How is Modern technology
useful for Society?
Lesson Objectives
• Describe the impact of technology on
education.
• Describe the impact of technology on science
and medicine.
• Describe the impact of technology on work and
play.
Technology Uses
• Home
• School
• Workplace
Education
Factors affecting education are:
1. Internet
– Classrooms
– Library
– Web Quests
2. Online tests
3. Distance Learning
4. Computer-Based Learning
5. Simulations
6. Distance education ( VU Lahore )
Distance Learning
• Definition: using technology, the Internet, as a medium
for schooling or learning
• Department of Education supports Star Schools Program
– Provides distance learning to millions of learners annually.
– Florida High School Online
• Any high school student who is a resident in Florida can attend
• Certified diploma-granting school
• Programs that provide guidance and testing for online
courses
– WebCt
– Blackboard
Computer Based Learning
• Also known as Computer Assisted
Instruction (CAI)
• Definition: using a computer as a
tutor.
• A special computer program used to
help to reinforce a difficult concept.
• Advantage: provides the opportunity
to master the idea by reviewing as
many times as necessary
Simulations
• Definition: models real-world activities and you
learn by doing
• Examples
– Stock Market Game
• By playing the game you learn about finance and the American
economic system
• Go to [Link]
– Rocket Simulation
• allows you to design any size rocket, and then you can
simulate its flight to see how high, and how fast it will fly.
– SimCity
• Great to enhance problem-solving skills. It allows the user to
create a city, including highways, buildings, homes, and so
forth.
• Go to [Link]
Scientific Discovery and
Technological Innovations
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)- processes information on its own
without human intervention.
• Examples:
– Games playing – where most advances have been made
– Natural Language – offers the greatest potential rewards by
allowing people to interact easily with computers by talking to them
– Expert systems – computer programs that help us make decision.
May help your parents determine the best type of insurance for
their particular needs
– Robotics – used in assembly plants, such as for cars. The newest
type is called a bot which is used by search engines.
Scientific Discovery
• Genetic Engineering – refers to DNA in a living organism
• Benefits
– Increasing resistance to disease
– Enabling a plant or animal to do something it would not typically
do
– Enabling a fruit to ripen without getting squashy
• One of the most widely known projects is: Human
Genome Project coordinated by Department of Energy
and National Institute of Health
– Goal is to identify all of the approximately 100,000 genes in
human DNA
– Store and analyze the data
– Address the ethical, legal, and social issues
Scientific Discovery
• Virtual Reality – an artificial
environment that feels like a real
environment created with computer
hardware and software.
– There is more of a feeling of being in the
actual environment using all or almost all
of the 5 senses
– The user is immersed through some
head-mounted device (helmet).
– Used in education, training, medicine,
research, and other areas
Global Economy
• Banking, finance, commerce (printed money is on its way
to becoming obsolete)
– Affects the way information and money is transmitted
• Electronic commerce: having an online business
– Buy
– Sell
– Internet speed will increase because of cable modems and DSL
– Digital cash
• Definition: allows someone to pay by transmitting a
number from one computer to another.
• Numbers are issued by a bank.
• Each number is unique
E-Commerce
Disadvantages:
– SPAM
– Junk mail sent to your email address
Advantages:
– New Jobs
– Webmasters
– Programmers
– Network managers
– Graphics Designers
– Web Developers
Personal Lives
– 21st century home becomes the center for work, entertainment,
learning and health care
• Technological advances that affect our personal lives:
– Clothes that fight odor and bacteria
– Flying car
• SkyCar is able to operate in a less restrictive area than a helicopter
and is less expensive and safer.
– Voice recognition will allow us to talk to computers or computer-
like devices and they will respond.
– Nonlethal weapons - HSV Technologies Inc., of San Diego,
California developed a non-lethal weapon in 2000 that uses
ultraviolet laser beams to harmlessly immobilize people and
animals at a distance
Personal Lives
• Technological advances
Smart houses
Keeps a house comfortable
Monitors electricity being used
Helps plan and prepare healthy meals
Monitors devices and schedules maintenance
Online shopping
No longer having to fight crowds and search for
parking spaces
