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 * Unit Title: Analyzing the Impact of Technology (Frankenstein unit)
 * Grade Level: 11
 * Subject: English
 * Duration: 3 weeks


 * Goals**
 * Problem: Describe a technology that you believe poses a potential threat to humanity and propose a solution for preventing its possibly negative impact.
 * Technology Standard: NETS-S 1,2,3,4 (Identify a complex global issue, develop a systematic plan of investigation, and present innovative sustainable solutions)
 * Content Standards:
 * RH.9-10.3 (Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them)
 * RH.11-12.7 (Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media in order to address a question or solve a problem)
 * Retrieved from: http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/english-language-arts-standards/history-social-studies/introduction/
 * Prerequisite Skills: knowledge of current technologies/trends, understanding of global society and cultures, research/analytical skills, presentation/design skills
 * Outcomes:
 * Students will investigate the impact of one technology on several important issues (economics, morality, relationships, etc.)
 * Students will determine whether this technology has an overall positive, negative, or potentially negative impact on society as a whole
 * Students will propose solutions for ethical use of this technology and preventative measures for similar technologies
 * Students will present this information to the class in a multimedia presentation

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