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Course Outcomes

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:

Analyze the evolving role of technology in one’s discipline of study or chosen profession by investigating the inﬂuence of technology on modern culture Integrate interdisciplinary approaches for determining how technology affects modern identity in personal and professional contexts

Explain how technology inﬂuences modern society by employing appropriate research strategies Recommend strategies for utilizing current technology to meet personal and professional goals

Articulate informed viewpoints on how technology shapes the world and can inﬂuence change using effective communication skills

Assess the impact of emerging technologies on societal issues for incorporating diverse perspectives and viewpoints informed by relevant literature and interpersonal experiences

Overview

This course explores technology and its impact on the world around us. Technology inﬂuences society and society inﬂuences technology, creating a feedback loop between them. You will critically analyze a feedback loop in this project through social, historical, and cultural approaches to technology with the aid of the four general education lenses: history, humanities, natural and applied sciences, and social sciences. From this enhanced understanding, you will be equipped to draw connections among technology, self, and society. These skills are often necessary to achieve personal and professional goals across many disciplines.

Directions

For this project, you will write a 10-page paper that examines a social, cultural, or global event where a technology plays a significant role. In the paper, you will describe your chosen technology and event, construct a thesis statement, perform a critical analysis that makes use of at least one of the general education lenses, and reﬂect on how your analysis can inform your personal life and experience. You will demonstrate your ability to think critically, investigate, and communicate clearly.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Evidence: You will use evidence to support your analysis throughout the project.
1. Integrate reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis. Use at least two resources from the Module Resources sections of this course and two resources that you find through your own research using the Shapiro Library.
  1. It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis. This is different from the Citations and Attributions rubric criterion.
  2. Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself, while citing and attributing sources will be represented as APA in-text citations and a reference list at the end of your work.
  3. You will be evaluated on both criteria.
Technology and Event Description: In this section, you will identify and discuss the factors that shape your thesis statement.
1. Describe a social, cultural, or global event where a technology plays a significant role. Include information such as how the event originated and what it is about.
2. Describe the technology significant to this event. Include information such as what the technology does and how it may help inﬂuence change.
3. Assess the societal or cultural influences of the technology involved in the event.
4. Explain your choice of general education interdisciplinary lens for analyzing the technology and its role in the event.
5. Construct a thesis statement that combines your event, the technology, the societal or cultural inﬂuences, and choice of general education interdisciplinary lens.

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Critical Analysis: In this section, you will analyze your technology’s role in the event using one of the general education lenses and recommend strategies for using this kind of analysis to meet your personal and professional goals.
1. Analyze your technology’s role in the event through one of the general education interdisciplinary lenses to determine the technology’s impact on various institutions.
2. Analyze how social practices have been shaped by the technology involved in the event.
3. Describe at least one limitation of the technology involved in the event that could benefit from change.
4. Recommend strategies to address the limitations of the technology involved in the event.
5. Assess at least two significant factors that could affect how individuals understand the role of technology in the event, such as biases, beliefs, assumptions, and/or values.
6. Assess the benefits and challenges of critically analyzing technology in society.
7. Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal goals.
  1. What might this look like in your everyday life? Consider how critically analyzing technology inﬂuence on a particular event can be used to address day-to-day responsibilities.
Reflection: In this section, you will describe how using critical analysis tools inﬂuences your personal experience, your field of study or profession, and how you interact with others.
1. Describe how critically analyzing a technology’s role in an event has informed your individual framework of perception.
  1. Consider how it has altered the way you perceive the world.
2. Describe how examining your bias may alter the way you use or don’t use certain technologies.
  1. Reﬂect on your own bias, then consider how an awareness of one’s bias can change how one interacts with technology.
3. Explain how critically analyzing a technology’s role in your event can inﬂuence your field of study or profession.
  1. How can studying technology inform your understanding of the next big topic of study in your field or profession?
4. Explain at least one way in which your analysis might have been different had you used one of the other general education lenses to analyze the technology’s role in your event.
5. Explain how analyzing the technology’s role in your event can help interactions with those of a different viewpoint, culture, and perspective.

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit a Word document of 10 pages in length (plus a reference page) using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Use at least two resources from the Module Resources sections of this course and two resources that you find through your own research using the Shapiro Library. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

Project Rubric

Criteria	Exemplary (100%)	Proficient (85%)	Needs Improvement (55%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Reliable Evidence From Varied	Exceeds proficiency in an	Integrates reliable evidence	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
Sources	exceptionally clear,	from varied sources	proficiency, but with errors
	insightful, sophisticated, or	throughout the paper to	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	support analysis, including at	improvement may include
		least two resources from the	drawing from a more diverse
		Module Resources sections	pool of perspectives, using
		of the course and two	more varied sources to
		resources found through	support the analysis, or using
		independent research using	at least two resources from
		the Shapiro Library	the Module Resources
			sections of the course and

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Criteria	Exemplary (100%)	Proficient (85%)	Needs Improvement (55%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
			two resources found through independent research using the Shapiro Library
Technology and Event Description: Social, Cultural or Global Event	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes a social, cultural, or global event where a technology plays a significant role, including how the event originated and what it is about	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing a more thorough description of the event, clear connection to the role of technology, or additional contextual information about the event	Does not attempt criterion	5
Technology and Event Description: Technology	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes the technology significant to the event, including what the technology does and how it may help inﬂuence change	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include a more thorough description or greater support regarding the technology, what it does, or how it may help inﬂuence change	Does not attempt criterion	5
Technology and Event	Exceeds proficiency in an	Assesses the societal or	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
Description: Societal or	exceptionally clear,	cultural inﬂuences of the	proficiency, but with errors
Cultural Influences	insightful, sophisticated, or	technology involved in the	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	event	improvement may include
			providing a more thorough
			or detailed assessment of
			how society or culture
			inﬂuences the technology
			involved in the event or
			providing more support for
			that assessment
Technology and Event	Exceeds proficiency in an	Explains choice of general	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
Description: General	exceptionally clear,	education interdisciplinary	proficiency, but with errors
Education Lens	insightful, sophisticated, or	lens for analyzing the	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	technology and its role in the	improvement may include
		event	connecting one of the four
			general education lenses to
			the role of the technology in
			the event or providing a
			more convincing or thorough
			explanation of why the lens
			was chosen

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Criteria	Exemplary (100%)	Proficient (85%)	Needs Improvement (55%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Technology and Event Description: Thesis Statement	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Constructs a thesis statement that combines the event, technology, societal or cultural inﬂuences, and choice of general education interdisciplinary lens	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include a clearer or more concise thesis statement that integrates event, technology, societal or cultural inﬂuences, and choice of general education lens	Does not attempt criterion	5
Critical Analysis: Impact on	Exceeds proficiency in an	Analyzes the technology’s	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
Institutions	exceptionally clear,	role in the event through a	proficiency, but with errors
	insightful, sophisticated, or	general education	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	interdisciplinary lens to	improvement may include
		determine the technology’s	using one of the lenses to
		impact on various	analyze the technology’s role
		institutions	in the event, conducting a
			deeper analysis of the impact
			of the technology on various
			institutions through the
			chosen lens, or providing
			greater support for the
			analysis
Critical Analysis: Social	Exceeds proficiency in an	Analyzes how social	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
Practices	exceptionally clear,	practices have been shaped	proficiency, but with errors
	insightful, sophisticated, or	by the technology involved	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	in the event	improvement may include
			conducting a deeper analysis
			of how social practices have
			been shaped by a specific
			technology, or providing
			greater support for the
			analysis
Critical Analysis: Limitation	Exceeds proficiency in an	Describes at least one	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
That Could Benefit From	exceptionally clear,	limitation of the technology	proficiency, but with errors
Change	insightful, sophisticated, or	involved that could benefit	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	from change	improvement may include
			providing more thorough
			support of why the chosen
			limitation could benefit from
			change or adding more detail
			about the kind of limitation
			described
Critical Analysis: Strategies to Address the Limitations	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear,	Recommends strategies for how to address the	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors	Does not attempt criterion	5

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Criteria	Exemplary (100%)	Proficient (85%)	Needs Improvement (55%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
	insightful, sophisticated, or	limitations of the technology	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	involved in the event	improvement may include
			providing more relevant or
			appropriate strategies for
			how to address the
			limitations of the technology,
			or providing a more
			thorough explanation of the
			strategies selected or the
			reason why they were
			recommended
Critical Analysis: Factors That	Exceeds proficiency in an	Assesses at least two	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
Could Impact Understanding	exceptionally clear,	significant factors that could	proficiency, but with errors
	insightful, sophisticated, or	impact how individuals	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	understand the role of	improvement may include
		technology in the event,	identifying two specific
		such as biases, beliefs,	factors that could affect how
		assumptions, and/or values	individuals understand the
			role of technology in the
			event, or providing more
			thorough support for choice
			of factors
Critical Analysis: Benefits and	Exceeds proficiency in an	Assesses the benefits and	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
Challenges	exceptionally clear,	challenges of critically	proficiency, but with errors
	insightful, sophisticated, or	analyzing technology in	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	society	improvement may include
			connecting the benefits and
			challenges assessed to
			technology, providing a more
			detailed assessment of
			these, or providing more
			support for them or how
			they relate to technology in
			society
Critical Analysis: Strategies for	Exceeds proficiency in an	Recommends strategies for	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
Personal Goals	exceptionally clear,	using critical analysis for	proficiency, but with errors
	insightful, sophisticated, or	meeting personal goals	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner		improvement may include
			providing more relevant or
			appropriate strategies for
			using critical analysis for
			meeting personal, or
			providing a more thorough
			explanation of the strategies
			selected or the reason why
			they were recommended

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Criteria	Exemplary (100%)	Proficient (85%)	Needs Improvement (55%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Reflection: Individual	Exceeds proficiency in an	Describes how critically	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
Framework of Perception	exceptionally clear,	analyzing a technology’s role	proficiency, but with errors
	insightful, sophisticated, or	in an event has informed	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	individual framework of	improvement may include
		perception	providing additional details
			or a more specific
			description of how critically
			analyzing a technology’s role
			in an event has informed
			individual framework of
			perception
Reflection: Bias	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes how examining bias may alter the use or lack of use of certain technologies	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include clearly connecting bias and the use or lack of use of certain technologies, or providing more thorough support for how examining bias may alter this usage	Does not attempt criterion	5
Reflection: Field of Study or	Exceeds proficiency in an	Explains how critically	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
Profession	exceptionally clear,	analyzing a technology’s role	proficiency, but with errors
	insightful, sophisticated, or	in an event can inﬂuence	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	field of study or profession	improvement may include
			connecting the critical
			analysis of a technology’s
			role in an event to an
			academic or professional
			experience, or providing
			more thorough support for
			this connection
Reflection: Different General	Exceeds proficiency in an	Explains at least one way the	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
Education Lens	exceptionally clear,	analysis might have been	proficiency, but with errors
	insightful, sophisticated, or	different if another general	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	education lens was used to	improvement may include
		analyze the technology’s role	use of an alternative general
		in the event	education lens, a clearer
			explanation of how the
			analysis might have been
			different if one of the other
			general education lenses had
			been used to analyze the
			technology’s role in the
			event, or more support for
			the explanation

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Criteria	Exemplary (100%)	Proficient (85%)	Needs Improvement (55%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Reflection: Interactions	Exceeds proficiency in an	Explains how analyzing the	Shows progress toward	Does not attempt criterion	5
	exceptionally clear,	technology’s role in the	proficiency, but with errors
	insightful, sophisticated, or	event can help interactions	or omissions; areas for
	creative manner	with those of a different	improvement may include
		viewpoint, culture, or	connecting the value of
		perspective	critical analysis to
			interactions with people with
			a different viewpoint,
			culture, or perspective, or
			providing a more thorough
			explanation of how the
			analysis can help these
			interactions
Articulation of Response	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability	Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas	5
Citations and Attributions	Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few or no minor errors	Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errors	Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errors	Does not use citations for ideas requiring attribution	5
Total:					100%

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