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Viewpoint: Take a break from technology
Almost everywhere you look on Weber State University’s campus, you can see the ways technology has impacted students’ lives, whether it’s students taking notes in class on a laptop or watching videos on a tablet or just texting in between classes. While a lot of the advances have been beneficial to college students, it might [...]
With the growth of Skype reaching milestones, Weber State University is increasing its use of video-conference technology. In a recent blog, Skype said on its website that about 35 million users were logged in at the same time, a new record. This was just one week after reaching the milestone of 34 million. “It’s probably been the past year that [...]
Continue reading …Weber State University provided iPads free of charge to students this semester as part of an experimental case study. The ongoing research, presented at WSU’s Teaching and Learning Symposium last week, is designed to discover the influence of mobile technology’s reach into the classroom. The students in the courses that provided the iPads responded positively [...]
Continue reading …William Powers, a former journalist at the Washington Post and author of the bestseller Hamlet’s Blackberry, gave a presentation on Thursday at Weber State University about how humans have always tried to connect with the world through evolving technology. “(Humans have an) inborn drive to want to reach out to connect and figure out what’s [...]
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Bryan Butterfield J.R. Westmoreland can navigate an iPad and do computer programming with his eyes closed. Add to that list spelunking, rock climbing, skiing and DJ-ing an internet radio show, just for starters. Diagnosed with retinal cancer as a toddler, Westmoreland is now completely blind. When his parents asked the doctor what they should do, [...]
Continue reading …What do a 2,000-year-old Greek mechanical device called Antikythera and today’s computers have in common? Logic. David Ferro, dean of the College of Applied Science and Technology at Weber State University believes it is simply logic that links these two devices. Ferro gave a seminar Wednesday as part of the Greek Festival going on at [...]
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