Tuesday

Class Work

1.Sharing of "best part" of your technology essay.

2. Read your entire essay to one other person in the class. This should be a partner who was NOT at your table. Your job as the listening partner is to observe if you were persuaded to "give up" or to "get" the gizmo or gadget.

3. Today we will be exploring the concept of "privacy" and will be participating in a debate during the last hour of class.

Privacy - Are you concerned? Should you be?

Is privacy a right? Is the good of the group greater than the good of the individual?

What if somebody "takes" your identity? What happens to you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjDbJQKDXCY Trading Places

List all the ways that "others" can track you.

http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/privacy/persprivacy.html

What does the world know about you? Have you ever done a search of yourself to find out? What is public? What is not public? Should the public information be public? Explain

http://www.youarebeingwatched.us/

http://www.diyspy.co.uk/HowToTellIfYoureBeingWatched.html

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/idtheft/idt07.shtm

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701-s&va=stolen+identity+search

Social Networking
http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/

Kids' Privacy on the Internet
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/privacy/kidprivacy.html

Privacy Legislation
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/privacy/whitepaper_legislation.htm

How to Debate

http://www.truthtree.com/debates.shtml

http://www.sfu.ca/cmns/130d1/HOWTODEBATE.htm

http://www.bookrags.com/articles/31.html

Prepare your debate!

Topic: Privacy
Should we, people living in the United States of America, be concerned about the security of personal privacy?

Guidelines:

1. Each team member must speak when presenting the case and the rebuttal. Each team may elect to have a "closer" to give final remarks.

2. Timing: Each team will have up to 5 minutes to present the case. (See the How to Debate link)
When listening, take notes so that you will be able to give a solid rebuttal.

3. Each team will have up to 4 minutes to prepare the rebuttal after the case is presented for each side.

4. Each team will have up to 3 minutes to present the rebuttal.

5. There will be a 2 minute prep time to prepare the conclusion.

6. Each team will have up to 2 minutes to deliver the concluding remarks.

The class will vote on the "winner!"

Homework

1. Prepare the final copy of the technology paper. It is due Thursday.

2. Turn your debate into an outline or bulleted list for a persuasive essay. Convince your reader that privacy is or is not an issue in our society. You may focus on one aspect such as banking, cell phone use, social networking, etc. Or, you may present a more global argument.

http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/research/outlining.html

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/brainstorm_outline.htm