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How can the NoT inform technological decision making? This question is best answered in part from this quote. "There is another ideological conflict to be fought -- between "liberal democracy" as conceived in the eighteenth century, with all its transcendent moral underpinnings, and Technopoly, a twentieth-century thought-world that functions not only without a transcendent narrative to provide moral underpinnings but also without strong social institutions to control the flood of information produced by technology" (Postman, 1992). Children and adults alike are overwhelmed by the tsunami of information that is the internet, and as a society we cannot get enough of it. We are linked in through Facebook, Instagram, Email, messengers, web pages, and apps. We have expert opinions, facts, data, and social freedom at our fingertips 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our greatest challenge as educators is teaching our students how to integrate technology into their lives, n...

Online Assessment -  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oEJALPSr4d6PItXxdkjAZpN7g6_QfkqhT27O_3t_3KU/edit?usp=sharing Standard 8 and Standard 9 This assessment aligns with standard 8 because the students will be working on it collaboratively. In a perfect scenario each group would watch the video and then thoroughly discuss the sequence of events for their comic book. However, in my classroom this rarely happens. I would most likely need to intervene with some of the groups. I could modify the assignment delegating a portion of the comic book to each student. That way they are all responsible for an equal portion and I could assess each student on their own knowledge as well as assessing them as a group (Standard 9). The bulk of the conversations will come in the last portion of the assessment when the students are creating their own sequence of events based on the change in Farmer Brown's actions. The third step of the assessment also allows me to assess the students directl...