Mother Robot
- "Mother" is a peanut shaped sensor robot that can watch over you and your family in your house
- It can tell how well you brush your teeth, it has a monitor for the doors in your house and knows how much water you drink everyday
- It also knows how much you sleep and it can be programed to monitor medication usages
IBM's Watson aims to make hospital stays more enjoyable
- This supercomputer is designed to make major hospital visits less frightful to patients
- IBM has a 3 year partnership with Alder Hey Children's Hospital in the UK to analyze patient care
- IBM has been testing this supercomputer since 2011 by assisting doctors in making clinical decisions
- Now its next task is to turn Alder Hey into a "cognitive hospital" which delivers insight about the patient experience
- In the future IBM hopes to have more applications including matching patients to clinical studies and help manage chronic illness through educational applications
Gandhi's quote " You must be the change you wish to see in the world" makes people think about their goals in life and how to make the world a better place. My goal is to go to college and become a nurse. This will not only benefit me but also the community. I can become a school nurse or maybe work at a nearby hospital.
- The FBI has paid over a million dollars for a software to crack the iPhone that was used by one of the San Bernadine attackers
- There is a rumor that the FBI cracked the phone with the help from a third party
- The government now backed out the case since the phone was cracked
- The FBI is not sharing what information was found on the phone yet
- Scientists have created a chip in the brain that "reanimates" a paralyzed man's hand
- 5 years ago, Ian Burkhart was paralyzed from the neck down from a car accident
- 2 years ago, he volunteered at at Ohio State University's development of reanimation technology
- This chip sends his thoughts to his hand bypassing his spinal cord
- Burkhart has to be connected to a computer to be able to have function in his hand
- What is the purpose of this Wiki? The purpose of this wiki is to give information about disruptive technology in the classroom.
- When was the last post? The last post was november of 2007
- How was this Wiki created/designed? This wiki was created by someone who had research/information about disruptive technology in the classroom, they made an account and posted it. Other people edited this and added more information as well.
- What would you add to this particular wiki? I would add more up-to-date information, resources and links.
- What did you learn after reading this wiki? I have learned that an Internet Telephony allows your computer to be used like a telephone, you can send voice overs to someone.
- If you had to create a Wiki with a team, what would be the specific topic (s)? If I created a wiki, I would make one on allstar cheerleading.
- How can Wikis be used in the classroom or in education? Wikis can be used to look at research on a specific topic.
- Wood-Ridge allows 7th-12th grade now, on the wiki it says we only have 9th-12th
- We do not have tennis anymore
- Wood-Ridge High School is now Wood-Ridge Junior Senior High School
- In the snapshot, it says that Dr. DeNobile is our principal but Mr. Petrocelli is our principal
- We do not have a cross-country team anymore
- No golf team
- faculty to student ratio is now 23:1
- We have 578 students now (7th-12th)
- Increase of 8 students per grade (9th-12th) 33 in total
- Add our school youtube channel and take out the Devil's Advocate
