Objectives
- Understand the history of Information Technology by completing the webpage timeline
- Understand current use of Information Technology
- Research future Information Technology
Competencies
- 6670-007 Investigate the history and emerging advances of information technology
- 6670-008 Describe the impact of information technology on business and society
- 6670-013 Investigate current and future trends in information technology
Materials / Resources
- Internet
Procedure
Part 1: Timeline of IT History
Create a timeline of the history of Information Technology. Your timeline should cover all the way from 3000B.C. to the present and cover all 4 ages during this time period (Premechanical, Mechanical, Electromechanical, Electronic). Here is a list of all the components your timeline should cover, but you may add as many to this list as you want.
- algorism
- analytical engine
- books
- census machine
- chinese papermaking
- cuniform
- difference engine
- electronic numerical integrator and computer
- first generation digital computer
- GUI
- hieroglyphics
- jacquard loom
- lyons electronic office
- mark 1
- morse code
- movable metal-type printing press
- papyrus
- pascaline
- personal computer
- Proto-Canaanite alphabet
- phoenician alphabet
- punch card
- radio
- reckoner
- scrolls - egyptians
- second generation digital computer
- silicon chip
- slide rule
- stored-program computer
- stylus - not the one on your PDA
- telegraph
- telephone
- third generation digital computer
- universal automatic computer
- vacuum tube computer
- voltaic battery
- zero concept
For each of these elements, include the person or people who created the product(if applicable), the year the product or technology was first developed(For those ancient technologies, generalized years, such as "around 2000B.C.", are acceptable), and what about the innovation made it important to computing. This timeline will be in a webpage you create. The style and format of the webpage is completely up to you, but it should represent a chronological timeline. The Internet is your best resource for research.
Part 2: IT Trends
At the bottom of this webpage you will create a section about Information Technology trends. There are many trends of information technology. Research and record basic information on IT Trends. For each trend, you should include examples of the trend and your opinion on each trend. Your opinion should move beyond the phrase "I agree" or "I disagree", and give reason for your opinion. You will not be graded on which opinion you take on each trend, but rather on how thoroughly you argue your opinion on the trend. Please cite the resources you used to find these trends.
Extensions
Evaluation
| Components | Points |
|---|---|
| Activities completed | /10 |
| Show knowledge of the history of Information Technology | /2 |
| Show knowledge of the impact of Information Technology on society | /1 |
| Show knowledge in Information Technology trends | /2 |
| Total | /15 |