Whats Walmart Up To?

-companies like walmart force other smaller owned places to close or shut down, due to have more of what everyone wants
-walmart drives down 3 million  retail wages each year
-walmart paychecks aren't enough for the average person
-walmart employee's have no health care benefits
-employee's forced to use social services due to the low paychecks and no benifits at their work
-Walmarts doesn't want a union
-700$ anti-union package
-forced to work after their shifts in the feeling that if they don't, others will replace them
-racism and sexism exists at walmart stores
-Communities and towns think that getting a Walmart in their area will bring in oppertunities to bring in employment and money to their town.
- www.catawbariverkeeper.org
-workers in walmarrt factories in China have to pay rent, even if their not using the space
     -they pay for the utilities aswell, and they pay for as much as they use it
-walmart imported 18$ billion from China

India Reborn

-India used to be second most powerful country in the economy
-In India, there are people who analize peoples body scans and other scans from Canada and the US.
-The war caused Indias economy to drop in the 1900's
-India has some of the porrest people in the world
-some commit suicide in families for it costs less money
-In India, parts of the city differ from each other extreemly( one side rich, other extreemly poor)
-there aren't enough jobs in India, making it hard to find a decent job
-Bangalore-India
-Silicon Valley-California
-India has over 20 different  languages, english is the one most wanted
-language is power
-computers have been introduced to those in India to help them access certain things
-ITC hopes that these computers will help farmers on seeling their crops to them

The Sixth Sense

-mobile
-works on any surface
-helps with everyday life( grocery store)

I think it is very interesting on what it can do for being so small and mobile. It would be fun to have and could give us a lot of information quickly. It is very cheap to buy, which is surprising.

Digital Nation

-it happens sometimes in my house when were all doing something different using tecnology
-schools: tecnology(computers) are being used more and more, changes teaching
-professers are syaing that there students cant multitask well, students disagree
-In standford they are studying about if students really can multitask
-they say that no brain can do 2 things at once
-multitasking makes it look like they doing everything at once, but texts proven they do things and switch quickly and can focus very well doing so
-my phone is always on.
-estimated 50 hours a week is spent on electronics for students
-In South Korea, Pc Cafes have computers to use to public to game
-In PC cafes, people have died from gaming too long
-people wonder if electronics is getting to be as bad as other addictions like gambling or drinking
-I sometimes play games, and if Im into it, Ill be on for a while. I own alot of games and gaming systems throughout my family
-Government opened 3 rescue facilities for internet users
-people in these facilities have had medical problems such as eye problems or hearing loss due to too much time spent on internet
-I was 7 when i first used the internet
-i know a few things that my parents dont know and other tecnologic devices. My mom knows alot because she works with tecnology alot at work
-digital natives=people who grew up with tecnology(computers)
-digital immigrants=people who grew up without technology(computers)
-world has sped up, education hasn't
-at some point does increasing technology, does it decreased productivity
-Marc Prensky- digital fumigants and digital natives
-if you don't keep up with it a little bit, your going to be left behind(any ages)
-online games connect people throughout the world
-I have had an online connection with someone online that ive never seen through gaming on consoles
-industrial age-gone
-digital economy-now
-drones are more popular in securing a country. small plane type, with no one in it, but someone controls it from another base
-armies set up sites for children to see through gaming about war and to learn about war, for possible furture recruting into the army.
-"tecnology isnt good or bad; its powerful"

I think it would be interesting if we weren't limited to where we learn. It would be more fun and exciting if we got to learn in other enviorments like outside, or somewhere where it's not only the same. It would be cool to travel around where we learn. Staying in one place all the time gets boring.