Technology in Action Ch. 1
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Unwanted or junk email
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Spam
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In medicine 3D printing allows more stylish and less expensive designs for _________
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Prosthetic limbs
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Developing systems that can recognize and simulate human emotions
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Affective Computing
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A popular Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service
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Skype
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QR Codes let any piece of print host a link to online information
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Quick Response
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Our normal sense of the world around us, enhanced with digital information
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Augmented Reality
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Results when leisure time & tools allows to engage in creative acts
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Cognitive Surplus
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The gap between those who have easy access to the Internet & technology and those who don't is known as_______________.
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Digital Divide
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Factors that lead to greater motivation
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Purpose, Mastery & Autonomy
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_______________Tools gather information from sources such as emails text message and tweets & make the information instantly and publicly available for use in emergencies
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Crisis Mapping
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Solicits online input from consumers
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Crowd Sourcing
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Tools that enable groups of people to connect and exchange ideas
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Social networking
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Term used to describe someone who is familiar enough with computers to understand their capabilities and limitations
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Computer Literate
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Refers to instructions that tell the computer what to do
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Software/Applications
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Hopes to stop human rights abuse throughout the world
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The Witness Project
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Is rallying the support of the world to identify mathematical genius
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Next Einstein Initiative
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Defined as feeling excited and confident about learning new skills
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Mastery
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The world's population combined has an estimated ____________hours a year of free time.
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One Trillion
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Sharing products rather than owning them individually is known as ____
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Collaborative Consumption
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Using the Internet to get small donations from many people to start a business
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Crowd Funding
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Field of study focused on the management, processing and automatic retrieval of information
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Information Technology
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The process of searching huge amounts of data seeking a pattern
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Data Mining
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Analyzing computer systems to gather potential legal evidence is _________
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Computer Forensics
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Use Web effectively; Avoid prey to hackers and viruses; Diagnose and fix hardware and software problems; protect identify theft; Avoid Spam
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Examples of computer Literate
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Working without continued direction and control
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Autonomy
