' lecture so I can look back at them.

BEST of the topic: 14 of the best new apps to download now

This list is more related to the idea that we can have these powerful tools anytime, anywhere

10. Technology Advance, Social Trends
Education And The Future of Technology 

This video is interesting because it is interesting to look at how people from few years ago predict our life right now. Besides, another interesting fact is many of them still apply to how people now predict the future.

Simulation Research Aims to Prepare Workers for the Factory of the Future 

This source gives an concrete example on how people now, especially students, are learning to make the future better by using computers and technologies.

Computer and internet use 

This article shows the "technology advance" part of this topic. The statistics suggest that technologies are a big part of even the kids' life now.

BEST of the topic: Education And The Future of Technology

This video not only can make us compare the history with now to show the technology advance, but also some of its prediction still apply to what people predict the social trends now.