The use of technology has greatly improved the way people think, act, and say. Technology, for instance, has improved health care greatly by preventing and controling emerging infectious diseases, faster response times to the ill, and more ways to cure the sick (New York State University). Computers and digital images have made it possible for doctors around the world to share information and offer advice. Mobile technology, cell phones or iPads for example, allow nurses and doctors to communicate whenever they need help with other doctors or nurses in remote locations where they have no access to a computer or workstation. These advances in technology give people the help and care that they need in order to be healthy, or recover from a disease (New York State University).
Technology also gives doctors and nurses the resources to help a person prevent a disease. Doctors are now able to perform x-rays, and other various diagnostics on people to tell if they have anything in their bloodstream, or lungs, or heart that may transform into a bigger problem (New York State University). For example, a person who goes into the hospital to have an x-ray on his/her lungs is told that she may be getting lung cancer. The doctor that performs the x-ray and evaluation on this patient can tell, with the use of an x-ray machine, and computers, and digital images, that they have a tumour that may become canerous. However, since this doctor used technology, he/she can give the patient the necessary treatments and medication required to get rid of this tumour and prevent this patient from getting cancer.
But, how has technology affected distance learning? First, what is distance learning? Distance learning is a way for teachers to interact with their students and teach them in remote locations using technology (New York State University). For example, a teacher in Florida can use skype or other software to teach her students in Maryland. Online classes, for example, are great examples of distance learning. I have an online class, and I get taught the material from my instructor in a different location than where my instructor is. Countries that can benefit the most with distance learning are countires that have a high percentage of scholars, people that attend school. The U.S., for example, can benefit from distance learning because there are so many people that attend school in the U.S. and the use of technology in the U.S. is so large compared to countries like Brazil. Students in the U.S. can use technology to improve homework, and allow students to gain the education they need. Other countries that are poor, like some countries in Africa, can also benefit from distance learning. These countries can use technology to connect them to more rich countries, like the U.S. for example, so that they can achieve the education they need in order to get their families, as well as their country financially stable (New York State University).
In my culture project, I chose the country of Belgium. Belgium has always been a country that wasn't technologically advanced. When technology really grew in this era, Belgium had to change some of its ways. Belgium uses technology in its hospitals to allow doctors to communicate with other doctors in other nations. According to Jacques de Toeuf, "Belgian hospitals are equipped with the most advanced technologies and run by highly qualified staff. With a large number of specialised centres and internationally renowned doctors they provide optimal care in the best conditions and have considerable capacity." Belgium has the software and technology to compete with higher nations, like the U.S. Even though Belgium wasn't always the most technological advanced country, they have improved their health care greatly with the use of technology. As far as schooling, Belgium does use technology to connect its teachers and students with other nations. Belgium uses blended courses with online resources to give students proper learning. Belgium tries to implement as many technologically advanced systems as possible to give the best education to students (Belgium Summitt).
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Belgium Summitt, Scaling Technology in Education: Building on the Web, accessed 22 November 2014 http://belgium.appsevents.com/conference-sessions/scaling-technology-in-education-building-on-the-web
Jacques de Toeuf, Healthcare Belgium, accessed 22 November 2014 http://www.healthcarebelgium.com/index.php?id=healthcarebelgium1&no_cache=1
New York State University, Technology and Education, accessed 22 November 2014 http://www.globalization101.org/education/
New York State University, Technology and Healthcare, accessed 22 November 2014 http://www.globalization101.org/health-care/
I agreed with you, technology has significantly enhanced the health care systems, for instance the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases, patients and health care provider interaction links, rapid dissemination of information, and has improved responses to outbreak situations. Technology has enhanced the possibility of stopping an outbreak of dangerous infectious diseases through the fast collection and transmission of detailed patient data to medical labs or public health centers. Information Technology has lessened the health professionals’ struggles in communicating important scientific or epidemiological findings to other parts of the health care community. Through the help of Information Technology, various health problems in most developing countries are being addressed. Even the digital records and images utilizing digital cameras have made it possible for doctors around the world to share information or offer advice on treatments for complicated ailments. For instance, doctors working in remote regions were capable of transmitting their findings to experts at the World Health Organization in Geneva and the U.S. Centers for further examinations (experiment) and supports. You are right, there are more advance technological equipment used in the hospitals in Germany than in schools. Though, it does not mean that the educational system lacks technology, all the schools has the modern technologies, and greater newer ones are progress.
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Belgium Summitt, Scaling Technology in Education: Building on the Web, accessed 22 November 2014 http://belgium.appsevents.com/conference-sessions/scaling-technology-in-education-building-on-the-web
Jacques de Toeuf, Healthcare Belgium, accessed 22 November 2014 http://www.healthcarebelgium.com/index.php?id=healthcarebelgium1&no_cache=1
New York State University, Technology and Education, accessed 22 November 2014 http://www.globalization101.org/education/
New York State University, Technology and Healthcare, accessed 22 November 2014 http://www.globalization101.org/health-care/