After reading and watching the video - how do you think this 4.0 Industrial Revolution affect your future? Will it impact your jobs? How you life? Give me some specifics on how you think it will affect your and your immediate future (education). Please comment below before Sunday Night 9/15/19.
Last year, this came up in my physics class. I found this topic very important and I would like your views on it. Our team names are made up of many great scientist who revolutize our modern world. I believe the pre-industrial revolution period was the turning point in scientific discoveries.The time of Newton, Galileo, Boyles, and so many others. Did you know we are on the advent of another great industrial revolution? Well actually they call it the fourth industrial revolution. We first had the machinery - specially the steam engine, then came the next "industrial revolution" - assembly line (Factories), then we went through the digital (computer) revolution. Today we are on the cusp of a new age. Here is an article from Forbes Magazine from August 2018. Also there is an older TED Talk about this very subject.
After reading and watching the video - how do you think this 4.0 Industrial Revolution affect your future? Will it impact your jobs? How you life? Give me some specifics on how you think it will affect your and your immediate future (education). Please comment below before Sunday Night 9/15/19.
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I just saw this the headlines in the Time Magazine - "Thinking Burns Calories" - Sign me up. Well not so fast, the article talks about how many calories get burned when your brain does thinking. I think all the time - I should be really skinny. Here is the article --> Burning Calories So my questions - can you burn calories? - What do you do the most thinking on? Do you think you can increase your burning? I know I am always planning vacations and different trips - but I don't think my over analyzing every details really is burning me more calories. I am really jealous of my husband, Jon. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Jon is able to go to the gym right after work -- myself maybe once a week at best. He has made it a "habit". I would like to form this healthy habit but for some reasons - I can't get it together. So I find this interesting article and it makes me think about my habits, good and bad. Please read What are your good habits, what are your bad habits. How do you go about creating a habit.
We spoke early in the semester about how the pre-industrial revolution period was the turning point in scientific discoveries. Did you know we are on the advent of another great industrial revolution? Well actually they call it the fourth industrial revolution. We first had the machinery - specially the steam engine, then came the next "industrial revolution" - assembly line (Factories), then we went through the digital (computer) revolution. Today we are on the cusp of a new age. Here is an article from Forbes Magazine from this past August. Also there is an older TED Talk about this very subject. After reading and watching the video - how do you think this 4.0 Industrial Revolution affect your future? Will it impact your jobs? How you life? Give me some specifics on how you think it will affect your and your immediate future (education). Again, you have till 9/16/18 to get the comments in. Since we are just beginning to start our study of motion (Kinematics). I thought it would be a good idea to discuss the next big wave of motion --> Self driving cars. I have used this in the past but it is always a good discussion.
Automation uses machinery to enhance different systems. A systems can be anything from an assembly line (robotics) to self driving cars and trucks (Waymo). Google is hiring more engineers recently than any other company and it is not for their typical google fair of products - it is for their next big thing - self driving cars (WAYMO). Google is using automation in vehicles to create self driving cars and it is the near future that this concept will be a reality. Google started this project back in 2009 and conservative predictions have 10 million self driving cars on the road by 2020. I have an article to read that comes from MIT Review --> tinyurl.com/yaes5uwo Also last Sunday morning on CBS this Morning they did a Money segment. This was very interesting considering how many jobs this will involve both in a positive and negative. There are roughly 1.7 milllion truck drivers on the road today and with self driving trucks - what will be their employment fate? - more traditional jobs disappearing being replaced with automation. The jobs that will be created will be the "high tech" jobs of creating the technology to replace lower skill jobs. I think there will be some science especially physics and engineering in those jobs. Take a few minutes about 8:53 minutes to be exact and watch this piece from CBS This Morning What does this all mean? How will this affect the employment landscape in the upcoming years. How will this effect you? How to you see the future of transportation? Every school year, I start off the discussion blog with a version of Shift Happens. While watching the video, reflect on why I would start the year off in a Physics class with this video. What features and attributes of this particular video, do you think I relate to a physics' classroom. Also please give me a comment on what your number one takeaway was from this video. Was there any interesting fact that jumped out at you. So in your comments make sure you answer.
You have till next Sunday night 8/26/18 @ 11:59 pm to comment below. Next Monday I have a small discussion about the the reason why I start the year off with this video and look at some of your comments. Also I will introduce the following discussion. We are learning about forces and especially friction forces this week in my physics classes. The physics' classes have been discussing how the ancient Egyptians were able to build the great structures. Many people have a conspiracy theory surrounding how the those marvels were actually constructed - Physics students know better, but why do some people (even with overwhelming facts) decided to subscribe to these outlandish theories?
Here is a journal article (actual study) why? --> Article Here is a short article summary --> webpages So why do you think about why some people believe? Is there any conspiracy theories you believe in and if so, why? Sorry guys this is a short week and I have been wanting to do this blog for sometime but now seems to be a good time for a variety of reasons (physics is getting hard now). I ran across this article and when I read this, I thought WOW, I wish I knew this when I was younger. You see, I have developed this technique over the last 30 years on my own. I never knew there was a Pomodoro Technique. I just learned over time that if I looked/studying something then went and did something totally different (I like to clean - weird), I would retain the information and I would think about what I read/studied while doing the other activity. The idea of metaphors - you all know me well enough now to see how I make the connections between subjects (crazy metaphors) - remember my ugly grandkids. I think about chunking when doing long complex problems, I still get ask to help/tutor other in different subjects and I roll back to the idea of chunking it down - step 1, step 2, step 3.... I am definitely a hiker's brain - this is very much like how to stop the procrastination idea Really please watch the video - around the 3:14 seconds - she says something that hit me and basically she is correct.. --> Article So, what do you think about this article/video? Does it make you see some of yourself? If so, where, Is there anything new ideas you can take away,? if so what ones. It weird how you can go through life and never hear of something - then boom, in the last two weeks come across the same thing twice.
Last week at our teacher professional day, I was in a section that was talking about gifted learning and we watched a video on "The Marshmallow Test" then this past weekend I was at One Day University at the Cleveland Art Museum then listening to a talk on resilience - then again the same video - actually twice in one week. What I found amazing was how the video showed up in two different places on two different topics but had a very profound affect on the talks. The original video is copyrighted - but I was able to get a version of it here --> www.cnn.com/2014/12/22/us/marshmallow-test/index.html On my professional development day - the ideas was that the students who wait for the person to come back in the room --> in follow up studies, were better students, higher gpa and higher SAT On the talk Dr. Andrew Shatte gave on Saturday --> he equated to a much bigger picture - impulse control --> which leads to greater resilience (grit). Both are arguing the same point - delayed gratification. I gave a condense version of the talk Andrew gave on Saturday but it is still a good one. Also here is an short article from US News about this same thing How does that apply to you? Would you been able to wait it out for the interview to come back as a 6 year old or would you have eaten the marshmallow. How does it correlate to today temptations - instead of marshmallow - your cell phone, sending money, going out - the list goes on. :Can you see any connection in your own life. Is it too late to change if you would have taken the marshmallow? Just some ideas. It that time of year again - Thanks Ben Franklin - It daylight saving time. I personally hate daylight saving time change. I would much rather it be daylight saving time all year. It was originally started because of the farmer needing more daylight in the field during the summer months but then came WWI and it was used to save energy. Why don't we have daylight saving time all year around. I hate the fact that it get dark around 5:00 pm and before Christmas it nearly 4:30 pm. On the east coast around Boston it get dark before 4:00 pm and in Russia the sunrise 10:00 am and St. Petersburg Russia - it 11:00 am sunrise. Here are some "Fun Facts" I know my mood changes - SAD - Seasonal Affect Disorder is a real ailment. So know I have to wait four long months till the second week in March to get back my daylight and my mood back. Discussion Questions - What is your take on Daylight Saving Time. Do you think we should still have it - if we get away from it - it stays darker longer in the morning and in the summer it the sunsets a hour earlier. Should we permanently be on Daylight Saving Time? Explain your reason why. Also SAD - do you notice your "mood" change during the winter months? Explain too. I know I eat more and exercise less. |
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