2 C H A P T E R 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights
Reserved1 How the Internet is Changing the World Digitalization is
changing the kind of world we live in. It is an instantaneously
connected world. It is highly productive, and it knows no bounds.
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H A P T E R 2 Objectives: Tell what percentage of the population is
telecommuting. Describe how the Internet is changing the world by
means of a process called convergence. Know where the hottest
shopping sites are on the Net. Gauge the extent to which commercial
advertising is paying for services available for free on the
Internet. Slide 3 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights
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officials and politicians are using the Internet. Define day
trading and understand its potential for monetary profits or
devastating losses. Realize how the Internet is revolutionizing the
publishing industry. Share the vision of how the Web is capable of
hosting an interconnected world of research and scholarship. Slide
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T E R 2 Objectives: Understand how government officials and
politicians are using the Internet. Define day trading and
understand its potential for monetary profits or devastating
losses. Realize how the Internet is revolutionizing the publishing
industry. Share the vision of how the Web is capable of hosting an
interconnected world of research and scholarship. Slide 5 2001 The
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Objectives: Understand how the Net provides educators with a
powerful medium for more actively involving students in the
teaching and learning process. Slide 6 2001 The McGraw-Hill
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The forces of digitalization are converging traditional forms of
communication into a networked supermedium on the Internet. Slide 7
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E R 2 Mergers and Alliances Why are media companies forming
alliances with computer vendors? Because they want to grow their
markets by offering digital information and entertainment services
that can be displayed either on a TV set or a computer screen.
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H A P T E R 2 Telecommuting For a large percentage of the
population,the Internet is becoming the workplace. Slide 9 2001 The
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Business, Advertising, and Online Shopping The Internet is becoming
a mass market utility, and as such, businesses are using it to
advertise and market products. Slide 10 2001 The McGraw-Hill
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Day trading is the use of the Internet to track the value of
individual stocks and buy or sell them rapidly depending on how the
market goes. Slide 11 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All
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is a free Windows toolbar that you can download and use for free.
Users can retrieve news, monitor stock activity, get sports scores,
shop at their favorite online store, view personal financial
information, make travel plans and much more. Slide 12 2001 The
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WebCams Connected to the Internet are tens of thousands of
cameras,called WebCams, that are sending live pictures to the
Internet right now. Slide 13 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Government officials have turned increasingly to the Internet for
solutions to problems inherent in governance. The Net makes
services more widely available and enables municipalities to
respond more quickly to emergencies and disasters. Slide 14 2001
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2 Politics Videoconferencing and the Internet provide ways for
politicians to reach, canvass, and broaden their constituencies.
The Internet has become so important in getting elected to public
office that almost every political candidate has a Web site. Slide
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P T E R 2 Information Warfare and National Defense The United
States relies so much on the Internet that perhaps even more
devastating than a nuclear attack would be an electronic invasion
of the computer networks without which this country would grind to
a halt. Slide 16 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights
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changing how we read newspapers by eliminating the need for the
paper and offering customization with search engines that can find
not only text but graphics, audio, and video as well. Slide 17 2001
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2 Television and Entertainment The Internet is competing with
television for peoples free time. According to a Nielsen survey,
the turn of the century marked the point by which more than half of
U.S. households had obtained Internet access. Slide 18 2001 The
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Teaching and Learning By linking universities, colleges, schools,
and homes into a worldwide network, the Internet is helping to
break down the distinctions between grade levels. The Internet is
enabling students of all ages to collaborate on worldwide projects,
share discoveries, and develop strategies for acquiring knowledge
in a social context. Slide 19 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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FlyLab The Virtual Flylab lets you breed fruit flies and explore
the laws of genetic inheritance. Slide 20 2001 The McGraw-Hill
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Learning the Dismal Scientist The views in the forecast section of
the Dismal Scientist economics database. Annual summary of past,
present, and forecast prices. Slide 21 2001 The McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved21 C H A P T E R 2 Teaching and
Learning Plasma Physics Lab At the Plasma Physics Laboratory at at
Princeston University students can run a tokamak nuclear fusion
reactor. Slide 22 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights
Reserved22 C H A P T E R 2 Teaching and Learning Real Time Data
Projects Real Time Data projects in science education at the Center
for Improved Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute
of Technology Slide 23 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All
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North Journey North is an online collaboration in which students
participate in a global study of wildlife migration. Slide 24 2001
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2 Teaching and Learning the Discovery Channel The Discovery Channel
offers educators and students an innovative set of tools for
integrating current event into the classroom Slide 25 2001 The
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Interconnected Scholarship Imagine having every scholarly paper
mounted on the World Wide Web, with hypertext links that put you
just a mouse click away from calling up the source materials
referenced in the article.
