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Students explore:
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- how the Internet provides the infrastructure for transferring voice messages;
- how science, technology, and society have historically exerted mutual influence; and
- VoIP technology addresses modern needs by building on past knowledge.
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VoIP:Connect
How does VoIP work?
Students learn about the new technology of voice-over-Internet—where it comes from, how it got here, and how it works for us!
In VoIP:Connect students explore the concept of phone calls—voice communications—over the Internet. They begin to understand how the growth of new technologies build on past knowledge, often use an existing infrastructure to meet new needs, and that changes, both technological and economic, require and drive these new innovations. VoIP (Voice over IP)—separating sound (voice) signals into digitized packets of information that can be routed over the Internet—becomes a case in point to promote students’ fundamental learning.
As students play the game and you employ the procedures in this instructional guide students come to understand the importance of past technological accomplishment, the merging of these accomplishments with the existing structure of the Internet, and the purposes—our needs—that are met by VoIP.
Built for students in grades 4-7!
Correlated to national education standards!
- Standards for the English Language Arts
- National Educational Technology Standards for Students
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