Techno Savvy Research Articles

Analysis of Investment Perceptions of Gen Z: with Reference to Jamnagar District

Generation Z investors are being considered as a critical player for financial markets throughout the world. Gen Z investors includes the generation born between 1999 to 2006 or near about (age group of 18 to 25 years). They are very important because this generation is grown with digitalization and their entrance in financial market play vital role for digital economy. Financial companies and influencers mainly focus on Gen Z investors strategically as they are techno savvy and highly influenced by social media and other online platforms. This paper analysis the perception of Gen Z investors who belongs to tier II city and surrounded rural area with reference to Jamnagar district. The result shows that the Gen Z respondents have a considerable influence of social media over their perceptions towards investment and behavioural practices related to investment. This may be alarming also because all social media tips or guiding videos may not be sound. The need of basic financial knowledge is must.

Challenges and Opportunities Brought by COVID-19 to the Education System: Based on Experience of China

Covid-19 has widely spread and has affected all scope of activities in the world. Among the ac- tivities that faced challenges, includes education w\hich is undergoing radical changes such as online learning. This research sought to investigate the online education experience in the People’s Republic of China during the pandemic period. This research evaluated as well the disadvantages and advantages of online teaching, and presented better use of online education. Foreign and Chinese literatures have been reviewed and analyzed, compared and found out that Chinese experience of online education has achieved successful results, but in practice there were also challenges. The study’s conclusion suggests that it is necessary to upgrade the online education system and improve the methods of online teaching, to increase the number of teachers who are conversant with internet and who are techno savvy, to ensure the availability of technologies necessary for online learning, to expand the public’s understanding of online learning and finally to expand its capabilities. Key words: COVID-19, education, Chinese experience, offline learning, online learning, learning platforms.

Techno Savvy and All-knowing or Techno-oriented?: Information-seeking Behaviour and the Net Generation?

During the last twenty years rapid developments in technology have led to changes in the way we work, play and learn. Technology has become an integral part of society’s everyday landscape. Children growing up during what has been called the technological or digital revolution have never known a world without instantaneous communication and easy access to vast quantities of information delivered in multiple formats. For the ‘Net Generation’ of users and consumers, technology is transparent and a part of their social, economic and educational landscape. They are surrounded by information using a multitude of formats, text types, graphics and multimedia. Adult observers of these young people marvel at how they use and cope with a wide range of technologies, often seemingly oblivious to instruction manuals. The Net Generation already seem to have the skills to deal with the array of old and emerging technologies. The terms tech-savvy, web-savvy, Internet-savvy and computer-savvy are being used to describe young people in major educational policy documents and population studies worldwide. While educators recognise that their students have a different culture of use when using and seeking information delivered electronically, they struggle to come to terms with the changes the integration of technology brings to the teaching-learning environment. Teachers are continually being reminded that they are the ones who are being left behind a generation for whom the use of communications technologies appears to be intuitive. The question for researchers and educators is do students have an intuitive grasp of how to use electronic information or is this just an illusion borne of familiarity with the technology?

The impact of staff training and development on teachers’ productivity

Training and Development has always been a driving force for enhancing the teachers’ productivity and performance. A training and development program provided by the employer is a sincere effort to provide opportunities to the employees to be acquainted with the variety of skills, information, attitude and conduct. With the ever-growing needs of modern education system, the education industry has to become more techno savvy, dynamic and updated. There is always requirement of skillful and talented manpower to take up this education industry to the heights of international standards. The primary objective of this research paper is to investigate the impact of staff training and development on their productivity and performance in classroom teaching and in their administrative work as well. It can also be viewed as on their overall productivity. The data collected was through structured questionnaire. 58 teachers were interviewed through the questionnaire. Statistical Software (SPSS Version 16) was used for analyzing the data. The study concludes that there exist positive and strong relations between training and development and productivity of the teachers of Kurdistan. The study further concluded stating positive correlation between productivity and other independent factors like Skills, Expertise, Morale, Enhancement, Potential, Job Knowledge and Proficiency. Technical/Technology training is the most suitable training program for the teachers of this region.

Influence of consumer innovativeness and personal characteristics on consumer adoption behavior of online banking: An empirical analysis

Influence of consumer innovativeness and personal characteristics on consumer adoption behavior of online banking: An empirical analysis - JMRA- Print ISSN No: - 2394-2762 Online ISSN No:- 2394-2770 Article DOI No:- 10.18231/j.jmra.2019.012, Journal of Management Research and Analysis-J Manag Res Anal

A study towards the digitalization of Indian banking sector

Today's world live with digitalization, nobody having time to stand in a queue. So to give customer quicker services and to compete in this world, several industries adopting digitalization in which one of them is “banking Sector”. In India too, banking sector is getting digitalized and getting collaborated with many companies to provide faster and secured services to customer. Indian banking sector is coming up with new technology so that make their presence everywhere. Several challenges is also faced by banks to get digitalized but today's generation is techno savvy and banks have to meet their expectations. This study basically talks about the growth in the online banking users of rural and urban areas and also the trends that is being followed by the banks and the scale of growth in providing that technology to the users. Indian Government has also initiated various schemes to get their people to adjoin with Indian banking digitalization campaign.

Empowering ESL Teachers’ Professional Development through Digital Literacy

With todays technology, teachers need to have digital literacy. It is a key requirement for teachers’ professional growth in order to be functional in today's teaching profession. Thus it is important for teachers to have a digital mindset. Teachers need to be techno savvy and use available online interactive platforms in sharing their teaching practice. Advancement in technology provides opportunities for the learning processes as one is able to access various forms of information as well as share one’s ideas through the use of multi-modal communication style. This paper aims to overlook at ICT as not only as a teaching tool but as a platform to exchange knowledge among teachers or instructors. Teachers can then creatively produce and contribute resources to be shared with others online. Raising awareness among teachers of the importance of digital literacy, will foster teachers' continuous and lifelong professional development.

BRIDGING TECHNOLOGICAL GAP AMONG ENGLISH TEACHERS THROUGH DIGITAL SQUAD PROJECT

The technology advancement has forced the teachers ignoring their generation to migrate from off line into digital platform since the use of technology in education has changed the face of education massively. This project tried to capture an effort in bridging the technology gap among teachers across generation by forming a digital squad to provide digital teaching media assistance to teachers. It consists of several English education pre-service students in a private university who have high interest and skill on technology. This study explored the facts on the squad activities, the teacher participants� responses to the events organized by digital squad, and the obstacles in conducting the project. The results showed that the workshops organized by the squad gained positive feedback from the teacher participants. However, the classic problems frequently appear during the activities involving technology are the internet connection and the various technological competence among the participants. Finally, it is suggested to employ younger generation to bridge the technology gap among language teachers across generation in education setting, since the younger generation is usually techno savvy and the older generation should be willing to embrace the technology development in order to survive in millennial classroom.Keywords: digital squad; workshop; language teachers; generation; technology; teaching media.

Para (re) pensar la alfabetización informacional en la universidad

Information literacy must be part of the body of knowledge and experience, that is, the background gathered by all individuals over the years; however, social conditions, age, gender or schooling often prevent it. The university students are considered techno savvy, however, they do not know how to approach the information, assess its validity, its use and how to prepare the necessary documents for the accreditation of the subjects that they study. University libraries, on the other hand, do not get involved in one of the substantive functions of the university: teaching. Therefore, it is thus urgent that the librarians participate in the construction of information skills of students, in addition to contribute to the development of training research in institutions of higher education.

Madurai Based Traditional Greens and its Medicinal Properties

From time immemorial we use greens as a part of our daily diet as an integrated preven-tive and curative health care system. In this era of techno savvy, we have forgotten many greens that were used by our ancestors which possess scientifically proven for their biological activities. With the perspective of disseminating knowledge on greens of our own geographical area Madurai, a city of Tamil sangham, the re-view was written by providing some examples of the array of important medicinal values.

Participatory GIS in action, a public health initiative from Kerala, India

Abstract. Community ownership is essential for sustainable public health initiatives. The advantages of getting active involvement of homebound village women in a public health campaign to establish community health surveillance are being reported in this paper. With the support of the local self government authorities, we had selected 120 village women, and they were given extensive training on various healthcare schemes, home based management of local ailments, leadership skills and survey techniques. Afterwards, they had been asked to share their knowledge with at least 10-15 women in their neighbourhood. This had improved their status in the neighbourhood, as more and more people started getting their advice on healthcare and social services related matters. Subsequently, they had collected the socio-demographic and morbidity details of the entire households, including the geometric coordinates (longitude and latitude) of the households and public offices. In this process, they began to use the geographic position system (GPS) machines, dismissing the myth that women are not that techno savvy, further improving their acceptability in the community. Many among them were seen proudly describing the implications of the thematic maps to the village people and line department staff in the monthly subcentre meetings. Many were offered seats in the local body elections by leading political parties, a few of them did stand in the elections and three of them had won the elections. This experience reinforces our belief that the empowerment of villagers with newer technology could be a public health tool with much wider positive implications.

Techno Savvy: a Web 2.0 curriculum encouraging critical thinking

This paper reports results from a case study focused on understanding student practices regarding production-oriented problem-solving with digital media. Thirty-seven students participated in an elective curriculum called, “Techno Savvy,” a nine-week course focused on student exploration of global issues, and designed around Web 2.0 tools. Socio-constructivist theory provided the theoretical lens to write and study the curriculum. Complexity in student practices using digital media tools to determine critical thinking is highlighted. Data were analyzed for patterns observed in student practices, video, artifacts, oral, and written work. Results suggest that student interaction and practices afforded by tools and content within the curriculum encourage critical thinking. This study implies a need for further classroom research linking pedagogical approaches with digital media to critical thinking and achievement.

Engaging allied-health students with virtual learning environment using course management system tutorial site.

Human Anatomy and Physiology I and II are major gateway courses into nursing and other health related sciences careers. Being a New York City community college, the students at Queensborough Community College are highly diverse not only in their ethnic and cultural background, but also in the levels of preparedness. When they take Human Anatomy-Physiology I as the first pre-requisite class, many are either freshman or returning students after a hiatus. Many students lack formal training in Science or Biology and are overwhelmed by the depth and immensity of the material presented in above courses. Though the enrollment for these classes is heavy; above factors lead to high attrition rates. However one common feature of this new generation of students is their access and familiarity to the internet, digital technology and other techno gadgets such as smart phones, tablets, etc. Though it is hard for us to accept, it is a fact that today’s generation of students (generation Y) is more techno savvy and these gadgets engage (or distract) them more than books. This indicated a clear need for developing alternatives to traditional teaching methods to engage students of an urban community college setting. We decided to investigate if a web-based supplemental tutorial would help engage these students and thus help them build their course knowledge base to improve their academic performance.

4th Generation Networks: Emphasizing Wireless Network Services – The Techno Savvy World

Networks are the most important thinks and facet in today’s world. Fourth generation networks are the most contemporary network platform responsible for the reliable and transport data delivery. Before the 4th generation networks 3rd generation networks are considered as important which depends on both circuit switching and packet switching strategies. The 3G is actually introduced with new value added subject/ services rather than only speed and higher bandwidth. Due to various problems of the 3G networks the 4G networks are emerged during the last of the decade. The 4th Generation network provides so much speed and bandwidth but it needs adequate infrastructure and finance. Today many developing countries as like developed countries introducing 4th generation networks and its wider facilities.

Confidence, Thy Name is Techno Savvy Woman!

No violence, no loneliness, and no insignificance only confidence. It is in you o! Woman! A widow burning in Sati, a wife remained to a house hold, a woman studies for only dealing washer man’s accounts disappear today! It is the woman not only an ever loving mother or an adoring partner or an ever caring sister but also a path maker, being well educated, to the modern world and its development. It is a presentation about such a woman who is an inspiration for the rest and it also discusses the life style of an educated working It focuses the crucial role played by woman technologists in the modern world in turn how the woman is growing and going ahead keeping the sky as a limit in due course of her life journey. The paper also brings out ups and downs in the life style of an educated working On the other hand it advises such women how to overcome the discrimination at their work place and contradicts the existence of domination. Finally these techno-savvy women stand as an example for self reliance, confidence and self respect. And it is also proved that the technology, education, domination, creation always do not belong only to a certain class but for women too. Thus it proves “Confidence, thy name is techno savvy woman.

Understanding ICT Based Advantages: A Techno Savvy Case Study

An international association advancing the multidisciplinary study of informing systems. Founded in 1998, the Informing Science Institute (ISI) is a global community of academics shaping the future of informing science.

Increasing Rate of Attrition in BPO

In the global business scenario, BPO is on top of the list today. The new age workforce comprises mostly of knowledge workers, who are techno savvy, aware of market realities, materially focused and who have higher propensity to switch jobs. The challenge of acquiring new talent and retaining the existing talent is only going to intensify. The present study is an attempt to explore the reality of attrition problem in the BPO sector and study how people are managed in BPOs. 100 employees who work in various BPOs of NCR, Delhi participated in the study. Data were collected by using both quantitative and qualitative scales of measurement. Focus group discussion (FGD) and personal interview method (PIM) were also used. Results were interpreted in the light of existing theories and subjective themes that emerged in FGDs as well as in the PIMs.