This assignment was less complicated than some of the previous ones I have discussed. It required me to download and fill out a review sheet PDF from unit 1. After completing it, I had to turn it in through an assignment link and had to make sure I turned in the correct document.
This review sheet was centered around the material I had learned in unit 1 assignment 3. It asked me to label 9 previous technologies or pastimes that are not currently feared but were previously. I was not allowed to include internet-based technologies.
After reviewing the materials from assignment 3, I compiled a list of these 9 technologies. These included the written word, chess, the phonograph, novels, newspapers, pencil erasers, bicycles, umbrellas, and pocket calculators. There were more technologies mentioned in the materials, but those were the most noteworthy, in my opinion.
Reflecting on this assignment, it started the trend of reviewing previously learned course information, which I think is a great idea. Although I did not learn anything new through this assignment, going over the videos and articles again allowed me to experience a repetition of the information, which I believe will allow me to remember this material for longer in the future. It was a great design by professor Gernsbacher because it forces her students to spend more time with materials from that unit before moving to the next. I look forward to completing future review documents to continue mastering the course material!
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