Determine Your Calling to a Computer Vocation Module
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Determine Your Calling to a Computer Vocation Module Three – What do Computers do that Involve People and Society? Dr. William L. Honig Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Copyright 2005 William L. Honig, Ph. D. Determine Your Calling To a Computer Vocation
Purpose What can a computer person do to truly help society and people? Learn some examples from around the world Think of some things you might be able to do to help others with computers Copyright 2005 William L. Honig, Ph. D. Determine Your Calling To a Computer Vocation
Do Computers Really Help? <<Show Bank Lines Cartoon>> • What do you fell about this? – What’s “good” or “true” or “helpful” about doing banking online? – What’s “bad”, or “impersonal”, or “difficult” about banking online? Copyright 2005 William L. Honig, Ph. D. Determine Your Calling To a Computer Vocation
What is it? What is Computer and Society? Computer = Information Technology Society = All walks of life Computer and Society = IT Applications that help society do things Copyright 2005 William L. Honig, Ph. D. Determine Your Calling To a Computer Vocation
Where to See Computers and Society? IT in Community Information Society… Digital Divide… Computer Crime… Privacy and Safety… E-Government Elections… Participation… Copyright 2005 William L. Honig, Ph. D. Determine Your Calling To a Computer Vocation
What Skills are Needed? In addition to computer science skills… Require your own personal efforts – to locate, get involved, and persuade your targeted organizations/companies/institutes/ government – in obtain their commitments to help for your project (people, resources…) Copyright 2005 William L. Honig, Ph. D. Determine Your Calling To a Computer Vocation
Wrap-up << after discussion of student homework>> • Time to look inside your heart…. . • • • What might you enjoy if you could change society using computers? Would you like to do this yourself? Would you like to work with society to do this? Copyright 2005 William L. Honig, Ph. D. Determine Your Calling To a Computer Vocation