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In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
This course explores technology and its impact on the world around us. Technology influences society and society influences technology, creating a feedback loop between them. You will critically analyze a feedback loop in this project through social, historical, and cultural approaches to technology with the aid of the four general education lenses: history, humanities, natural and applied sciences, and social sciences. From this enhanced understanding, you will be equipped to draw connections among technology, self, and society. These skills are often necessary to achieve personal and professional goals across many disciplines.
For this project, you will write a 10-page paper that examines a social, cultural, or global event where a technology plays a significant role. In the paper, you will describe your chosen technology and event, construct a thesis statement, perform a critical analysis that makes use of at least one of the general education lenses, and reflect on how your analysis can inform your personal life and experience. You will demonstrate your ability to think critically, investigate, and communicate clearly.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Integrate reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis. Use at least two resources from the Module Resources sections of this course and two resources that you find through your own research using the Shapiro Library.
It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis. This is different from the Citations and Attributions rubric criterion.
Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself, while citing and attributing sources will be represented as APA in-text citations and a reference list at the end of your work.
You will be evaluated on both criteria.
Describe a social, cultural, or global event where a technology plays a significant role. Include information such as how the event originated and what it is about.
Describe the technology significant to this event. Include information such as what the technology does and how it may help influence change.
Assess the societal or cultural influences of the technology involved in the event.
Explain your choice of general education interdisciplinary lens for analyzing the technology and its role in the event.
Construct a thesis statement that combines your event, the technology, the societal or cultural influences, and choice of general education interdisciplinary lens.
Analyze your technology’s role in the event through one of the general education interdisciplinary lenses to determine the technology’s impact onvarious institutions.
Analyze how social practices have been shaped by the technology involved in the event.
Describe at least one limitation of the technology involved in the event that could benefit from change.
Recommend strategies to address the limitations of the technology involved in the event.
Assess at least two significant factors that could affect how individuals understand the role of technology in the event, such as biases, beliefs, assumptions, and/or values.
Assess the benefits and challenges of critically analyzing technology in society.
Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal goals.
What might this look like in your everyday life? Consider how critically analyzing technology influence on a particular event can be used to address day-to-day responsibilities.
Describe how critically analyzing a technology’s role in an event has informed your individual framework of perception.
Consider how it has altered the way you perceive the world.
Describe how examining your bias may alter the way you use or don’t use certain technologies.
Reflect on your own bias, then consider how an awareness of one’s bias can change how one interacts with technology.
Explain how critically analyzing a technology’s role in your event can influence your field of study or profession.
How can studying technology inform your understanding of the next big topic of study in your field or profession?
Explain at least one way in which your analysis might have been differenthad you used one of the other general education lenses to analyze the technology’s role in your event.
Explain how analyzing the technology’s role in your event can help interactions with those of a different viewpoint, culture, and perspective.
To complete this project, you must submit a Word document of 10 pages in length (plus a reference page) using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Use at least two resources from the Module Resources sections of this course and two resources that you find through your own research using the Shapiro Library. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the
Shapiro Library APA Style Guide
for more information on citations.
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Titleof your final project
Moné Jones
Department of General Education and Interdisciplinary Studies
IDS 403
Dr. Hamid El Khalfi
August 14, 2022
Note: Your final paper should consist of 10 pages. You are going to put all the sections (activities that you have worked on until week 6) into one final project. Use the same topic you have been working on and include two sources from the course. Also use credible research materials from the Shapiro library. You are going to integrate the sources into your paper by addressing the categories below. Use at least two resources from the Module Resources sections of this course and two resources that you find through your own research by using the Shapiro Library. “It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis. This is different from the Citations and Attributions rubric criterion. Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself, while citing and attributing sources will be represented as APA in-text citations and a reference list at the end of your work.”
Use the rubric to address all the categories. Review the
requirements and rubric
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Use headings: This is very important.
I- Technology and Event Description:
In this section, you will identify and discuss the factors that shape your thesis statement.
Address each of the following in a separate paragraph:
1- Technology and Event Description: Social, Cultural or Global Event
Describe a social, cultural, or global event where a technology plays a significant role. Include information such as how the event originated and what it is about.
One of the events where technology plays a significant role in gene editing. Gene editing has been made possible as a result of technological advancement, with the latest event being the discovery and application of the CRISPR-Cas9 in gene editing.
2- Technology and Event Description: Technology
Describe the technology significant to this event. Include information such as what the technology does and how it may help influence change.
The technology which is significant to gene editing is the CRISPR-Cas9. CRISPR-Cas9 is a revolutionary technology in the healthcare profession that has made it possible for geneticists and researchers in the healthcare industry to edit different parts of the genome through the removal, addition, and alteration of the DNA sequence (Arora & Narula, 2017). Since its invention, it has become the versatile and precise approach to manipulating genes. This is because the CRISPR/Cas9 technology edits genes by accurately and precisely cutting DNA and enabling the natural DNA repair processes to continue taking place. This technology often consists of two parts the Cas9 enzyme and a guide RNA.
3- Technology and Event Description: Societal or Cultural Influences
Assess the societal or cultural influences of the technology involved in the event.
The CRISPR/Cas9 technology has revolutionized the lives and experiences of people by revolutionization the healthcare delivery system. It has also positively impacted several diagnostic procedures and therapies by making it possible for healthcare professionals to offer personalized healthcare interventions. This technology can also be used to assess the genes targeted by chemotherapeutic pharmaceutical interventions and to determine different pathways to minimize or reduce the resistance to chemotherapy for different kinds of cancer (Zhao et al., 2021).
4- Technology and Event Description: General Education Lens
Explain your choice of general education interdisciplinary lens for analyzing the technology and its role in the event.
The factor that resulted in me selecting this lens of healthcare technology is the prevalence of several healthcare conditions that cannot be treated using traditional healthcare approaches. However, the introduction of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology provides the ability to revolutionize the world by helping address genetic disorders, cardiovascular conditions, and different types of cancers. The decision to select this technology was easy because it would revolutionize the healthcare delivery system.
5- Technology and Event Description: Thesis Statement
Construct a thesis statement that combines your event, the technology, the societal or cultural influences, and choice of general education interdisciplinary lens.
One of the significant technological events is the discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, which has revolutionized the healthcare industry by providing effective intervention for untreatable conditions such as cancer and genetic mutations.
II- Critical Analysis:
In this section, you will analyze your technology’s role in the event using one of the general education lenses and recommend strategies for using this kind of analysis to meet your personal and professional goals. Address each of the following in a separate paragraph and use headings:
1- Critical Analysis: Impact on Institutions
Analyze your technology’s role in the event through one of the general education interdisciplinary lenses to determine the technology’s impact on various institutions.
The gene editing technology is viewed at different perspectives by academicians and healthcare experts and its recent widespread application rises both ethical and logical questions among the masses. While the technology presents many advantages like helping in cancer treatment, removing unwanted genotypes, and treatment of cancer, ethical questions such as mosaicism, safety and informed consent. There is also fear that genome editing can be transferred into the next generations, which can lead to loss of certain characteristics in future (Yunta & Vaschetto,2021). The question of informed consent concerns how good and bad use of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology can be distinguished, who determines bad and normal traits and the availability of the technology to the poor.
2- Critical Analysis: Social Practices
Analyze how social practices have been shaped by the technology involved in the event.
With the advancement in technology, the genome editing technology is set for mass adoption because of its relatively many advantages over drawbacks. The need to remove disability disorders before child birth, the treatment of cancer and sorting out the best qualities in an organism supersede the fear and ethical dilemma in genome editing technology. Laustsen & Bak(2019) argues that CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology is faster, precise, simple and efficient and thus offers more relevance in the science world. The gene editing technology has enabled the possibility for healthier and strong babies, curing genetic diseases and inventing of new vaccines to fight viruses.
3- Critical Analysis: Limitation That Could Benefit From Change
Describe at least one limitation of the technology involved in the event that could benefit from change.
The discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology has no doubt caused changes to the family values, societal norms and even the economic landscape. Families can choose the qualities they want in their child and these choices ultimately affect the community. Moreover, economic setting is affected as genome editing determine the quality and quantity of produce through democratization of agricultural biotechnology (Musunuru, 2021). Gene editing has also affected social practices by reshaping people’s lives, medical treatments and harmfully by increasing social inequality and reducing human diversity. The limitations of the CRISPR/Cas9 editing such as tumors and toxicity of delivery systems can addressed from the continuous improvement into the technology.
4- Critical Analysis: Strategies to Address the Limitations
Recommend strategies to address the limitations of the technology involved in the event.
Technology limitations has affected the rate off genome editing and its mass acceptance. Specifically, the lack of accuracy and potential for affecting the original characteristics has delayed the decision of some people to use CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to determine the characteristics of their offspring (XXXX). The limitations of the accuracy and fear of affecting other DNA features can be addressed through advanced research that improve the precision of the gene editing. Technology also makes it difficult to deliver the CRISPR/Cas9 to mature cells in large numbers which make it clinically difficult in many circumstances.
5- Critical Analysis: Factors That Could Impact Understanding
Assess at least two significant factors that could affect how individuals understand the role of technology in the event, such as biases, beliefs, assumptions, and/or values.
Factors such as bias, assumptions and fears about technology also significantly influence the role of technology in the event. For example, some people cannot trust the technology to adjust the genome characteristics to their desired features and only believe in the natural process. The fear is propelled by previous technology mistakes that has left people disappointed with results that they did not expect after genome editing (Zhao & Wolt, 2017). Other people do not accept technology alteration of the genome characteristics mainly due to religious affiliations and cultural backgrounds. Technology is not 100% effective in gene editing event and could thus lead to undesired results which further increases the fear and bias against gene editing.
6- Critical Analysis: Benefits and Challenges
Assess the benefits and challenges of critically analyzing technology in society.
Critical analysis of the benefits and challenges of gene editing technology can help shape its use in future. For example, it is important to know the possibility of off-target results, biological attacks and unintended consequences (Zhao & Wolt, 2017). Equally, analyzing the role of technology and its ability to achieve results with precision make people to take the chance of removing unwanted genome features if the expected results are less severe than letting the offspring with the bad genes. Personal goals that I can meet using this technology include increasing produce output by selecting the best genes and even using technology to weed-out unwanted or retardant genes.
7- Critical Analysis: Strategies for Personal Goals
Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal goals.
What might this look like in your everyday life? Consider how critically analyzing technology influence on a particular event can be used to address day-to-day responsibilities.
III- Reflections
In this section, you will describe how using critical analysis tools influences your personal experience, your field of study or profession, and how you interact with others.
In my opinion, Gene editing is a group of technologies that offers scientist the aptitude to vary the DNA of an organism. Such technologies change genetic material at specific genome locations. One of the technologies applied in gene editing is CRISPR-Cas9. It is used short for clustered frequently interspaced short palindromic replications and CRISPR associated with protein 9 (MediPlus, 2022). This technology has generated more enthusiasm in the scientific society since it is cheaper, faster, accurate, and efficient unlike other gene editing technologies.
1- Reflection: Individual Framework of Perception
Describe how critically analyzing a technology’s role in an event has informed your individual framework of perception.
Consider how it has altered the way you perceive the world.
CRISPR-Cas9 has taken the world by storm with the assurance of making gene editing faster and easier than before. Since its inception, gene-editing has transformed research in biology making it easier study illness & quicker to ascertain medications ( Fernandez, 2021). Gene editing is also meaningfully influencing the growth of foods, crops, and industrial fermentation processes. One application that has made gene editing famous is the human genome adjustment, which gives the assurance of using CRISPR to cure disease. The initial clinical trials testing CRISPR-Cas9 amongst individuals in are already Europe and US.
2- Reflection: Bias
Describe how examining your bias may alter the way you use or don’t use certain technologies.
Reflect on your own bias, then consider how an awareness of one’s bias can change how one interacts with technology.
Gene editing has always been tamed as biased because it is costly. “But what if only the very rich and elite could afford it and let the child of poor ones die (Niglia, 2019)?” This idea might change many people on using such technologies. For instance if a child of the poor dies, it means gene editing won’t give social justice and this will divert people’s interaction with gene editing and other technologies.
3- Reflection: Field of Study or Profession
Explain how critically analyzing a technology’s role in your event can influence your field of study or profession.
How can studying technology inform your understanding of the next big topic of study in your field or profession?
Continuing clinical trials employ gene editors to treat diseases like cancer. Therefore, as the technology progresses, new illnesses treatments are projected to arise. The obtainability of powerful genome-editing tools influences each aspect of cancer research.
4- Reflection: Different General Education Lens
Explain at least one way in which your analysis might have been different had you used one of the other general education lenses to analyze the technology’s role in your event
The role of technology viewed from different educational lenses brings diverse perspectives on the importance and challenges of technology in gene editing. The socio-cultural and global view differ in contexts particularly regarding acceptability of gene editing technology (Jarvis, 2016). For example from science view, the technology is viewed as the future scientifically designed plant and animal specifies. The global world view currently is that science and technology are helpful eliminating unwanted characteristics from offspring’s and even in providing food security for the growing population through genetic modification of seeds (Ten Have & Patrão Neves, 2021). The global view has helped to universally accept gene editing to get better offspring species for both plants and animals.
5- Reflection: Interactions
Explain how analyzing the technology’s role in your event can help interactions with those of a different viewpoint, culture, and perspective.
Basing on the lenses of economics and the need for better and increased production, the perspectives a different as quality food and drought disease resistant crops are given preference. The technology divide among people lead to different perspectives and opinions about the off-target effects, secular world view and science taking the place of natural believe (Vogels,2021).The economic perspectives overlooks the need for original gene characteristics if they do not produce the best quality and are not resistance. In agri-business, this technology is important because it helps to produce the best quality and resistant to diseases. The economic viewpoint beats the criticism from cultural and social views about the off-target effects and potential for removing good characteristics from a gene.
Critical analysis of gene editing technology in different lenses provides an opportunity for embracing diverse opinions from all cultures and global view. For instance, the proponents of natural characteristics who base on religious facts can accept the technology if it leads to positive results like saving unborn children from fatal diseases before birth (McGivern,2016). Moreover, the world of science and technology learn to increase efficiency and efficacy and ensuring moral ethics in gene editing process.
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Zhao, Z., Li, C., Tong, F., Deng, J., Huang, G., & Sang, Y. (2021). Review of applications of CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology in cancer research. Biological Procedures Online, 23(1), 1-13.
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