Monday 28th of February s2717954

Today was the first tutorial for ICT.  Going into this tute I expected it to be more of a remedial class.  Upon joining this course and having the first lecture I have discovered that the course will be more demanding than first expected and provide enough of a challenge to keep me focused on the course.

Through  the duration of the lecture I learnt that students are able to write in text talk for some of their writing tasks.  Also about the benefits of having the internet available to students.  The internet allows students to social network.  This is giving students the ability to interact with people on a higher level than ever before, this is because they are connected through the internet to other people from anywhere in the world.

I also learnt about the many applications provided by Google.  I do not usually bother with using Google's applications further than the search application and the maps application.  This is because I usually use other programs available through the internet or they are applications I have not had a desire to use before now.  This introduction to the programs is allowing me to broaden my knowledge on computers and allow me to keep up to date.

New information that I had obtained through the lecture was also the different uses of technology (hardware) in the classroom for the future like the item used to scan brain activity which allows the reader to see different parts of the brain in various amounts of activation.  Upon further research on the Emotive hardwear BCI (Brain-Computer Interface) they are already able to read brain activity and combine it with your keystrokes to pick up on what your brain is thinking when you type a certain thing to the point that when you usually put a :) smiley face and you smile when you type it that it will automatically type a smiley face when you smile.  The ability shown in the Emotive BCI with technology at the stage we are at shows that in time we will be able to fine tune our BCI and be able to control whole prosthetic limbs or other complex machinery.