Technology in Education

Introduction Advances in both cognitive science and information technologies have the possible to transform education and training in techniques previously unimaginable.To lay the groundwork for Federal leadership in understanding technologies innovation, in September 2002, the Commerce Department published Visions 2020: Transforming Education and Training through Advanced Technologies. For Visions 2020, a number of distinguished people and teams from a wide range of technology and education fields had been asked to look out into the future, and describe what technologies-enabled understanding experiences could be like. They responded with a rich collection of visions, some of which are excerpted in this report. Visions 2020 identified prospective technologies, their application for learning, and how the learning environment would will need to alter to take full advantage of them. With a future vision in hand, … Read entire article »

Written by Emily Zhang As environment-friendly cars turn out to be an increasingly important marketplace segment, more and more businesses are heavily investing in R&ampD to come up with tomorrow’s winning technologies. But technological trends are only half of the picture on the communication front, auto organizations are eager to dress themselves in green. In China, numerous foreign automotive brands have begun to develop innovative taglines and slogans in Mandarin. In this Slogan Analysis we will firstly analyze the meaning of 3 eco-car slogans. We will then talk about Volkswagen and Honda’s differing selection of colours to symbolize the environment, as nicely as Toyota’s selection to not mention the environment in its Chinese communication for Prius, whilst heavily emphasizing its environmental credentials in the US. Lastly, we will look at concepts that … Read entire article »