WK.8 Personal Reflection: Wireless Technology

Wireless Technology and Media Presentation

The incorporation of digital technology into each of the wireless system will inevitably lead to increase the use in educational pedagogy. Universities and colleges are among the most aggressive users of wireless technology. The trend toward more collaborative and open learning environments, the use of laptop computer, cell phone, ipods, MP3, PC Pocket, and other devices among students and faculty, makes higher education fertile ground for wireless technologies.
The implication of wireless technologies is critical as communication tools for educational environment, technology administrators are faced with unique and new challenges. Wireless technology must provide quality of service and reliable wireless performance in dense user environments that meet the educational institution needs. In order to meet the needs of K-12, service and performance must be delivered while supporting a cost-effective deployment model and delivering investment protection in the form of standards based technology that with the user’s emerging technology requirement.
Reflecting on social interaction, the key trends are in mobile device entertainment by interacting with friends, individuals with shared interest, exchange of data, and collaborate with wireless global community. The handheld computer provides a window into the virtual real-world content that is sensitive to information being supplied to it by the real world. Further research from adoption and diffusion of curriculum materials suggest that in successful educational implementation of wireless technology teachers reinvent curricular materials to meet the demands of local constraints.
A lot of information was gain during the weekly discussion on wireless technology and Media Presentation, putting all together means learner would have more experience with technological equipments and their application.
Meru Network is one of the leaders leading to promote the use of wireless technology in most of the colleges, numerous higher education institution and K-12 districts, bringing innovation, costs saving, and added productivity to their environments.
The university across the country adopted the Wi-FI technology toward more collaborative and open learning environments, fueled by the explosive adoption of mobile devices among students and faculty, make higher education campuses fertile ground for wireless. Therefore, for the K-12 may be possible also for some of the students in grade 9-12 that has laptop connectivity for wireless connection.
In Auburn school district, most of the school wired for Wi-FI connection and learner and teacher has access to this connection within the school environment.
With so many mobile users entering and leaving the campus and the widely reported security issues, administrators are rightly concerned about Wireless LAN security. Access point must be created for the faculty and students to access resources through secure connections, while guests are automatically redirected to a Captive Portal with a secure SLL based login before being login page before being granted access to the Internet.

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