Tuesday, 18 October 2016

#vmvwiki #vmvsocial (JM) Is the current education model failing us?

Is the current education model failing children? Education may need to change to meet they diversity of individuals and technology may be the answer

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTTojTija8

 

Sunday, 28 August 2016

Panic - Facebook is down?! #vmvwiki #vmvsocial (Nicole)

Facebook went down for a total of 5 minutes, sending its users into a panic. Many went to Twitter to source information about the status of Facebooks outage.


http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/83628509/what-happened-when-facebook-died

www.stuff.co.nz
Facebook died - for a whole five minutes - and the world stopped turning.


Saturday, 27 August 2016

#vmvwiki #vmvsocial Drone Delivery for Pizza (JM)

Pizza Delivery via drones is being trialled in New Zealand. How will this change the future delivery of other things like medication, alcohol, drugs, water supplies. groceries and other necessities?

Tuesday, 23 August 2016

#vmwiki #vmsocial Vik

Sometime games we play says who we are and how we think. I personally think Pokemon is a wonderful game to socialize but was not the other online game help to socialize online? Pokemon is going ground. 

#vmwiki #vmsocial Vik

Cloud flexibility freeing New Zealand businesses from tyranny of Distance. Micro service architectures boosting reliability as NZ business as taped into Australia based cloud- service center.


108 cyber crime attacks per day in NZ#vmvwiki #vmvsocial KS

Cyber criminal are setting up their own call centers to run scams.

Driverless taxis could be the bullet train of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics #vmvwiki #vmvsocial TashD

This article discusses how driverless taxis could be on the roads in Toyko by 2020! 


http://www.cnet.com/news/driverless-taxis-could-be-the-bullet-train-of-the-tokyo-2020-olympics/

Government education reform focuses on school-aged children learning from home #vmvwiki #vmvsocial N.B (Nicole)

Education Minister, Hekia Parata, has announced school-aged children will be able to do all their learning online. This will allow any school, tertiary provider or approved industry to apply to be a "Community of online learning".


This could mean that once again, there will need to be a stay at home parent.


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/83485577/government-education-reform-focuses-on-schoolaged-children-learning-from-home

www.stuff.co.nz
A major Government reform of schooling could see classrooms ditched in favour of online learning.


Thursday, 18 August 2016

Tuesday, 16 August 2016

Performance of NZ technology sector #vmvwiki #vmvsocial DV

Myth Busting (not good at commercialising, investing in R&D, scaling, selling, punching above our weight) , realizing the size of economy and 2015 key highlights (the tech sector is growing! In revenue, employed people and export $$).

 

http://idealog.co.nz/tech/2016/08/state-sector-technology

Robots taking over #vmvwiki #vmvsocial TashD

Sophia is a robot that is showing how much technology has evolved and that we are now seeing what we see in movies in real life! 

https://www.inverse.com/article/13089-this-humanoid-robot-used-sxsw-to-gather-data-on-humans

Mobiles, overhead pylons and health sectors#vmvwiki#vmvsocial&LS

Looking into the possible health effects of mobile phones, base stations, power lines and pylons.

 

 

http://www.theiet.org/policy/key-topics/mobile/

 

 

Monday, 15 August 2016

#vmvwiki #vmvsocial & SV

http://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/1711/1/ajbsiv4_3lynn-2.pdf

researchonline.jcu.edu.au
Australasian Journal of Business & Social Inquiry, September 2006, v4, n3. 15 ‘Futures’ of home-based business: A literature review Robyn Lynn


#vmvwiki #vmvsocial & KS

The Facebook founder's Mark Zuckerberg's accounts on sites including Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest appear to have been briefly compromised on Sunday.



Saturday, 13 August 2016

World should consider limits to future internet expansion to control energy consumption#vmvwiki #vmvimpact (Gopal)

The world should consider ways to limit data growth on the internet to prevent run-away energy consumption and help limit carbon emissions, say leading computer scientists.

Reference:
Lancaster University. (2016, August 11). World should consider limits to future internet expansion to control energy consumption. ScienceDaily. Retrieved August 13, 2016 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160811090046.htm

World should consider limits to future internet expansion to control energy consumption#vmvwiki #vmvimpact

The world should consider ways to limit data growth on the internet to prevent run-away energy consumption and help limit carbon emissions, say leading computer scientists.

Reference:
Lancaster University. (2016, August 11). World should consider limits to future internet expansion to control energy consumption. ScienceDaily. Retrieved August 13, 2016 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160811090046.htm

Blog Post 2

Odd girl out: An individual differences perspective on women in the IT profession #vmvwiki #vmvimpact #PI

http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.eit.ac.nz/business/docview/222432378/907F8C984765477APQ/2?accountid=39646

Blog post

Tap Tap Order is a subscription-based service that provides restaurants with a customized digital menu that can be changed in minutes online #vmvwiki #vmvimpact #PI

http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.eit.ac.nz/docview/1391941756/18C3709201A941CCPQ/20?accountid=39646