Computer applications in english language classroom

Computers are very important in compassion and brand of English with greater computer use a more direct communication compassion for students is clearly a better exposure. Students can quickly and easily understood.

Technology in Education

Many people warn of the possible harmful effects of using technology in the classroom. Will children lose their ability to relate to other human beings? Will they become dependent on technology to learn? Will they find inappropriate materials? The same was probably said with the invention of the printing press, radio, and television. All of these can be used inappropriately, but all of them have given humanity unbounded access to information which can be turned into knowledge. Appropriately used-- interactively and with guidance-- they have become tools for the development of higher order thinking skills.

Inappropriately used in the classroom, technology can be used to perpetuate old models of teaching and learning. Students can be "plugged into computers" to do drill and practice that is not so different from workbooks. Teachers can use multimedia technology to give more colorful, stimulating lectures. Both of these have their place, but such use does not begin to tap the power of these new tools.

In this area, you will find descriptions of how computers can be used to stimulate and develop writing skills, collaborate with peers in foreign countries, do authentic kinds of research that is valuable to the adult world, and do complex kinds of problem solving that would otherwise be impossible.

http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/technology/front_tech.htm

Science team creates synthetic life using computer generated genome

This story almost sounds like the plot to a science fiction movie set in a future starring Harrison Ford as the lead, but this news is indeed the real deal. A team of scientists led by genome expert J. Craig Venter has successfully created the world’s first computer synthesized life form.
Now I’m not talking artificial intelligence, mind you. Working on the project for over 15 years, this science team comprised of genome researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute, took the genome of a living cell and converted it into digital code. The group then took the computer code created from the sample genome and altered it allowing them to chemically synthesize the new computer generated genome code and introduce it into the cell of bacteria. That bacteria is now reproducing. Cool stuff.
Being a science fiction buff, though, I am compelled to ask the questions; with this breakthrough in bioengineering, I wonder how long it will take before researchers start trying to bring back extinct species like the dinosaurs? Also could we really be facing a future where eventually a Tyrell-like Corporation starts creating “replicants“?

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/science-team-creates-synthetic-life-using-computer-generated-genome-20100521/

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