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Question 5 (Marks: 5) Digital Rights and Responsibilities There has been an exponential increase in the usage of smart phones in the last decade. Some students now use smart phones to cheat on tests and assignments. Develop an Acceptable Use Policy concerning the use of smart phones for the Independent Institute of Education to be implemented at the various campuses.

Question 5 Some policies may be not allowing students their phones during a test so this will give them no chance to cheat. Another could be keeping them on the desk on silent so that the examiner can see when anyone is touching or looking at their phone. You could say that any student caught looking at their phone will fail immediately.
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Question 4 (Marks: 15) Digital Etiquette Use your cell phone to create a short video for tertiary students on the importance of netiquette and why it is important. Discuss the role it plays in all aspects of our lives. Upload the video on to your blog. Hint: cover Virginia Shea’s netiquette guidelines and examples of bad etiquette. (15)

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Question 3 (Marks: 10) Digital Communication “Big data and advanced analytics, the Internet of Things, digital modelling, additive manufacturing, and computer integrated manufacturing. Industry 4.0 not only embraces each of these – and more - but combines them together in order to make a whole that is vastly greater than the sum of its parts”. Discuss the Internet of Things and how it will affect businesses in South Africa. Identify a sector in the industry and detail how it will be impacted. Hint: Be very creative, take a moment and traverse into the future to envisage how life will evolve when everything becomes connected.

Question 3 The internet of things is all about the future and improving everyday life to all extremes using different technology that can basically do everything and keep your days in check. This will affect businesses in South Africa by offering technology that may help provide a better and easier way to communicate and to do things in a more efficient manner. Such a small app such as maps can help some ones day much easier by showing where there is traffic and a more suitable route to take, this is just one example but the point is to make everyday life a little easier for people. The internet of things is going to keep advancing and improving and so they companies will too and people will start to notice. Businesses will become more connected with their consumers as they can help advertise and get more people involved, just through technology everything will eventually link together. It will also be easier to contact businesses and you can communicate with them in a more effici...
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Q.2.3 Provide a few tips on how one can manage their digital footprint?

Q2.3 One can manage their footprints by making sure that they do not post anything that they don’t want some specific people to see, as they will more than likely see the post eventually. Keep your posts and photos respectful as companies may look at them and might get a bad first impression as they do not like what they see. 
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Q.2.2 Digital footprints can be construed as trails that digital citizens leave online. Do you think that digital footprints could become a problem? Discuss.

Q2.2 Digital footprints can become an issue as everything you say or put in the internet will be seen by people, even the ones you are trying to avoid and even if you delete it, it may not mean that it has been deleted completely. Your posts on the internet may affect your job, the way people view you and your whole reputation could be at risk. If digital citizens post something negative about an organisation many people will see this and could affect the organisation as people might believe these posts and they could get a negative image.
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Q.2.1 Unemployment between the ages of 15 and 24 has reached a staggering 71 million (ILO, 2016). Solution fluency is a guided problem solving framework that consists of six D’s. Use the solution fluency process to solve unemployment problems in your area. Provide a brief background of your area and how you intend to tackle this problem.

Q2.1 There are always people that struggle with finding work especially studying as a student from a different country as there are only so many hours you are allowed to work. However, some people may struggle because they do not have the skills required to work at a job that includes computers or any technology. The solution fluency process: Define:  see where the problem is occurring and then deciding what to do to try fix it, however, this may be difficult as you have to try being as close to defining the right problem. This will help start trying to fix unemployment by finding solutions to help. Discover: this is the stage where they examine the problem and see how it reached this point and maybe how it could have been avoided in the past. This stage will help unemployment problems as they can see where jobs have been lost and why and what to improve on. Dream:  this stage is where they look at the future and what solutions can be made to help unemployment, in thi...
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Q.1.4 Create a LinkedIn account and subscribe to two at least 2 groups that are relevant to your field of study. Add a link of your profile to your blog.

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