IMAGE: DNAmatch - Online Dating in the Future
Wired Magazine runs a great contest where they ask readers:
What do you think our world will look like in 10, 20, or 100 years? We need your help creating a new artifact from the future for every issue of Wired magazine. Each month, we'll propose a scenario and ask for your prognostications. Sketch out your vision, then return here to upload your ideas, see other submissions, and vote for your favorites.
This month's image (below) is sure to be an incredible discussion starter around what will be fact and fiction in relation to genetics in the near future. I had the honor of doing a huge genetics unit this year with first year teacher Napoleon Knight this year. In our unit, we got a lot of milage out of images like this as well as these remarkable and real websites:
23 and Me - a real genetics testing site - just mail your DNA sample and get the results back. For teaching purposes you should check out their Genetics 101 short readings and animations as well.
and, if that isn't mind boggling enough check the video out at this pet cloning site Best Friends Again.
If your interested a bit more in the Genetics unit we did consider reading these old blog posts...
#1. TEACHING: SCIENCE, ART OR CRAFT?
#2. LITERACY, SCIENCE & THE 4Ss
#3. VIEWING STRATEGIES: A CASE STUDY
Now - the image:
Full collection of Wired's artifacts from the future, including this one can be found here.
What do you think our world will look like in 10, 20, or 100 years? We need your help creating a new artifact from the future for every issue of Wired magazine. Each month, we'll propose a scenario and ask for your prognostications. Sketch out your vision, then return here to upload your ideas, see other submissions, and vote for your favorites.
This month's image (below) is sure to be an incredible discussion starter around what will be fact and fiction in relation to genetics in the near future. I had the honor of doing a huge genetics unit this year with first year teacher Napoleon Knight this year. In our unit, we got a lot of milage out of images like this as well as these remarkable and real websites:
23 and Me - a real genetics testing site - just mail your DNA sample and get the results back. For teaching purposes you should check out their Genetics 101 short readings and animations as well.
and, if that isn't mind boggling enough check the video out at this pet cloning site Best Friends Again.
If your interested a bit more in the Genetics unit we did consider reading these old blog posts...
#1. TEACHING: SCIENCE, ART OR CRAFT?
#2. LITERACY, SCIENCE & THE 4Ss
#3. VIEWING STRATEGIES: A CASE STUDY
Now - the image:
Full collection of Wired's artifacts from the future, including this one can be found here.
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