Fear Not for I Am With You

Holy and Righteous Father, God Almighty, thank you for your mercy, grace, and forgiveness. Thank you for your love, faithfulness, and justice. I come to you on my knees, recognizing that you are holy, majestic, awesome in power, and righteous in all that you do. Without your grace and the gift of your Spirit, I know I could not come into your presence with such boldness. Righteous Father, forgive me for my sins and empower me to be a person of integrity and grace. In the name of the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit. I pray. Amen.

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A great reading piece of, “Owning Your Education, A Student’s Guide to Greater Success in School and in Life,” shows us the meaning of accountability and the skills we must gain to achieve accountability in all facets. Primary focus in this section of being an accountable student hones in on the meaning and principles of self awareness, effective communication and self advocacy.

Principles of self-awareness: knowledge of your weaknesses and strengths, effective communication: verbal, nonverbal and written interaction with one or more people, and self-advocacy: ability to speak for yourself about your rights, needs, and responsibilities empowers you to truly give an undivided sense of ownership through knowing yourself and having a stage to know who you are. Having self-awareness allows you to work on your innermost qualifications and those hindering you from attaining any accountability. When taking responsibility and owning up to your subconscious connections, you’re able to begin a self-reliant journey into building an agency to express yourself through your actions.

Taking accountability into your own hands is the beginning to owning your life and all the successes to come into it. Following the proper steps shows that you hold the magically power to enrich your life with all the righteous ways of living when you learn to master accountability in the defined ways.

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Critical Social + Technical Perspective

In his TEDxTokyo presentation, Kentaro Toyama states, “Technology only magnifies human intent and capacity.  It can’t substitute for them.” Dependent on the intent and capacity, that of good results in spread of virtuous news globally and that of corrupt has the power to destroy and cause such chaotic aftermath at such an excessive speed.  Technology creates opportunity and spread of greater knowledge, but it also creates wider gaps between societies.  Impoverished countries don’t have the opportunity of the good fortunes: the privilege of the internet at your finger tips, in addition knowledge and expertise will have a lot to do with your accessibility to prior literacy.  Technology is only proficient as its user. Improvised countries need other resources than just the latest technology.  They possess high tech gadgets, yet are unable to feed themselves or their families.  Unfortunately, technology, especially through social media platforms creates an extreme sense of superficial notions of which less privileged countries are unaware. As the rest of the world climbs to new heights, these countries are left to sink into lower levels of poverty. YouTube may create some access to residual income for them; however, the amount of money it costs them for simply Internet Wi-Fi connectivity is costly.  What happens when you have zero access to this power of the future? Should the Internet be a human right in and of itself? Can cell phones truly help end global poverty? Do kids in the developing world need the newest technology? Tackling social issues by use of technology is rampant.  Statements like this and of what technology can do in the developing world are pretty broad: is “Twitter really changing the way we live? Does the Internet democratize access to information? Is Social networking transforming our learning process and speed? “The internet changes everything.” Does the Internet truly change everything?  On many levels, it has brought societies much closer/better connected than ever, but as societies individual norms, this is quiet the contrary.

“Each of us is simultaneously an individual person and a global publisher.”  Toyama states that we use technologies ranging from PCs to mobile phones to cameras to custom electronic devices and that their hope in studying affects of technology and its access was to see whether they could put a dent in poverty by using technology.  The issue of poverty runs much deeper than access to technology.  The social structures overall must be drastically revamped to put a dent in poverty.  

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“Information system: An integrated set of components for collecting, storing, and processing data and for providing information, knowledge, and digital products.”

Over the last few decades advancements in information systems have moved FAST! I remember in the beginning of my college days, working at a admissions/registration offices for a college and transferring all student data, such as enrollment paperwork, transcripts and records into digital record systems. It is said that, “over the millennia of human existence, strategies for collecting, processing, storing, and disseminating data, and uses of data to advance information, knowledge, and power have influenced the shaping of individuals, communities, societies, organizations, and governing bodies.” Calling it the advancement of the “data to information to knowledge to power” cycle.

Technology and the varied forms of how it affects and influences our decisions daily shapes us individually.