Technology: A speak&spell toy (I will post the picture, please apply to the PowerPoint I provide)
Introduction. Provide a description of the technology. What does it look like? What is it made of? How heavy is it? And so forth. An annotated picture, visually indicating key functionality, is required here. For example, you could indicate where important buttons are located (among other things). If you did not take a picture of your own, you may download one.

What problem or problems does the technology promise to remedy? When addressing this question, you must be specific. Don’t just say “it’s supposed to make things better”; instead, explain the need it is supposed to meet. Your answer must consider both the user’s perspective, and the designer’s. (They may not always be the same.)

Why do these problem(s) exist? This is a question of root causes. For example, if in your prior answer you suggested that the technology makes a difficult task easier, here you need to provide evidence that existing alternatives are hard to use.

How does the technology address these problem(s)? Having explained the problem and its source, you must now explain how this product improves the situation. Continuing the example above, how is the new technology going to make the task easier?

Assessment. Does the interactive technology you evaluated demonstrate an effective understanding of the problem space? Justify this assessment by juxtaposing your answers the previous three questions to the qualities of a well-defined problem space (as described in class and the textbook). Close with a summary of your overall assessment of the product’s responsiveness to the problem space.

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Read William Carlos Williams’s short story, The Girl with the Pimply Face (starting on page 154 in the text,The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.)

Before writing anything for this week’s discussion, consider these questions about the girls in The Girl with the Pimply Face and Old Woman Magoun (these are not the essay questions):
How do they differ? (That should be easy.)
How are they the same? What characteristics do they share?
How would their teachers perceive them?
How would girls in class view them?
How would boys in class view them?
Would they be friends?
In a modern middle school cafeteria, if there were no other seats left and they sat together during lunch, what would they talk about?
Now that you have read both stories and considered those questions, here is this week’s essay topic for the discussion:
Show us how you think the stories would be changed if the characters switched places. Put Lily in the depression-era family visited by the doctor, and put the pimple-faced girl in Old Woman Magouns’ care. What changes? Does anything change? How and why? Provide details, using facts from the stories (with in-line citations). Like any good challenge, this requires some analysis and a bit of imagination.
Things to keep in mind:
Did you address the topic in the first paragraph? Did you stay on topic to the end? Did you prove your topic / thesis using facts from the stories?

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