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With the help of modern society and the advancement of technology, we are healthier than the past
=__**Journal - Integrated Learning**__ [|Performance Standards]=

Week 1 Tuesday - 01/02/2011 (Lesson 3)
Today our teacher introduced himself to everyone in the class and also told us that we will have a different Integrated learning teacher every Tuesday. On Tuesday's our class will have Ms. Miller but for the rest of the lessons of the week we all will have Mr. Stav. Mr Stav introduced us with a semester plan and what we all have to achieve at the end of the semester in order to pass this stage 1 subject. After that he gave us a booklet about what type of learner we all our. We had to fill that booklet and calculate the points we get and make a graph out of it to see what kind of learners we are.

**Week 1 Wednesday - 02/02/2011 (Lesson 5-6)** Mr. Stav took our school I.D numbers and he than sent us an email. This email was an invite to join wiki spaces. Our email's had a link and via that link we were able to join Mr. Stav's wiki space. We made our accounts and got familiar with the format of wiki space. He than showed us how we can create our own wiki page and write our journals in there. We could email other people who were on wiki space, ask them help or discuss our problems with them through a discussion tab present on our home page. I than started writing a journal about what we had been during all our previous lessons. While I was writing my journal, the computer I was using broke down. I went to see if our school IT staff was present in their office. I nearly wasted all my lesson looking for them around the school. Sara, 1 of my classmate had the same problem so we both were looking for the IT people but we were unsuccessful to find them.

Week 1 Friday - 04/02/2010 (Lesson 3)
Our teacher was a bit late to the class so he apologized for that to everyone. Mr. Stav than told us to finish our journals from Tuesday and Wednesday. During that time he told us that he printed a sheet which says our name and what kind of learner we all are. Mine came as an innovative learner. He asked us that it would be helpful if all our team members are different types of learner. This would help us to complete the set task's easily.In the middle of the lesson he gave us a research task that we all had to find the SACE rubric for Integrated Learning Stage 1. We than used a search engine and typed in SACE 2011 rubric for integrated Learning Stage 1. I was the first one to find the rubric and tell about it to the whole class. We than saved the PDF file into our computers and attached the file to wiki space. We uploaded the file onto our own pages.

Week 2 Monday 07/02/2011 (Lesson1)
Everyone was asked to go to there desired groups and choose there friends as there group members. We were told that we all have have to do different topics amongst the members of our group. Mr. Stav didn't sound so sure about that so he told us he will check it out with SACE and tell us about it positively on our Wednesdays lesson. Now we all had to do the base of our research project which was to choose a topic to research on. All my friends and myself were deciding what topic to choose the whole lesson. I was unsuccessful to decide a topic for myself and the lesson ended.

Week 2 Tuesday 08/02/2011 (Lesson 3)
Today we all didn't had Mr. Stav. Miss. Miller was relieving Mr. Stav and she told us how she is our permanent Tuesday's teacher. Mr. Stav gave her some instructions that she read to the class during the start of the lesson. She told us about how we can get help from the starter pack to choose a topic for ourselves. I went back to my Starter document and analyzed through it but I failed to find myself an interesting topic to research on. This lesson was about to end and I didn't chose a topic for my research project. Mr. Stav said that if we don't choose a topic till Tuesday than he will give us our research topics by himself. I didn't want him to choose a topic for myself as it would not be interesting to research on something which I don't like or which is not of my choice. At the end of the lesson I chose my research project which was ' HUNDRED YEARS OF WOOD-VILLE HIGH SCHOOL.'

Week 2 Wednesday 09/02/2011 (Lesson 5-6)
Mr. Stav told us all that he had made a big mistake in past few lessons. Now he told us that we have to work in a group and research on a same topic but have to produce different journals at the end and they should be 800 words. Before he had told us all that we all have work in groups but choose different topic for research. He apologized for his mistake. He told us that he had some misunderstanding about the agenda of the stage 1 research project. Well now we all were really annoyed as we all had chosen our topics and were ready to research on them. My group members are Ian and Jonathon and myself. Now we all dropped our research topics and chose a topic on which everyone in our group agreed. We chose to research on " Modern Society and technology". We had a double lesson and when the first lesson got over, Mr. Stav told us that he will be teaching us how to write reference in our research project.He showed us an 'Online Referencing Generator'. I found this referencing generator really interesting and good. We just have to put in the wanted information and it converts it into Harvard author date referencing. here is some of the evidence of my learning on how to create a citation using Harvard Author-Date System.

Some of the examples of my learning are: **'Radiotherapy' 1998, in //Family health //, Marshall Cavendish Limited, London, Vol. 12, pp. 1506-1642. ** **'Electronics in medicine' 2003, in //How it works and technology, // Marshall Cavendish Limited, New york, Vol. 6, pp.725-864. ** **'Pharmaceuticals' 2003, in //How it works Science and technology //, Marshall Cavendish Limited, New york, vol. 12, pp. 1589-1728. ** **Brigman R, 1995, '//Technology' //, Dorling Kindersley Limited, London **

This above sources are referenced using Harvard Author-Date System.

Week 3 Monday 14/02/2011 (Lesson1)
Mr. Stav planned to show some video's about primary and secondary sources to the class. We just started watching the video and then some of us had to go for the ID photos for 2011 school ID cards. We were unable to come back to the class and watch the video as ID photos took a whole lesson.

**Week 3 Tuesday 15/02/2011 (Lesson 3)** Instead of Mr. Stav we have miss. Miller on Tuesdays. She showed us the same video as yesterday. We all watched it as we missed out on watching the video yesterday because of ID photos. These video's were about primary and secondary sources. After watching those video's I had a better knowledge and understanding of primary and secondary sources.

**Week 3 Wednesday 16/02/2011 (Lesson 5-6)** During this lesson our teacher called every single group to him and discussed about our research topic. He made a column for every group on the home page. He then discussed the questions that we were going to research on. We all had at least 1 question per person in our group. Mr. Stav explained us that we all have to have a focus question or another words a main question to research on. He also explained how if we have an interesting focus question we can build interesting guiding questions, good focus question makes the research more innovative and interesting. With the help of our teacher we discussed a guiding question. Our guiding question was "How has technology changed our everyday activities" and then during the second lesson we all thought how to make our question a bit more broad and interesting so we then changed our focus question to "How has technology been implemented into our everyday activities?".

**Week 3 Friday 18/02/2011 (Lesson 3)** T oday's lesson Mr. Stav gave us a lot of time to finish our focus question so that we can move onto the other step of the research. Our teacher try's to keep everyone on a same pace which I think is a wonderful thing and all teachers should do that, especially in secondary years. towards the end of the lesson he introduced a website called survey monkey to all of us. He told us how we could make our own survey's on this website called survey monkey and use it as a way to get results or response from other people by making survey's..

Week 4 Monday 21/02/2011 (Lesson 1)
Mr. Stav showed us how to make our own survey's on survey monkey, he also made a survey to show how we can add as many questions as we want with different types of response boxes. He shows everything couple of times which i think is a great thing because I never learn the first time with anything. He made an account on this website and showed us how everyone can make an account on it. He then made a survey and saved it on the survey monkey website and then showed us how we could view our results by following the prompts. We could also put the link for the survey on our wiki space homepage so he showed us how to do that as well so that we could ask questions to everyone and ask them to do the survey for us.

**Week 4 Tuesday 22/02/2011 (Lesson 3)** As a group and with the help of our teacher we all decided to make a new survey as the previous survey did not contain of enough relevant information. We planned our questions during this lesson and put it up on the survey monkey website and make a survey. We then put this survey on the home page of our wiki space so that the other class member's could do this survey and give there feedback to us.

**Week 4 Wednesday 23/02/2011 (Lesson 5-6)**

Both these lessons my group members and myself reflected back on the survey questions and the feedback people gave it to us. We then analyzed all the results we gathered all the necessary information out of the feedback.

**Week 4 Friday 25/02/2011 (Lesson 3)**

One of my group member, Jonathon told me that we should have a hard copy of all the things we do during our research project to show as an evidence of learning and planning.

Week 5 Monday 28/02/2011 (Lesson 1)
This week is a sports week. So we all had a sports meeting as our school's sports day is coming up soon. When we got back to class Mr. Stav told us that we can have a record of our journals on weekly bases or whenever we do any work on them, it doesn't has to be every lesson's record. This suggestion made everything a whole lot more clearer and easier as now we could work at home and record it in our journals.

**Week 5 Tuesday 1/03/2011 (Lesson 3)**

Today's lesson was just spent on analyzing the further results that we gathered from our survey. we thought of our guiding questions as well since we had enough information from people's feedback.


 * Week 5 Wednesday 02/03/2011 (Lesson 5-6) **

We had sports today all day today.

**Week 5 Friday 04/03/2011 (Lesson 3)**

As a group we all thought of a focus question, but were unsuccessful to do so. We went to the teacher and he suggested us with some of the questions. He gave us a outline of what we could put in as our focus question.

**Week 6** We continued with our focus question as we decided to make a good focus question by the end of this lesson as this focus question bit was taking forever. We made a focus question today. Question : **How has technology made saving lives more effective than before?** In the double lesson Mr. Stav showed us how he will be marking our grades and a grade that we all were sitting on at the moment. He then explained us that what was required to achieve a grade "A". I understood everything on how we were going to get marked today and what were the main area's we will be marked on. They were<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 4 capabilities; Personal Development,Communication, learning and Work. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This week we also had a really big change in our topic. Our teacher suggested that the topic we are researching on is way too broad. We all decided to change it and relate it to more with health and how technology has impacted our health over the past year.

**Week 7** I spent most of my time finished my journal which was pending from couple of weeks. I recorded what I did during the weeks on a word document. I just had to put everything on my wiki-space as our teacher said he will only mark whatever we have on our wiki's. Later this week Mr. Stav handed in some statistics on 10 leading causes in united states from 1900 and 1990's and 1995 - 1997 statistics of causes of death in Australia. Friday we had a blackout for an unknown reason so Mr. Stav decided that everyone should do an oral presentation of whatever we have done. In this mock oral presentation I learned a lot about what a good presentation contains. Example - Body Language, Clear voice, engaging with the audience, one of the most important one; eye contact and how important is team work while doing an oral presentation.

**Week 8** Mr. Stav showed us how we can use Google's advanced search to get accurate and trust able results by just going on .edu or .gov websites. During this week we made a concept map about our research project.

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**Week 9**

We changed our hypothesis and our concept map according to the new hypothesis during this week.

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Later this week Mr. Stav reminded us about the scaffold we all have to complete by the end of next week. He went on about these scaffold all the time but I completely forgot about them. On 1st April 2011 he explained Ian and myself about what exactly is to be done in the scaffold. He then asked us to do a presentation on how to a fill a scaffold in front of the class so he can be sure that we understood on what he explained to us and also this presentation I did today just improved my confidence of doing a presentation in front of whole group of people. I felt really proud ofter doing the presentation as Ian and myself were the only two people who took effort to explain others about the scaffold. My group members and I then decided to do a scaffold before the next week ends. Jonathon allocated everyone a question that we had to research on. My question for the research is :
 * "Does technology contribute so much to us that we cannot live without it?".** I personally really like this question as I would want to know that does technology impacts our life so much or not.



**Week 10** **Scaffold Year 11 Research Rohan Chopra**

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Research Report Scaffold __ My Question to research on- **//Does technology contribute so much to us that we cannot live without it//**? Information

Would it be possible once again to get used to horse carriers delivering our news instead receiving email alerts in our inboxes? I don’t think so. Today we are hungry for information, and we want it in record time. When we’re gathering information, we no longer walk to the nearest library for books and magazine or newspaper articles. Today we live in the digital world and speak a different language. Our information comes in the form of blogs, podcast, videos, PDFs, mp3s, wikis and online articles. “Treeware,” or paper-based material, is only one of many choices, and not necessarily the most popular. Consider ControlGlobal.com. For years experts have written books, white papers, case studies and manuals describing and documenting automation processes that end up printed and eventually stored in physical libraries that people hardly visit anymore. Now changing times and technological advances pushed us to digitize these documents for easier access. Engineers today turn to the Web when it comes to learning about processes. Seeing demonstrations on video or in an interactive format is easier and more satisfying than reading page after page of black-and-white text. That’s why we have learned how to surf the web, send emails, blog and post videos to the web. //Control’s// exclusive video page is an example of how automation professionals have adapted to technology. This page dedicates a section to refresher course materials previously available in books, but now available in video format. In these videos, called //Back to the Basics//, Editor in Chief Walt Boyes, visits the basics of automation. We have covered PC-based control, DP flow measurement and level measurement topics. Put man vice president of content and past editor of //Control//, Keith Larson, hosts a series of Future Cast videos—prognostications on the future of process automation technology. Technology, like gasoline, is essential to our lives. We don’t like paying $4 per gallon of gas, but we do it because we have to. With technology, we might not like learning new programs every other month, or downloading computer upgrades, but we do it because that is what we must do in order to survive in the digital world.

Reference for the above article [] By Katherine Bonfante, Managing Digital Editor

Survey analyses



From the above survey analyses, Question 1 "How would you feel if your favorite electrical appliance died?" 60% of the people will say WTF?Why? , 26.7% will be shocked, 13.3% couldn't care less and 0% says glad. This result show that most of the people will react in a negative way and would ask why their favorite electrical appliance died. Question 2 "How many televisions do you have in your household?" 6.7% said 1, 26.7% said 2, 33.3% said 3, 20% said 4 and 13.3% said 5 or more. From those results it shows that most of the people that took the survey have an average of 2 or more televisions and most of the people have 3 televisions.



Question 3 "Do you trade in old technology for the new technology?" 33.3% said YES and 46.7% said NO and only 20% said sometimes. This result shows that 46.7% of the people don't recycle there old technology and only 33.3% does. Question 4 "Do you collect or own old(1950-1999) technology?" 26.7% said YES and 73.3% said NO. The result of this question shows that most of the people use the latest, new and 21st century technology.





Question 5 for our survey was "why do you use technology? (Eg. Fun, Entertainment, etc.)". The responses by the other people are written above. Question 6 "Can you live without technology?" 26.7% people said YES they can. 66.7% people said NO they can't. only 6.7% said probably. Which shows that mostly people cannot live without technology which shows how addictive people are with technology.

Question 7 "Has technology changed for the better or worse? Explain your answer." The results can be seen above, but the conclusion of this answer says that most people think the technology changed for betterment.

//All the above survey information can be extremely useful as we have the public's opinion on how technology has impacted our lives. This is the third survey we conducted as the other two were not relevant as we changed our topic and had to make a different survey to support our topic.//

Bibliography for the above sources i used as a part of my research. [] By Katherine Bonfante, Managing Digital Editor Miss. Caren (Woodville high School's librarian) helped me find all that information on radiotherapy, Electronics in medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Technology. She spent more than half an hour on 4/4/2011 and with the help of the librarian I was able to find the needed information through the encyclopedia. I then did the reference of all the information I used through Harvard author Date format system. As collaborating with other class members I decided to read one of my friend's journals. She had put the dates in the wrong order so I asked her to change the dates.
 * 'Radiotherapy' 1998, in //Family health//, Marshall Cavendish Limited, London, Vol. 12, pp. 1506-1642.**
 * 'Electronics in medicine' 2003, in //How it works and technology,// Marshall Cavendish Limited, New york, Vol. 6, pp.725-864.**
 * 'Pharmaceuticals' 2003, in //How it works Science and technology//, Marshall Cavendish Limited, New york, vol. 12, pp. 1589-1728.**
 * Brigman R, 1995, '//Technology'//, Dorling Kindersley Limited, London**
 * Survey Websites - []**
 * Proof of collaborating learning**

Rohanchopra30 - hey sara...I was reading through your journal and its a really good journal with alot of information...i just found a little mistake in it ! you wrote week 5 wednesday 1st march...its 2nd march..we had sports day on the 2nd ! just thought i would let you know :) other than that its a good journal

SaraChan3 - Thanks Rohan =D

**Week 10 Wednesday,6 April 2011** I came late to class as I was on a excursion. As I entered the class, Mr. Stav was talking about WORK which is one of the capabilities that we will be assessed as. He went through all the things below. ** Work ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 6pt 0cm 0pt;">Students are involved in collaborative processes that enable them to work together to maximize their own and others’ learning. By building a group understanding of the value of diversity and social complexity, students gain an understanding of and confidence in themselves, and an ability to relate to others in diverse settings, including workplaces. They establish relationships based on self-knowledge and respect for the knowledge and understanding of others. They learn to depend on each other in ways that can promote their success as a team. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 6pt 0cm 0pt;">They interact with others; work cooperatively and sensitively; listen effectively; ask appropriate questions; express opinions; and consider other people’s points of view. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Students develop and apply employ ability skills, in particular teamwork and self-management. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Through collaboration, students focus on behaviors that promote each team member’s learning and success, as well as the success of the whole team. The emphasis is on structured cooperation among team members. Collaboration may be among students in the school, or between a community group and one or more students. Students have the opportunity to understand and act in relation to shared obligations and rights.\

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This morning Mr. Stav told me that the survey we have is completely irrelevant to our hypothesis and we have to change it. So, as a group we decided our survey question.

Final Scaffold
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Introduction **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Guiding/ focus questions <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">1. How has medical related technology been implemented into day to day activities? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">2. Does technology contribute so much we can’t live without it? Does it make our lives easier or harder? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">3. How does technology affect our health? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">4. How much impact has technology had in today’s current society’s health and are they bad or good? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">5. How has technology made saving lives more effective than before?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Proposed METHODS <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">1 We are to conduct surveys. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">2 Use books from the library. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">3 Gather statistics and data from the internet. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">4 Primary, Secondary resources. 5 Communicate with the teacher. 6 Ask the class members if they have any ideas about our research related topic that they would like to share.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">A //reason// for the //choice of research//, indicating an appreciation for the significance of the research. The reason why I chose **"Modern Society and technology impacts on health"** as my topic because I have always been interested in researching about the impacts that modern society and technology has made in our health. I have always wondered if the technology improved for our betterment or the improving technology has has impacted human health in a negative way. One of the appreciation for the significance of the research is to inform other people about the impacts of modern technology on human health and collect some statistics to show the audience (Public) about the impacts. Collecting statistics would prove our hypothesis and as a group we will have evidence to show to the public to make them agree with our opinion.

__<span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BODY /ANALYSIS __ <span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">1st Guiding / focus questions answered. **Does technology contribute so much to us that we cannot live without it?** <span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Background information As my above article supports that technology has changed so much of our lives and my above article " Radiotherapy" shows that technology does impact on our health allot. One of the other article is about electronics in medicine. That article clearly shows that technology has changed for our betterment and the modern technology have numerous advantages. In response to the demand for improved knowledge and treatment of illness, an increasing amount of electronic equipment is being used in medicine today. Electric equipment used in medical care and treatment must be electrically safe, reliable, easily serviced, and have good hygienic and ergonomic design. The other article I used was Pharmaceuticals. This word derives from the Greek word //pharmakon, meaning DRUG, magic charm or poison.// This part of technology has impacted our society before 21st century. This medical treatment is been used for over 1000's of years but the modern technology has changed the importance and the perfectness of this ancient way of treatment. With the help of modern technology all the pharmacy medicines are more accurate then before. Many substances that now generally are classed as controlled substances and narcotics were once used as pharmaceuticals. The other source that I used was a book on technology. That book shows how much technology has impacted our health from past 200 years or more. With the help of modern technology scientists made some incredibly highly technical electronics to save human lives.

<span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Comparison and synthesis of source materials <span style="background: #00ffff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The above text highlighted in green is a encyclopedia based source whereas the one in the yellow is a book on technology which shows how technology has changed over years. The comparison between both the sources I used to completely different. One tells us the information on how technology has impacted during number of years and the other one shows how technology has evolved during number of years. <span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Analysis ad evaluation of evidence <span style="background: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">All the information that I gathered for my appointed question is completely true and acurate as most of the information I got is from a science and technology encyclopedia and the rest of my information is from a book named technology. I believe the advantage of using this book as a source gave me a better understanding of how technology has evolved over the period of time. <span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">A summary of research <span style="background: #f17465; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">I used the encyclopedia and other books for my research. The encyclopedia and my other sources are secondary but primary in a way because some of the pictures on encyclopedia and my above articles were taken from the time that it happened. Above information shows that the change in technology made saving lifes more easier than before and those technologies are trustworthy. <span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Connection between hypothesis and research Connection between the hypothesis and the research can clearly be seen from the above information that I gathered. It shows that the technology has evolved and there are more health related apparatus that can save lives than before. This proves that if there is more gear to save health, the average living rate would be more than what it was before. __<span style="background: #d9d9d9; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">CONCLUSION __ <span style="background: #ac4dac; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">In my conclusion I would like to say that I really enjoyed researching on this question because I found out if technology actually helped us save lives or not. The information from my sources proves that modern technology is successful in saving lives. For eg. In olden days there were no pacemakers to save lives but now with the help of technology there are pacemakers that can save lives by improving our heartbeat. __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BIBLIOGRAPHY/REFERENCE LIST __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Harvard Reference System of all Primary and Secondary resources used in your research. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">**'Pharmaceuticals' 2003, in //How it works Science and technology//, Marshall Cavendish Limited, New york, vol. 12, pp. 1589-1728.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">**'Radiotherapy' 1998, in //Family health//, Marshall Cavendish Limited, London, Vol. 12, pp. 1506-1642.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">** Bridgman R, 1995, //Technology//, Dorling Kindersley Limited, London ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">**'Electronics in medicine' 2003, in //How it works and technology,// Marshall Cavendish Limited, New york, Vol. 6, pp.725-864.**

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Week 1) Term 2 ** This whole week along with my team, we created a new survey as we thought all the previous survey's were irrelevant as we wanted to have a survey which can provide us answers for our guiding questions and focus questions.
 * Survey**
 * Technology's Contribution to our Health in Modern Society**
 * Q1. Do you think that technology contributes to our health?**
 * Yes**
 * No**
 * Unsure**
 * Q2. Do you think that you are exposed to the technology that can effect your health?**
 * Yes**
 * No**
 * Not Sure**
 * Q3. If Question two (2) was a Yes, Please give examples of these things to support your understanding**
 * Q4. Do you think that we are healthier or live longer than our ancestors?**
 * Healthier**
 * Live Longer**
 * Q5. Do you think that we are healthier and live longer than our ancestors? why/ why not?**
 * Q6. Do you believe modern electronic devices affect our health? (Eg. Laptops, Computers, Mobile Phones, iPods etc...)**
 * Yes**
 * No**
 * Uncertain**
 * Q7. On a level from 1 to 10, how did you find this survey, (10 being good)**
 * 1**
 * 2**
 * 3**
 * 4**
 * 5**
 * 6**
 * 7**
 * 8**
 * 9**
 * 10**
 * Q8. Are there any questions or comments on this survey?**

Link for the new survey - []

The whole group helped in making the above survey. Later the week I placed the survey on Facebook and the discussion page in our wikispaces homepage. We decided to wait two weeks so we can have enough result to analyses. We decided to analyze the surveys in week 4-5.



**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Week 2) Term 2 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Miss. Lawless introduced how to organize the folders and present the final product in week 6. We were aloud to do individual folders or group folders. These folders were suppose to contain the following. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We were showed some of the samples from last year to have a overall idea of what the folder looks like.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research Plan
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Journals (Term 1 and term 2)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Survey Analysis (If did any)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Other research material
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Evaluation report
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bibliography (Harvard Author Date)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We, as a group decided to have a group folder. I had a spare folder at home so the next day I got the folder and we planned how to organize it. we printed a cover sheet for each topic.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Week 3) Term 2 ** Miss. Lawless talked about how De'Bono's thinking hats can help us have a better understanding of setting our work and working in a group together.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Six Thinking Hats (or modes)

 * [[image:http://debonothinkingsystems.com/media/White_hat_WBK.jpg width="60" height="60"]] || [[image:http://www.debonothinkingsystems.com/cpanel/gravel/tr.gif width="5" height="1" caption="#"]] ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The White Hat
The White Hat calls for information known or needed.
 * [[image:http://debonothinkingsystems.com/media/Red_hat_WBK.jpg width="60" height="60"]] || [[image:http://www.debonothinkingsystems.com/cpanel/gravel/tr.gif width="5" height="1" caption="#"]] ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Red Hat
The Red Hat signifies feelings, hunches and intuition.
 * [[image:http://debonothinkingsystems.com/media/Black_hat_WBK.jpg width="60" height="60"]] || [[image:http://www.debonothinkingsystems.com/cpanel/gravel/tr.gif width="5" height="1" caption="#"]] ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Black Hat
The Black Hat is judgment -- the devil's advocate or why something may not work.
 * [[image:http://debonothinkingsystems.com/media/Yellow_hat_WBK.jpg width="60" height="60"]] || [[image:http://www.debonothinkingsystems.com/cpanel/gravel/tr.gif width="5" height="1" caption="#"]] ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Yellow Hat
The Yellow Hat symbolizes brightness and optimism.
 * [[image:http://debonothinkingsystems.com/media/Green_hat_WBK.jpg width="60" height="60"]] || [[image:http://www.debonothinkingsystems.com/cpanel/gravel/tr.gif width="5" height="1" caption="#"]] ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Green Hat
The Green Hat focuses on creativity: the possibilities, alternatives and new ideas.
 * [[image:http://debonothinkingsystems.com/media/Blue_hat_WBK.jpg width="60" height="60"]] || [[image:http://www.debonothinkingsystems.com/cpanel/gravel/tr.gif width="5" height="1" caption="#"]] ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 24px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Blue Hat
The Blue Hat is used to manage the thinking process.

We thought as a group on how we could relate our research with these hats and help these hats make our research better and creative.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Week 4) Term 2 **

Jonothon and myself went to different classes during this week. We asked different year levels to do our survey for us, In the mean time ashley and Ian were preparing the front cover for our folio and the power point presentation.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Week 5) Term 2 ** This week was mostly spent on analyzing the results we found from our survey's. We had to analyze to different set of results and then combine them because we had manual results and electronic result. Manual results were from the different year levels we went last week and the electronic results were of the survey's people did online.

Survey analyses:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Q1. Do you think that technology contributes to our health? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Q2. Do you think that you are exposed to the technology that can effect your health? **

Some of the replies by other people are: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Q4. Do you think that we are healthier and live longer than our ancestors? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Q3. If Question two (2) was a Yes, Please give examples of these things to support your understanding **
 * 1) electromagnetic radiation decomposition of newly discovered materials (PCB's) Dioxin Insecticides, herbicides
 * 2) radiation from tv,computers,heaters
 * 3) v - eyesight PlayStation _unfit,no exercise
 * 4) learning relevant information from the web in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, improvement in medicine, improvement in equipments in hospitals.
 * 5) using mobile phones, and microwaves expose you to radiation that can harm your health if exposed
 * 6) Yes radiation and microwaves emitted from some technologies (xrays, microwave ovens etc.) can mutate the cells and also many general things such as music being to loud hence from reasons stated above we draw the conclusion that technology affects health.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">like radio waves, ultrasonic waves and other radiations that come out of the electronic devices.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Healthier - 66.70% ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Live Longer - 33.30% **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Q6. Do you believe modern electronic devices affect our health? (Eg. Laptops, Computers, Mobile Phones, iPods etc...) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Uncertain ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Question - Does technology contribute so much to us that we cannot live without it? yes - 70% No - 20% Unsure - 10%

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Week 6) Term 2 **

This was the final week before we could present the presentation so we mainly worked on our transcript and made a presentation to show on the 13/06/2011.