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New technology includes:
Digital television, mobile phones, computers and the Internet etc
Key areas on New Technology which have come up in recent years on the Module 6 exam paper
The Information Underclass (how people without computers or internet access are being disadvantaged)
If you click on the title above, you will get a document with these key articles:
- Second Sight - post-colonialist perspective of Internet
- Internet Wake-up Call - about access to Internet
- Computers create children's underclass - about disadvantages to primary school children without a computer at home
- The World at his fingertips - about a scheme to make Internet access and info available to disadvantaged groups
- Rural area 'have-nots' lose out on the Net - about people in the countryside losing out on Internet access
- Extract from speech by Director of BBC about Internet access
ICT in Education (how computers are affecting education)
If you click on the title above you will get a document with these key articles
- Challenge of lessons without schools
- Classrooms of the future
- It's a world of possibilities - about using the virtual world "Second Life" to teach on university courses
India and Internet voting - article
E-villages - FOUR radio programmes about using Internet in remote Indian villages
E-democracy - radio programme
Internet Paedophilia - radio programme
To download Realplayer and listen to these programmes, click here first.
Technology and personal life
How will technology change your life? Will you sit in a darkened room, ordering your clothes and food and talking to your friends in chatrooms and through e-mail?
Will technology free you and give you more leisure time to climb mountains and run the marathon? Who are you when you talk in chatrooms? Do we construct 'virtual selves?'
Read this article on the real identities of some computer game characters!
Technology and culture/society
Is technology driving us? Does society follow technology or does society decide how to use technology to benefit the human race - in work, in leisure?
Start by exploring the BBC iGeneration website
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