The Future of Technology
Brief Description
Students explore historical predictions about technology and design a technology product they think will be available in 2025.
Objectives
Students explore the history of technology and use what they know about the past and the present to make predictions about the future.
Keywords
technology, future, predictions
Read the Signposts timelines perspectives on the past:
http://www.jrmooneyham.com/future_history_timeline.html
http://www.jrmooneyham.com/signposts-timeline-perspectives-on-the-past.html
Complete worksheet
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_lp2276.shtml
Lesson:
Students complete the Technology Predictions from the Past work sheet and discuss the correct answers.
Invite students to read An Illustrated Speculative Timeline of Technology and Social Change for the Next One Thousand Years, Futurists: Technology wonders ahead, or other print and online resources on the future of technology.
Ask students to design and describe a technology product they think will be available in 2025.
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Welcome! Enjoy your summer!
During the summer of 2010, students will expand their thinking and knowledge of an area to present their findings to their 8th grade classmates in the fall. Students will get a jump start on their CORE classes for the 8th grade curriculum.
The model uses higher order thinking skills, critical thinking (analyzing, evaluating, organizing, synthesizing), possibly to be sent to news stations, newspapers, internet sites, etc., to let America and the world know that the youth of today is tomorrow’s future. Students have rights and voices concerning the state of the planet when they become of age to make the important decisions concerning the future of their children.
The model uses higher order thinking skills, critical thinking (analyzing, evaluating, organizing, synthesizing), possibly to be sent to news stations, newspapers, internet sites, etc., to let America and the world know that the youth of today is tomorrow’s future. Students have rights and voices concerning the state of the planet when they become of age to make the important decisions concerning the future of their children.
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