Technology
Driving Question: How might technology increase complexity?
Technology has come a long way in a relatively short amount of time. While we can’t see the future, we can learn from the past and present to envision what the technology of the future might be.
Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate how technology impacts human societies.
- Explain how technology might impact our future.
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Ready to take your innovation exploration further? Check out this lesson on climate innovation in OER Project: Climate.
The technology you use today would bewilder a visitor from two centuries ago. But don’t get too smug—someday it’ll happen to you too!
This is one of those steps where we put it all together. Use this article, podcast clip, and activity to see how technology changed the natural world in the past so we can assess what it might do in the future.
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Guiding Questions
We all know how powerful AI can be—but should we be scared of how powerful it might become in the future? Kevin Kelly, senior maverick at Wired magazine, has an answer that might surprise you.
Technology has gotten humanity out of a lot of jams before. Let’s consider some positive possibilities.
Graphic biographies are short and fun, but they’re also packed with information. Share this tool with your students to help them break down the elements of graphic bios.
Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein collaborated, and together they changed our fundamental understanding of matter and how our Universe works.
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Guiding Questions
Hollywood movies tend to focus on the dangers of technological innovation but there’s a good reason to be optimistic about the future of technology.
Key Ideas
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Guiding Questions