República Bolivariana
de Venezuela
Unidad Educativa Colegio
Tirso de Molina
Caracas – San
Bernardino
Materia: Inglés 5to año
3ER LAPSO
Objetivo 3.4 El uso de
las redes sociales.
1. Look at the following photos and answer the
questions in your notebook.
a. What
is each picture of?
b. When
you think in your personal image, what is most important for you? (Listed)
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The clothes you wear?
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Your Facebook page?
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Your job or daily
activity?
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Your nationality?
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The education you
have had?
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The languages you speak?
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The house where
you live?
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How much money you
have?
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The ideas others
have about you?
2. Read the text and answer these
questions in your notebook.
a. What kind of technology is part of teenage
social behavior?
b.
Is it true that teenagers are unable to
have face-to-face social interactions?
c.
What are the positive aspects of digital use by young people?
d.
How does young people´s use of social networking change, according to Amanda
Lenhart?
e. In what way do teens change the way they behave
online with more experience?
f.
Why are parents wrong to think kids don´t care about online privacy?
g.
What is a “new social skill” young people have today?
TEENAGERS AND SOCIAL NETWORKING-IT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE GOOD FOR THEM.
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asked a teenage girl, “How often do you text? “Two
hundred and fifty times a day or something”, she tells me. Shocking! The digital lives of teenagers have
become the target of weekly attacks. In
a recent essay for the Guardian,
novelist Jonathan Franzen complained about online socializing, arguing that it
was creating a uniquely shallow and trivial culture, making kids unable to
socialize face to face. It is true that
technology is part of everyday teenage social behavior-online chatting,
texting, surfing and the emergence of a new teenage sphere that is conducted
digitally.
But does this make
teenagers unable to connect, unable to think or even unable to make eye
contact? I don´t think so. Let´s go back
to that girl who texts 250 times a day.
The truth is, she was an extreme case I picked to startle you. When I interviewed her, she was with a group
of friends with a much wider range of experiences. Two others said they text only ten times a day. One was anti-Facebook, saying, “I´m doing in
the city, with my friends. We´re visual
people”. A few were devotees of
Snapchat, the app that lets you send a picture or text that is destroyed after
one viewing. As it turns out, the
diversity of use in this group of friends is confirmed by research. Fewer than 20% of kids send more than 200
texts a day, 31% send barely 20 or fewer.
Indeed, social
scientists who study young people have found that their digital use can be
inventive and even beneficial. This is
true not just in terms of their social lives but in their education too. So if you use a ton of social media, do you
become unable or unwilling to engage in face to face contact? The evidence
suggests no. Research by Amanda Lenhart
of the Pew Research Center, a U.S. think tank, found that the most avid texters
are also the kids most likely to spend time with friends in person. One form of socializing doesn´t replace the
other. It augments it.
“Kids still spend
time face-to-face”, Lenhart says.
“Indeed, as they get older and given more freedom, they ease up on
social networking. Early on, the web is
their 'third space', but by the late teens, it´s replaced in reaction
to greater autonomy”.
“They have to be on
Facebook to know what´s going on among friends and family”, but they are
ambivalent about it, says Rebecca Eynon, a research fellow at the Oxford
Internet Institute, who has interviewed about 200 British teenagers over three
years. As they gain experience with
living online, they begin to adjust their behavior, wrestling with new
communication skills, as they do in the real world.
Parents are wrong
to worry that kids don´t care about privacy.
In fact, they spend hours tweaking Facebook settings or using
quick-delete sharing tools, such as Snapchat, to minimize their traces. Or they post a photograph on Instagram, have
a pleasant conversation with friends and then delete it so that no traces
remain.
This is not to say
that kids always use good judgment. Like
everyone else, they make mistakes-sometimes serious ones. But working out how to behave online is a new
social skill. While there´s plenty of
drama and messiness online, it is not, for most teens, a cycle of non-stop
abuse. For example, a Pew study found
that only 15% of teens said someone had been mean or cruel to them online in
the last 12 months.
Taken from: Book Going pro 5
EVALUATION
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Group of 3
or individual.
After
reading the text and answer the questions in your notebook do a very complete and understandable mind
map (mapa mental, recuerden que lleva poco texto) explaining:
a. the reasons that teenagers have to be so immersed
in social networks
b. the benefits and risk of the social networks
c. ways to prevent the bad use of these networks.
d. other activities to do instead of being 24/7
connected or wasting time in front of the computer or with the telephone.
Se evalúa presentación
estética del mapa, uso de imagines, uso de líneas o flechas con colores,
palabras claves, organización de las ideas.
