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Current Event 2

Current Event in Technology**Instructions:** Your assignment today is to research and summarize 3 articles about issues in our nation, our state, and/or our town dealing with technology using the Internet. When you perform a search and summarize, you must be careful to write it in your own words.

For each of the current events, you need to follow these steps:
 * Include the name of the article.
 * List the author's name
 * Create a link with the articles URL for the chosen current event article.
 * Write a short summary (6-7 sentences minimum) of what you learned from the article.
 * Answer all of the required questions in detail.
 * Complete sentences are required for your answers.
 * Make sure that your answers are in a different (easy to read) color font than the questions.

For the first article, go to www.usatoday.com or some other site that posts daily world events and find an article of interest about something that is going on in the world. You may also choose to go to a network news site such as www.msnbc.com.

For the second article, go to www.ksl.com or another state paper and find an article of interest about something that is going on in our state.

For the third article, you can choose to do an event from the world, state, or city. If you choose to do our city, go to www.sltrib.com or www.deseretnews.com (can search by town) and find an article of interest about something that is going on in our town.

Article #1 - World News Article Title - iPad rival Microsoft Surface comes January

Author - Elaine Thompson URL (create a link) - []

Summarize your article. The Windows Pro 8 is coming out next month. The 64-GB computer with be $899 and the 128-GB computer will be $999. People will see if this computer will be a mobile hit. The price might also be a factor to see if it's a hit or not. Other tablets like it are way less-expensive than the Windows Pro 8. Only time will tell if these computers are good or not. What did you think was the most interesting part of the article? The most interesting part, I think, is that this will be a touch computer. I didn't even know they were making this kind of stuff. How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative? It affects my life by making life a little bit easier. It could be both because sometimes taking the easy way is a lot faster, and it could be bad because sometimes doing the easy thing is not how you get stuff done.

Article #2 - State News Article Title - Survey: Salt Lake City tops in using digital technology Author - VINCE HORIUCHI URL (create a link) - []

Summarize your article. Salt Lake was named Top Digital Technology in the country. The city was ranked highest among towns of its size. It was based on reducing overtime with new technology. It was also based on the development of mobile apps. The Center for Digital Government is a national institute for information technology. The institute gave Salt Lake an "A" for it's use of technology to help residents. What did you think was the most interesting part of the article? The most interesting part was that Salt Lake was #1 in Digital Technology and I thought that was cool. How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative? It affects my life by showing how technology has affected Utah and all the other states. I think that it's positive because technology should make your life easier and I think most technology does that.

Article #3 - World News

Article Title - Microsoft increases Surface tablet production

Author - No specific author

URL (create a link) - []

Summarize your article.

What did you think was the most interesting part of the article?

How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative?