{"id":5332,"date":"2022-04-01T00:17:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=5332"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:50:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T20:50:50","slug":"module-1-discussion-computers-vs-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/chapter\/module-1-discussion-computers-vs-smartphones\/","title":{"raw":"Module 1 Discussion: Computers vs. Smartphones","rendered":"Module 1 Discussion: Computers vs. Smartphones"},"content":{"raw":"Many tasks that used to be accomplished by using a desktop or laptop computer are now possible to do on smartphones. The newest smartphone models for example, have the computing power of workstations from a few years ago. Although smartphones are getting faster, smarter and are increasing number of useful applications, many businesses are slow to utilize these new features. Let\u2019s explore some of the pros and cons of using a smartphone as the main productive technology source.\r\n\r\nWatch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XE-t30Zo7q4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video about a student\u2019s experiment<\/a> from 2018 to use his smartphone exclusively for five days as his computer. After watching the video consider a few questions to discuss.\r\n\r\nYou can also<a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/ComputerApps\/Transcripts\/ITriedMakingAPhoneMyOnlyComputer_Transcript.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> view the transcript for the video \u201cI Tried Making a Phone My Only Computer\u201d here (opens in new window).<\/a>\r\n<h2>Discussion Questions<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Are there good reasons for businesses to still use computers to accomplish tasks instead of smartphones? What are they?<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Do you think the future office environment will eliminate computer use in favor of smartphones?<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">What skills from using smartphones can be transferred to a work environment?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nShare your opinions below and respond to two of your classmates\u2019 thoughts.","rendered":"<p>Many tasks that used to be accomplished by using a desktop or laptop computer are now possible to do on smartphones. The newest smartphone models for example, have the computing power of workstations from a few years ago. Although smartphones are getting faster, smarter and are increasing number of useful applications, many businesses are slow to utilize these new features. Let\u2019s explore some of the pros and cons of using a smartphone as the main productive technology source.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XE-t30Zo7q4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video about a student\u2019s experiment<\/a> from 2018 to use his smartphone exclusively for five days as his computer. After watching the video consider a few questions to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>You can also<a href=\"https:\/\/course-building.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/ComputerApps\/Transcripts\/ITriedMakingAPhoneMyOnlyComputer_Transcript.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> view the transcript for the video \u201cI Tried Making a Phone My Only Computer\u201d here (opens in new window).<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Questions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Are there good reasons for businesses to still use computers to accomplish tasks instead of smartphones? What are they?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Do you think the future office environment will eliminate computer use in favor of smartphones?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">What skills from using smartphones can be transferred to a work environment?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Share your opinions below and respond to two of your classmates\u2019 thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-5332\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Discussion: Computers vs. Smartphones. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Sherri Pendleton. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">All rights reserved content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>I Tried Making a Phone My Only Computer -- Experiments Ep. 3. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Ho Young Won. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XE-t30Zo7q4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XE-t30Zo7q4<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>All Rights Reserved<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Standard YouTube License<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":428269,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Discussion: Computers vs. Smartphones\",\"author\":\"Sherri Pendleton\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"copyrighted_video\",\"description\":\"I Tried Making a Phone My Only Computer -- Experiments Ep. 3\",\"author\":\"Ho Young Won\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XE-t30Zo7q4\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"arr\",\"license_terms\":\"Standard YouTube License\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-5332","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":5319,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5332\/revisions\/5333"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/5319"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5332\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}