Wired magazine runs a feature called Found: Artifacts from the Future. Here's a report card from the George Lucas Arts Magnet High School in 2018 (click on the image to zoom in and be able to read it). (Via Clarence Fisher).
I think this is interesting for two reasons. First, it should get us thinking once again about what the future may hold for our students. Second, I think this is an excellent idea for an assignment in a variety of classes (Social Studies, Language Arts, Science, Art, . . . ) - create an artifact from the future about [fill in your topic].
I like it. We're about to start our study of genetics and this has some definite possibilities...something about where we've gone with ethics, biotechnology, cloning...
ReplyDeleteI agree, Cara. Let me know what you do, so I don't replicate it. I would like to create something like this for Brave New World second semester where we, too, look at clones.
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