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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? A Wikispace is a free webpage that you can create and edit. 2. Why do you need a Wikispace for this class? You need a wikispace for this class so that you can use it as a portfolio for all of your work. 3. How has technology changed your life? Technology has changed my life in many ways. FIrst of all, technology makes it easier for me to do many things including homework, having fun, and more. Technology is also very amusing and fun. Technology has also given me many new opportunities and overall has just made my life a lot easier. 4. How has technology changed the way we live in the United States? (Hint: Look at question #5) Technology has changed the way that we live in the United States because it gives us a lot of opportunities and makes our lives a lot easier. It also puts us ahead of a lot of other countries. <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? Technology has helped to increase the gathering and learning of information because it makes it a lot easier to do so. Nowadays if you want to learn something you can just look it up on the internet and find a lot of information about it instantly. Technology makes it faster and easier for us to learn and gather information. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">6. How can you prepare yourself to learn information that we don't have yet? We can prepare ourselves for information we don't have yet by learning how to think and learning how to learn. We can also be responsible and intuitive. <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? 1. Finish high school 2. Don't have kids before 20 3. Get married before you have 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: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The most important thing that I learned from the pink paper is that I need to learn how to think and learn how to learn, because those are very important skills.