Dragon lecture – social change

Themes from Dragon lecture

1) idealism and altruism

2) unique technological visions

3) big money tied in stocks

Course Overview – Thinking Maps graphic, Intro course website and syllabus

Begin poster session – rubric and handouts

Monday and Weds

Communication and the Internet (1) combine all areas of study (2) intrapersonal (3) relationship dialectics (4) presents an amplifying effect – individual change

Review of terms from class and reading

Demonstrate poster session, and review assignment

Online chat room experience

Get Thinking Maps software

Start blogs

Survey monkey

Circle map introductions

Photos of students

Warriors of the Web

History of PC

Week One

Back in the saddle!!

Weds and Thurs.

Technology inventory: hardware (), software (), values () thinking map

Epic (check this out) – study of dramatic change for individuals and society, compare with human timeline, compare generations – two previous and the next, a few things about change (1) hard to see from within (2) social changes appear accelerating (3) inevitable but we can see patterns, try to make predictions

Themes from Epic that will reappear through the semester

1) Growth toward monopoly, accelerating change with unforeseen consequences, winners and losers

2) power of multinational corporations, global governing bodies, absence of regulations that account for other interests

3) one stop shopping – supermarket mentality

4) technological determinism, computer anxiety

Dragon lecture – social change

Themes from Dragon lecture

1) idealism and altruism

2) unique technological visions

3) big money tied in stocks

Course Overview – Thinking Maps graphic, Intro course website and syllabus

Begin poster session – rubric and handouts