2025 bESTology Week #3
Welcome to bESTology 2025 -- fACTOIDS
Your team is about to embark on an invaluable journey that will further the use of technology and human interaction for the future. Knowing the importance of your mission, your team recognizes that your investigators, known as Librarians, will conduct investigations and research to uncover this new technology breakthrough and learn how to facilitate the positive use to benefit humanity. Now that you have completed your first two missions and activating your brain to Critical Thinking Mode, you will be applying all the knowledge you have learned through your investigations and in your classrooms for this next mission as I challenge you to make the best decisions possible. Librarians are you ready? Let’s begin by moving to the topic shown below.
Lesson #3- “Decision making is easy when your values are clear.” – Roy E. Disney
Now that your Librarians are gathered and ready for your Third mission, using the quote above and the questions and links below, you will discover how your team can understand the Roy Disney quote. How will your decisions impact your choices?
RESOURCES
Humans make decisions based on values from a variety of sources and resources. You have looked at a variety of resources to learn how they are written to persuade the values you have. Do you know what your values are? Do values promote bias? Now that technology is interacting with human discussion and thought, how do machines make choices? Do humans impact those choices? Let’s examine how machines make decisions and the effect of humans on technology evolution. Use the links below to learn how to elevate your brain to Critical Thinking Mode and understand how humans think and determine judgements we make. and reality…
RESEARCH
Let’s dig a little deeper into the decisions humans design for computers. Have you ever tried to determine the reliability of these decision making tools? What decision making tools for computers are you familiar with? How accurate were the results?
Tools You Can Use:
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY
Challenge! Can you prove you are not a Bot? Play the game. What did you experience? How did the game respond to human interaction? What decisions did the machine make? Were you able to understand the decisions the machine was making? Click the link to begin Game: Glitch
GOING FURTHER
Understanding the decision making process can help humans understand how machines can think and make choices. Are machines actually making choices and thinking? Using all that you have learned about facts, choices, decisions and bias influences are computers and digital technology actually thinking? Can computers become independent thinkers like us humans?
INQUIRY PROJECT
Roy A Disney’s quote “Decision making is easy when your values are clear” Disneyland and Disney World and Epcot all have made great technological advances that humans experience everyday. Learn about Roy E Disney and use what you have learned in this lesson to share how his values have driven his use of technology and the human experience.
BEST IN YOUR COMMUNITY
In your community there are places where businesses have included human interaction with computers. How do you feel about interacting with computers and digital devices instead of humans? Connect with a company using computers instead of humans and find out why the company made the choice. Does the company’s choice to integrate this type of technology meet the needs of the community they serve? Share your investigation in your Engineering Notebook.
BASED ON A TRUE STORY
There are many ways humans interact with computers and Computational Thinking. Use this website to see different ways computers and humans are interacting and thinking.
Teacher / Mentor Info:
Bloom’s Taxonomy-Lesson Addresses the following Taxonomy Levels:
Resources- Remembering and Understanding Research-Applying, Analyzing Evaluating
Activity-Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating BEST in Your Community- Analyzing, Evaluating
Based On A True Story-Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating
Workforce Skills-Lesson has students utilize the following Workforce Skills:
Communication-effectively communicate ideas and information to others
Adaptability-understand how to change and adapt thinking and behavior
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