United Nations
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development: Technology and Innovation Report 2021 [Pdf]
This is a 196-page report on technological innovation and change. It discusses the enormous potential benefits of technology as well as the risk of amplifying inequalities between developed and developing countries. The report is...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Technology and Copyright Law a 'Futurespective'
Contains plans for five lessons that ask students to write newspaper articles predicting how copyright law will adapt to new technologies in the future. They will do this after reviewing instances of this in the past. In addition to...
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Mit Technology Review
Technology Review is a magazine by MIT which seeks to "promote the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society." It provides you with daily technology information including events, discussions, and...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Technology, Progress & Industry: What Should the Future Look Like?
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What should the future look like?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...
PBS
Pbs: Planning Your Future Career in Advanced Technology
In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore the range of industries that produce and rely on advanced technology and learn how their skills and interests may align with career opportunities in this cutting-edge sector.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A Future Beyond Traffic Gridlock
Bill Ford is a car guy- his great-grandfather was Henry Ford, and he grew up inside the massive Ford Motor Co. So when he worries about cars' impact on the environment, and about our growing global gridlock problem, it's worth a listen....
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Fuel Our Future Now: Gr. 6 8 Module: Designing a Vehicle for the Year 2020 [Pdf]
In this 6-8 teaching module, students learn about natural resources, human impact on the environment, and engineering design in vehicle transportation. Using real world scientific data and scientific reasoning skills, they investigate...
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Ion Future: The Stem Career Exploration Game
A game-based learning environment of free online games that encourages students to explore STEM careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Mit Technology Review: Tomorrow's Cars
A collection of articles about innovations in automotive technology. Titles include: Prying Open the Prius, Cheaper Fuel Cells, Better than Hybrids, and Free Power for Cars.
International Reading Association
Reading Online: "Side by Side": A Technology Education Model
This article from Reading Online's Electronic Classroom encourages practicing and future teachers to advocate for professional development programs that will allow for pairing inservice and preservice teachers for the purpose of...
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Salt River Project: Powering Our Future: Energy Transformations
Students test their understanding of energy transformations when shown a simple animation and a cloze-format response question. This activity could be utilized with a classroom response technology system.
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Mapping Your Future: Career Ship
Career Ship is an on-line career exploration adventure geared towards middle school students. Your mission is to fuel the Career Ship and learn about possible careers.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Future Transport
This portable transport vehicle shows what is possible in terms of future transport. Its space age design is unlike anything seen in use today.
Read Works
Read Works: Solar Absorbers and the Future of Electricity
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about solar panels being used to create electricity. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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University North Texas: Texas Center for Educational Technology
This resource provides links and descriptions to their various projects as well as other web resources.
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University North Texas: Texas Center for Educational Technology
This resource provides links and descriptions to their various projects as well as other web resources.
Math Science Nucleus
I. Science Ma Te: Integrating Science, Math and Technology
This site offers a wealth of online textbook-related materials that encourage the discovery of science in the world around us. Enter the site to access material on specific topics. Each section contains reading material (complete with...
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Silicon Valley Art Museum
From the center of America's high-tech industry, the Silicon Valley Art Museum showcases the talents of artists-- past, present, and future-- who explore the connections between art and technology. Through a variety of high-interest...
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Silicon Valley Art Museum
From the center of America's high-tech industry, the Silicon Valley Art Museum showcases the talents of artists-- past, present, and future-- who explore the connections between art and technology. Through a variety of high-interest...
PBS
Pbs: Frontline: Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier
Explore the wide-ranging impact that living digitally is having on people's lives every day, and the far-reaching implications this has for society, relationships, how war is waged, our health, education, and what the future holds....
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Speech Recognition for Learning
Speech recognition, also referred to as speech-to-text or voice recognition, is technology that recognizes speech, allowing voice to serve as the "main interface between the human and the computer." This Info Brief discusses how current...
University of Vienna (Austria)
University of Vienna: Maths Online
The University of Vienna, Austria, created this site to help bring the worlds of math and technology together. You have access to many applets and downloads that allow you to create lessons, tests, and puzzles. There are also great...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Autumntime by Anthony Lentini
The story "Autumntime" by Anthony Lentiniis set in a future where technology meets almost all human needs. It also provides a guided reading mode, assessment, discussion questions, and teacher's guide. [Free account registration required...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Wearables
A website with 6 links to information on wearable technology including topics such as What is Wearable Technology, Pros and Cons of Wearable Technology, How Can Wearables Affect Our Lives, The Future of Wearable Technology, What is a...