Unit 8 vocab quiz Friday

If you would like to have your child practice for the vocab quiz, please go to this page.  There are flashcards and a practice test there.

We have started the science fiction unit.  There will be more information in the following week.  But you can check out the assignment web page.  There is lots of information there.  I will finalize the due dates soon.  At this point, students should be thinking about a really cool technology that they can work into a fiction story. 

Today we read an article on a technology that can get an image out of the reflection in an eyeball from a photograph.  Another technology in the article explained how they can use a camera and a computer to track the exact direction someone is looking.  I then asked them to brainstorm a few questions.  We will finish this activity up tomorrow.

Eye tracking technology:
1. It can recreate the picture found in someone’s eye.
2. It can track the exact direction someone is looking.

How could this technology be used?
Advertisers?
Game developers?
For handicapped people?

What are some ways these technologies could be used for good? Evil?
What about world domination?

Combine this technology with another technology. Now what?

If this technology becomes successful, what might the future look like in 50 or 100 years?