Wiki Dissection DQ

1. What is the purpose of this Wiki? To inform us about disruptive tech. in the classroom
2. When was the last post? Sunday April 6th
3. How was this Wiki created? with Wikispaces
4. What would you add to it? How these devices can effect you, also updates and more information about school rules
5. What did you learn from it? nothing really to not use your device in school
6. If you had to create a Wiki with a team, what would be the specific topic (s)? Mine would be about cats
7. How can Wikis be used in the classroom or in education? you could use it to help when you have questions but don't want to ask the teacher.

WIKI Opinion

  I believe that wiki is a great source to use. I just wouldn't completely trust everything i see on there. As for a research paper i wouldn't use wiki for that. Or if i did it would be very little because even though it's difficult to change its still possible and i wouldn't want to take that risk. Im now more informed about this information and i know when and  when not to use wiki. I found out it's not always wrong and that its one of the top results when you look up a subject.

Reflection

I agree with everything these people are saying. We must start to inform younger generations now and even the older one. Everyone basically lives off social media and half the the time they don't think before they do. If something bad was posted and people get in fights over it the other deletes it n just believes its fine but its not.  Jobs, colleges could all still access all these information. One mistake could ruin your future or even your life now. I think all schools shouldn't have like meetings about it, but they should have all students do a paper on this a two - three page paper. About why you should watch what you post and what the consequences will be. When they're fully educated about it then maybe these people will think twice about what they do then next time.

THE CYBER ANT

In a lab in Germany lives a strange breed of ant. These ants have ceramic limbs and 3D-printed bodies. They gain sustenance by charging their batteries through metal antennae against electric rails. Where eyes should be there are two parts of a stereo camera. Underneath each thorax sits an optical sensor pulled from a computer’s mouse. All along the body, like stripes from a biomechanical tiger, are circuits and electric conduits. These bionic ant mimics are the size of a human hand. There are at least a dozen of them, and they’relearning to work together.

Made by Festo, a German engineering firm, these ant bots move via piezoelectric materials, with tiny electric charges inching their legs along.

The ant bots use their cameras to navigate and wireless communication to stay in touch--just like millenials. In the future, they may find work on factories, perhaps clearing up scraps from work-room floors after hours. Watch the ants work together below:

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How a circular smartphone could help rework tech

Screens are rectangles. Even the 3-year-old playing with your iPad could tell you that. But what would the digital world look like through a different sort of frame? Say... a circular one?

Monohm, a startup based in Berkeley, California, was founded around this very idea. For the last year, the three-person team has been working a circular, palm-sized device dubbed Runcible.

They cheekily refer to it as the "anti-smartphone," a description that goes for both its form factor and its value system.

The round device is meant to be the antidote to our feed-obsessed, notification-saturated digital existence. It's a challenge to the rectangular status quo and everything it represents. That's a quixotic dream, but an interesting one.

BuzzFeed's newest traffic driver: debate about the color of a dress

If you were online on Thursday night, you know what happened: social media services were overrun with comments about the colors of a woman's dress. Some people saw black and blue; others saw white and gold.It was a debate tailor-made for BuzzFeed -- and in some ways made by BuzzFeed. By midnight Eastern time, the web site said the dress story was a record-breaker: "it drew more visitors to our site at one time than ever before."

The picture of the dress originated from a Tumblr post by a user named Swiked, who asked Tumblr users for help in figuring out the dress's true colors. Once BuzzFeed spotted the story on Tumblr, there was no stopping it.

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Biology

My favorite class is bio. The teacher is Mr. Colarusso. He's a very smart man. When he was in 6th grade he skipped two grades and was put into 9th grade his 7th grade year. He is teaching Biology, Honors Biology, AP Biology, Biotechnology and Genetics. Not only is he an amazing teacher. He's also a magnificent person. He's sweet, has a good heart, and isn't mean. He's patient and considerate. When i first began his class i thought it was going to be an easy A. I thought I wouldn't really have to work. But he taught me to get the grades i want I'm going to have to work for it. And it's not going to be easy at all, but in the end it will be worth it. He just doesn't hand out grades. At the end of the marking period he does look for the lowest grade you have and he removes it helping you more. 

 
Im more of a hands on learner. The great part about Mr.Col is that he teaches us from a smart board the book and also little projects. Like drawing posters of the pictures of stages in our book. We actually have a voice in this class. Not afraid that you might get yelled at if you speak up. We don't really use much technology in this class. Besides the smart board where he puts of information and notes up on. I believe he's such a great teacher i can't believe he even teaches in our school. He's so smart he should be teaching a college class. Here's a video about something we would learn in class.