computer literacy

computer literacy The Impact of Mobile Computing Running head: the impact of mobile computing 1the impact of mobile computing 9The Impact of Mobile ComputingDorothy AshfordINFO 103 Computer LiteracyInstructor Sabahudin TricicAugust 14, 2014The advancement of technology has made it possible to have access a computer and the internet, anywhere. Internet access was once limited to home, office, or school. That is a thing of the past. We can access a computer and the internet through mobile computing. Most of our everyday lives depend on some type of mobile device. This article explores the impact of mobile computing. How much has mobile computing affected our daily lives as students, professionals, and kids?According to the author Bowles, there are hundreds of thousands of apps that programmers designed especially for mobile devices. For example, location-based services, provide the user information based on their location, social networking, sharing information with friends (like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram), mobile search, help people search for information based on their location, such as asking a smartphone to tell the user where the nearest pizza shop is and mobile commerce lets users check into a store they are physically at to gain special information about products.The study of photography is one field in which it's easy to find out the impact computers have on our daily lives. Thanks to digital cameras, anyone can shoot, develop, and publish photographs. No particular skills or equipment are required. This is good for people who want to share pictures on Facebook or Instagram. For people who use photos for business purposes, digital photography can present ethical issues. There are two areas of concern: adherence to copyright laws and ethical concerns regarding alteration of photographic images. "Copyright laws give people who create content-such as books, movies, music, or photographs-ownership rights to that content.Created by the previous uploader using a popular O...As I have pointed out elsewh ere (Besser 1988), polls of computer use indicated that the people buying them weren't quite sure what kind of new or interesting use they would put these to. Just as people continued to buy computers for reasons other than a clearly demonstrated utilitarian function, forces continued to press for computer education in the schools without any kind of clear demonstration of how this would make students into better functioning members of our society.The pressure for "computer literacy" did not come from some clear and pressing need for "good citizens" to have to know about these machines. Rather, this movement came from the traditional forces which had shaped public education since its very beginnings. In this chapter we will see how the corporate need for a trained workforce and the competitive need to keep America ahead of other countries economically and...

Till vs. Until

Till vs. Until Till vs. Until Till vs. Until By Maeve Maddox A reader asks, Isnt the shortened version of until spelled ’til, not til or till? I know that till is a word (I worked as a grocery store cashier as a teenager), so I understand why it doesnt get flagged by spellcheck when some writers incorrectly shorten the word until as till. Many speakers believe that the till in such expressions as â€Å"Till death do us part† and â€Å"Till the end of Time† should be written ’til, as if it were a shortened version of until. In fact, till is not a shortening of until. It is a freestanding word that can be used as a preposition and as a conjunction in the same ways as until. Both words are documented with the sense of â€Å"up to the time of† as early as the 1300s. Till is more common in speech and until in writing, but both have been used interchangeably by generations of writers. Shakespeare uses both in All’s Well That Ends Well (c.1604): Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother, We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled Till we do hear from them. Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious things we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave. Dickens uses both till and until in Great Expectations (1861): I was not expected till to-morrow; but I had my keys, and, if Herbert were gone to bed, could get to bed myself without disturbing him. Until she opened the side entrance, I had fancied, without thinking about it, that it must necessarily be night-time. George Orwell does it in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949): The new ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left. Very likely the confessions had been rewritten and rewritten until the original facts and dates no longer had the smallest significance. The form ’til is a fairly recent invention, created by writers in the mistaken belief that spoken till is a shortening of until and should therefore be written with an apostrophe for the missing syllable un-. Bottom line: Till is a perfectly good English word. ’Til is nonstandard. Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Spelling category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:The Royal Order of Adjectives Rules for Capitalization in TitlesWord Count and Book Length