What's Wal-Mart up to?

- Company will continue to grow
- Started in one room building
- Wal-Mart build stores in small towns and have made a lot of people loose there home
- Wal-Mart drives down retail wages $3 billion a year
- Wal-Mart doesn't actually care about employes, they dont get good health care, cant afford to pay for kids day care, and a lot of emplayes cant afford lunch, they dont even pay there employes enough money that they need to go on welfare
- Owners say they value employes
- Wal-Mart is against unions very much
- Wal-Mart doesn't pay over time but workers are threatend of there job if they dont work over time
- Employed illegal imigrents to clean store
- Women get paid less then men at Wal-Mart
- Why are communitys giving Wal-Mart money when they are rich enough already
- Wal-Mart says the care about the enviroment but...
- Wal-Mart stored fertalizer and other chemicals in the parking lot and then the chemicals washed into the river, then people drink the water without realizing there is chemicals in it
- http://www.catawbariverkeeper.org/
- Ask people from China if they know anyone who works in a factory
- Wal-Mart imported $18 billion from China in 2004


Thoughts: I think Wal-Mart should not have all there success at the expence of there struggling employees

India Reborn

KingFisher owns a private jet that could mormaly carry 130 people
India wants to make a vehicle that beaks the American cars
India used to be second at everything but they have really strived to be first and have made it in a lot of ways
Indian econamy collaped during a war
Doctors in India examine CT scans and x-rays from the USA sent to them via the internet
Two realitys - middle class or countryside people
Cotton is the crulest crop, filled with disease
There is a list of Indians that killed themself because of debt
Most families only have a handfull of food to last three days
On one side of India there is a party with the richest people and all the most expensive cars, and on the other side is rashands for food and poverty
A days work for alot of Indians only gets them 50 Rupees = $1.08 Canadian
Bangalore - A lot of education in this part of India
Silicon Valley - Apple computers are designed in Silicon Valley, California
Parents save up all there money so there kids can go to a private school because the public schools are over crowded.
English is the language everyone wants to learn in India even though there is about 22 Indian languages
Language gives you power
Workers at plant in India get a yoga class, a computer class, library, and a room
You are very lucky if you get a computer in your village


I think it is good for India that they are getting back on track after there econamy crashed

SixthSense

we dont have easy access to relivent things
the sixth sense is a camera with a projecter that can do almost anything, like take picteres, scan products, call people, and you can project the image on any surface

Digital Nation

technology changed the military
in my house everyone will somtimes be on different computers or ipods
many students cant remember not being online
evryone knows what email, facebook, and other technology is
computers distract people very easy
studies say the brain cant do two things at once
people who say they are a good multitasker are actually switching tasks very fast
students spend 50 hours a week on digital things
my phone is never off unless its dead
there is more brain activity when on google then reading a book
some people think many aisians are addicted to video games
some people have died while at a comoputer because of no food or drink
some mom that got interviewed said that her son doesnt even talk to her besause he is addicted to the internet
the government opened free internet addiction school
in some countries kids learn how to use the computer when they start to read
i have always had a computer in my house
my dad does not know anything about the computer
some middle schools require laptops
i am a digital native
my parents are digital immigrants
i think there is enough oppertunity to use technology in school if you take the right courses
The world has sped up a lot but education hasn't - students still cant use cell phones in school for education
at some point does the increase of technology deminish productivity
students arent as smart as they where before because of technology
basic skills are wors today than they were before
Mark Prensky - Founder and CEO, Games2train "Digitaly wise"
an 83 year old woman has a online cooking show
if you dont keep up with technology a little bit you will be left behind
on average people spend 10 hours on world of warcraft a week and some spend much, much more
i have communicated with someone i have not meet
when people come together in virtual worlds communicate and rely on people more
Industrial age - Gone
Digital econemy - Now
drones are un-maned aircrafts used in the military
drone piolits play video games during work
the military uses video games to bring kids in
you are engaged the same amount when playing video games as reading a book
technology challenges us to reserve our values
people express themselfs with technology


My perfect learning enviroment would be just me and the teacher because then i could learn faster