I’ve been doing a lot of deep digging while working on my book about the history of technology in education – as I’ve seen it. This afternoon, I happened upon some online handouts for one of my first keynotes and its slidedeck. The address was called, “The Three Ts of Teaching in the Twenty-First Century.” It appears to have been delivered in November of 2000.
On one of the opening slides, I had listed the ten most searched for terms of that month. As a comparison, I found the top ten searches on Google in 2014, and have listed them as well.
| November 2000 | 2014 | |||
| 10 | Pokemon | 10 | Sochi Olympics | |
| 91 | Napster | 91 | Frozen | |
| 81 | Playstation 2 | 81 | ISIS | |
| 71 | NFL | 7 | Conchita Wurst | |
| 6 | Florida Recount | 6 | Flappy Bird | |
| 5 | Britney Spears | 5 | ALS Ice Bucket Challenge | |
| 4 | Thanksgiving | 4 | Malaysia Airlines | |
| 3 | Dragonball | 3 | Ebola | |
| 2 | Election 2000 | 2 | World Cup | |
| 1 | Christmas | 1 | Robin Williams | |
I was actually surprised how little it’s changed? We have video games, sports, entertainment with a peppering of world-shaping issues.
Hi my name is hunter Reid and I am a student at the university of south alabama. It is very interesting how little these search results differ in category. It just shows that we as Americans are still focused on the same things 14 years later
Mr. Warlick,
My name is Janelle Owens and I am student in EDM31o at the University of South Alabama. I feel that American’s will always focus on the same issues. It will always be about the latest game console, Sports, Entertainment, and News. It has not changed in 14 years, and I feel that it will never change and it will always be that way.