Impacts of Tech 3 (Social media/ Fake news)

• Computing
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

Impacts of Tech 3

Fake news

Where do you get your news?

What do you think about this sentence?
‘It must be true because I read it on the internet.’

How does technology impact us?

In this lesson, you will:

Strengthening: explore cultural impacts of new technologies.

Excelling: Analyse how different technologies are impacting cultures. 

Impacts 

There are a range of ways that technology can impact our daily lives.

Cultural impacts

Cultural impacts change the way people think and how they live their daily lives.

Every piece of new technology can impacts and change the ways we socialise, work, travel and learn. 

Internet addiction

Many users of the internet have symptoms similar to an addiction

Software is often designed with

 features that make people want to use it more.

The most common type of addition is to social media. 

Social media vs software 

Social media

Software

Onedrive

Instagram

Snapchat 

Word

Powerpoint 

Tik Tok

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Social media

Social media has a range of positive and negative impacts. 

Together lets build a list

Positive impacts

Positive impacts

• You can express yourself in many different way
• Easy to keep in touch with others
• Stay updated with the latest news
• Share information and learning
• Learn about other cultures and meet people with different experiences. 

Negative impacts

Negative impacts

• Cyberbullying 
• Sharing of fake news
• Lack of real world contact
• Bad news loop
• Low self-esteem and body image issues
• Sleep disruption

Fake news

Fake news has become a massive issue on social media, from fake articles being spread to the use of reactionary content.

Play to around 3.26

Why would people create and share fake news?

Why is fake news created

1. For fun
2. To trick people
3. To sway opinion on a certain topic
4. To make people like/hate a group of people/idea
5. Financial gain (Draw people to your site or product)

Combating fake news

• WHERE does the information come from?  (Check the source)

• WHO created the information?  

• WHAT does the post or website look like? (Is it professional)

• HOW do you know for certain that it’s true?  (Is it to good to be true?)

How fast can it spread?

• Fake news can spread rapidly across the internet, often before people have a chance to correct or make people aware its fake. 

• Your going to learn how to do it!

• Learn the method

https://www.getbadnews.com/en/play

This game will guide students through the different techniques used to spread fake news.

Step 1: Create a poster on one of the following

• Methods used to create fake news

• How to spot fake news.

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