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Unit Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: From Carbons to Computers, the Changing American Office

For Students 9th - 10th
A site including lesson plans, photographs, and text about the offices of yesterday and those of today. Topics discussed include office equipment, office organization, globalization, and technology. Also included is an historical...
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Website
Other

The Center for the Study of Technology and Society

For Students 9th - 10th
This online magazine offers the latest news and information concerning the relationship between society and available technologies.
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Article
New York Times

New York Times: What Students Are Saying About How Much They Use Their Phones, and Whether We Should Be Worried

For Students 9th - 10th
New research challenges assumptions about the negative effects of social media and smartphones on children. Reporters asked teenagers whether their parents should worry about how much time they spend on their devices. This article...
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Educause Review: Digital Ethics in Higher Education: 2020

For Students 9th - 10th
New technologies, especially those relying on artificial intelligence or data analytics, are exciting but also present ethical challenges that deserve our attention and action. This is a lengthy article that discusses many issues that...
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Article
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Diffusion Theory and Instructional Technology

For Students 11th - 12th
This paper discusses the diffusion of culture through technological change. (1997)
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Website
Other

Cpsr: Cyber Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
CPSR offers an informative discussion of current legal and policy topics hosted by group working for rights of assembly and speech for online communities.
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Website
Eserver

E Server: Exploring Technoculture: Computers, Society, & Pedagogy

For Students 9th - 10th
An annotated bibliography on technoculture. Contains brief reviews of book sources as well as a few Internet links.
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Website
Harvard University

Harvard University: Berkman Center for Internet and Society

For Students 9th - 10th
This center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace by investigating the real and possible boundaries in cyberspace between open and closed systems of code, commerce, governance, and education, and the relationship of law to...
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Primary
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The Impact of Information Technology on Work and Society

For Students 9th - 10th
The aim of this report is to provide a brief summary of some of the main technological developments that have taken place in information technology and how these developments have had an influence on the way we work and on society in...
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Website
United Nations

Unesco: Information and Communication Tech in Development

For Students 9th - 10th
This report presents a number of views and proposals voiced in recent UNESCO-sponsored forums concerning the challenge of Information Highways for development. The official position of the Organization can be found in the document...
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Brainspire: Technology and Society: How Technology Changed Our Lives

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses how technology and society change each other. When technologies change, societies change as well and those changes often result in the need for more technology. This creates a cyclical relationship between the two....
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Other

Samuel Centre: Effects of Technological Innovations on Social Interactions

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness discusses how technology has altered humans' interactions in their daily lives. Machines and automation have replaced our interactions with service people. It looks at the...
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Youth Time Magazine: Does Over Reliance on Tech Affect Our Ability to Spell?

For Students 9th - 10th
Technology can bring a lot of convenience into our lives. But it can also make us rely a little too much on our phones, tablets, laptops, and smart watches. Spelling and grammar is something that seems to suffer due to our over-reliance...
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Other

Digital Responsibility: Environmental and Societal Impact of Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
What happens to your old phone or laptop when you get a new one, and how does the increasing amount of technotrash impact the environment? Who makes all of your technological devices, and what kind of working conditions do they have? How...
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Primary
Other

Morino Institute: Promise of a New Communications Age

For Students 9th - 10th
This speech outlines the nature of the communications revolution, establishes a framework for the most important challenges that must be addressed and proposes an Agenda for Action for individuals and groups to take advantage of the...