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Digital Rights and Responsibility

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Question 5:  Acceptable Use Policy  This Acceptable Use Policy of the Independent Institute of Education are focusing on the use of smart phones during tests, exams and assignments.  1. The student may use their phones during class to do research if they are completing an assignment and only if the instructions states it. Otherwise no use of smart phones or cell phones during a lesson. 2. All cell phones need to be switched off and in front of the classroom when the students are writing a test. 3. During exams no cell phones are allowed, it needs to be switched off and in the student's bag in front of the exam room.  4. Students need to ask permission to answer his/her phone during class or during an assignment.  5. Student may not use their phone during a test, exam or assignment to cheat of find the answers of the questions asked. Only if the instructions of the paper states differently.  I Meleri Janse van Vuuren unders...

Digital Etiquette

Question 4:  A short video that explains the importance of netiquette and what kind of impact it have on our daily lives.  The importance of netiquette video Digital Rights and Responsibility

Digital Communication

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Question 3: The 'Internet of Things' is a system of computer devices or digital devices that provides a unique identifiers and which have the ability to transfer data over the network without the help of human-to-human interactions. An article written by Jesse DePinto, the product Manager at Telkonet, Inc. (2016) said that the 'Internet of Things' will have a big impact on the hospitality industry in 2020. She wrote that there are already seven trends that are beginning to have an impact on the industry. All this is changing the way guests will enjoy their stay at a fancy hotel. In the future we can expect to see the following in the hospitality industry: Cross-selling, there are plenty new opportunities for hotel managers to cross-sell when a customer is booking for a room at a resort hotel, they can choose from a variety of beach wear online, which will be in their wardrobe when they arrive.  In-room personalisation, every electronic device in the hotel room wil...

Didital Literacy

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Question 2.1:  Background: My home town is Pretoria and there are a few people that struggles to find a job and who have been jobless for a few years, because they are not educated or trained, the increasing number of job seekers, global recession, lack of entrepreneurship and the slow economic growth. All of these factors are influencing the people of South Africa which is a big problem. Define: We first need to define the problem. There are hundreds of people in South Africa without work and are struggling to find work.  Discover: This stage is when we need to do more research about the problem in order to understand the problem better. Most people in South Africa is unemployed because there are a few factors that plays a role like the slow economic growth, the lack of interest for entrepreneurship and poor education and training.  Dream: Now we can use the knowledge we have gathered to find an appropriate solution. What if the government st...

Digital access and divide

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Question 1.1: 1.     Digital Access: Not everyone have access to technology. Digital citizenship is there to make sure everyone has equal opportunities to access the digital world. The aspect causing issues is digital divide is makes it hard for the society to grow and expand. Digital citizens should make an effort to improve the technology states in the society. 2.     Digital Commerce: It is the buying and selling of good online. Legal exchanges are occurring, but the buyer must be aware of the dangers associated with online purchases. The buyers must learn how to be effective consumers in the digital economy without breaking the maws or morals of some countries. 3.     Digital Communication: Communicating with friends, family and businesses all over the world, it is a form of digital communication. In the 19 th century communicating was limited, but in the 21 st century communicating is much easier. But unfortunately not many...