This should take no longer than 5 minutes. The next step is to elliminate the silly answers you will inevitably get and combine those answers that a parts of a single catagory togather. Try not to make many comments at this point about the times of inventions. It is usually best if you talk about the first one or two and then have the class participate in the nex two. The students assignment is to choose one of the aadvancements in communication and write a paragraph about its social impacts.
Closure Review the concepts of communication technology and the systems module.
Remind them of the assignment and the school criteria for a paragraph. Tell the class the tomorrow we will be discussing the results of thier homework with what they have written as guides of the discussion. Evaluation Homework will be evaluated using the school criteria for paragraphs. Since this is often thier first attempt a social annalysis I usually write notes about thier comments and use the nest days class discussion to model what is a valid argument and what is emotion.