Rise of the Technology Class
These conversations are between students from Ecuador, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Spain and the US who see technology serving a higher purpose: A counter-culture to their predecessors. This is evidence of a new type of generative class who apply technology to their creativity with art, music, science and involvement within the community. Their activity is transparent and active to our evolving civility. These multinational students are socially conscious storytellers. The Moderator of this conversation, Michael Davis is an Executive MBA graduate of Steinbeis University Germany, The Berlin School of Creative Leadership.Archive for friends
Kaito – Do you forget we are connected?
June 21, 2009 at 8:55 pm · Filed under Authors and tagged: attitude, conversation, culture, film, friends, internet, media, music, stereotypes
Culture. It is a very good word.
Around the world. How many websites you can tell about the culture? Too many. I find a popular site, to share with my friends. It is – J! – ENT for pop culture, fashion, music, talks and entertainment.
It is for all countries. People’s lives and the way we are talking. I have to travel to countries in Europe, America and India.
Today this information = statement of thanks to the computer and I think our precious mobile phone.
I know about the world with a connection to the Internet. If no internet I would not know this place.
Nikolas – Glenview, a suburb of Chicago
June 17, 2009 at 12:03 pm · Filed under Authors and tagged: attitude, friends, individual, stereotypes, student
It is true, living in Glenview, a very nice US suburban town, I have been exposed to some of the latest and greatest technology offered to modern communities.
This means that I have a very different viewpoint than people in other countries who don’t have access.
I may take things I see here for granted and see them as just normal tools or ways to communicate in my community…when really in other towns and countries they could be considered a luxury or super high tech.
Living in an area where material items are abundant, probably makes me much more skeptical than students in remote cities in other countries.
Samantha – Videogames vs. Music
June 16, 2009 at 1:55 pm · Filed under Authors and tagged: culture, friends, innovation, invention, music, purpose, relevant, society, story, videogames
A few days ago i read an article about the industry of videogames and music. Its true that the people actually is looking for a new type of fun to spend on his free times. But what really caught my attention was the fact of the rising of the sales of video-games and the decrease of the record sales. This is happening because, according to the article, people looks for a story, for imagination to live with, could be able to participate on that stories, above a record with a few good songs. I don’t know if that happens to me but im sure that at least one of us has been dreaming with a new game of Xbox 360 or PS3 instead of the new album of Rhianna. Take your choice…
Samantha – Thanks for inviting me…
June 14, 2009 at 1:44 pm · Filed under Authors and tagged: blog, friends, student
Hi, I’m Samantha. So glad to have been considered for participating on this blog. It is really important to me and for my friends.
Ryan – Calling phobia
June 10, 2009 at 7:54 pm · Filed under Authors and tagged: conversation, culture, friends, liberating, phone, texting
Like millions of others, texting is something that has integrated itself into my daily life and i have no complaints. it’s such a simple form of communication and its a great way to correspond with a lot of people at once. but i think that it is bringing some people apart rather than together. i sometimes get annoyed with people who insist on texting over calling.
“What’s Steve doing?”
“I dunno call him.”
“I’ll text him.”
i realized that i text people so much that it is almost annoying to call someone, or get a call. other than my close friends, when i see an incoming call i almost think, uhh what do they want? something i’ve also realized is that my phone speaking skills have gone down. i get more tongue tied on the phone now than when i was 8. Am i alone on this or do other people feel like the quality of the phone conversation has greatly decreased?
Jacqueline – YTC and Me
June 9, 2009 at 7:12 pm · Filed under Authors and tagged: club, eco, friends, lab, learn, PC, public, school, science, skills, youth
Being a part of Youth Technology Corps (www.ytcorps.org) has been one of the greatest experience that I’ve encountered. When I first started, I was a little bit nervous, because I didn’t know what were we really doing and I didn’t think I would be able to do whatever we were going to do. Along the way I’ve learned more and more about what we were doing and also made friends with some new people. Not only did i make some friends from school but I met a lot of really great people from Mexico and Ireland and having the chance to get to know them and learn more about their culture. Meeting new people from other countries and exploring the world of YTC to them. One of the other things we do every year for the program is that we go out to the community and teach young kids how to use some of the computer programs. This experience had taught me better people skills, and better at public speaking. Being apart of this program means so much me and i am proud of being in such a thing.
Joshua – Tweet
June 2, 2009 at 3:08 am · Filed under Authors and tagged: computer, conversation, friends, individual, opinion, popularity, purpose, radical, social, society, technology, tweet, twitter, waste, work