First+Assignment

First Assignment Wikispace ==**Area of Interaction: Health and Social Education ** ==

Significant Concept: The impact of technology in the United States. Unit Question: How has technology changed my life?

Create your own wikispace. Follow the directions from Ms. Bradfield.

-Copy and Paste this entire Wikispace page into your Wikispace. (Don't forget to use "Command t" to open two windows.)  -Answer the following questions in complete sentences: (Most of the answers are on your pink paper.) 1. What is a Wikispace? 2. Why do you need a Wikispace for this class? 3. How has technology changed your life? 4. How has technology changed the way we live in the United States? (Hint: Look at question #5) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">5. How has technology helped to increase the gathering and learning of information? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **Technology has helped to increase the gathering and learning of information because it has made it so we can share information easier and faster.**
 * A wikispace is a website in which you can place information into. In this case it's my portfolio for my tech 2 class.**
 * I need a wikispace for this class because it is a portfolio in which I can place my assignments in.**
 * Technology has changed my life in many ways. First, it has given me a reason to live. This is because many people don't notice the role technology plays in their lives and it is very big. Without technology I wouldn't be able to survive because I use it every minute of my life starting from my alarm clock to the stove for dinner at night.**
 * Technology has changed the way we live in the United States because it has helped to increase the gathering and learning of information **.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">6. How can you prepare yourself to learn information that we don't have yet? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **I can prepare myself to learn information that we don't have yet by learning how to learn and how to think.**

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 7. What are the six steps that you need to do, to give yourself a 99.9% chance of NOT being poor? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> **1. Finish high school** **2. Don't have kids before you're 20** **3. Get married before having kids** **4. Go to college** **5. Stay married** **6. NO ADDICTIONS** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 8. List the most important thing you learned from your first assignment on the pink paper: **The most important thing I have learned from the pink paper is that to prepare ourselves from the future, we need to be responsible, and learn now to stay out of the poverty cycle. Taking advantage of technology may seem insignificant now, but we don't realize that in the future we will have to take responsibility for our actions and also be more creative.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">