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21-05-2009 - "Space station recycling urine to water" (read more on NGneering tech world).
The Future of Education is Here
One hundred years ago the process of providing basic instruction, teaching a skill, or learning a language was conducted in a specific place at a specific time. Science has changed the entire model and completely redefined the educational process. Today, one can study Spanish for an hour with an electronic tutor, learn to change a pee trap under the sink the next hour and attend a lecture in Moscow the following hour. None of these learning experiences require planning and they can also be paused due to data recording and on-demand viewing. What is needed is the common technology present in most American homes.
The modern adult student has the opportunity to earn virtually any level of education without leaving his or her home. Attending online classes allows tremendous flexibility and expands the opportunities to learn to thousands of individuals who could not participate in traditional classroom instruction. Science has created learning environments that rival traditional classrooms in many ways by providing stored lectures, multimedia instruction and searchable electronic texts. These tremendous enhancements make knowledge available to nearly every American and present an opportunity to usher in a new era of a highly educated citizenry capable of understanding the most complex concepts.
Science continues its push to stretch the boundaries of education by expanding the types of knowledge available. Where once only basic concepts could be taught via electronic broadcasts, today there are almost limitless subjects one can choose to pursue. Indeed, without the breakthroughs provided in communication, storage and transmission the educational model could be the same today as it was in the era of the one room schoolhouse.
Information technologies and small office
Please inform all employees to take the time to read the manuals that come with each appliance or office equipment used in their environment. The manuals will save valuable time and money for the company with which you work, and will inform you on how to properly use the equipment and most importantly give an employee the ability to advise another worker on how a system or piece of equipment operates. If an employee wishes he should take the manual home and research it's pages to better understand the principles of such a manual.
Further, if the employee has the desire, he/she can call a meeting of all employees of the company and show other workers en mass how he/she came to the conclusions they did, and why these implementations would be the wiser avenue to take regarding the handling of the company's equipment and services. There can be a question and answer session during the meeting or after the meeting, on the employee's own time, via cell phone or any other means available to them and all the other employees wishing to take part. This may also help in the morale of the company employees, and to boost the desires of other workers to do likewise in their positions as they relate to any information technologies and small office situations that may arise within the small company in which they work. Examples of this manual studies method have be exceptionally successful in many small offices of information technologies throughout the region of this particular information environment.
Ancient Technology (Part 1)
Ancient Technology (Part 2)