Posted: December 11th, 2022

Analyze the evolving role of technology in one’s discipline

Project Guidelines and Rubric

Course Outcomes
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
Analyze the evolving role of technology in one’s discipline of study or chosen profession by investigating the influence of technology on modern culture
Integrate interdisciplinary approaches for determining how technology affects modern identity in personal and professional contexts
Explain how technology influences modern society by employing appropriate research strategies
Recommend strategies for utilizing current technology to meet personal and professional goals
Articulate informed viewpoints on how technology shapes the world and can influence change using effective communication skills
Assess the impact of emerging technologies on societal issues for incorporating diverse perspectives and viewpoints informed by relevant literature and interpersonal
experiences
Overview
This course explores technology and its impact on the world around us. Technology influences society and society influences technology, creating a feedback loop between them. You
will critically analyze a feedback loop in this project through social, historical, and cultural approaches to technology with the aid of the four general education lenses: history,
humanities, natural and applied sciences, and social sciences. From this enhanced understanding, you will be equipped to draw connections among technology, self, and society. These
skills are often necessary to achieve personal and professional goals across many disciplines.
Directions
For this project, you will write a 10-page paper that examines a social, cultural, or global event where a technology plays a significant role. In the paper, you will describe your chosen
technology and event, construct a thesis statement, perform a critical analysis that makes use of at least one of the general education lenses, and reflect on how your analysis can
inform your personal life and experience. You will demonstrate your ability to think critically, investigate, and communicate clearly.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
1. Evidence: You will use evidence to support your analysis throughout the project.
A. Integrate reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis. Use at least two resources from the Module Resources sections of this
course and two resources that you find through your own research using the Shapiro Library.
i. It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis. This is different from the Citations and Attributions
rubric criterion.
ii. Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself, while citing and attributing sources will be represented as APA in-text
citations and a reference list at the end of your work.
iii. You will be evaluated on both criteria.
2. Technology and Event Description: In this section, you will identify and discuss the factors that shape your thesis statement.
A. Describe a social, cultural, or global event where a technology plays a significant role. Include information such as how the event originated and what it is about.
B. Describe the technology significant to this event. Include information such as what the technology does and how it may help influence change.
C. Assess the societal or cultural influences of the technology involved in the event.
D. Explain your choice of general education interdisciplinary lens for analyzing the technology and its role in the event.
E. Construct a thesis statement that combines your event, the technology, the societal or cultural influences, and choice of general education interdisciplinary lens.
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3. Critical Analysis: In this section, you will analyze your technology’s role in the event using one of the general education lenses and recommend strategies for using this kind of
analysis to meet your personal and professional goals.
A. Analyze your technology’s role in the event through one of the general education interdisciplinary lenses to determine the technology’s impact on various institutions.
B. Analyze how social practices have been shaped by the technology involved in the event.
C. Describe at least one limitation of the technology involved in the event that could benefit from change.
D. Recommend strategies to address the limitations of the technology involved in the event.
E. Assess at least two significant factors that could affect how individuals understand the role of technology in the event, such as biases, beliefs, assumptions, and/or
values.
F. Assess the benefits and challenges of critically analyzing technology in society.
G. Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal goals.
i. What might this look like in your everyday life? Consider how critically analyzing technology influence on a particular event can be used to address day-to-day
responsibilities.
4. Reflection: In this section, you will describe how using critical analysis tools influences your personal experience, your field of study or profession, and how you interact with
others.
A. Describe how critically analyzing a technology’s role in an event has informed your individual framework of perception.
i. Consider how it has altered the way you perceive the world.
B. Describe how examining your bias may alter the way you use or don’t use certain technologies.
i. Reflect on your own bias, then consider how an awareness of one’s bias can change how one interacts with technology.
C. Explain how critically analyzing a technology’s role in your event can influence your field of study or profession.
i. How can studying technology inform your understanding of the next big topic of study in your field or profession?
D. Explain at least one way in which your analysis might have been different had you used one of the other general education lenses to analyze the technology’s role in
your event.
E. Explain how analyzing the technology’s role in your event can help interactions with those of a different viewpoint, culture, and perspective.
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit a Word document of 10 pages in length (plus a reference page) using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins.
Use at least two resources from the Module Resources sections of this course and two resources that you find through your own research using the Shapiro Library. Sources should be
cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.
Project Rubric
Criteria Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Reliable Evidence From Varied
Sources
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Integrates reliable evidence
from varied sources
throughout the paper to
support analysis, including at
least two resources from the
Module Resources sections
of the course and two
resources found through
independent research using
the Shapiro Library
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
drawing from a more diverse
pool of perspectives, using
more varied sources to
support the analysis, or using
at least two resources from
the Module Resources
Does not attempt criterion 5
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Criteria Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
sections of the course and
two resources found through
independent research using
the Shapiro Library
Technology and Event
Description: Social, Cultural or
Global Event
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Describes a social, cultural,
or global event where a
technology plays a significant
role, including how the event
originated and what it is
about
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
providing a more thorough
description of the event,
clear connection to the role
of technology, or additional
contextual information about
the event
Does not attempt criterion 5
Technology and Event
Description: Technology
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Describes the technology
significant to the event,
including what the
technology does and how it
may help influence change
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include a
more thorough description
or greater support regarding
the technology, what it does,
or how it may help influence
change
Does not attempt criterion 5
Technology and Event
Description: Societal or
Cultural Influences
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Assesses the societal or
cultural influences of the
technology involved in the
event
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
providing a more thorough
or detailed assessment of
how society or culture
influences the technology
involved in the event or
providing more support for
that assessment
Does not attempt criterion 5
Technology and Event
Description: General
Education Lens
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Explains choice of general
education interdisciplinary
lens for analyzing the
technology and its role in the
event
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
connecting one of the four
general education lenses to
the role of the technology in
the event or providing a
more convincing or thorough
Does not attempt criterion 5
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Criteria Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
explanation of why the lens
was chosen
Technology and Event
Description: Thesis Statement
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Constructs a thesis
statement that combines the
event, technology, societal or
cultural influences, and
choice of general education
interdisciplinary lens
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include a
clearer or more concise
thesis statement that
integrates event, technology,
societal or cultural
influences, and choice of
general education lens
Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Impact on
Institutions
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Analyzes the technology’s
role in the event through a
general education
interdisciplinary lens to
determine the technology’s
impact on various
institutions
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
using one of the lenses to
analyze the technology’s role
in the event, conducting a
deeper analysis of the impact
of the technology on various
institutions through the
chosen lens, or providing
greater support for the
analysis
Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Social
Practices
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Analyzes how social
practices have been shaped
by the technology involved
in the event
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
conducting a deeper analysis
of how social practices have
been shaped by a specific
technology, or providing
greater support for the
analysis
Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Limitation
That Could Benefit From
Change
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Describes at least one
limitation of the technology
involved that could benefit
from change
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
providing more thorough
support of why the chosen
limitation could benefit from
change or adding more detail
Does not attempt criterion 5
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Criteria Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
about the kind of limitation
described
Critical Analysis: Strategies to
Address the Limitations
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Recommends strategies for
how to address the
limitations of the technology
involved in the event
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
providing more relevant or
appropriate strategies for
how to address the
limitations of the technology,
or providing a more
thorough explanation of the
strategies selected or the
reason why they were
recommended
Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Factors That
Could Impact Understanding
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Assesses at least two
significant factors that could
impact how individuals
understand the role of
technology in the event,
such as biases, beliefs,
assumptions, and/or values
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
identifying two specific
factors that could affect how
individuals understand the
role of technology in the
event, or providing more
thorough support for choice
of factors
Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Benefits and
Challenges
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Assesses the benefits and
challenges of critically
analyzing technology in
society
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
connecting the benefits and
challenges assessed to
technology, providing a more
detailed assessment of
these, or providing more
support for them or how
they relate to technology in
society
Does not attempt criterion 5
Critical Analysis: Strategies for
Personal Goals
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Recommends strategies for
using critical analysis for
meeting personal goals
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
providing more relevant or
Does not attempt criterion 5
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Criteria Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
appropriate strategies for
using critical analysis for
meeting personal, or
providing a more thorough
explanation of the strategies
selected or the reason why
they were recommended
Reflection: Individual
Framework of Perception
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Describes how critically
analyzing a technology’s role
in an event has informed
individual framework of
perception
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
providing additional details
or a more specific
description of how critically
analyzing a technology’s role
in an event has informed
individual framework of
perception
Does not attempt criterion 5
Reflection: Bias Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Describes how examining
bias may alter the use or lack
of use of certain
technologies
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
clearly connecting bias and
the use or lack of use of
certain technologies, or
providing more thorough
support for how examining
bias may alter this usage
Does not attempt criterion 5
Reflection: Field of Study or
Profession
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Explains how critically
analyzing a technology’s role
in an event can influence
field of study or profession
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
connecting the critical
analysis of a technology’s
role in an event to an
academic or professional
experience, or providing
more thorough support for
this connection
Does not attempt criterion 5
Reflection: Different General
Education Lens
Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Explains at least one way the
analysis might have been
different if another general
education lens was used to
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
Does not attempt criterion 5
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Criteria Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
analyze the technology’s role
in the event
use of an alternative general
education lens, a clearer
explanation of how the
analysis might have been
different if one of the other
general education lenses had
been used to analyze the
technology’s role in the
event, or more support for
the explanation
Reflection: Interactions Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Explains how analyzing the
technology’s role in the
event can help interactions
with those of a different
viewpoint, culture, or
perspective
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
or omissions; areas for
improvement may include
connecting the value of
critical analysis to
interactions with people with
a different viewpoint,
culture, or perspective, or
providing a more thorough
explanation of how the
analysis can help these
interactions
Does not attempt criterion 5
Articulation of Response Exceeds proficiency in an
exceptionally clear, insightful,
sophisticated, or creative
manner
Clearly conveys meaning
with correct grammar,
sentence structure, and
spelling, demonstrating an
understanding of audience
and purpose
Shows progress toward
proficiency, but with errors
in grammar, sentence
structure, and spelling,
negatively impacting
readability
Submission has critical errors
in grammar, sentence
structure, and spelling,
preventing understanding of
ideas
5
Citations and Attributions Uses citations for ideas
requiring attribution, with
few or no minor errors
Uses citations for ideas
requiring attribution, with
consistent minor errors
Uses citations for ideas
requiring attribution, with
major errors
Does not use citations for
ideas requiring attribution
5
Total: 100%

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