1. What technology have you used today?
Think!
What technology have you used today?

2. Starter What technologies are responsible for a shrinking world?
Telephone lines, broadband and fibre optics, internet usage, air travel, GIS and GPS
How have these technologies helped build networks?
Examples are – Telephone, internet, air travel, GIS, GPS,

3. Key Enquiry Question 1: What are the causes of globalisation and why has it accelerated in recent decades?
Lesson 2
LO: To be able to examine globalisation and associated developments over time in transport, communications and the way businesses operate on a global scale.
Concept Checker:
3.1c The 21st Century has been dominated by rapid development in ICT and mobile communication (mobile phones, internet, social networking, electronic banking, fibre optics), lowering communication costs and contributing to time-space compression.
Key terms:
Shrinking world
Time-space compression
GPS

4. Create a mind map to show how the internet, broadband and fibre optics and GIS/GPS create a shrinking world. (use pages to help extend)

5. Case Study: easyJet Page 165 and Internet
Research the budget airline company easyJet to answer the following questions:
1) How has it helped create global networks?
2) What kind of places does easyJet fly to?
3) How has it connected global cities?
4) What are the costs / benefits of such cheap air travel?
5) What other technologies are incorporated into easyJet’s network?
Page 165 and Internet

6. Technology: A Player’s Perspective
Using page 166 and the SEEP grid, you are going to categorise examples of how ‘players’ use technology to contribute to globalisation. When you have finished, evaluate which aspect you believe to be amongst the greatest influence in accelerating globalisation.
Page 166

7. Plenary
How have telephones, the internet, air travel and GPS/GIS caused you to experience the shrinking world?
Make a Key
Have different colours for telephones, the internet, air travel and GIS/GPS.
Link Your location to the areas of the world you have networked.