-authoring tools: software used to create multimedia presentations.
-automated factory: a factory that uses extensive computer systems, robots, and networks to streamline and automate many jobs.
-automated offices: offices that use extensive computer systems and networks to streamline information flow and automate many processes.
-CIOs: the chief decision makers concerning enterprise systems.
-CTOs: chief technology officers.
-computer monitoring: using computer technology to track, record, and evaluate worker performance often without the knowledge of the worker.
-courseware: educational software
-de-skilled:job requires less skill
-distance education: using computers to extend the educational process beyond the walls of school.
-distributed computing: integrated all kinds of computers
-drill and practice software: teaching software based on the principles of individualized rate.
-edutainment: programs that combine education and entertainment
-e-commerce: business transactions through electronic networks.
-electronic cottage: a home which enables a person to work at home.
-electronic sweatshops: worker warehouses where most of the work is mindless keyboarding.
-filtering software: software that keeps inappropriate and offensive content from being viewed by children
-globalization: the creation of global businesses and markets
-groupware: software designed to be used by work groups instead of individuals
-intranet: an inter organized network that uses the same technology as the Internet.
-Luddites: one who opposes new technology
-paperless office: an office of the future where technology is replace paper
-satellite office: workplaces that enable workers to commute to smaller offices closer to their homes.
-smart card: a card that looks like a standard credit card but features a microprocessor.
-technophobia: fear of technology
-telecommuting: working at home by modem
up-skilled: job requires more skill
7. Describe controversy surrounding electronic sweatshop.
Electronic sweatshop is a data entry shop that contains hundreds of clerks sitting at terminals in a massive, windowless room. Workers, often minorities and female, are paid minimum wage to do mindless keyboarding. Many of these workers experience headaches, backaches, serious wrist injuries, stress, anxiety, and other health problems.
10. What kind of education does a student need to prepare for living and working in the information age?
Socrates says, education is not the filling of the vessel but the rekindling of a candle. The education a student needs in order to prepare for living and working in the information age is literacy, mathematics, culture, communication, and learning how to learn.
16. What are smart cards?
A smart card looks like a standard credit card but instead of a magnetic strip it contains an embedded microprocessor and memory.
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