Period 7: Please complete and turn in your Podcast projects!
If you haven't read the article on technology and answered the homework ?'s, please attend to that. Turn in your homework assignment for participation credit (this is officially due Monday, March 6). If you're done, though, please turn in your work.
ACTIVITY: Volunteers (teams of 4) will choose either to be PRO technology, or ANTI technology. These two groups will be asked to discuss/debate the topic while the rest of us view the debate in a classroom fishbowl next class (Monday).
But first, let's do some research. If you are speaking/debating the topic focus on your position. Take notes (use index cards, if you'd like) to get some idea as to what to argue on the topic. If you are not one of the debaters, please select one of the bulleted topics, research the topic, and prepare to share with us a 1 minute evaluation/presentation on the item. See below for details.
Media technology is often seen as the "wave of the future". The message is clear: if you don't want to be left behind in the last century, you've got to join the system. Here's an example:
Media technology includes desktop publishing, print-on-demand, the internet, video-games, cable, satellite, and global television, digital and interactive television, CD's, DVD's, Blue Ray, etc. Every year new products appear on the technological horizon--each one promises to be better than the last. But who remembers the 8-track, or the laser disc, or the Atari 2600? The central question might be: do we need all this stuff? The media's answer: yes.
The Story of Stuff (2007) video documentary
Technological Determinism: The assumption that technological progress is inevitable and that it is necessary for social change.
HOMEWORK: None. Make sure you are prepared to discuss/debate your topic Monday during class. We will also screen our podcasts at that time. If you are missing work, please try to catch up!
If you haven't read the article on technology and answered the homework ?'s, please attend to that. Turn in your homework assignment for participation credit (this is officially due Monday, March 6). If you're done, though, please turn in your work.
ACTIVITY: Volunteers (teams of 4) will choose either to be PRO technology, or ANTI technology. These two groups will be asked to discuss/debate the topic while the rest of us view the debate in a classroom fishbowl next class (Monday).
But first, let's do some research. If you are speaking/debating the topic focus on your position. Take notes (use index cards, if you'd like) to get some idea as to what to argue on the topic. If you are not one of the debaters, please select one of the bulleted topics, research the topic, and prepare to share with us a 1 minute evaluation/presentation on the item. See below for details.
Anti Technology: build a case against rampant consumption of technology--is all technology necessary? What are the negative effects of some technology? Look this up and be prepared to declare: why can't we live a simple life in our cabin in the woods like Thoreau?
Pro Technology: build a case for the consumption of technology--how does technology help us improve our lives? Look this up and be prepared to declare: we can't live without technology!
Others: (choose 1 item from this list and research. Each of you will present a quick 1-2 minute presentation on the item and ultimately decide if the innovation/invention was good or bad for humanity)
- The Wheel
- The Printing Press
- The Internet
- Semiconductor electronics
- The Atom Bomb (Nuclear Fission)
- Cement
- Air conditioning
- Fracking
- Dynamite
- The Steam Engine
- Refrigeration
- Optical lenses
- The Telegraph
- The Radio
- The Microwave
- The Telephone
- The Television
- The gun
- The Airplane
- The mechanized clock
- Paper money
- The assembly line
- Cigarettes
- Styrofoam
- Alcohol
- The Cotton Gin
Media technology is often seen as the "wave of the future". The message is clear: if you don't want to be left behind in the last century, you've got to join the system. Here's an example:
Media technology includes desktop publishing, print-on-demand, the internet, video-games, cable, satellite, and global television, digital and interactive television, CD's, DVD's, Blue Ray, etc. Every year new products appear on the technological horizon--each one promises to be better than the last. But who remembers the 8-track, or the laser disc, or the Atari 2600? The central question might be: do we need all this stuff? The media's answer: yes.
The Story of Stuff (2007) video documentary
Technological Determinism: The assumption that technological progress is inevitable and that it is necessary for social change.
HOMEWORK: None. Make sure you are prepared to discuss/debate your topic Monday during class. We will also screen our podcasts at that time. If you are missing work, please try to catch up!
"But who remembers the 8-track, or the laser disc, or the Atari 2600?"
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