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Information Age Assignment

This document provides an overview of a module that tackles issues in science and technology in the context of the information age, biodiversity, GMOs, nanotechnology, and climate change. The module aims to empower students through critiquing these topics and their impact on human lives. It consists of 5 lessons, including Lesson 1 on the Information Age which traces its development from the printing press through social media and analyzes its influence on society and human lives.

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Information Age Assignment

This document provides an overview of a module that tackles issues in science and technology in the context of the information age, biodiversity, GMOs, nanotechnology, and climate change. The module aims to empower students through critiquing these topics and their impact on human lives. It consists of 5 lessons, including Lesson 1 on the Information Age which traces its development from the printing press through social media and analyzes its influence on society and human lives.

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OVERVIEW

This module tackles specific issues in science and technology in the context of the
information age, biodiversity and health, GMOs and gene therapy, nanotechnology and
climate change. By critiquing specific issues in the context of how these affect human
lives, this module aims to empower students toward a renewed understanding and
appreciation of science and technology in the present context of society.

This module is composed of five lessons:

Lesson 1: The Information Age

Lesson 2: Biodiversity and a Healthy Society

Lesson 3: Genetically Modified Organisms and Gene Therapy

Lesson 4: Nanotechnology

LESSON 1 : THE INFORMATION AGE

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:

1. Trace the development of the information age from the introduction of printing press
up to the era of social media;
2. Determine the impacts of the information age to the society; and
3. Analyze the ways which the information age and social media influence human lives.

PRELIMENARY ACTIVITY

INSTRUCTION: By using the following logos as clues, identify the online application for
each number.

1. 2. 3. 4.

__________________ _________________ _________________ __________________

5. 6. 7. 8.
_________________ _________________ __________________ __________________

9. 10.

__________________ ___________________

DISCUSSION

THE INFORMATION AGE

 The Information Age began around the 1970s and is


still going on today.

 It is also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or


New Media Age.

 This era brought about a time period in which people


could access information and knowledge easily.

Figure 1. The World of


Internet

HOW DOES THE INFORMATION AGE STARTED?

 Around 1440, a German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg


invented the printing press.

 This invention paved way to improve the manual, tedious


and slow printing methods.

 This makes the printing methods easier and faster and


reduced the costs of printing documents.

Figure 2. Johannes
Gutenberg
 A printing press is a device that applies pressure to
an inked surface lying on a print medium, such as
cloth or paper, to transfer ink.

 The development of a fast and easy way of disseminating


information in print permanently reformed the structure of
society.

 This enables printing methods faster and they drastically


Reduced the costs of printing documents.

Figure 3. The Printing


Press

 Political and religious authorities who took pride in being learned were
threatened by the sudden rise of literacy among people.

 The printing press made the mass production of books, newspapers and
journals possible which makes them available not only for the upper class.

THE CYPHER MACHINES

 As years progressed, calculations became involved in


communication due to the rapid developments in the
trade sector.

 Back then, people who did engineering calculations


served as “computers”.

 During the World War II, countries were challenged by


shortage of human computers for military calculations.

 The US addressed the problem on shortage of human


computers by creating the Harvard Mark I, a
general purpose electromechanical computer that
was 50 feet long and capable of doing calculations in Figure 4. Harvard Mark I
seconds that usually took for hours.

 At the same time, Britain needed mathematicians to


crack the German Navy’s Enigma code.

*The Enigma Code was an enciphering machine that


the German armed forces used to securely send
messages.
Figure 5. The Enigma Code
Alan Turing (1912-1954)

 Alan Turing is an English mathematician, was hired in 1936

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