Finale

Concluding Summary

Through the past 12 weeks, I've learnt a lot about Technology and how it changes the world.

To recap, here is the definition of technology:

tech·nol·o·gy 
[tek-nol-uh-jee]
–noun
1. the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society,and the environment, drawing upon such subjects asindustrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
2. the terminology of an art, science, etc.; technical nomenclature.
3. a technological process, invention, method, or the like.
Taken from www.dictionary.com

Throughout the whole course, a few points have been constantly brought out. Though there are some difference, but the main points can be listed as follow:

1) Always look forward to the future

If you keep living in the past, you are not able to move on together with the rest of the world and will eventually be left behind. We need to be continually growing/developing. Live you lift as though everything is a miracle

2) Ask "Why Not" instead of "Why"

Challenge the status quo, only then will there be change.

3) Change Leadership vs. Change Management

A leader is one who sets the direction and the manager is the one who actually does it.

4) Finding the right opportunities

Cloud, Summit and Valley opportunities. Of course, striking at the summit will be the best.

5) The Global Divide

How developed countries are moving forward faster as compared to developing countries and thus widening the Global Gap. How then can the developed countries lend a helping hand to their poorer, less developed neighbours?

I believe that these are the key things that can be brought out of this 12 weeks of lessons and apply to other aspects.

Technology does not just stop at owning the latest smart phone, tablet, or laptop. It goes beyond that to interrelation with life, society,and the environment. Looking at future technologies, it is important to link it to how it affects life, society and environment be it in a positive or negative way.

Group Projects

Group Project

So after the last week of lesson about developing a framework for the future, we went straight to continue doing our project. What we had to do is to create a web report for our project. Being the only group that does not have any SIS student in the group, we thought that it would be very difficult for us, but thanks to technology being so awesome these days, we manage to create a website without even using any HTML codes. Back in my secondary school days, I knew some basic HTML codes but have forgotten them all already so wix was very helpful. My group project was about social media and us. It was actually a very broad topic and we had difficulty in deciding which aspect we should look into. In the end, we decided to look at how Social Media has affect us in socially, politically, as well as in the business aspect.

In every project, there would be something that can be learnt. The topic itself, how to do proper research, group work, and coordinating the group. As for the topic itself, much research had to be done and it was definitely not easy so we had to learn how to search 'smart'. Group work and coordinating was also important because this is quite a huge project. Everyone in the group had their other things to do so it was difficult to bring the group together to meet up frequently. It was only till a few days before our presentation that we managed to get everyone in the group to meet up as a whole to do some concrete updates for our group project. It wasn't easy, but we manage to do it.

Special thanks to my group mate Wilson who helped coordinate the group meetings and delegating the jobs and also Regina who helped a lot in the research aspect.

My group web report can be viewed here.

On the same day, we had two other groups presenting on the following topics

1) Technology and the Arts

Personally, I was from an arts CCA in secondary school and JC so I was quite interested in the topic. Indeed, technology has changed the arts in many ways. The visual arts, music as well as film. However, it is unlikely that the traditional forms art will be phased out because those are the basis which modern art is derived from. Art lovers will still want to go to museums to see famous paints, go to concerts to listen to live music, as well as theaters to view live musicals.

2) Technology and the Disabled

It was quite nice to learn about how technology can help the disabled. People who are disabled did not have a choice to be like that. If they were given a choice, I'm sure that they will not choose to be disabled because they have many limitations. Very often, people who are disabled are very pessimistic towards life because they feel that they are 'useless'. With technology helping the disabled, it will help bring hope to them and hopefully make them feel more positive as they will be able to live their lives more like normal human beings.