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Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

Read and Apply: Chapter 17 Technical Definitions and 18 Technical Descriptions to your assignment
Complete these TasksChoose: a product or process to define and describe
Research: the product or process using quality resources
Explore: how the product or process is defined and described by your industry
Connect & Apply what you have learnedDeliverables:
Part I-Choose three terms to explore (choose either processes or products or a combination). You might want to choose terms from your area of study. Research the three terms you intend to define. Practice writing definitions by writing a simple and clear one-sentence definition for each (in your own words). See the textbook section on sentence definitions. Part II-Choose one of those terms (either a product or process) to describe in detail to an audience of your choice. Create a 1-2 page Technical Description beginning with a cover page (see this YouTube Video() on creating a cover page). At the bottom of the cover page, write a one sentence purpose statement that names your audience. Ex. The purpose of this document is to desribe a magnetometer to earth science students. Your brief introduction should begin with the definition of the product or process.
The body should be presented in an organized manner using visual elements such as headings, subheadings, bullet points or numbered lists, graphics that inform, etc. Think visually. It should conclude with a brief concluding statement (see the rubric for more details and use the rubric as a checklist).
Proofread aloud for clarity, conciseness, and correctness. Eliminate wordiness to increase understanding and readability. Either upload two documents to the correct dropbox: 1 definitions document and 1 description document. Or inlcude the definitions after the reference page of your description document

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0YuvwwO39nAVX9kBi… Link to watch Her
Links to an external site. With listening to the Very Bad Wizards podcast and watching the film Her we might be able to understand why philosopher Neil Sinhababu believes that we can have a meaningful loving relationship with a girl in another possible world. Possible worlds are a metaphysical concept that philosophers use to think about strange things. We have the laws of nature, logic, and technology that can hold us into thinking that things can never possibly happen in our world. Metaphysically possible suggests that we just have to conceive of its possibility on some possible world and we can then examine the claims meaningfully (this is why a lot of metaphysicians write sci-fi on the side). With that being said, we also see Theodore Twombly falling in love with this personalized A.I. do you think that this can meaningfully happen? It seems possible in another world we can see ourselves intertwined with the most high-tech artificial intelligence in a way that is satisfying emotionally (and probably physically) for us. Do you think that artificial intelligence has the possibility of actually having a meaningful loving relationship with us, in this world? What are the similarities and differences between Sinhababu’s work and Her? Remember to respond to 2-3 of your peers and discuss where you agree and disagree.

A factual essay with Harvard referencing style ,the introduction must include the definition of Artificial intelligence and the boy must have solid points and atleast to references in each paragraph the paragraphs in the bodymustn’t exceed eight lines

People today have many thoughts about emerging technology and the ways that society is being impacted. Some people have concluded that new technology will definitely make the world a better place while other people think that new technology may mean the end of humanity. Select ONE of the specific types of emerging technology listed below and write an essay of 1250 to 1500 words (5 to 6 pages) in which you explain why this technology will make the world a better place OR why society should be concerned about potential damage this technology can cause (or may be already causing).
As you discuss the reasons for your position, please provide specific support for each reason. Consider the various methods of development that we have discussed and make an informed choice about what method or methods you will use to help substantiate your points. 
In this essay, you must reference the following: 
1. Ideas from at least one relevant situation that you have personally experienced (e.g., as an anecdotal eyecatcher in your introduction, as an example/factor in the body of your paper, or any other way that helps to contribute to your paper);
2. Information from the news article that you selected (
“The next generation of connected IoT”MIT Technology Review.)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/23/1069199/the-next-generation-of-conne
cted-iot/
3. “The Social Impact of Technology” by Matthew Giannelis
In this paper, you must include at least one justifiable quote (remember the reasons to quote) and a summary (NOTE: You do NOT need to summarize an entire article; summarize only what is relevant to the point that you are making). Remember to document and integrate your source according to MLA guidelines. This essay will be using ONLY TWO OUTSIDE SOURCES (one of the listed class readings and your instructor-approved article). Remember that whenever you use a source, you MUST cite the source according to MLA guidelines.

Write a 2000-word research paper, addressing the prompt below, based primarily on discussion of at least one work from the syllabus and at least two secondary sources, one of which may be another work of fiction that you compare to the central work in question. Regardless, each paper must discuss at least two secondary sources from (a) a peer-reviewed journal or (b) an academic press. Secondary sources from other types of publications—blogs, popular magazines, videos, etc.—may be used in addition to a more scholarly source if and only if your paper includes convincing justification for using them. 
The prompt: Edgar Allan Poe, while often considered “children’s” or “young-adult” literature in the US, is in Europe often thought of as the most internationally influential American author (aside from, in certain circles, William Faulkner). Read Charles Baudelaire’s (Poe’s first French translator’s) “Painter of Modern Life,” section III, and the first paragraph of part IV, and argue either that Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” is, like Baudelaire says, a painting, or that it is not. I know this prompt is very vague, and that is intentional. For this prompt, Baudelaire’s essay counts as one source, so only one additional source is necessary. Bonus points if you somehow manage to connect the insomnia (sleeplessness) in the story either to the song “The Center” by Chicago-based band The Contortionist, and/or to the lyrics or careful anonymity of British rap-blues-metal band Sleep Token. 

Immigration is one issue that intersects government, politics and social Justice.
Again consider the question for this week – what is fair? Discuss whether or not the children of illegal immigrants or children brought into the country illegally should be entitled to a free K-12 education in the U.S.

Acrisis, as the saying goes, is a terrible thing to waste, and the tech utopians have wasted little time in promoting the move to online teaching as a permanent solution to higher ed’s problems.
Tal Frankfurt, a technology consultant and contributor to Forbes magazine, proposed that the emergency replacement of traditional classrooms with virtual ones should “be viewed as a sort of ‘bypass’ button’” for the usual snail’s pace of educational change. We’re all online now, Frankfurt says — let’s stay there. After all, virtual learning is better because it enables “students to reach greater heights and not be limited by a predetermined set of circumstances.”
Nor is Frankfurt alone. In a recent op ed in The New York Times, Hans Taparia writes that online education, previously considered a “hobby,” could be the silver bullet that rescues higher ed from the financial ravages of the coronavirus pandemic.
Politicians have also climbed on board the train. Jeb Bush announced that online is “the future of learning,” and Governor Andrew Cuomo, with Bill Gates (of course) standing next to him, wondered why we need all these buildings when we have technology? “The old model” of a classroom, the governor opined, is over and done with. It’s time to “reimagine” education with computers and laptops “at the forefront.” While both deal with K-12, the proposal to replace “all these buildings, all these physical classrooms” with virtual spaces applies equally well to higher ed.
But what do students have to say about the differences between online and traditional teaching? Do they look forward to online education as “the future”?
The argument over the relative merits of online versus face-to-face education always runs into this crucial roadblock: students (presuming they pass) do not take the same course twice. Once you take Shakespeare 302, or Chem 101, or Econ 102, you move on.
But thanks to the sudden switch to online teaching in the middle of the semester, students can compare the digital with the analog versions of their classes. What’s more, since each student takes three to five (sometimes more) courses, they experienced multiple modalities of online education, from Zoom meetings to fully asynchronous courses taught via videos and podcasts. For the first time, a student can say, “I took the course both ways, and here’s what I think.” While it’s true that for many, the transition was rushed, don’t underestimate how many profs put together viable online classes that ranged from Zoom to fully synchronous (more on that term below) classes with all the bells and whistles.
To find out their responses, I asked my students to write an evaluation of their experiences with online education. While almost all are English majors, they are the definition of diverse: traditional, nontraditional, male, female, LGBTQ, first-generation college student, not first generation, single parent, person of color, different religions, foreign (one student hailed from Germany), some with a learning disability, and veterans. No doubt I’ve missed a few categories. All, however, are “digital natives,” the generation who are addicted to their phones and screens. So there is no assumed bias against or unfamiliarity with the digital world.
But for all their differences in age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, citizenship and intellectual preparedness, they universally agreed on their evaluation of online learning: they hated it. There is no comparison, they said over and over again, between the two. One student said that she felt like she wasn’t getting 10 percent of the regular class. Another wrote, “I haven’t learned anything since we went online.” (For the record, I asked for and received permission to quote their responses.) “It seemed too easy,” wrote a third. “I did not feel challenged like I had been in the first half of the semester, and I felt the quality of learning had gone way down.” “I watched the lectures posted, but I wasn’t learning the material,” wrote another. All told, moving online caused “a profound sense of loss.”
Part of the problem originated in the enforced idleness caused by the pandemic. With in-person classes canceled, jobs evaporating and shelter-in-place orders, the structure by which many organized their day had disappeared, leaving many students feeling lost and adrift. As one student put, “[I] now lived in a world of uncertainty, with no clear end in sight.” Pre-pandemic, the necessity of showing up at a particular time at a particular place shaped their days and “established an environment in which my focus was tailored completely to my education.” Without the “consistency” of having to show up on, say, Tuesday and Thursday, 11 o’clock, many reported that it was easy to let classes slide and not take them as seriously as before. Plus, for some, there are the distractions of having to live at home, sharing space and computer time with parents and siblings, not to forget pets.
Taking online classes also means that the distractions of the web are right before their eyes. “The major benefit of in-class learning is that the classroom leaves out distractions,” writes one student, but now, “I have the biggest source of gaming, shopping and socializing right in my face.”
However, there is a more profound reason for their dislike of online learning, and ironically, it is online education’s chief selling point.
The major advantage of online learning is asynchronicity, or, “anytime, anywhere learning.”
Lectures do not take place at a specified time, but are recorded as videos or podcasts. Assignments are done on a computer, often graded by a computer. Not being tied to a classroom also means no limitations on enrollment. Class size is no longer limited by room size but can grow to accommodate any number of students.
What this means in practice is that the student takes the class alone. There is no immediate interaction between the professor and the students, no immediate interaction among the students. It’s just a student sitting in front of a screen, and that’s what my students disliked the most: “we basically have to teach ourselves. It’s like paying tuition to watch YouTube videos.”
More than one complained they were not getting their money’s worth: “I do not pay the hefty tuition for online classes”; “I feel for all the students paying thousands and thousands of dollars to attend SDSU when in reality they are stuck behind a computer screen.” A third was more specific: a prerecorded video “is by far the least efficient and beneficial [mode of learning]. Prerecorded videos give students no room to ask questions or engage in class discussion.”
Ironically, students reaffirmed Plato’s criticism of writing over face-to-face discussion. If you ask an inanimate object, in this case, a piece of writing or a painting, a question, Socrates says, you don’t get an answer. Instead, it goes on “telling you just the same thing forever.” Ask a video a question, or a podcast, and you will not get a response. You can’t engage it in dialogue, and as Socrates says, it’s in dialogue — teasing out of ideas, challenging them, argument and counterargument — that genuine education happens.
That key point gets reiterated in every response: students missed human interaction. The central difference is that during a regular semester, “the lessons are in person, and not on a screen. This is important because it helps me and other people pay attention when the teacher is in the same room as us. You get more out of what they are saying when you can see their body language, and it’s more a personal experience.”
The transition from face-to-face to online removed the opportunity to learn “from other students,” and breaking into smaller groups or commenting on each other’s writing was no substitute for the real thing. In a traditional classroom, “there is this level of intimacy that just cannot develop in an online setting. The college experience is truly about making human connections. Schools, one student insightfully noted, “are like small towns. There is so much more than just classrooms, and to have classes go online, that takes away so much from the student experience.”
The farther a class got from face-to-face, the less students liked it, and the less they got out of it. Conversely, the closer a class got to approximating the traditional classroom, the better. Students preferred Zoom classes (for all their drawbacks) for two reasons.
First, turning classes into Zoom meetings that started and ended at the same time as the regular class helped “restore some type of balance and structure” to their lives. One student said that she “was grateful for the normalcy that the recurring class meetings” gave her.
But more profoundly, Zoom restored, if in a lesser form, the conversations, the back-and-forth, the human interactions of the traditional classroom. Because students can talk to each other and the professor in real time, “it feels more personal. I found myself more willing to answer and participate.” This student summed it up best:
Some of the best courses I have taken during my time in college have been the ones that are small, and where the professor and students develop a sense of trust with one another. This trust can only be attained by person-to-person contact. There is this level of intimacy that just cannot develop in an online setting. The college experience is truly about making human connections.
God knows, Zoom is not perfect. The sound can be terrible, and there are serious privacy issues. But for all its problems, Zoom helps restore the “human connections” missing from virtual classes, which is why several students said that everyone’s camera should be on during the session. The point is not just to hear, but to see, each other.
Many teachers fear that when the pandemic recedes and normality returns, administrators will try to keep as many classes online as they can. After all, as Bush and Cuomo say, online is supposed to be the future.
But the opposite will likely happen, because most students don’t like online classes. Having gone virtual once, and experienced different modalities, there is no desire, no groundswell, to make the change permanent. If anything, both students and faculty want to get back to the traditional classroom as quickly as possible, now that they have experienced both. To be sure, online teaching has its place, especially for students who could not otherwise attend college, and given the health risks, it’s how we need to teach until there’s either a cure or a vaccine for COVID-19.
But online learning is not the future. Never was. Never will be. It’s just not what students want.

ASSIGNMENT: Write a THREE paragraph narrative essay about a time you learned something. This could be a skill you learned, a lesson you learned or some kind of information. Be descriptive in your assignment. Let the reader feel what you are feeling. Do not just describe the action.
Paragraph 1: Introduction:
Hook – grab the reader’s attention. This should be at the beginning of the paragraph.
Theme – what you learned from your experience. This should be at the end of the paragraph.
Paragraph 2: Body:
This is where you tell your story. It needs to be concise and clear. The action in this paragraph should rise toward a climax. The climax should come at the end of the paragraph and lead in to the conclusion.
Paragraph 3: Conclusion
-Thesis – this should be at the beginning of the conclusion – restate the thesis; remind the reader what the point is. If you need to wrap up the action in your story, do that then restate the theme.
-Wrap up – tie everything up, tell the reader how this lesson has changed you.
let the reader feel what you are feeling not just describe the action
this is grade 9 – 10 level do not use overly complicated words .

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tiktok-filter-bubbles. What do you think about filter bubbles? Do you believe you are in any? Do those bubbles reflect your true beliefs or maybe just trends of the moment? Do you believe that filter bubbles are dangerous? Explain specifically why or why not. How do you think folks can break out of said bubbles?
Respond to two or three of your peers in the group. Do you have similar bubbles or different? Explain why you think you have similar or different bubbles. Think about those similarities and differences and talk with your peer about the importance of recognizing bubbles.