TECA and the Black Inventors Web Site


TECA and TECH 415, along with Dr. Childress, developed the Black Inventors Web Site. We developed it in order for students at Irving Park Elementary School in Greensboro, NC to have a place on the World Wide Web for productive research on black inventors. However, we believe that many elementary school kids and others have accessed the site. It was posted just in time for Black History Month, February of 2002. Dr. Childress personally helped the Mrs. Gray and her student teacher, April Lucas, conduct the unit with their kids. Another teacher there, Erica Alvarez, taught the unit also. They addressed black culture in social studies, symmetry and shapes in mathematics, and reading comprehension and writing using their inventors logs with the Web site. They addressed  Standard 1, Benchmark E and Standard 10 Benchmark D in the Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology.

We also developed a timeline and posters that were on display in Price and Smith Halls respectively.

Such development activities and teaching help prepare both pre-service Technology Education and VIE teachers and licensed teachers to embrace dispositions that value diversity and technology.
 


Black Inventors Web Site

The Black Inventors Web Site






Black Inventors Timeline on display near Price 103.







Black Inventors Posters on display in the lobby of Smith Hall.





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