1. What started the information age
What started the information age? What came before and will come after the information age?
Search and deductive reasoning

2. Bing in the Classroom program Resources
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Bing in the Classroom program Resources
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Bing has Answers. Bing puts educational answers in your hands. A collection of Bing search features that both students and teachers can utilize for studying and research in and out of the classroom.
Bing Search Videos: Use these Bing educational videos and corresponding lesson plans with your students to teach how to search and stay safe online.
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3. 9/10/ :56 PM
Information Age
What started the information age? What came before and will come after the information age?
Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.
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4. 9/10/ :56 PM
Information Age
What started the information age? What came before and will come after the information age? 1
Web Search/Thinking
Find a timeline summarizing the major periods/ages in world history. Do you recognize any of the previous ages mentioned? 2
Web Search
What is a common definition for “the information age”? What are the main elements that characterize the information age? 3
What “age” came before the “information age”? What characterized this age? 4
What role has the internet played in establishing the information age? How important is the internet to your and your friends’ daily lives? 5
What do you think will characterize the next “age”? Find at least one theory of the future historical age through a web search.
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)
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5. 5 minutes Information Age
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Information Age
What started the information age? What came before and will come after the information age?
5 minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.
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6. 9/10/ :56 PM
Information Age
What started the information age? What came before and will come after the information age? 1
Web Search/Thinking
Find a timeline summarizing the major periods/ages in world history. Do you recognize any of the previous ages mentioned? 2
Web Search
What is a common definition for “the information age”? What are the main elements that characterize the information age? 3
What “age” came before the “information age”? What characterized this age? 4
What role has the internet played in establishing the information age? How important is the internet to your and your friends’ daily lives? 5
What do you think will characterize the next “age”? Find at least one theory of the future historical age through a web search.
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7. 9/10/ :56 PM
Information Age
What started the information age? What came before and will come after the information age? 1
Web Search/Thinking
Find a timeline summarizing the major periods/ages in world history. Do you recognize any of the previous ages mentioned? 2
Web Search
What is a common definition for “the information age”? What are the main elements that characterize the information age? 3
What “age” came before the “information age”? What characterized this age? 4
What role has the internet played in establishing the information age? How important is the internet to your and your friends’ daily lives? 5
What do you think will characterize the next “age”? Find at least one theory of the future historical age through a web search.
(Possible Search Queries: “major periods in world history”)
From Biography Online (
**This site contains a long list- students should explore and note periods of human history that they recognize**
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8. 9/10/ :56 PM
Information Age
What started the information age? What came before and will come after the information age? 1
Web Search/Thinking
Find a timeline summarizing the major periods/ages in world history. Do you recognize any of the previous ages mentioned? 2
Web Search
What is a common definition for “the information age”? What are the main elements that characterize the information age? 3
What “age” came before the “information age”? What characterized this age? 4
What role has the internet played in establishing the information age? How important is the internet to your and your friends’ daily lives? 5
What do you think will characterize the next “age”? Find at least one theory of the future historical age through a web search.
(Possible Search Queries: “define the information age”)
From Search CIO (
The Information Age is the idea that access to and the control of information is the defining characteristic of this current era in human civilization.
The Information Age, also called the Computer Age, the Digital Age and the New Media Age, is coupled tightly with the advent of personal computers, but many computer historians trace its beginnings to the work of the American mathematician Claude E. Shannon. At age 32 and as a researcher at Bell Laboratories, Shannon published a landmark paper proposing that information can be quantitatively encoded as a series of ones and zeroes. Known as the "father of Information Theory," Shannon showed how all information media, from telephone signals to radio waves to television, could be transmitted without error using this single framework.
By the 1970s, with the development of the Internet by the United States Department of Defense and the subsequent adoption of personal computers a decade later, the Information or Digital Revolution was underway. More technological changes, such as the development of fiber optic cables and faster microprocessors, accelerated the transmission and processing of information. The World Wide Web, used initially by companies as an electronic billboard for their products and services, morphed into an interactive consumer exchange for goods and information. Electronic mail ( ), which permitted near-instant exchange of information, was widely adopted as the primary platform for workplace and personal communications. The digitization of information has had a profound impact on traditional media businesses, such as book publishing, the music industry and more recently the major television and cable networks. As information is increasingly described in digital form, businesses across many industries have sharpened their focus on how to capitalize on the Information Age.
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9. 9/10/ :56 PM
Information Age
What started the information age? What came before and will come after the information age? 1
Web Search/Thinking
Find a timeline summarizing the major periods/ages in world history. Do you recognize any of the previous ages mentioned? 2
Web Search
What is a common definition for “the information age”? What are the main elements that characterize the information age? 3
What “age” came before the “information age”? What characterized this age? 4
What role has the internet played in establishing the information age? How important is the internet to your and your friends’ daily lives? 5
What do you think will characterize the next “age”? Find at least one theory of the future historical age through a web search.
(Possible Search Queries: “what came before the information age”)
**Students may consult the timeline found in Q1, but a more specific response can be found through this search**
From Wikipedia (
The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age) is a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information computerization. The onset of the Information Age is associated with the Digital Revolution, just as the Industrial Revolution marked the onset of the Industrial Age.[1][2]
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10. 9/10/ :56 PM
Information Age
What started the information age? What came before and will come after the information age? 1
Web Search/Thinking
Find a timeline summarizing the major periods/ages in world history. Do you recognize any of the previous ages mentioned? 2
Web Search
What is a common definition for “the information age”? What are the main elements that characterize the information age? 3
What “age” came before the “information age”? What characterized this age? 4
What role has the internet played in establishing the information age? How important is the internet to your and your friends’ daily lives? 5
What do you think will characterize the next “age”? Find at least one theory of the future historical age through a web search.
(Possible Search Queries: “internet and information age”)
From US History (
(excerpt)
Some have begun to call it the Information Revolution. Technological changes brought dramatic new options to Americans living in the 1990s. From the beginning of the decade until the end, new forms of entertainment, commerce, research, work, and communication became commonplace in the United States. The driving force behind much of this change was an innovation popularly known as the Internet.
Personal computers had become widespread by the end of the 1980s. Also available was the ability to connect these computers over local or even national networks. Through a device called a modem, individual users could link their computer to a wealth of information using conventional phone lines. What lay beyond the individual computer was a vast domain of information known as cyberspace.
Lisa
Upon its release in 1983 the Apple "Lisa" computer — named for one of its developers daughters — was supposed to revolutionize personal computing. But interest in "Lisa" was minimal due to its nearly $10,000 price tag and the introduction of the much more affordable "Macintosh" a year later.
The INTERNET was developed during the 1970s by the Department of Defense. In the case of an attack, military advisers suggested the advantage of being able to operate one computer from another terminal. In the early days, the Internet was used mainly by scientists to communicate with other scientists. The Internet remained under government control until 1984.
One early problem faced by Internet users was speed. Phone lines could only transmit information at a limited rate. The development of FIBER-OPTIC cables allowed for billions of bits of information to be received every minute. Companies like INTEL developed faster microprocessors, so personal computers could process the incoming signals at a more rapid rate.
In the early 1990s, the WORLD WIDE WEB was developed, in large part, for commercial purposes. Corporations created home pages where they could place text and graphics to sell products. Soon airline tickets, hotel reservations, books, and even cars and homes could be purchased online. Colleges and universities posted research data on the Internet, so students could find valuable information without leaving their dormitories. Companies soon discovered that work could be done at home and submitted online, so a whole new class of telecommuters began to earn a living from home offices unshaven and wearing pajamas.
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11. 9/10/ :56 PM
Information Age
What started the information age? What came before and will come after the information age? 1
Web Search/Thinking
Find a timeline summarizing the major periods/ages in world history. Do you recognize any of the previous ages mentioned? 2
Web Search
What is a common definition for “the information age”? What are the main elements that characterize the information age? 3
What “age” came before the “information age”? What characterized this age? 4
What role has the internet played in establishing the information age? How important is the internet to your and your friends’ daily lives? 5
What do you think will characterize the next “age”? Find at least one theory of the future historical age through a web search.
(Possible Search Queries: “after the information age”)
**students should consider and share their own theories as well**
Example of theory from a web search:
From After Info Age (
First of several posts on understanding linearity (the Information Age) & non-linearity (what's coming).
Rationale: the Information Age represents the triumph of centuries of linear thinking that was most clearly defined by the (first assembly-line) printing press and the consequent widespread literacy. What's coming AFTER the Information Age is the movement towards NON-linearity. It doesn't replace linear thinking, it compliments so powerfully that what is difficult (especially innovation) becomes easy.
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