Tech Junkies
Norine Wiltshire
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Nowadays, we see that schools and other centres of education are bringing in more technology and are evolving to different teaching models and opportunities. Think of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), for example, where learning is open to everyone via the web and irrespective of the location you are in. We cannot only work any time, any place and on any device, we can do exactly the same with learning.
At the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) they went a step further. There students receive assignments and get answers to their questions from an artificially intelligent teaching assistant that can answer routine questions so that the professor and the human teaching assistants can free up time to respond to more complex issues. A perfect example of how artificial intelligence (AI) can support education and learning.
This is backed up by a report by McKinsey stating that workers of the future will spend more time on activities that machines are less capable of, such as managing people, applying expertise and communicating with others. They will spend less time on predictable physical activities and on collecting and processing data, where machines already exceed human performance. The skills and capabilities required therefore will also shift, requiring more social and emotional skills and more advanced cognitive capabilities, such as logical reasoning and creativity. After all, creativity is what sets us apart from machines.
One of the principles that strikes me most in the Finnish school system is that equality is the most important guiding principle. This means there is no competition between schools nor students and every school is equally good, no matter what the neighborhood. There are also no standardized tests and teachers are not teaching with the sole purpose of students passing a test. The Finnish rather prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test.
What about you? As a parent, how do you deal with this dilemma and strike the right technology balance? How do you make your children tech-savvy without turning them into digital junkies? And what role do our schools have to play in this?
So it may be surprising to learn that it's become a cult phenomenon among an unlikely group: technology junkies. The method has inspired dozens of blogs, Web sites and even underground software meant to adapt the tenets of GTD to your computer.
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Channeling your traffic through a VPN encrypts the outgoing traffic of your device making sure your online presence is anonymous to your ISP, employer, marketers, government, and anyone interested in your online behavior. All they see is that your traffic is going to a specific VPN hub and nothing else.
The flexibility and the anonymity that such VPN services provide make them an excellent tool for hackers who do not want to leave any traits that could potentially reveal their identity. Being a skilled hacker is not about cracking a system, but making sure that once you do, you do not leave traits that can lead back to you.
Security-conscious travelers never connect to public WiFi networks unprotected. Hackers, or the admins of such networks, could be monitoring them. Instead, they connect to VPN that encrypts all incoming and outgoing traffic from their connected device. This is one of the ways that guarantees you that the admin, nor skilled hackers, will be spying, and possibly even recording, the data that goes through the router.
Grabbing an airline ticket at a lower price has never been easier. Sometimes there are significant price differences for flights that are offered to the US buyers when compared to British for example. While the currency exchange may add up, when you are looking for affordable plane tickets, it is always a good idea to check the fares from multiple locations so you can make sure you are getting the biggest bang for your buck.
There is nothing more frustrating than being in a hotel on the other side of the world and not being able to watch your favorite TV show due to geographical restrictions. And if paying $30 for a pay per view movie does not sound appealing, you can use VPN to access your Netflix account and play your desired content on your laptop from the comfort of your hotel bed.
While here in the US, freedom of speech is a human right, this is not always the case in some foreign states such as Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Using VPN allows people from such countries to access content that is usually prohibited. Staying in touch with relatives living abroad could also be a challenge from time to time. If Facebook is your preferred way of communication, VPN may be your only solution for accessing it while in China.
There are all sorts of people who use it, and the global usage is not showing any signs of slowing down. However, using VPN comes with some risks and not all VPNs are equal. While you might be anonymous when using VPN, you might want to make sure that you are aware of the risks, especially if you need to visit sketchy websites. Check out our suggestions for safe use of VPN.
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A virtual private network (VPN) is a technology that creates a safe and encrypted connection over a less secure network, such as the internet.
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In celebration of the fifth annual National Day of Unplugging (NDU) -- from sundown Friday, March 7 to sundown, Saturday, March 8 -- the nonprofit Reboot is asking individuals and families to reconnect with each other by putting down their smartphones, tablets and computers for 24 hours.
This week, Samantha Kurtzman-Counter, the President of The Mother Company, a mom-founded multi-media company guided by the mission to Help Parents Raise Good People, joins us to tell us about a struggle that many of us face.
One of the worst sources of discord in my family is our constant wrestling match with "screen time." The whining, the begging, the manipulating, the obsessive planning: I basically feel like my 7-year-old pretends to enjoy his extracurriculars but really spends the majority of his day counting the minutes until his next technological encounter.
He actually told me the other day that what he wants to do when he grows up is be "the guy who reviews video games on YouTube." So not even the guy who creates the video games, but the guy who stays home all day, sits on the couch and videotapes himself playing them. "Even if you never make a penny and end up living in our basement for the rest of your life?" I asked. "Yup!" (Well, at least I don't have to worry about any pesky daughter-or-son-in-law in our future!)
And clearly, my kid is not alone. This generation is hardwired to be hardwired, with tech at their fingertips from birth. As a parent, it's hard to deny our trusty touchscreen pacifiers in restaurants, on line in the grocery store, on planes and in the car. And as our children grow, I watch how tech knowledge becomes social currency: "Have you seen the latest Stampy Longnose video where he goes through the Saw Maze in MineCraft? I got the Quantum Physics Mod! What's your skin, I Ballistic Squid or Dan TDM? And have YOU ever found Hero Brine in his golden house in The Nether?"
My son knows detailed ins and outs of games he's never played, just from hearing hours of talk about them on the schoolyard (in first grade.) And though I wrestle and limit severely and monitor his screen time ad nauseam, to a large degree, I support it. I want my kid to be proficient in these online languages that my half-analog brain can't begin to comprehend. And there is so much great, worthwhile content out there for him to explore -- shows and games and apps that are exciting and groundbreaking and expansive.
That said, this incessant obsession with all things "plugged" comes at a great cost, especially for families. Primarily, of course, is the ironic loss of true connection, as we spend so much time interconnecting everywhere beyond where we are together. I find some of the greatest losses to be the most simple ones: those banal moments that are quickly vanishing from our daily existence as we drown in mobile noise. And that is why it is so essential to put down our devices and model for our kids the importance of unplugging, of mindfully recapturing some of the casualties of this hyper-digital age.
1. Explore the lost art of boredom. This generation of kids does not know how to rock boredom. Boredom is the gateway drug to brilliance! Imagination! Invention! Using the quick digital fix to quell the (albeit super annoying) complaints of boredom is what I believe to be the most egregious of our parenting sins today.
2. Remember the profundity of bathroom time. Before the handheld revolution, I always had my most profound thoughts in The John. Moments of true clarity, reprieve, strategizing my next move. Now, toilet time has become the best way to hide my own digital obsession, to check in with the world beyond and thereby check out of the present I'm in -- without being rude. The sacred space of toilet time reflection is a lost oasis I aim to reclaim.
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