SEMANA 3. OBJ. 3.4 EL USO DE LAS REDES SOCIALES

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)

-          The clothes you wear?

-          Your Facebook page?

-          Your job or daily activity?

-          Your nationality?

-          The education you have had?

-          The languages you speak?

-          The house where you live?

-          How much money you have?

-          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.

 

I

 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

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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.