Objective: 1. Students will exercise their reading comprehension skills..
2. Students will compose a one page essay based on their selection of writing prompt.
Materials:
Handout copies of "Computers are poised to become something completely different" (Health Science Section of New Haven Register 2/25/99)
Dictionaries
Procedures:
a. Day 1 Class Notes - Technology in Every-Day Life:
Some of tomorrow's technologies are right around the corner, according to futurists. Imagine ....
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· Personalized computers: Your computer will recognize your voice and carry out your commands.
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· Next generation TV: Your television set will be large and flat and hang on the wall like a painting. You will be able to use it as a computer monitor and/or for holding video conferences.
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· Cyber cash: You will carry around "smart cards" that look like credit cards and use them for buying anything from soda in a vending machine to equipment from overseas.
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· Smart materials: New materials will be able to give off warnings by changing color when they are about to break.
b. Day 1 Classwork
Students will define these terms in class before reading the article:
conglomeration, cranium, spreadsheet, miniaturization, translate, logic, ingrained, bandwidth
c. Day 1 Homework
Begin or complete reading the handout article. Write down at least three questions, concerns or comments inspired by the reading.
d. Day 2 Discussion
Discuss the major implications of the article and encourage student centerd questions, comments or concerns.
e. Day 2 Writing Assignment
Choose one of the following writing prompts to compose a one page essay.
1. Learning about the impact of technology is.....
2. Computers will / will not make books obsolete in the future because ...
3. In the future computers will ......
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ENDNOTES
1. Osborne, John. The Silent Revolution - The Industrial Revolution in England as a Source of Cultural Change, p. 21
2. Ibid p. 23
3. Ibid p 23
4. Ibid p. 25
5. Ibid p. 25
6. Ibid p. 27
7. Ibid p. 36
8. Ibid p. 37
9. Ibid p. 37
10. Dertouzos, Michael. What Will Be, p. 4
11. Ibid p. 5
12. Ibid p. 5
13. Ibid p. 5
14. Ibid p. 31
15. Ibid p.31
16. Ibid p. 32
17. Ibid p. 22
18. Tierney, John. Our Oldest Computer Upgraded (New York Times Magazine 9/28/97)
19. Ibid p. 46
20. Ibid p. 46
21. Ibid p. 47
22. Ibid p. 47
23. Ibid p. 47
24. Ibid p. 47
25. Ibid p. 47