Case Study 2 (Due: January 5, 2011)

As a future IT professional, what do you think will be your contributions for the development of technology based on what you learned from college? Define each and state its implications towards our IT society and industry.


“Everything changes” and so as our environment specifically, our technology. We need to do nothing but to adapt with it and let it take us where it wants to. Through college, I was taught about my chosen field much and with that, I think in the future I can do things which can contribute to the development of technology. I would suggest the following ideas as an information technology professional in the future. As technology developed, business is also running with it in the same course. Computer Networking for better business affiliations would do. According to dictionary, Computer Networking is a focus within engineering that deals with communication between computer systems or devices. With better communication using the systems, business with be much simplier than what we are using now.

As a future IT professional, what do you think will be your contributions for the development of technology based on what you learned from college? Define each and state its implications towards our IT society and industry.

Information technology professionals within an organization tend to work together in a team environment. Team members within an organization must learn to work together to complete a job. Professionals that make up this team may include systems analyst, information systems management, programmers, users and other specialists. In order to work well together, I must strive to communicate clearly and completely with its members. To achieve this Ill impose that members will have to trust and respect each other. Furthermore each member should put one’s own views second to the views of the group. The responsibility and accountability within a team should be shared, for success in a team environment.

Technology Educators

Many people warn of the possible harmful effects of using technology in the classroom. Will children lose their ability to relate to other human beings? Will they become dependent on technology to learn? Will they find inappropriate materials? The same was probably said with the invention of the printing press, radio, and television. All of these can be used inappropriately, but all of them have given humanity unbounded access to information which can be turned into knowledge. Appropriately used interactively and with guidance they have become tools for the development of higher order thinking skills.

Inappropriately used in the classroom, technology can be used to perpetuate old models of teaching and learning. Students can be "plugged into computers" to do drill and practice that is not so different from workbooks. Teachers can use multimedia technology to give more colorful, stimulating lectures. Both of these have their place, but such use does not begin to tap the power of these new tools.

Contribute your skills and knowledge and the future will be as brighter as your vision and mission in life.


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As a future IT professional, what do you think will be your contributions for the development of technology based on what you learned from college? Define each and state its implications towards our IT society and industry.

Really Manage Your Time as a Student

USE YOUR FREE TIME WISELY: Now that you're able to know when you are free, why not take those times to study your work. You can study in intervals like take 15 minutes to do math and take another 15 minutes to do science. You can work it anyway you like, as long as you use this time devoted to your studies. Also, don't forget to make time for yourself. Go for a nice walk.
STAY ON TOP OF DUE DATES AND HOMEWORK: This is also very important. Go back to the calendar with all those commitments and meetings on it. Now look over your syllabi for each of your classes and mark what's due when. If you have a big paper coming up in two weeks, mark that on your calendar and but a big red circle around it. Also find the dates of any test, midterms, finals, etc. and also mark those down on your calendar in red. If you're caught up with your work, why not work ahead. Take time during week to get ahead on a chapter in a class. That way you'll have more free time to do other things you enjoy without worrying about failing a test or exam.

Discipline from oneself

My philosophy of how to build self-discipline is best explained by an analogy. Self-discipline is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger you become. The less you train it, the weaker you become. Just as everyone has different muscular strength, we all possess different levels of self-discipline. Everyone has some — if you can hold your breath a few seconds, you have some self-discipline. But not everyone has developed their discipline to the same degree. Just as it takes muscle to build muscle, it takes self-discipline to build self-discipline.

As a future IT professional, what do you think will be your contributions for the development of technology based on what you learned from college? Define each and state its implications towards our IT society and industry.


Almost 4 yrs. of learning new things about being an IT Professional I can say that it is not only the key for the steps you will take to get what is related to your course. You need also to take some trainings for the degree you have taken, this will keep your skills fresh to manage the work professionally. The following will be my contribution as an IT Professional based on my learnings from my college years:


1. Support FOSS

As an IT student you need to explore things in the internet or anywhere which is related to the field you have. And from that I learned about Free Open Source Software which is I myself is one of the beneficiaries of it. This help students like me to get what we need through the internet through the availability of its source code or somewhat we call free like downloading softwares which we can use for our studies. By supporting FOSS we can contribute for the development of technology in our society.


2. Support Green Computing

We are aware that every minute or every day new technology come out and encourage people to use it because of its features and advantages. As an IT students our life is engage on that matter and before that as a human we are responsible to protect and care our mother nature. By supporting Green Computing this will help lessen the materials used in some technology or machines which harm the environment.


3. Skills in Creativity

As what I learned in my college days, having the creativity to think is one of the key for you to be successful. All the people has this skills but most of them use it. I myself will use this skills for my contribution of being an IT Professional because this would help to develop new and brilliant technologies that is useful for our society. We should think widely or across the boundary for us to have a good product to come up.


4. Managing Skills

This skills is all about managing your time, managing your project and managing yourself or somewhat call discipline. This would help for the development of technology because if you become a project manager you need to cheer up and have a good preparation or plan for the project. By making it you need to manage also your time, every time you waste it deducts the confidence of the project and to prevent that you need to discipline yourself first before entering to that situation. And I can say that I can manage those skills and adopt all of those for the contribution of the development of technology to our society someday.



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MVBuladaco wrote:

As a future IT professional, what do you think will be your contributions for the development of technology based on what you learned from college? Define each and state its implications towards our IT society and industry.

As an IT professional someday, maybe the things that I can contribute are those ideas I learned while I’m studying. As an IT student I learned how to manage a certain task in order to succeed. Proper Management is really important. Aside from that I could advocate some suggestion that may help to the community.

Endorse Green Campus Computing:
I will endorse more on green technologies. Green technology eventually leads to creation of more sustainable energy-saving practices and an eco-friendly way is better communicated.

Promote FOSS:
I would also promote FOSS. Aside for being a free it is software that is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code.