Eden C. Stein
The pinnacle of the unit will be a chance for students to imagine their own future world with a creative piece of short fiction utilizing all the information and texts they have been exposed to. In this service, students will be encouraged to review and reflect on the charts we have created outlining the attributes of utopias and dystopian societies they have read about, as well as the reflective writing they have done. They will spend some time pre-writing, including maps and drawings if they prefer, leading up to the actual drafting of a short story that they will then get to conference and revise. Students will really enjoy this process and benefit from the opportunity to allow their imaginations to run wild in order to solve some of the problems we have learned about, anticipate, and foreshadow in our study of digital lives and social media. Their creative short fiction piece should reflect at least some of the criteria for a utopia or dystopia which we have outlined in our study.
