FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
What type of technology might allow people to travel through the air without using traditional roads?
Answer: What are flying cars?
A guess about what may happen in the future is called what?
Answer: What is a prediction?
The most important point an author wants readers to understand is called what?
Answer: What is the central idea?
A smartphone that helps someone communicate instantly is an example of what kind of effect?
Answer: What is a benefit?
A person who thinks about and studies possible futures is sometimes called what?
Answer: What is a futurist?
What machines are designed to perform tasks that humans normally do?
Answer: What are robots?
Something that is useful or helpful is described as what?
Answer: What is beneficial?
Information that explains or supports the central idea is called what?
Answer: What are supporting details?
If people become unable to complete simple tasks without technology, what potential problem does this demonstrate?
Answer: What is overreliance on technology?
If an author describes life in the year 2050, what is the author doing?
Answer: What is imagining or predicting a possible future?
What does hypersonic mean?
Answer: What is traveling at extremely high speeds, generally faster than five times the speed of sound?
A quality or characteristic that describes a person, thing, or idea is called what?
Answer: What is a trait?
When you use clues from a text and what you already know to figure out something that isn't directly stated, what are you making?
What is an inference?
Why might robots be beneficial in dangerous environments?
Answer: What is they can perform dangerous tasks without putting human workers at risk?
If a prediction is supported by evidence and logical reasoning, what makes it stronger?
Answer: What is evidence and reasoning that support the prediction?
Why might engineers develop new forms of transportation?
Answer: What is to make travel faster, safer, easier, or more efficient?
Technology is considered advanced when it has reached what level of development?
Answer: What is a high or sophisticated level of development?
What should you use from a text to support an inference or conclusion?
Answer: What is textual evidence?
If a new technology makes life easier but creates new dangers, what should people consider?
Answer: What are both the benefits and the risks?
An engineer designs a new vehicle. What should the engineer consider besides whether the vehicle works?
Answer: What are safety, usefulness, cost, environmental effects, and possible risks?
Give one possible benefit and one possible risk of advanced technology.
Answer: What are benefits such as greater efficiency or convenience and risks such as accidents, job loss, or overreliance on technology?
If something happens as a result of something else, the first event can be described as what?
Answer: What is a cause?
Why is it important to identify an author's point of view when reading about technology?
Answer: What is because the author's perspective or attitude can affect how the information is presented?
A writer argues that people should limit their dependence on technology. What would you look for to determine whether the argument is convincing?
Answer: What are the author's reasons and evidence?
The central question of Workshop 7 is: “How do we build for ______?”
Answer: What is the future?