Week 9: Technology and Media in Everyday Life

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Week 9 Technology and Media in Everyday Life

• Carrie Gilchrist

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Activity Part I Identifying Technology in Our
Lives
Social
Professional
Technology
Academic
Family
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Activity Part II Walking Diagram

• Students stand side by side in a straight line
• A list of 10 statements and questions are read
  out loud to the students
• Students take one step forward for each
  statement/question that applies to them
• Standing or sitting where they end up in the
  diagram, facilitate a discussion about how they
  think their connection to technology has impacted
  their lives in the areas they identified in the
  venn diagram in the previous activity

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Activity Part II Walking Diagram

• I have always had internet access at my home.
• I was 10 years old or younger when I got my first
  cell phone.
• Most of my conversations with my friends take
  place through texting.
• I have my own computer to use at OU, rather than
  using computer labs.
• When writing a research paper, I do my research
  online, rather than using the books at the
  library.
• I have an account on more than one social
  networking site.
• I know whats in the news primarily by watching
  tv and through social media.
• When I sleep, my phone is within reach, no
  further away than the nightstand.
• When I spend time with my friends, in person, I
  spend part of our time together using my phone to
  text someone else, view social media, etc.
  unrelated to the conversation or activity Im
  participating in with my in-person friends.
• I am extremely selective about what information I
  share on social media.

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Activity Part III Interviews

• Ask students to identify various forms of
  communication in two categories With Technology
  and Without Technology
• Give students a topic about which to interview
  each other does not have to be related to
  technology! For example, their hometowns, high
  school activities, dream vacation, etc.
• Each student will do two interviews in two styles
  using one method from each category, With
  Technology and Without Technology
• Facilitate a discussion about students thoughts
  and experiences relating to interviewees and
  interviewers using the various methods

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Activity Part IV Tech-less Challenge

• Students pick a Tech-less Challenge level to
  complete during the week
• 1. Turn your cell phone off and suspend use of
  social media for four hours
• 2. Turn your cell phone off and suspend use of
  social media for eight hours
• 3. Turn your cell phone off and suspend use of
  social media for 24 hours
• 4. Cell phone off, suspend social media, no
  television for eight hours
• 5. Cell phone off, suspend social media, no
  television for 24 hours
• 6. Suspend use of all technology for 24 hours
  (phone, computers, tv, radio, ipod, etc. )
• Students will write a reflection about what it
  was like to complete the challenge. What
  challenge level did you choose and why? Why did
  you avoid choosing the other levels? What were
  your thoughts while completing the challenge? How
  did you feel about it? Did your attitude or
  actions toward technology change after completing
  the challenge? Explain. Discuss in class the
  following week.