2nd Interactivity - Due March 6

Due: 5:00pm EST Wednesday, March 6

A reminder that all of your Interactivities are available on this blog, but I wanted to remind you that Interactivity #2 is next in line for your attention.  Please pay careful attention to the grading rubric below.

The first interactivity asked you to self-reflect on your own relationship to communications technologies—and how that relationship might be similar to and/or different from those of the young people that you will teach. At this point, you should be more aware of those technologies that have most influenced your own life and also aware of their negative as well as positive influences. This second interactivity asks you to look back into history to more deeply understand how communications technologies have influenced (for better and worse) the formalized education process through schooling. The purpose for looking backward is to understand how to move forward in renewing schooling to meet the needs of the 21st century.

1. View this 9-minute video that presents a visual history of technology in schools from the period 1900-1990. Ask yourself: Which technology influenced education in my particular content area the most during this historical time period?
   
   
   
   
2. Read Chapter 2 in Rethinking Technology and Schools and the supplementary article, A Social History of Media and Technology in Schools. Based on your reading of these 2 texts, choose one technology that you think has had the greatest impact (for better or worse) upon formalized schooling in your content area between the years 1820 and 1990. Your chosen technology must be grounded in historical evidence from the assigned readings.
   
   
3. Choose or create an image that visually illustrates the impact of this technology upon schooling in your content area. You may find an image on the internet, take your own picture, or create one using a software program. There is no limit to your creativity with this image, as long as it represents how this chosen technology has realistically impacted schooling in your chosen subject area between the years 1820 and 1990.
    
4. Upload your image to your blog and create a single line caption or tagline to explain the message of your image. You may use only one sentence or phrase to describe your image. If you use more than that, points will be deducted from your final score.

This interactivity is worth 100 points and assessment will be as follows:

• Choice of technology (grounded in historical data contained in the assigned readings) (3 points)
• Graphic representation of technological impact on schooling in your subject area (3 points)
• Contribution of text/caption to the overall meaning of your message (3 points)
• Successful upload of image and caption as a blog post (1 point)
• Recommendation: Search through other blogspots and view your classmates' images. Provide commentary or questions to earn your online participation for the week.