The 6th grade has shifted from our unit of independent projects to a new focus on technology companies that are shaping the world.  We started by naming all the companies we could think of that deal with technology and then started grouping them into like industries.  We found that these companies fall into some fairly tidy classes:

  • communication – cell phone companies, email
  • entertainment -content producers, cable & satellite services
  • identity – social networking, photo storage sites
  • energy – fuel cells, alternate sources
  • transportation – airlines, car companies
  • productivity – software companies, hardware companies

In the next few weeks we’ll have visitors from a variety of industries come to the tech lab and talk about how they use technology in their every day work.  We’ll post photos and thoughts as we get underway.