Agenda: Week 4 10/25/17-10/29, 2017

Monday

Impact of Technology Argument:

Individual: research one of the following technologies and write up your findings in a paper (approximately one page). 

Choose from these topics:

• Glass
• Wheel
• Printing press
• Car
• Computer
• Household appliances
• Battery
• Vaccines

 Include the following:

• Name of Technology:
• Brief Description
• Approximate Dates
• Ways it changed society
• Sources
• Due Wednesday.
• Group: compare your research and determine which technology has had the greatest impact on our society. Create a presentation that convinces us that your argument is correct. 
• Due Monday, 10/1.

Tuesday

• Work on paper

Wednesday 

 MLA

Resources:

• Sample Paper 
• In-class example: 
• Header: last name and auto page number
• Spacing and font
• Tab for titles, paragraphs
• Set the tab for block quotes, citations (hanging indent)

Thursday

• Group: compare your research and determine which technology has had the greatest impact on our society. Create a presentation that convinces us that your argument is correct. 
• Use a basic argument structure: claim based on reasons supported by evidence. 
• Due Monday, 10/1.

Friday

• Group: compare your research and determine which technology has had the greatest impact on our society. Create a presentation that convinces us that your argument is correct. 
• Use a basic argument structure: claim based on reasons supported by evidence. 
• Due Monday, 10/1.

Agenda: Week 3 9/18–9/22, 2017

Monday-Thursday

• Notes on Defining Technology
• Complete your document on your technology definition and submit (see Google Classroom)
• Begin work on Technology Family Tree showing how technology builds on itself:
• Demo: Harry Potter and the Tech Family Tree
• Create a Tech Family Tree for your cell phone (due Wednesday)
• Use LucidChart
• Group project; be able to list who contributed what
• Show what technological innovations were necessary to produce your cell phone
• Each innovation gets its own bubble on the chart
• Include the approximate year (or century) for each innovation
• Explain your connections
• To get an "A", go back at least 2000 years
• Bonus points for including images

Friday

Look at this website on technology timelines and then finish your family tree.

Then, turn in your technology definition assignment.

Agenda: Week 2

Monday:

• Take this Google Self-Assessment
• Connect to Google Classroom and complete the task assigned there.
• 2nd hour: mc508cq
• 4th hour: 58pyxmx
• 6th hour: aemuzp
• 7th hour: xqg90u

Tuesday

• Question: what is technology and why does it matter?
• Research
• Compare and evaluate three different definitions 
• Include examples of things that are and are not technology
• Present with a slideshow

Wednesday

• Begin completing the Technology Definition Worksheet (in Google Classroom)

Thursday 

• Finish presentations; take notes.
• Present
• Debrief and add to worksheet

Friday

• Read through this website: comic about technology (note: one of the links is out of date)
• Refine and complete group definition worksheet