Electric Dreams - Life with Electronics from 1970 - 2000

Task 1

Answer the following questions on the Electric Dreams Programme:

Q1 How was that decade different to what we have now?

Q2 What new technology came in during this decade?

Q3 How did the lack of technology affect the children’s social lives? For better or worse?

Q4 How did the lack of technology affect the parent’s social lives? Better or worse?

Task 2

The students can come up and take a journey though the different inventions of the decades.

Complete a poster on how technology has changed, what life was like in the decade of electric dreams.

• Get them to think about what life was like for a teenager living in that decade.

• What would they do without a mobile phone?

• What would they do without a TV or games system in their room?

• Without the internet at home?

• Or even at school?