What is a digital world by Eva Rose Jones https://padlet.com/evarosejones/7yve3f7kpy9x en-us 2018-05-04 07:45:04 UTC 2025-11-03 14:09:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png What is a digital world? evarosejones https://padlet.com/evarosejones/7yve3f7kpy9x/wish/257940191 - The virtual environment that is constructed and developed through computers and enhanced by the Internet.
-The human world, existing, emerging, being driven and transformed by technology, and by digitised ICTs, in particular. 
-As the expression ‘Digital World’ is used, were basically acknowledging that the entire world is connected through to use of digital technology.]]> 2018-05-04 07:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/evarosejones/7yve3f7kpy9x/wish/257940191 Con's of the Digital World in an educational setting evarosejones https://padlet.com/evarosejones/7yve3f7kpy9x/wish/257942674 - Technology in the classroom can be a distraction.
- Technology can disconnect students from social interactions.
- Technology can foster cheating in class and on assignments.
- Students don’t have equal access to technological resources.
- The quality of research and sources they find may not be top-notch.
- Lesson planning might become more labor-intensive with technology.
]]> 2018-05-04 08:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/evarosejones/7yve3f7kpy9x/wish/257942674 Pro's of the digital world in an educational setting evarosejones https://padlet.com/evarosejones/7yve3f7kpy9x/wish/257942678 - Using technology in the classroom allows you to experiment more with pedagogy and get instant feedback.
- Technology in the classroom helps ensure full participation.
- There are countless resources for enhancing education and making learning more fun and effective.
- Technology can automate a lot of your tedious tasks.
- With technology in the classroom, your students have instant access to fresh information that can supplement their learning experience.
- We live in a digital world, and technology is a life skill.
]]> 2018-05-04 08:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/evarosejones/7yve3f7kpy9x/wish/257942678 How did the digital world come about? evarosejones https://padlet.com/evarosejones/7yve3f7kpy9x/wish/257942681 - The digital world was brought about due to the merge of various innovations and technological advances. 
- These such innovations have made it possible for people to work from home instead of going to the office or even work for companies that are overseas. 
- The Digital Revolution refers to the advancement of technology from analog electronic and mechanical devices to the digital technology available today, the era started during the 1980s and is ongoing.]]> 2018-05-04 08:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/evarosejones/7yve3f7kpy9x/wish/257942681 Statistics surrounding the digital world evarosejones https://padlet.com/evarosejones/7yve3f7kpy9x/wish/257942689 - Online voucher code use grows 43% in 12 months.
- 74% of the top tech/business blogs perform poorly on mobile devices.
- 36% of us admit to discussing the same meeting across three or more social media platforms.
- One in three airline boarding passes to be issued via mobile devices by 2019
- 53% of ‘young people born between 1980 and 2000’   have used mobile pay in-store.
- 36% have used mobile payments before, more than double the number from 2012.
- The average shopper now makes on average 9.5 visits to a retailer’s site before deciding to buy, compared to just 2.5 visits three years ago.
- Statistics convey that almost 50% of the global population is connected via the internet and mobile technology has prompted an ever-increasing rate of further expanding
- Around 2.5 billion out of the 3.8 billion people that are connected to the internet are already active social media members through their mobile devices
- 91% of adults keep their mobile devices within eyesight 24/7 
- mobile phone users check their phones up to 150 times a day.
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