Enumerate the effects of technological change in our society and describe and list strategies used in the Philippines to address the skills shortage in advanced technology sectors. (at least 1,500 words)
There are lots of good and bad effects of technological change in our society. But most of the effects of this are good. Just like what we always hear, that technology makes our life easier. Like for example in a company with workers, managers, president and others of course technology is a very big part of their career or to their business. For the workers, technology make their work easier and faster and don’t need for them to work very hard and heavy and it’s a very good effect for them, for the company owners if the their workers produced products or done their works fast they also earn money easily and faster, or in short they benefit from higher yields. In the road, or transportation, technology changing took a very big part too. Because as time passes by low technology has developed to high technology, and this helps a lot in our transportation, like for example the LRT, people don’t need to take many rides because with this they can go to their place in a single ride, and of course this thing makes the traffic easier. Traffic lights and other devices that are made by technology made good effects in our society.
If there is a good effect, there is also bad effects, but most of the bad effects are not being recognize by the people in the society, just like the global warming, not all of us know what causes this global warming, that don’t know that the technology which made our life easier makes our life shorter too. Electromagnetic field from the high technology gadgets can cause bad effects to our body and can bring us to death. Just compare to the Stone Age, where there are no technology existing, people live a hundred of years because there are no such things that will cause them to illness. But as you can notice, as time passes by, as technology is changing into high technology, the lives of the people become shorter; they got lucky if they can step into 50 years of age. Also technological change gives a lot of unemployed people. Since people was replaced by machine.
According to Tech Advisory Board (2008) here are some of good and bad effects in technological changes:
Technology has also brought a social change. The technological devices and other appliances have formed the major part of factories and industries. It has equally helped us in positive or negative way.
• If we talk about the positive effects then it has been the biggest help for the communication purposes. It has bridged the gap between far persons by providing the high tech fully featured mobile phones. These phones are an astonishing example of technology that we can do our office as well as our personal work with the help of durable and portable 3G mobile phones.
• Other important technological invention is computer and Internet. It is just with the help of it that we can share the data easily as well as communicate with others.
• The mp3 players and other electronic devices are the source of our entertainment as we can listen to our favorite songs on it.
But if we talk about its negative impact then there are various inventions that are proving wrong in our lives.
• The major effect occurred badly on our lives is the use of Internet. Though it provides us with the perfect knowledge and long distance communication but it is used for the unethical practices such as hacking, spamming and other criminal offense. Thus it is because of the Internet that cyber crimes are on high rise. Internet gambling has also a major effect on the people’s lives.
• Technology has also affected our lives just because of the introduction of artificial intelligent machines and gadgets. It is because of them that unemployment and thus crime is increasing in industries and other companies.
• Other disadvantage is that excessive use of machines in every field is resulting in under utilization of human brain. It is because of this man may lose his intellectual abilities and may not even be able to think. Another example is Jet planes are flown by the computers but not humans.
• It is even hampering the daily production of newspapers or printing industry as you can get everything on the Internet, easily down loadable music and movies have hampered the growth of music industry.
Skill shortage refers to the lack of the skill of workers. According to Tesda (2007) skill shortage are commonly caused by the faulty in educational system, myopic policy of labor export and the pervasive technical change. Below are some of the strategies in order to deal the problem in skill shortage according to Tesda (2007):
“Expatriation. Results revealed that hiring expatriates in filling vacancies in MNCs is seldom done. Of the surveyed MNCs only 17 percent of managers and less than 1 percent of professional and technical staff are expatriates. The reasons being are the large base of employment hopefuls and the labor market restrictions on the employment of foreigners in the country. Recruitment. Notwithstanding the large pool of applicants, the MNCs still experienced the lack of qualified applicants. Thus, they are employing various modes of recruitment to ensure the competitiveness of the selection process. Job Contracting. More than four-fifths of the Philippine sample were found to outsourced one or several tasks. The most commonly outsourced tasks are those that would require general skills such as maintenance, security and clerical. The main motivation by MNCs for job contracting is to keep its permanent staff lean but mean and for greater flexibility. Multinationals tend to maintain permanent platilla position for firm-specific skills. Training. Sample MNCs indicated that high proportion of employees in all ranks has been exposed to various forms of training whether internal or external to the company as a means of correcting skill deficiencies. Manufacturing firms located in the Philippines tend to spend higher training expenditures compared to Malaysia but lower when compared to those situated in Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. Training expenditures for business and services firms were found to be lesser in Indonesia and Malaysia but greater in Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand as compared to the Philippines.”
For me the best strategy to prevent skill shortage is to educate the people and create a curriculum that is fit to the person’s skill. And conduct a training quarterly or annually in order for the person to know the latest in their field and to keep in mind the past learnings they had.
Reference:
Skills Shortages and Training Needs of MNCs in the Philippines (Issue No. 20). TESDA Retrieved January 3, 2009, from http://www.tesda.gov.ph/page.asp?rootID=4&sID=154&pID=34
Effects of Technology. Essay Depot Retrieved January 3, 2009, from http://www.essaydepot.com/essayme/2195/index.php.
How Technology Has Effected Our Society. Tech Advisory Board Retrieved January 5, 2009, from http://www.techab.net/how-technology-has-effected-our-society/
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
planning for life..
Following the SDLC model, please discuss the acitvities/steps that you will undertake in order to achieve your objective/s in life. what approach(es) would you use, predictive/adaptive?.. your own version of SDLC pls...
In life we have lots of plan. If I would refer my activities in achieving goals in the SDLC model it will be more adaptive than predictive. But I would say that the two approaches will co-inside since the world is round and we can’t predict sometimes what will happen next.
Goal setting
Set my goal in order to have basis in my life
Plan
"The result of planning should be effective, efficient, and economical...that is, suitable for the intended purpose, capable of producing the desired results, and involving the least investment of resources".
- Clark Crouch
Planning is a process in order to achieve my goals in life. I will create a strategic plan to achieve my goals and wants in life.
Implement
I will put in practice my strategic plan. Also by the help of God and my prayers will help in implementing this plan.
Recognition
I will recognize the person that helps me in achieving my goals. And give thank to them for what he/she has done for me in achieving my goals. And most especially God for making all of this in my life no matter it is good or bad.
System Development Life Cycle. Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia Retrieved January 3, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_Development_Life_Cycle
Strategic Planning. Quotations Retrieved January 3, 2009, from http://corpslakes.usace.army.mil/employees/strategicplan/quotes.html
In life we have lots of plan. If I would refer my activities in achieving goals in the SDLC model it will be more adaptive than predictive. But I would say that the two approaches will co-inside since the world is round and we can’t predict sometimes what will happen next.
Goal setting
Set my goal in order to have basis in my life
Plan
"The result of planning should be effective, efficient, and economical...that is, suitable for the intended purpose, capable of producing the desired results, and involving the least investment of resources".
- Clark Crouch
Planning is a process in order to achieve my goals in life. I will create a strategic plan to achieve my goals and wants in life.
Implement
I will put in practice my strategic plan. Also by the help of God and my prayers will help in implementing this plan.
Recognition
I will recognize the person that helps me in achieving my goals. And give thank to them for what he/she has done for me in achieving my goals. And most especially God for making all of this in my life no matter it is good or bad.
System Development Life Cycle. Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia Retrieved January 3, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_Development_Life_Cycle
Strategic Planning. Quotations Retrieved January 3, 2009, from http://corpslakes.usace.army.mil/employees/strategicplan/quotes.html
technology???? reason of climate change???
Prominent book authors said that technology is the biggest contributor to climate change, in you capacity as an IT student, how would you address this global problem? Enumerate steps and actions to be taken. (at least 3,000 words)
Climate change is the rapid change of climates around the world. This changing happens because of some reasons. Like for example burning of fuels, burning of plastics, the smoke that came out from power plants, and also deforestation. This changing of climates will cause global warming. Global warming is the result of rising of temperature cause by the greenhouse gases. Water vapor is an example of greenhouse gas, the result of this gas is called greenhouse effect. Technology is said to be the biggest contributor of global warming.
Using of computers can also be a cause of global warming, radiations came out from computers may cause greenhouse effect, and the heat that it releases may cause too. This can be an example on why technology is the biggest contributor to climate change because as we all know almost all people, company, plantations; factories are now using high technology or computers. Just like plants before, they make manual operations just to control the motors in the plantations, but now they are just using digital power controls in the motor controls.
Most of the high technology equipments now are releasing electromagnetic fields that can cause bad effects. Just like for example the cell phones, the electromagnetic field from it may cause harm to our health. Plantations and factories are the reason why we experience global warming; because of the pollution that it releases it causes holes to our ozone layer. Carbon emissions and greenhouse gases are elements that came from the different technologies, that if being world the atmosphere may cause a climate change or global warming.
What is global warming (Lindinger, 2007) it is defined as the increase of the average temperature on Earth. Earth is getting hotter it is more likely disasters like hurricanes, droughts and floods are more frequent visit the world. According to (Imaginova Corp., 2007) the effects of global warming to be more substantial and more rapidly occurring than others do, the scientific consensus on climatic changes related to global warming is that the average temperature of the Earth has risen between 0.4 and 0.8 °C over the past 100 years. The increased volumes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released by the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing, agriculture, and other human activities, are believed to be the primary sources of the global warming that has occurred over the past 50 years. So it is said to be that people are the primary reason why we experience this king of global warming. Because man always create things to help them to make their work easier and faster without knowing the effects of this technology in the environment and in the earth where we live in. The sun is the Earth’s primary source of energy, sun is star that is so hot which we can sense it’s warm from 150 million kilometers away. The rays the sun enters in the earth’s atmosphere and can be feel in our planet. It is about one third of this solar energy is reflected back into the universe by shimmering glaciers, water and other bright surfaces. Two thirds are absorbed by the earth, warming land, oceans, and atmosphere. A lot of the heat of the sun spread out reverse out into space, but some of this are stored in the earth’s atmosphere. This process is commonly called as the greenhouse effect. Without greenhouse effect, the earth’s average temperature would be in 18 degrees Celsius, even despite the sun’s constant energy supply. In a world like this, life on Earth would probably have never emerged from the sea. The greenhouse effect helps a lot; on the other hand, heat emitted from the earth is trapped in the atmosphere, providing us with a comfortable average temperature of 14 degrees. Sunrays enter the glass roof and walls of a greenhouse. But once they heat up the ground, which, in turn, heats up the air inside the greenhouse, the glass panels trap that warm air and temperatures increase. But our planet has no glass walls; the only thing that comes close to acting as such is our atmosphere. But unfortunately, in here, processes are way more complicated.
As an IT student I can deal myself with the climate change because almost every day I am using a computer, and I and everyday I am using cell phone, new technology equipments that can cause global warming. So in order to minimize the global warming greenhouse effect and what we commonly called climate change here are my simple steps that I can do as an IT student:
1. Minimize using of computer
As we all know computer are the most important thing in student especially in Information Technology student. Because I always used my computer in every assignment, creating programs, encoding papers, researching and most especially in entertainment like playing games and watching movie.
In order to minimize the climate change in the world we must minimize the usage of computers, since computers and other gadget we used are commonly producing some elements like radiation and carbon dioxide that frequently reason why we have global warming and even causes disease like cancer.
I will use my computer in making assignments and major paper only not in playing games.
2. Recycle things
People produce garbage everyday and many of us didn’t know how to separate things like recyclable to non recyclable and biodegradable to non biodegradable. For me in order to minimize global warming I should use my initiative to create a thing out of the garbage and even try to create a thing that can also raise an income out of recyclable things. By this I can help our earth to minimize global warming and also help me to have income.
3. Plant trees
Trees are the main reason why we have oxygen in order for us to breathe. Trees undergo a process called photosynthesis that converting carbon dioxide with the help of the sun to produce oxygen. If we plant trees we can prevent global warming.
4. Segregate
Segregate garbage and dispose it properly.
References:
Climate Change. Department of Ecology State of Washington Retrieved December 27, 2008 from http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/whatis.htm
Global Warming. Allianz Retrieved December 27, 2008 from http://knowledge.allianz.com/en/globalissues/climate_change/global_warming_basics/global_warming_definition.html
Global Warming. Livescience Retrieved December 27, 2008 from http://www.livescience.com/globalwarming/
Climate change is the rapid change of climates around the world. This changing happens because of some reasons. Like for example burning of fuels, burning of plastics, the smoke that came out from power plants, and also deforestation. This changing of climates will cause global warming. Global warming is the result of rising of temperature cause by the greenhouse gases. Water vapor is an example of greenhouse gas, the result of this gas is called greenhouse effect. Technology is said to be the biggest contributor of global warming.
Using of computers can also be a cause of global warming, radiations came out from computers may cause greenhouse effect, and the heat that it releases may cause too. This can be an example on why technology is the biggest contributor to climate change because as we all know almost all people, company, plantations; factories are now using high technology or computers. Just like plants before, they make manual operations just to control the motors in the plantations, but now they are just using digital power controls in the motor controls.
Most of the high technology equipments now are releasing electromagnetic fields that can cause bad effects. Just like for example the cell phones, the electromagnetic field from it may cause harm to our health. Plantations and factories are the reason why we experience global warming; because of the pollution that it releases it causes holes to our ozone layer. Carbon emissions and greenhouse gases are elements that came from the different technologies, that if being world the atmosphere may cause a climate change or global warming.
What is global warming (Lindinger, 2007) it is defined as the increase of the average temperature on Earth. Earth is getting hotter it is more likely disasters like hurricanes, droughts and floods are more frequent visit the world. According to (Imaginova Corp., 2007) the effects of global warming to be more substantial and more rapidly occurring than others do, the scientific consensus on climatic changes related to global warming is that the average temperature of the Earth has risen between 0.4 and 0.8 °C over the past 100 years. The increased volumes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released by the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing, agriculture, and other human activities, are believed to be the primary sources of the global warming that has occurred over the past 50 years. So it is said to be that people are the primary reason why we experience this king of global warming. Because man always create things to help them to make their work easier and faster without knowing the effects of this technology in the environment and in the earth where we live in. The sun is the Earth’s primary source of energy, sun is star that is so hot which we can sense it’s warm from 150 million kilometers away. The rays the sun enters in the earth’s atmosphere and can be feel in our planet. It is about one third of this solar energy is reflected back into the universe by shimmering glaciers, water and other bright surfaces. Two thirds are absorbed by the earth, warming land, oceans, and atmosphere. A lot of the heat of the sun spread out reverse out into space, but some of this are stored in the earth’s atmosphere. This process is commonly called as the greenhouse effect. Without greenhouse effect, the earth’s average temperature would be in 18 degrees Celsius, even despite the sun’s constant energy supply. In a world like this, life on Earth would probably have never emerged from the sea. The greenhouse effect helps a lot; on the other hand, heat emitted from the earth is trapped in the atmosphere, providing us with a comfortable average temperature of 14 degrees. Sunrays enter the glass roof and walls of a greenhouse. But once they heat up the ground, which, in turn, heats up the air inside the greenhouse, the glass panels trap that warm air and temperatures increase. But our planet has no glass walls; the only thing that comes close to acting as such is our atmosphere. But unfortunately, in here, processes are way more complicated.
As an IT student I can deal myself with the climate change because almost every day I am using a computer, and I and everyday I am using cell phone, new technology equipments that can cause global warming. So in order to minimize the global warming greenhouse effect and what we commonly called climate change here are my simple steps that I can do as an IT student:
1. Minimize using of computer
As we all know computer are the most important thing in student especially in Information Technology student. Because I always used my computer in every assignment, creating programs, encoding papers, researching and most especially in entertainment like playing games and watching movie.
In order to minimize the climate change in the world we must minimize the usage of computers, since computers and other gadget we used are commonly producing some elements like radiation and carbon dioxide that frequently reason why we have global warming and even causes disease like cancer.
I will use my computer in making assignments and major paper only not in playing games.
2. Recycle things
People produce garbage everyday and many of us didn’t know how to separate things like recyclable to non recyclable and biodegradable to non biodegradable. For me in order to minimize global warming I should use my initiative to create a thing out of the garbage and even try to create a thing that can also raise an income out of recyclable things. By this I can help our earth to minimize global warming and also help me to have income.
3. Plant trees
Trees are the main reason why we have oxygen in order for us to breathe. Trees undergo a process called photosynthesis that converting carbon dioxide with the help of the sun to produce oxygen. If we plant trees we can prevent global warming.
4. Segregate
Segregate garbage and dispose it properly.
References:
Climate Change. Department of Ecology State of Washington Retrieved December 27, 2008 from http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/whatis.htm
Global Warming. Allianz Retrieved December 27, 2008 from http://knowledge.allianz.com/en/globalissues/climate_change/global_warming_basics/global_warming_definition.html
Global Warming. Livescience Retrieved December 27, 2008 from http://www.livescience.com/globalwarming/
Thursday, January 1, 2009
xmas vacation
Christmas vacation is one of the wonderful vacations that students have especially those students who want to come in their province for the said Christmas day and New Year’s Day. They expect that the vacation will be wonderful and especially to forget about the problems especially about schooling but many of us including me. And think only to bond with the family members that only went home for Christmas but sadly it was not the Christmas vacation I want.
proposal nga system
Think about your approved/proposed systems, is it worth the three or more years of learnings you get from the university? Describe how you arrived with this proposal.
Our proposed system is worth the three or more years of learning that I get in the university, since creating system is not easy and even documenting since many problems arrive during the documentation stage and especially creating the system. And luckily we have undergo some of lesson on how to prevent the problems occur in creating a system. By these I can say that our system proposed system is worth.
Actually our approved proposed system was our second proposal since the first proposal was rejected for some reason. As a group we decided to contact the relative George and he wants us to create a system. And we come up to propose about the payroll system of the FIDA but unfortunately our instructor talks about a payroll system as a simple system. Maybe for him it was simple maybe because he have done many system before and maybe the reason why he say that it is simple is maybe he wants us to create something extra-ordinary that can be presented and can give a reward to us and to the USEP. And maybe by this many companies will hire the USEP student to work in their company.
Our proposed system is worth the three or more years of learning that I get in the university, since creating system is not easy and even documenting since many problems arrive during the documentation stage and especially creating the system. And luckily we have undergo some of lesson on how to prevent the problems occur in creating a system. By these I can say that our system proposed system is worth.
Actually our approved proposed system was our second proposal since the first proposal was rejected for some reason. As a group we decided to contact the relative George and he wants us to create a system. And we come up to propose about the payroll system of the FIDA but unfortunately our instructor talks about a payroll system as a simple system. Maybe for him it was simple maybe because he have done many system before and maybe the reason why he say that it is simple is maybe he wants us to create something extra-ordinary that can be presented and can give a reward to us and to the USEP. And maybe by this many companies will hire the USEP student to work in their company.
intrams... kanus-a?????
Intams , intramurals???????? Nag-unza ko ato???????? Hahaiz… well we have a class that day I want to play the softball and basketball in women’s division and represent our college the Institute of Computing because every intramurals I have participated in the said event. But luckily I didn’t participate because of……. intramurals is one of my favorite events in school because I can make work my muscles, tendons and even loss weight and make my mind forget about schooling and think about playing. I miss the cheer dance competition which is one of the events that I want to see because some of my friends in the other colleges join the competition. Para masaway nako akong mga amigo ug amiga sa ilang gipanghimu…. Hahaiz wala jud koy mahimu…
Friday, December 12, 2008
I think therefore I am
A saying was introduced to us by our professor during our class in the Nodal center last December 6, 2008. It was around 9 am when our professor writes a quote in the white board that stated “I think, Therefore I exist” by Rene Descartes. Honestly I don’t know what the quotes talk about. I doubt what would be my answer. Since my classmates tell that the quote was about I exist because I think. But as the days goes by, I don’t really know what the real meaning of that quote was. So I sat down on the chair and google the phrase “ I think, Therefore I exist.” – Rene Descartes. It is all about thoughts and doubts. A certain writer tells and formulated that Existence = doubt + thought. But I don’t really know how they come up with that idea if we derived it to find thought = existence – doubt? But I don’t really get the idea. So as I reflected on the sermon of our professor in my own idea that for me, I think therefore I exist, means that each one of us should think not only in our selves but also for others and for the good of everybody. Existence not only in physical aspect but also mentally aspects. That Saturday was another day that will mark my calendar because another call or sermon that was again delivered to us. But luckily our professor did not get mad to us. But as summary “God think, Therefore I/we exist”. Have a nice and wonderful day. Merry Christmas in advance..
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