Technology In Darfur

With the statements given by my evidence, it is true that phones are useful and well used tools when students and teachers have the proper websites and apps to go to for specific things. This is good because the technology is so easy to use and is good at keeping track of things you need to do or have already done such as tests and/or quizzes.

My organization uses an LMS to help teachers and students in the teaching and learning process. Teachers have the possibility not only to create lesson plans and quizzes but also to communicate with each other and with students and parents. Also, it can create a networking connection. “The functionality available in today’s learning management systems can help teachers create lessons and resources that engage their students, and deliver personalized learning” (Kilfoyle, 2015).

Lisa Parks discusses the use of satellite to represent conflicts throughout the world. With mass media we now have access to the world in our hands Parks brings awareness to the importance satellites imagery may have by allowing viewers to witness conflicts on a global scale. Parks further explains this by stating “I set out to show that high- resolution satellite images, initially designed for military intelligence purposes, could become useful to world citizens in their efforts to understand the complexities of world conflicts and political violence, and in some cases, to contest the claims of those in power and insist upon alternate interpretation” (245). Using satellites to show viewers around the world destruction that is occurring allows

Being ransacked, raped, and pillaged, and most of all, murdered and driven out of your homes, all by your government? These were the horrors about 100 native tribes faced in a region of Sudan named Darfur in 2003. The government of Sudan took up arms against these villages for a number of reasons, here including the ongoing fight between the native farmers and nomads, the Sudanese government being corrupt, and the struggle between the villagers/farmers and their government.

From my very first observation I could tell that technology played a huge role in Ms. Felder-Way’s classroom. She found ways to integrate technology into almost every lesson. All of the students were assigned Chromebooks which were purchased by the district. In the classroom there was a SMART Board, two desktop

Although books are great means of learning, the process of looking up everything in them was both tedious and time consuming. In present days, students possess the power to hold all information at the press of a button. This convenience saves time and allows students to learn specifically what they need. Today, children would be at a disadvantage if they did not have Internet access at home. One article stated that children at their school are given laptops to aid in their learning; however, nine percent of the children do not have Internet access at home. With a converted curriculum shifted towards research and project based learning, it is impossible for these children to do what is expected of them in class (Monahan, 2014). Eighty five percent of America has Internet access, so it is no surprise that most curriculums in schools are primarily based on computers nowadays. Children are no longer confined to the walls of their classrooms as technology improves and provides new and efficient ways of learning and collaborating with

Genocides are things that are very scary and terrible to talk about but when they happen because it causes people to lose family and friends genocides make enemies of people who were friends and once loved each other but there are some people who did not look at it that way they were uneasy and worried to begin with. Sudan as a whole has already dealt with many of violent confrontations since its independence from Great Britain in 1956.

This year, Rancho Minerva Middle School who has 827 students and 40 teachers was granted the Digital Promise grant in which all the students were given an iPad and the opportunity to have internet data for their iPads at home through Verizon Wireless. That is when the thinking started, after hearing about all the amazing ideas and apps that Rancho Minerva was using to demonstrate that this new type of technology is actually the path to the future. It was quoted in Newman’s book “Sociology” that “we should recognize that we’re on a technological roller coaster and things are changing fast” (as cited in Belson, 2004, p. 14). Digital Promise has given this opportunity in Vista, CA to Rancho Minerva Middle School and the Vista Innovation and Design Academy, in Levittown, PA to FDR Middle School and Armstrong Middle School, in Raleigh NC to Carroll Leadership in Technology Magnet Middle School, in Evanston, IL to Chute Middle School and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School, and in Raleigh, NC to PreEminent Charter School. In Beeler’s article “Every School Has a Story” it is explained that this opportunity was given to the previously mentioned schools so that with the help of a coach certain goals can be set and then with their help an online guidebook will be made to show the victories, challenges, strategies and the lessons that have been taught and learned.

Recently with technology becoming the most important aspect of learning in elementary schools, technologies can be a powerful too or resource, which also help meet the needs of the more diverse population. Digital devices, software, programs, and other learning platforms are equally more than capable of entertaining and grabbing those students’ attentions, especially those who are illiterate in specific areas while learning in the classroom. These options are capable of unimaginable ways of learning and experiencing. For example, no student has the same comprehension level when it comes to learning different subjects in the classroom (Herold, 1). In reality, every person is not the same in any way shape or form, and levels of learning are completely different, especially with science, English, social studies, mathematics, art etc. Technology in the classroom allows for each individual student to continue gaining academic strengths and deciphering what they show more interest, motivation, and personal preferences in. Considering society today is much more adaptive and interactive with teachers and students, the implementation is still considered to be a challenge due to budgets for school districts (Herold, 2). The most major issue between teaching classes like Biology and English for childhood elementary classrooms, whether students have disabilities or different comprehension levels of learning, is the blended learning abilities. Together, teachers would have to teach themselves how to adapt to the newer technologies, as well as consider combining their traditional values of educating. Whereas, they would also have to be more accepting to transition with older ways, and explore a new world of how technology can be a positive yet educational tool for their students inside and outside of the classroom

Sudan can be characterized as a country in which the center neglects and exploits its peripheries in the South, the East and the West. Darfur, the Western region of Sudan, has suffered from social inequality, environmental crisis, identity-based conflict, competition over resources, and weak and corrupt governance. The vast majority of Darfuris are Muslim and represent a multitude of ethnic and linguistic groups which share similar physical and cultural characteristics. Pastoral nomads and sedentary farmers have a conflictual relationship primarily due to environmental stress and land rights. Since 2003, Darfur been plagued by violent conflict, internally displaced people, refugees and genocide. The United Nations has described the

Learning Management Systems (LMS) and marking tools are university-wide solutions which have a pre-determined set of functions that are available for teachers to use, such as assignment submission, marking, feedback, discussion boards, chat, wikis, embedded HTML web pages, file upload and sharing, to name a few.

As interviewee, Prof. Edgar the fundamental causes of the Darfur crisis and why it initially occurred in Darfur could be traced to the ending period of the Cold War, where Africa was frequently the ground for committing severe human rights violations, many of which were initiated or directed by a country’s national government against its own very citizens. In the case of Sudan, the atrocities were initiated by the government. Later on, it was discovered that they were powerful motivations that induce the atrocities, and it was mainly to retain political power, distribute and secure resources. To achieve all these, they had to create an environment of repression among the citizens. When this is the case, changing an offensive regime’s behavior

It is about fourteen years now since the outbreak of the bloody conflict in Darfur region, western part of the Republic of Sudan. The crisis in Darfur is not an unintentional tragedy, or a human devastation that humanitarian intercession can annul or solve. Darfur conflict is as not straightforward as presented in the media, which casts the clash in requisite ethnic conflicts between Arabs and black Africans. The veracity is far more messed up. It is a human being catastrophe that finally reinvented into a sadistic cycle of brutality in February, 2003.

The conflict in Darfur flared in 2003 when rebels in Darfur took up arms, accusing the government of neglecting the region. The government responded with a counter-insurgency campaign. More than 2.3 million people have been displaced, most of them living in dirty camps in Darfur and in neighbouring Chad. Peacekeepers and aid workers have restricted access to those in need. Civilians have come under attack from government troops, pro-government militia and rebel groups. Arab militias are also fighting each other, and there are frequent clashes between tribes. The Sudanese government was and is widely accused of arming militias drawn from Arab tribes who have used “scorched-earth” tactics against the rebels' communities. The government in Khartoum

In 2016 a high school Nampa implemented the use of one on one devices into their everyday learning. With these devices came the ability to expand not only the knowledge of students but the very way that teachers were able to teach them. Over time the awe of having these devices faded and students were left trying to balance the use of devices and actually being taught. Due to some of these reasons schools should understand the benefits of technology, come up with plans on how they’ll limit the amount of time spent using the devices, and whether they will continue using old-fashion methods.