The God of Consumerism
The God of Technology
The Spaceship Earth
The Law of Diversity
Postman on The Future of Educational Success
100
The other god that is closely related to the god of Consumership
What is the god of Economic Utility or the god of Technology?
100
How the god of Technology benefits students in public schools
What is providing tools for learning, convenience, easy accessibility, expanding field of knowledge?
100
The three A’s which Postman suggests as subjects to show the importance of Spaceship Earth
What are “Anthropology, Archaeology, and Astronomy”?
100
One subject that broadens or furthers our knowledge of the English language and its debt to languages all over the globe
What is: etymology, historical linguistics, or origins?
100
The educational problem that has to be solved in American public schools
Why do we need to participate in schooling?
200
The slogan that expresses the basic moral axiom of the god of Consumership
What is ‘Whomever dies with the most toys, wins’?
200
Two examples of how institutions have accommodated technology
What are: computerized infrastructure, Internet based communication (i.e. social media), app-based business models, etc.?
200
Those who become the stewards of the Earth in The Spaceship Earth fable.
Who are the youth of society, students in particular?
200
One or more reasons to teach religion in public schools
What are: Much of our culture (painting, music, architecture, literature, and science) is intertwined with religion, to ask why we are here with context, to become acquainted with the variety of ways people have explained themselves, and to see the unity of those explanations?
200
According to Postman, the core purpose of schooling
What is the establishment of a culture that promotes the ends of the accepted shared narratives within the culture?
300
The system or model in America upon which our public schools are based
What is the market economy, corporate America, industrialization, top down management, capitalism, or labor?
300
The learning of this key set of values that the isolating god of Technology works against
What are ‘social values’?
300
The effect The Spaceship Earth has on people’s relationship with the environment
What is to introduce the young to their responsibility for the planet?
300
Beyond the superficial exploration of customs of food and dress, these are one or more differences in custom that are necessary to explore
What are: beliefs about kinship, about the legitimate sources of authority, about gender roles, about the meaning of politics, of history, and of the future?
300
The type of school that is not faced with a crisis of narrative
What is “the religious school”?
400
The technological device that most serves to teach the values of the god of Consumership.
What is the Television?
400
Problems in society to which the god of Technology does not respond
What are poverty, alienation, and family disintegration?
400
This four-word slogan could encapsulate the meaning of the fable of The Spaceship Earth.
What is “Think Globally, Act Locally”?
400
Postman suggests this subject of study in order to serve to answer the fundamental question: “What does it mean to be a human being?”
What is the study of museums?
400
What many educators have done in the wake of the death or maiming of America’s former ‘gods’
What is focus their attention on the technical tasks of learning or have accepted weaker ‘gods’ that fail?
500
The root cause of evil in the religious parables of the god of Consumership.
What is technological innocence?
500
We know how to use technology -- this is how technology uses us.
bonus! Open ended critical thinking
500
What is required for us to make our environment.
What is a consciousness of our interdependence, as well as an encouragement and legitimization of the effort?
500
According to Postman, this is the purpose of public education as mandated by The Law of Diversity
What is to help the young transcend individual identity by finding inspiration in a story of humanity?
500
Without a purpose, the schools are this and are not that, according to Postman
What are ‘houses of detention’, not ‘attention’?
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