Week 3: Technology

Week 3 -  Technology
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Week 3 -  Technology

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Slide 2 - Video

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00:25
Futurists are hired by important people and companies to predict the future
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True
B
False

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01:13
How do futurists come up with their predictions?
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By analyzing trends of thought and behavior
B
By studying statistics
C
By reading fiction writing pieces
D
By talking to world leaders and corporations

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01:45
What is being said about Uranium 235?
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That it was discovered in the 19th century
B
That it enables time travel
C
That it can generate enough electricity for a whole city
D
That it is dangerous because it can explode

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02:09
Why is it not possible for the 19th century physicist to imagine these things?

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02:50
What is the narrator saying about our capacities to predict the future?
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It is easier now to imagine the future
B
Because of technology, it is difficult to imagine the future
C
We know everything about the future already
D
Imagining the future is impossible

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03:30
What was said about authors and storytellers and the future?

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03:57
Which three things were predicted by sci-fi literature according to the video?

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05:06
What is the conclusion of the video?
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Sci-fi helps us protect the future
B
Futurists believe in sci-fi authors
C
Humans are responsible for the future of the world
D
Humans cannot change the future

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Science fiction

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Reviewing the video in the previous activity, have a class discussion on what science fiction is, what they think a movie like this looks like, where directors and writers get. 
Ask students to describe the picture in detail, maybe make a word web. What do they see? Which stories can they make up? Do they recognize this from somewhere?
Sci-fi Scene
Choose one of the following prompts and create a 4 minute scene. Act it out with a partner or partners. Let the others guess which one you chose! 
Everyone must speak and participate!



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Prompts
  • Our dreams are actually a portal into a parallel universe. 
  • A family discovers a space ship buried in their backyard.
  • Someone wakes up in a strange spaceship with no recollection of how they got there.
  • Our reality is actually the imagination of an alien being writing a story. 
  • Humans have been cloned by scientists for decades. 

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Presentations

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