Current Topics in Technology

By Maureen Sheehan Paparella and Eugene S. Simko

This collection of Current Topics in Technology is designed to elevate technology courses, encouraging learners to develop a higher level of social, legal, and ethical awareness in the study of technology. Learners are guided through a wealth of topics that provide insight into the crucial role that technology plays both personally and professionally.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439038708
• ISBN13: 9781439038703
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

An outstanding supplement to my course textbooks

As a university educator, this book has been used in my courses to supplement other texts in technology courses designed primarily for business and humanities majors. The book provided an outstanding resource and forum guide. There is no possible way an educator could have the time to accumulate such an outstanding and diverse collection of current, interesting, pragmatic and pertinent articles related to technology, as it applies to security, social values, law, ethics, education, the Internet and the computer software industry. The key word is pragmatic. It should be sold to parents of my students as well. The cost is well worth it and a fraction of the cost of other books, which frankly, my students do not read. This book, they read. The introductory paragraph written by the authors is concise and inviting, and the articles truly excite the students. I have never had students display this much interest in technology. There is no question that this book has had more of a profound impact on the level of interest of my students than any other book or technology I have utilized in teaching. But perhaps even more important, my students now understand why it is so important for them to keep up with current events. It seems obvious that the authors provided enough forums for a 14 or 15 week semester in order to assign two per week. For this reason, there is no way that the book should include any additional work for the student. There is not enough time in a semester to have additional terms and talking points added to these assignments, when my students are being given assignments from the other textbooks we use. Therefore, I disagree with any critique that states the book is too thin. I applaud the authors for not making it any bigger as this will drive the cost up for our students and negate the practical use of this book as a necessary supplement. Beyond being obvious, the authors explain that this is intended to be "supplemental" in the very first paragraph of the preface.