• Access and Evaluate Information
  • Exceeds Expectations - Accesses many technological resources. Selects a technological resource appropriate for topic. Evaluates information source critically.
  • Meets Expectations - Accesses some technological resources. Selects a technological resource appropriate for topic Evaluates information source competently.
  • Needs Improvement - Accesses a limited selection of technological resources. Difficulty selecting a technological resource appropriate for topic. Limited evaluation of information source.
  • Does NOT Meet Expectations - Accesses only a single technological resource. Does not select a technological resource appropriate for topic. No evaluation of information source.

• Use of Information
  • Exceeds Expectations -Uses information with exceptional accuracy and creativity. Applies a strong understanding of ethical and legal issues surrounding access and use of information.
  • Meets Expectations -Uses information with accuracy and creativity. Applies an adequate understanding of ethical and legal issues surrounding access and use of information.
  • Needs Improvement - Uses information with limited accuracy and creativity. Demonstrates little attention to ethical and legal issues surrounding access and use of information.
  • Does NOT Meet Expectations - Uses information with little or no accuracy and creativity. Disregards ethical and legal issues and use of information.

Standard 3:

• Analyze Media
  • Exceeds Expectations - Demonstrates insight into the construction and purpose of media message. Displays a high level of awareness of the underlying bias used to influence beliefs and behaviors.
  • Meets Expectations - Demonstrates understanding of construction and purpose of media message. Recognizes underlying bias used to influence beliefs and behaviors.
  • Needs Improvement - Demonstrates a limited understanding of construction and purpose of media message. Displays a limited awareness of underlying bias used to influence and behaviors.
  • Does NOT Meet Expectations - Fails to demonstrate an understanding of construction and purpose of media message. Overlooks underlying bias used to influence beliefs and behaviors.

Standard 4:

• Create and Apply Media and Technology
  • Exceeds Expectations - Demonstrates understanding of a variety of digital creation tools. Applies technology and networking tools innovatively.
  • Meets Expectations - Demonstrates understanding of a variety of digital creation tools. Applies technology and networking tools adequately.
  • Needs Improvement - Demonstrates understanding of a limited selection of digital creation tools. Applies technology and networking tools with difficulty.
  • Does NOT Meet Expectations - Fails to demonstrate and understanding of digital creation tools. Does not apply technology and networking tools effectively.

• Learning Experience:

  Every Friday students will go online and pick out a new technology product to research, document, and informally present their findings to the class. Students are free to pick a product according to their own interests. If students are having trouble finding a product of interest they can go to the New York Times Technology , www.wired.com, http://www.nasa.gov/ , and, http://sciencefriday.com/ . (If that is not enough there are more.. ask me.) - other ideas to use is the new Google Operating System based on the Chrome Web Brower, or new types of batteries for cars.
• Students are to save their documents in a folder in H:/Basic/NewTechnology/. Name your document firstInitialLastNamedate.doc, for example vgold_02_10_2011.doc
If your technology product does not address the following questions, pick another product.
The document should contain:
• Url's of your sources. You should strive to find several sources for your new technology product.
• Embed a picture of the technology in your document.
• The first section of the document should include a description of technology that you have chosen.
  • The quality of the description of the technology must be coherent, the grammar and spelling should be correct, and the document should contain a picture of the new technology.
• The final section of your document should explicitly answer the following questions:

  1. From the information that you have gathered write a short description of each article.

  2. From the information that you have gathered write a short description of each article.

  3. Describe the different points of view of each article. Explain why each of the articles was written, for example was the purpose of the article to compare and contrast similar types of products, or was the article a marketing campaign. You can usually tell by who wrote the article.

4. Do the different articles present different biases? How do they use this bias to influence beliefs and behaviors. Are their techniques believable?

Definition of bias - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=pCO&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&defl=en&q=define:bias&sa=X&ei=vIROTbCANsH68Abjq4T2Dg&ved=0CB4QkAE

influence in an unfair way; "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours"

a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

5. What are the ethical and legal issues surrounding this product, and if so what are they. Any digital rights or copyright issues, inappropriate violence or language, privacy and security issues, or inappropriate data gathering for example from resources medical, advertising resources, or other ways of gathering data.

6. How will your chosen product influence technology of the future?

If your technology product does not address the preceding questions, pick another product.

Students will print out their documents and informally present around the table. Afterwards documents will be posted on the board.

• Section 1: 40 points
  • The description of the technology must be coherent, the grammar and spelling should be correct, and the document should contain a picture of the new technology.
• Section 2: 50 Points (for specifics refer to rubrics)
  • Description of the different articles. (10 Points)
  • Discussion of point of views. (10 Points)
  • What biases do the article publishers have. (10 Points)
  • What legal or ethical issues are associate with the technology or the advertising methods that the company uses to sell their product. (10 Points)
  • Is the technology really a technological breakthrough, or is it a new must-have gizmo? (10 Points)

• Presentation:10 points
  • Students will be graded on how well they deliver their presentation and listen to their classmates presentations.