Slavery Footprint

Activity

  1. Take the survey individually (the last “none-question” require sensitivity).
  2. Note the number of slaves your lifestyle requires.

Headline: Opinion / Editorial

Write a headline that best captures your opinions after calculating your slavery footprint.

 

or use this prompt

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

Find What’s Funny: Texting Driver

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Find things the cartoonist has done to make this funny and to get a point across.
  2. Identify support for your claim.
  3. Ask a question related to your own use of technology.

Twitter to Flutter!!!!!!!

How did Flutter evolve?

What is an advantage of Flutter over Twitter?

What is the discussion really about?

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

Laptop – Global Supply Chain

Here is a map of how the parts of a typical laptop are sourced globally to create what ends up with consumers.

View an expanded version? Here’s an image with a more basic description of where parts of it came from.

All this (and more) has been done to bring your this amazing tool. What will you do with it?

Story Telling

Look into the future three years and then tell the story of what amazing things you have done with this laptop.

Combine Harvester

Cluster what You See

  1. Draw or use clustering software
  2. What’s the main idea or feeling? Put it in the center.
  3. Work as a class to brainstorm as much as you can about the movie.
  4. Group or connect any of the items into larger sets.

 

Whose Future?

In 1994, the Digital Corporation produced this sexy preview of what the Web had to offer the world. They titled it “VisionShift.” Less than fifteen years later, look how this “Web” has evolved into a phone platform with personalized, location-based offerings that far exceed our wildest dreams in 1994.

Many have seen Pattie Maes’ TEDTalks on the Sixth Sense technology that is currently feasible for less than a topflight phone…

The question is not, “Will this really become available?”  Nor even “When?” The question for us to address is,

“Honestly, what might Sixth Sense become in fifteen years time that we can’t even imagine right now?”

Now let’s add a kicker:

“What are schools doing so that students’ can take advantage of such personal learning potential?”

Twitter Symptoms

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Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

Touch Technology

What will students be using in 5 years?

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

Robotics – Honda Ad

Is technology like robotics good as suggested by this ad?

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

Youtube Video Contest

YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video

What is this video really saying about people and YouTube? Do you agree ot disagree?

Claim-Support-Question

  1. Make a claim about the topic
  2. Identify support for your claim
  3. Ask a question related to your claim

This video is from The Onion satire site.

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