Group+9A

= A) Overview =



 **Mobile and ubiquitous means that the spread of mobile technology is spreading across the country and becoming far more common in households all over the world. Mobile searches have more than doubled recently compared to the amount of desktop searches. The use of social networking websites on mobile devices such as mobile phones, laptops and ipods. People are also changing the use of these mobile devices. For instance, more people are texting and taking pictures with their mobile phones than calling. This shows how mobile technology has evolved and became more innovative. **  media type="custom" key="12809138"  ** B) Current Events **

 ** Mobile and ubiquitous is growing everyday with every new user of this technology. Each day, Facebook gets about 600,000 new users. Of their 854 million currently active members, about 440+ million people are active from mobile devices. That’s over half of their users! Over 5.6 billion people across the world own a mobile phone. The country with the most users; however, is China with over 950 million owners of mobile phones. Over 100% of the population of the United States of America own mobile phones. That means not only is there enough phones for everybody, but some people own multiple phones. This is a perfect example of mobile and ubiquitous technology. **

 ** C) Education **

** What I found out about this is that kids in schools learn better on cell phones because you can access the Internet. Teachers think it is a waste of time but when they take a second, they realize it isn’t. When people learn on their phones, they a better understanding of the topic. In some high schools, they have started MobileMath for different learning strategies. Their are two different evaluations so that way they can see how it works. They are learning how to use it on their own and then they see how the teachers support with helping them works. Their was a significance improvement of both ways. ** ** In middle schools, they are learning on mobile phones to connect with real world problems. ** ** In elementary schools, they seem to learn better outside of schools so the mobile phones can help a lot in many situations. **

 **D) Government, Politics and Employment **

**My first subtopic for mobile and ubiquitous is how it effects government, politics and environment. First government. We all know that everything is going mobile. The communication in our armed forces is getting better and better. In the Army, for example, communication is a vital factor to being in the war zone. If the soldiers could not talk to the boys back at the base then they would not know when to advance when to stay. To be honest the would get slaughtered. Even in the commercial airline business, if a pilot did not know if it was okay to land then he or she might crash into a fellow plane when they land or take off.**   ** The government has been on the move lately and are using a lot more mobile devices. On May 14, 2010, the government, more specifically the G-6 Section, issued **** cell phones to workers according to the jobs they have, rather than their rank. This includes operations chief, officer in charge, commanding general, and deputy commanding general. This was so that they could contact them with just the push of a button. However, the phones are strictly used for government work for a good reason. The cell phone bill was incredibly high for the government when the workers didn’t use their cell phones properly, so they made a new government-only policy. Otherwise, this gives the workers more freedom to go to places they need to be while still staying intact with their work. This means they can survey land for roads or parks that the government makes while relaying the information back to the city **** council. If any worker happens to violate their policy, then they must pay their cell phone bill themselves. The government are continually using more and more mobile devices on the move. ** 

E) Arts, Entertainment and Leisure
**In the mobile world of today, we are all looking for entertainment. There is now an app (application) for almost anything. We all love watching and listening and relaxing to shows, movies, games, radio stations, and music. Now- adays all of that is accessible through almost any mobile device. We all know that apps can get really popular; so we all have to get it: the apps like Pandora, Angry Birds, Temple Run, Facebook, Tumblr and many more. I am not trying to say that all of this stuff is bad but it does have mass. Mobile is making it so we could do almost anything at any time. **  **Electronics are everywhere: dentist offices, in people’s hands as they cross the street, in the hands of eleven-year-old children, even America’s government uses technology. Millions of people use technologies such as iPhones to help brighten up their day. iPhones can stream Youtube across the world at any location and give their viewers a laugh. They can check who is winning the Superbowl with a click of a button. Or even found out the weather in an hour. Electronics like this advance the world’s perception of “fun” and “entertainment”. ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ** anywhere.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 22pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> F) Science, Environment, and Health

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">People that use cell phones can now become amateur scientists themselves. Cell phones have the ability now to pick up weather, temperature, moisture, and other weather elements and have the information sent to scientists that could use the data. Scientists can now have lots of information at their fingertips that could help them with their research. Botanists and meteorologists now have lots of information they can use to help them. This also wouldn’t cost the scientists any money for citizens can do this on their own. The extra money can be used on public works like parks, roads, and can add to the school budget. These cell phones take videos, pictures, record sounds, and more to give information to the scientists. This would add more specific information to the city rather than the city as a whole. People will learn more about their own city and which parts of it are different. This would be much more useful than learning information about the city as a whole. But how do phones function? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Cell phones need to use a type of energy called electromagnetic energy, also known as EM. However, EM can cause some side effects. For example, some have proved on the Internet that popcorn can be popped with several phones, using phone’s electromagnetic waves. After all of them start ringing, the popcorn burst as if they were in a microwave. When you feel your phone heating up, it means it is inefficiently using its energy up. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Video Artifacts **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Students may work individually or with member of their team to make a 1-3 min. video about their topic for 100 points extra credit. Upload the video to Schooltube and embed here.// ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> References **

Team Members
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**A) Overview:****Nick Melinchok****Tyler Robinson****B) Current News:****Nick Melinchok****Madeline C.Tyler Robinson Timory Mae****C) Education:Madeline C. Timory Mae Kara Eubanks****D) Government, Politics and Employment: Max Sher, Andrew Childs****Samuel Francis****E) Arts, Entertainment, and Leisure: Kyle C., [|Kara Eubanks]****Samuel Francis****F) Science, Environment, and Health:Andrew Childs, Max Sher, Kyle C.** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ** Team Roles ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ( <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Click here for a description of team roles. No more than two people per role.) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ** Content Editor: Madeline Clingman, Timory Mae ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ** Image/Graphics Editor: Nick Melinchok, Max Sher ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ** Discussion Monitor: Samuel Francis. Tyler Robinson ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ** Presentation Editor: Kara Eubanks, Kyle Cooper ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ** RSS Editor: Andrew Childs ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4c6592; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ** Mind Map Editor: Madeline Clingman **

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