News Report 5

News Report 5

“The Wired Campus”, The Chronicles of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Virtual-Medical-Training-Comes/7277

November 24, 2009

Erica R. Hendry

Virtual online medical training is something that has been around. Now of days it as upgraded but still has some of the same features it used to have. The Second Life application has changed how it works so that now trainees and graduates can get more of a real life situation, and the chance to discuss their decision with doctors and other professors.

For the looks of it there isn’t to many boundaries when using Second Life. Sooner than later there will be more application like this just for everyday use in the classroom. Then again there might not be a classroom to go to anymore. With the Second Life you create an avatar to be about of this on-line world. This sort of reminds me of the XBOX 360 gaming console. You create an avatar to join million online to network and communicate with.

One key benefit of training like this is the decrease in the cost of doing it. For instance no actual people are hurt or harmed in the training, less man hours used, and give you a legit second chance to get second opinion or go over a mistake if one ever happens. All this process of the Second life is already being used at universities across the nation.

No one ever thought that technology would advice this for that medical students would be doing training online. There are some people that a not sold on the idea and would things the more traditional way of training. In all I don’t think the training will eventually go all the way online. There still are some issues that should be done in person for example running real test or finding cures for certain diseases.

Reading Report 5

"Information Navigation 101"

Andrea L. Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education

3/9/2007, Vol. 53 Issue 27

http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i27/27a03801.htm

Technology now is an everyday thing. It also changes so often there is not anything new for long anymore. My generation now has advanced technology so far that we are sometimes the only ones that can use it. For example with the cell phones that now have access to the internet, text messaging, and tons of other application with cell phones. We now have facebook, myspace, and other website that we use to talk to people and find old friends. My generation is great at all these things but is horrible at using the technology at doing academic research.

If we can not access the research through google or any other basic search engine we tend to not care anymore and end up gathering a bunch of the same information. In the article here the California State School system is having classes and donating time for the student’s to learn how to do academic research. Its just so easy for students to go to Google and type in a key word and millions of hits pop up. We want something that it fast and quick. Students hate to spend long hours in any library doing research. After awhile it is easy to loss focus and use those non-academic search engines.

I don’t agree with some of the things the school system is doing to make students better at gathering information. The program of giving students test I totally disagree with. I feel as if there should be academic research class that is part of your basic studies and how well you research it yourself stand for the grade.