IDT Short term

Month Activity Skills covered Standards Length
August Building a computer 5-10 days
September Emerging technology Hardware and software 5-10 days
October Create a poster with
November web2.0

December
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Standard: IT-IDT-5: Understand, communicate, and adapt to a digital world.

Emerging technology is technology that is fairly new and has not yet been adapted by
the mainstream public. Examples in the past have included, Twitter, Facebook,
Mobile Wallet, iTunes, GPS, RFID, Q codes, Teleconference, etc. Review this
website: http://www.weforum.org/content/top-10-emerging-technologies-2013.

1. Research an emerging technology and give a presentation on the following:

a. Describe technology and how it works

b. Describe what need this technology is fulfilling

c. Describe how this technology can be used to help businesses

d. Describe how this technology can be used to help humans

e. Describe the safety concerns of this technology from multiple points of view

f. Your thoughts on the life of the technology (how long will it last- when will it
become obsolete?)

g. What is the cost of the technology? (Dollar amount, privacy, social cost,
psychological, etc.)

h. Include a “Works Cited” slide with your references for this project

2. Create a Glogster type poster (http://wegolrc.blogspot.com/2013/02/glog-
ternatives-or-try-these.html) with the answers to the questions above and meets the
following criterion:

a. You will need to present your poster to the class.

b. Be prepared to answer questions

c. Provide appropriate labeling

d. Appropriate graphics

e. Be attractive

f. Has no grammatical/spelling errors.

3. You will also evaluate each class member’s presentation.