WEBQUEST

WEBQUEST :

-What is it??
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet

-How to make??

A real WebQuest....

is wrapped around a doable and interesting task that is ideally a scaled down version of things that adults do as citizens or workers.

requires higher level thinking, not simply summarizing. This includes synthesis, analysis, problem-solving, creativity and judgment.

makes good use of the web. A WebQuest that isn't based on real resources from the web is probably just a traditional lesson in disguise. (Of course, books and other media can be used within a WebQuest, but if the web isn't at the heart of the lesson, it's not a WebQuest.)

isn't a research report or a step-by-step science or math procedure. Having learners simply distilling web sites and making a presentation about them isn't enough.

isn't just a series of web-based experiences. Having learners go look at this page, then go play this game, then go here and turn your name into hieroglyphs doesn't require higher level thinking skills and so, by definition, isn't a WebQuest.

Prueba diagnostica---BY--->Martin Rossi

What things will they be used for in future?

I thing that in the future computers would be used to do everything even to walk, because the dependence on it is increasing every day that pass and is a big problem because the people will start to do less exercise in order to use it more.

In hospitals they will be used to do the operations and any kind of difficult stuff ‘cause the computers are thought to be more exact than humans (wrong thought)

Is this dependence on computers a good thing or should we be more suspicious of their benefits?

        For me the dependence on computers are a real problem because as I said in the last paragraph the people believe that computers are more exact than humans just  because they can do the things quicker but they forgot that the computers can do stuff wrong and ruin everything and even worst (kind of the hospitals that a mistake can kill somebody.

        To summer up, the suspicious in computers should exist but that doesn’t mean that computers should be clean from world, we must used it as a tool not to do things with it completely because that is what creates the dependence.

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The first use of the concepts found in 'nano-technology' (but pre-dating use of that name) was in "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", a talk given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on December 29, 1959. Feynman described a process by which the ability to manipulate individual atoms and molecules might be developed, using one set of precise tools to build and operate another proportionally smaller set, and so on down to the needed scale. In the course of this, he noted, scaling issues would arise from the changing magnitude of various physical phenomena: gravity would become less important, surface tension and van der Waals attraction would become increasingly more significant, etc. This basic idea appeared plausible, and exponential assembly enhances it with parallelism to produce a useful quantity of end products. The term "nanotechnology" was defined by Tokyo University of Science Professor Norio Taniguchi in a 1974 paper^[2] as follows: "'Nano-technology' mainly consists of the processing of, separation, consolidation, and deformation of materials by one atom or by one molecule." In the 1980s the basic idea of this definition was explored in much more depth by Dr. K. Eric Drexler, who promoted the technological significance of nano-scale phenomena and devices through speeches and the books Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (1986) and Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation,^[3] and so the term acquired its current sense. Engines of Creation is considered the first book on the topic of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology and nanoscience got started in the early 1980s with two major developments; theCbirth of cluster science and the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). This development led to the discovery of fullerenes in 1985 and carbon nanotubes a few years later. In another development, the synthesis and properties of semiconductor nanocrystals was studied; this led to a fast increasing number of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles and quantum dots. The atomic force microscope (AFM or SFM) was invented six years after the STM was invented. In 2000, the United States National Nanotechnology Initiative was founded to coordinate Federal nanotechnology research and development and is evaluated by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Communication and Technology


Well for me is not that dangerous, is more like we are losing face-to-face chatting and confidence at the time to talk face-to-face, appart from the problems that brings being all the time in front of a computer for me is not that bad... the only thing that I don't like is that the relationships are losing the nice part, that is the meetings