The role of computer skills in the formation of modern translator's professional competence

Computer Assisted Translation

Is a form of language translation in wich human translator uses computer software to support and facilitate the translation process.

Terminology management systems

TMS-system allow translator to create and maintain a personal databse of terminology, which is referred to as a 'termbase'.

This are the benefits of using TMS-systems:
 1. Localization software: involves making the product linguistically and culturally appropriate for a target technology.

2. Professional translators need humanistic and technological profile (translation skills).

ICT, Education, Transformation, and Economic Development; an analysis of the US National Educational Technology Plan

US deparment of Education, released a draft of the National Educational Technology Plan (NETP)

The NETP calls for a transformation of American education, describes the tectonic shifts ocurring in the US economy and society.

ICT, Education Transformation, and Economic Development.

Five sorts of research are reviewed in this article:
1. Macroeconomic research.
2. Microeconomic research.
3. Labor marker and workforce studies.
4. Studies showing  patterns.
5. Studies showing  that American schools are not using ICT in significant way.

If educational technology policy, or education reform policy more generally, is doing to contribute to economic grown and prosperity, prepare Americans to compete in the global economy.

Microeconomic trends: changes in business organization and practices

• It has fostered fundamental changes in how business is done across a range of economic sectors.

• Microeconomic studies confirm the impact of ICT on business practice.
  
• Productivity increases come by using ICT. 

How ICT enabling the collaboration and cordination of workers?

• Between companies and their customers for example: Walt-Mart uses ICT to track goods, frade information with suppliers. 

Labor Market Trends: need a different skill set 

 

Educational trends: the current state of education

By the beginning of the 20th century, as the country was moving away from a agrarian society and economic model, elementary education had become universally available.

 

 

 

 

Services with everything

A fundamental transformation of services

is underway, driven by developments in information and communications technology (ICT) tools, the uses to which they are being put, and the networks on which they run.

The algorithmic revolution transforms activities. 

The transformation of services with ICT tools is dramatic,pervasive, and far-reaching. Activities are transformed, firms are turning to services in pursuit of value, and traditional boundaries are breaking down between products and services, manufacturing and services, and traditional industrial sectors.

 

As ICT tools enabled advances in materials science, leading to a proliferation of new materials engineered for specific tasks, firms such as Airbus, Audi, and Ford turned outside their organizations for sophisticated knowledge and tools to work with the new material .The constant evolution and growing power of ICT tools constantly increases the range of services that can be ―transformed‖ into automated or hybrid services

 

Services are a form of production ever more supported by information

They include:

• Conectivity 
• People 
• Goverment

Translation and technology

The integration of technology into the translation has changed the way translator follows during the translation process.
These new ways that are different from models of the
traditional translation have also facilitated what translators
do since they have accelarated the translation process and increased productivity as well as developing teamwork skill.

With the integration of the technology into the tranlation teaching and translation studies, translators have started knowing and understanding how they can separate translatable parts of a text from untranslatable ones in software programs in order to avoid erroneous translations which can delay the release of the product. Information mining or having knowledge of the entire subject matterin the digital age is not as important as acquiring or understanding the skills/tasks metioned above because the former can now be provided by translation memories (TM systems)or other CAT tools for translators or translation students .

UNESCO ICTS Competency Framework for Teachers

The framework project

in view of the importance of ICT for education, UNESCO, working closely with its partners

UNESCO's education polices and projects.

A critical question is what are the ICT skills, values and proficiencies you want your educator community to strive towards? A good way to start answering this question is by interrogating the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers. This framework provides a comprehensive set of essential competencies defined and agreed by an international committee of educators working under the banner of UNESCO. 

The framwork project: linking ICT education and the economy

The ICT-CFT project embraces the goals of these education programmes and UNESCOS's and the UN's of education

The ICT-CFT supports this programmes

Three factores of economic growth

• Capital Deepening
• The ability of the workforce to use
• Higher quality labour

Technological innovation

• The approaches of the framework
• Technology literacy
• Knowledge deepening
• knowledge creation

The six aspects of a teacher's work

1. Understandig ICTS in education
2. Curriculum and assesment
3. Pedagogy
4. ICT
5. arganisation and administration
6. Teacher professional learning

Education Reform

• Modules
• Technology literacy
• In the earlt stages of developement

An effective use of ICT for education and learning

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become commonplace entities in all aspects of life. The use of ICT in education lends itself to more student-centred learning settings. ICTs for education refers to the development of information and communications technology specifically for teaching/learning purposes, while the ICTs in education involves the adoption of general components of information and communication technologies in the teaching learning process.

The adoption and use of ICTs in education have a positive impact on teaching, learning, and research. ICT can affect the delivery of education and enable wider access to the same. In addition, it will increase flexibility so that learners can access the education regardless of time and geographical barriers. It can influence the way students are taught and how they learn. It would provide the rich environment and motivation for teaching learning process which seems to have a profound impact on the process of learning in education by offering new possibilities for learners and teachers.

 

 

Process, performance dirvers and ICT tools in human resources management

Human resource management

6 key qualities of an HR manager:

• Organization
• Ethics
• Problem Solving
• Communication
• Expertize
• Leadership

HR managers to be accountable and/or responsible for the following business processes:

• Preparing and reviewing capacity planning.
• Interviewing and recruting.
• Managing personnel evidence.
• Instituting programs for retention and growth.
• Evaluating employee efficence.
• Desisgning administrative and supportive processes.
• Outplacement and discharge.

Perfformance Drivers

A “performance driver” will be henceforth used to mark activities or actions that increase potential to achieve hugher level of corporate performance, deliver increased outcomes with available resources.

Performance drivers can be further divided into several categories. Clear distinction can bemade for example between the following categories:

• For any and all organizations with very rare exceptions and specific.
• Consequently apllied and non recursing (single use)