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MOOC: Today and Tomorrow

New technologies present new opportunities. This is what the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) wants to tell us as they create a new path of system of the standard education globally. According to EDUCAUSE, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no limit on attendance. They put a new perspective of an ideal education. The shift of teacher-and-blackboard to teacher-and-technology doesn't just represent an evolution of tools used but also the capabilities that was realized. Learning is considered in every communication that's why the connectedness that the MOOC offered is really an exhalant of true knowledge. MOOC is presenting the future of the world of how technology runs the world and providing an unbroken stream of informations.

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Ubiquitous Learning: Knowledge Everywhere

What's special about these days is anything that we want to do is so easy at hand. While the technology is busy about putting a variety of platforms to our education and embedding artificial technology to the four corners of classroom, the ubiquitous learning is really stepping up its way to the future that we had just imagined in comic books and novels. According to eLearning Industry in French, Ubiquitous learning is a natural outgrowth of ubiquitous computing. It refers to the constant opportunity for learning experiences and media transfer/communication that our constant computing connectivity provides. Ubiquitous learning is equals to eLearning and mobile learning. The right materials that could be used at the right time to study is making all the difference in our education. Learning begins with accessibility and through ubiquitous learning, all informations that could help to our progression are just a touch.

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As a student, what do you consider is the biggest challenge and, on the otherhand, the best opportunity offered to you by new media?

Most people's goal in life is to attain happiness and we are pursuant to do everything just to be happy. That's why we millenials put most of our time to buy nonsense stuffs, go shopping on holidays and having night outs with friends and we consume our day with our smartphones before our faces to keep updated about our friends and all other unending issues of the world. The usage of new media becomes rampant and everybody experiences challenges and oppurtunities on using it.

We allegedly depend in new media to accumulate information that we need for our studies and also for the fact that Digital Natives are now engage in and making use of the virtual world. We can’t deny the fact that we rely on the New Media to spread vast of information in an ample of time compared to the kind of media that we used decades ago. We, students, use new media in a variety of ways that can benefit us to the extent where our needs of information can be filled. Moreover, media is a place for us to share what we have discovered, learned and experienced to people who might be absorbed by it, That’s the great opportunity that brought us by the New Media, we can learn from it and share what we have learned.

On the other hand using new media can also bring us to unavoidable inconveniences such as unorganized set of information, Harmful Information, Anonymous Authors, etc. But to contrast, it is beneficial in terms of studying owning to the fact that Digital Natives tend to make use of the innovation.

The biggest challenge is that catching up of what is new in new media. There are many challenges that we took up and the circumstances are running in this world that changes our lives and lead us to the invention of technology , because of that people nowadays willlingly to take the chances that we may move to a better understanding. Knowing this days learning the capabilities that new media will perform faster processing.

New media helps us in our daily life, making our works so easy. Now that new media is upgrading, new opportunities are coming.

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The Value of Being a Media and Information Literate Individual

Always put in mind that famous tagline "Think before you click." because being a responsible social media user comes with a great responsibility. Being a media and information literate enables everybody to think critically in setting limitations on the words that they will post in social media in order not to ruin a life. Everyone has the freedom to express their personal opinions publicly, but it doesn't mean that we will abuse the right of the freedom in our hands. What we say to people could affect their day. Irresponsible usage of social media will cause a drastic depression to the victims. The value of being a media and information literate individual is to empower humanity towards the victorious change and to gasp the air of success.

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Technology: Is it a boon or a bane?

Digital art by Danica Lumain. A photo of a man that is addicted to technology that causes him to have an unhealthy body and mental disorder.

In this world full of selfie centric and bezel less smartphones, gigantic infrastractures of big named companies and plants, desktops in homes and offices, cables on televisions, LED screens and billboards, smartwatches on the hand, improved home appliances, AI Technology, and social medias where you can put all your emotions by showing personal opinions where other users can also react by what you posted. We are breathing the same air in the era where technology operates the world. Out of the 7 billion human living on the skin of this life planet, there are very low chances, or maybe zero, that there's no one could last a day without holding their phones or using any other gadgets. Communication became convenient as we could connect easily with the use of internet. Life is so easy because there are machines that could work for you, but as what we seen in the movie "Wall-E", is this our future will look like? Life without trees, obesity is inordinate, machines that would work even for simple tasks, and all day on seat is a life not worth living. Is this the future that we really want to have? Does technology promotes life and consciousness or it will be the reason of mankind's destruction?

The existence of our technology is unstoppable making our lives snappy. Technology are ideas brought into life. It has been there to help us with our daily tasks, helping us to be more productive, organize and efficient. It is very beneficial, indeed, to our community and to every individual for our day-to-day use. As for a country, technology is important to apply into a community, in public transportations, streets and everywhere. A country is progressive when it has advanced technology. It helps in enhancing the skills of a worker and a big help for professional works in business, economy and education. High-technology machines that are used in hospitals for medications one of the advantage that we really be proud of. We discovered medicines that could cure diseases. The reason why everyone likes technology the most is the easy connection of everybody around the globe through internet via phone applications. Facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, and spotify make everybody productive and open. It gives entertainment to everyone. However, for people with disabilities, technology can be more than just an entertainment. They learn from it and they are able to do things they unable to do before.

As years passed by, technology is improving in a fast pace. From that simple classic phones to android smartphones, computers and newly introduced gadgets that are competing in the tech market. People are controlled by the technology and this is not a thing that we celebrate or be happy of. People are being too dependent to the point that we neglect doing extra efforts like studying. Before, people study through reading books in the library, asking other people's ideas, observing the surrounding and lastly thinking critically. People before exerts so much effort just to learn a thing even those simple stuffs but today, everything has changed when smartphones are introduced to us. When wifi is on, we directly surf our assignments in the google and when we finally found the answers, we do this copy-paste syndrome. People is practicing plagiarism a habit by copying the works of others without giving credit to the owner. People are being abusive to technology. Man created nerve gas, atomic bombs, nuclear bombs and such that will gonna be use to fellow mankind. The humanity is vanished and forgotten. The greediness of the man is invincible because they want to rule the world through technology.

Overall, technology helps everyone. It is also the reason why you could read this article conveniently. Technology can be beneficial and can also be destructive. God has given us a freedom to choice, to do good, or to do the latter, but He always wants us to choose what is right. It's in our hands if we choose to use the technology responsibly and wisely or will use it to evilness.