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If you have always aspired to become a teacher, lateral entry teaching (quereinstieg lehramt) could be something that can interest you. Normally, in order to become a teacher, after the mainstream of education, one must pursue specialized courses to become teachers and take exams to qualify. But as a lateral entry teacher, you can start teaching immediately while obtaining your teaching license as you teach, without having to spend extra time on the training period.

Steps involved in becoming a lateral entry teacher:

Lateral entry teaching is also called as an “alternate route”. In order to become a lateral entry teacher, the applicant in question must possess a degree in a particular field of study with certain criteria specified by the respective universities or the education system of the specific country. Hence, in a nutshell, obtaining a degree in a specified field is the first step.

Ideally, the next step is to appear for the teacher training and clear the examination. This is done while specifically dedicating a few years for it. However, under the lateral entrant scheme, a lateral entry teacher obtains a teaching position immediately after the degree. This is done under the assumption that the teacher in question will obtain a teacher’s license in the next four years while teaching.

Once they are placed in a teaching position, they are then allotted the curriculum. This curriculum helps them in developing the competencies required in order to obtain a teaching certification. As a part of the coursework, the teachers are expected to get trained in theory, instructional technology, organizational skills of the classroom, and student management. The graduates who are lateral entry teachers are required to fulfill the competencies required in the first three years itself, although they have four whole years.

Lateral entry teachers are also expected to follow the same regulations as any other teacher with a certification. If the lateral entry teachers are placed in a public school, then it is mandatory to undergo a training session for two weeks. In case they don’t want to undergo the two weeks training, you can avoid it by submitting evidence of equivalent training.

The lateral entry teachers are granted a lateral entry license. For this to remain valid, the lateral entry teachers must meet the credit requirements within the first three years. During this entire period, their status remains like the beginning.

Conclusion:

The lateral entry teachers are entitled to the same salary and benefits as the other teachers with certification are entitled to. The lateral entry teachers also fulfill the additional college courses during this period and become eligible for the certification. The school or establishment recruiting the lateral entry teachers must submit a joint application along with the teacher to the federal establishment. The teacher must complete an approved education program from a reputed institution. This institution will give guidelines as to what the teacher must earn in so far as extra credit is concerned. Certain credits can be replaced by successful teaching experience also. Thus, the lateral entry teachers start teaching immediately after their graduation while earning their certification alongside teaching.

Speaking at the Gartner Mobile and Wireless summit in London, Gartner research vice-president Ian Keene said that five key wireless technologies are likely to emerge in the next five years to make the lives of anyone managing wireless networks even more complicated.

In the personal space, Bluetooth will be joined by Zigbee for low-power telemetry with batteries that last months or years.

Office wireless LANs will finally see 802.11n along side the b, g and sometimes a standards we have today. However, at 300MBPS, Wi-Fi N will require Gigabit Ethernet to the access point and in many cases new Power over Ethernet systems to deliver the increased power requirements needed. For the wide area network, a combination of copper, fibre and WiMAX will be creeping in. “Not WiMAX as mobile, but WiMAX as a fixed solution,” he stressed.

For the mobile arena, today we have moved from GPRS to EDGE to WCDMA, pockets of HSDPA (High Speed Data Packet Access, sometimes called 3.5G) and the promise of HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access). In some parts of Asia and the United States, companies will also need a CDMA strategy. Then there is the future potential of WiMAX.

Despite the hype, 4G is still not here today and already it is questionable if it makes economic sense to invest in the backhaul for today’s HSDPA and HSUPA mobile broadband.

802.16d fixed WiMAX might well die in the trough of disillusionment and be replaced by mobile WiMAX 802.16e in fixed installations which will deliver greater economies of scale.

Keene said that the entire mobile market was up until now driven by hype. Vendors are pushing new products to operators to invest a lot of money in scared that their competition will invest in it and succeed with something they do not have.

Today, the GSM family together has 79 percent of connections as of the end of 2006. This is significant as these operators will likely evolve with the GSM family to 3G WCDMA, HSPA and to LTE as they will need backward compatibility as their networks evolve.

For 3G, Gartner forecast that the GSM family would capture 89 percent of worldwide connections, some one billion by 2011. Meanwhile pre-3G GSM continues to grow in developing countries and the entire family will reach around four billion user by then.

However, the question is not just GSM versus CDMA, but there are emerging IP-based technologies such as WiMAX, municipal Wi-Fi and other proprietary stuff that is vying for the next 4G standard.

Maintenance of a platform’s Waste Heat Recovery Unit (WHRU) and similar shell and tube heat exchangers can be an extremely dangerous process. It needs to be disconnected, taken off line, and moved to shore for repair. Shell and tube heat exchangers are made of coiled tubes and can become fouled with carbon deposits. The traditional methods for clearing the blockage include bypassing the fouled unit, cutting off bends and cleaning the tubes, then re-welding the U-bends, and complete unit replacement.

The old methods are becoming more outmoded due to advancements in technology. It is inefficient to bypass the unit. Just as it would be less efficient to run your car with 2 cylinders not firing. This inefficiency, of course, also increases operational costs. It is time consuming and costly to cut the U-bends and re-weld them. Sometimes it can be difficult or impossible to get access to reattach them.

Some of these new methods include the ability to clean areas with limited access, and clear deposits from U-bends without ever removing them. This can sometimes be done without even taking the unit offline, and usually takes less time and results in a higher degree of defouling. In fact, many units can be restored to near-factory efficiency. For big refineries, petro-chemical plants, or power plants, this can amount to six figure savings.

The U-bends themselves also retain many deposits, and continue to be a bottleneck to the system. Full replacement carries the cost of completely replacing equipment that, other than the heat exchanger tube fouling, is still in working order. This method also requires the unit be taken offline for the full duration of replacement. obviously this carries a heavy expense and serious loss of production.

Traditional heat exchanger cleaning methods and heat exchanger cleaning equipment have changed very little over the last few decades. Pressure jetting is still the primary means used by many companies, but it is slow, inefficient, and ultimately very costly. Additionally, many companies are skeptical of newer methods, falling back on the “that’s the way it’s always been done,” chain of logic. They are also weary of trying new techniques that are not as “proven” to be effective. Finally, many have long term tube cleaning contracts that do not allow for a change in heat exchanger cleaning technique, unless the contractor were to adopt the new methods.

Newer heat exchanger cleaning equipment and techniques are more technologically advanced, and by extension, require a higher skilled laborer than old style pressure jetting. These new developments include the ability to clean tight radius bends, clean units while keeping them in place, and even while keeping them online. It has also resulted in faster, more efficient cleaning. Many tube bundles can now be cleaned more effectively than with pressure jetting, and jobs that used to take days may now take only a few hours. Difficult to access units are now accessible with these new technologies.

Online = Technology. How can you make money online without even knowing how to use the Internet or at least the computer? Anyway that’s not my main topic. My main topic is that in order to make money online, you need to embrace technology. Find out what’s the latest technological tools that people are using to get head of the competition. Technology are actually meant to make things more productive and efficient.

Web 2.0 seem to be the latest thing to hit the online community. Even blogs are considered part of web 2.0. So what is Web 2.0? It is those social networking sites that you are seeing online like Facebook, Digg, YouTube, Squidoo etc… All these belong to an arsenal of Web 2.0 tools that people are now using to increase blog traffic so why not use it since it’s available and most people are using?

One of the things you can do is to sign up for accounts with the more popular social networking sites. Start an account and do up your profile, not forgetting to leave your blog address behind for people to click on. Take advantage of Web 2.0 to build relationship and credibility with the people you meet or socialize online. Maybe they are now your competitors but who knows one day they might become your partners? If they are your partners, you have one less competitor to overcome so it makes making money online easier, probably even make more money as a result? You are killing two birds with one stone.

Throughout philosophical discussions concerning technology the concept of “human nature,” and its influence, are often referenced. Upon examining consciousness within a technological context the idea of a loss of humanity or individuality continually arises. Curiously, this seems to imply something very strange – specifically that the major trends of human nature are ultimately leading to its own demise. The abstraction of human characteristics and qualities, such as talent and emotion, which emerges from the influence of human nature on technology, causes a reasonable sense of fear and unnaturalness in most people. It’s clear and obvious that the world is rapidly changing in a way that history has never felt before. Socially, environmentally, and even spiritually, humankind is experiencing a metamorphosis. Issues that have stirred the minds of fanatics and dreamers for centuries are finally coming to a boil. Despite this, we may find consolation in the idea that perhaps human beings are simply a stepping-stone in the bigger picture, and that quality which we refer to as ‘humanity,’ actually derives from the whole of the cosmos and will be survived regardless of the fate of the 46 chromosomed machines that claim it as their exclusive birthright.

The twenty-first century is understood to be a pivotal moment in the history of humankind. Through technology human nature is being altered and we begin to face issues that never before existed. In a talk given by Sir Martin Rees, it is argued that this may be our last century on Earth (1). Discussing the immense future lying ahead of us, Rees explains that complexity and intelligence have far to go even here still on earth, not to mention into the depths of space. A main tenet of his argument entails that for the first time humans are able to materially change themselves, and the planet on a global scale. With the arrival of the internet, complexity and abundance of information has sky-rocketed. Slowly, digital information is becoming more important than material things (consider cash versus electronic banking, etc.). Perhaps this transition is also affecting humanity itself. Our own ability, and desire, to change ourselves may in the end result in the loss of ourselves. Bioengineering and bionics aside, I assert that most vital role will be played by the systems we create in this ‘infinite game.’ Humanity itself is based on information systems, in various regards. Our physical selves result from genetic information. Our minds, our consciousness, are all essentially information processed through a system. Everything that defines humanity seems to be compatible.

Interestingly enough, there is already a website that is devoted to “the putative future process of copying one’s mind from the natural substrate of the brain into an artificial one, manufactured by humans.” “The Mind Uploading Webpage, (2)” also details a list of various issues and questions that seem to arise from the concept, including personal identities, brain enhancements, and artificial realities. What future does a website like this promise in the developing context of web 3.0 and beyond? Imagine once something like this invades our everyday lifestyle – the explicit and intentional outsourcing of the human brains. The reason why I have focused so much on this mental outsourcing and expansion of humanity is because it points to result in something even more complex than the sum of its parts. The various digital systems that humanity has begun to embrace, interconnected within a system itself (which will ultimately be a descendant of today’s internet), will itself eventually develop into a conscious, sentiment being. As described in an article from the New York Times by Jim Holt, something as simple as a rock may “be viewed as an all-purpose information processor.”