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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
This Week's Lesson: Modern Technology and Inventions
This is an AMAZING time to be alive!
Most of you were born after 1988 or 1989 – right in the midst of the greatest technological revolution in history! (史上最伟大的科技改革) In your lifetime science has made some amazing breakthroughs, in every facet of life – how we live, how we work, how we play and relax. At the same time at the time of your birth many of the technologies we now take for granted were evolving – which means that some of these products share their “infancy” with your infancy.
You will be surprised to learn that many of these ideas had been around for many years – long before they were available in the market place.
You might also be surprised to see how much things have changed in just 25 or 30 years! For example, compare what mobile phones and computers looked like 20 years ago (The DynaTAC phone design didn’t change much until the middle of the 1990s), compared to now.
In Unit 10, this week, you will talk about inventions and technology that have changed our lives, and made it more convenient to do the things we enjoy, like listening to music, watching movies, and talking on the phone. YOUR TASK will be to READ THROUGH the information here, make notes, and then make a speech tell the details about what you read.
Most of you were born after 1988 or 1989 – right in the midst of the greatest technological revolution in history! (史上最伟大的科技改革) In your lifetime science has made some amazing breakthroughs, in every facet of life – how we live, how we work, how we play and relax. At the same time at the time of your birth many of the technologies we now take for granted were evolving – which means that some of these products share their “infancy” with your infancy.
You will be surprised to learn that many of these ideas had been around for many years – long before they were available in the market place.
You might also be surprised to see how much things have changed in just 25 or 30 years! For example, compare what mobile phones and computers looked like 20 years ago (The DynaTAC phone design didn’t change much until the middle of the 1990s), compared to now.
In Unit 10, this week, you will talk about inventions and technology that have changed our lives, and made it more convenient to do the things we enjoy, like listening to music, watching movies, and talking on the phone. YOUR TASK will be to READ THROUGH the information here, make notes, and then make a speech tell the details about what you read.
Modern Inventions … People and Inventions which changed the world
Your groups together should introduce the technological innovations技术革新 below – many of them from the pictures and charts on pages 43-43.
In your teams you should pretend that this is the ninth annual Symposium for New Technologies – a meeting of the people responsible for molding the future of technology. This year your speakers’ (team members) speech topic will be: “Modern Inventions … People and Inventions which changed the world." Their speeches should last no more than 1 to 2 minutes each. (see "How to Make a Speech")
Please COMPARE these 20th century innovations with the newer versions that exist today – for example “How televisions in 2008 compare to television in 1988,” or “The evolution of the mobile phone,” etc.
I have provided you with a web link to each product, as well as a brief summary. YOU should the whole story, make note of the details in the story, and then report those details to the class.
If at all possible, DON'T READ YOUR SPEECH! Learn the details, and then practice them so you can tell them in your own words. Maybe creating a draft, or an outline, will help you – but remember that I am more interested in HOW you tell the story than in the story itself, so be creative.
THE TECHNOLOGIES YOU WILL INTRODUCE
In your teams you should pretend that this is the ninth annual Symposium for New Technologies – a meeting of the people responsible for molding the future of technology. This year your speakers’ (team members) speech topic will be: “Modern Inventions … People and Inventions which changed the world." Their speeches should last no more than 1 to 2 minutes each. (see "How to Make a Speech")
Please COMPARE these 20th century innovations with the newer versions that exist today – for example “How televisions in 2008 compare to television in 1988,” or “The evolution of the mobile phone,” etc.
I have provided you with a web link to each product, as well as a brief summary. YOU should the whole story, make note of the details in the story, and then report those details to the class.
If at all possible, DON'T READ YOUR SPEECH! Learn the details, and then practice them so you can tell them in your own words. Maybe creating a draft, or an outline, will help you – but remember that I am more interested in HOW you tell the story than in the story itself, so be creative.
THE TECHNOLOGIES YOU WILL INTRODUCE
Television
Mobile Phone:
- 1st generation
- 2nd generation
- 3rd generation
Computer
- Apple
o Apple II
o Macintosh - IBM
- Radio Shack
o TRS-80 (Trash 80), The most popular home computer
o Atari 800- The machine that won the color graphics race
o Commodore 64- Breaking the price barrier
Camcorder:
VCR:
· Beta
· VHS
CD/DVD Player
· CD
· DVD
· HD-DVD
· Blu-Ray
MP1/MP2/MP3/MP4/MP5
Food Processor
Microwave
Fax Machine
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