Salunga, Nympha M.

II BSE - English
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY
Diagnostics: Instructions - On the space provided, write TRUE if the statement is correct or
FALSE if it is not.
1. Science is a methodical way of acquiring knowledge. TRUE
2. Technology is the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. TRUE
3. Science and technology can be dangerous. TRUE
4. Science, Technology, and Society (STS) is the study of how science and technology
shape and are shaped by social influences. TRUE
5. STS deals with the historical development of science and technology but does not cover
their philosophical underpinnings. TRUE
6. The study of STS primarily concerns students of science and technology programs, and
not non-science students as much. FALSE
7. STS is an important area of study because science and technology permeate every aspect
of everyday life. FALSE
8. Science and technology not crucial factors in nation building. FALSE
9. History cannot teach people about evaluating present-day science and technology.
FALSE
10. STS draws from other disciplines, such as history, sociology, philosophy, economics,
political science and international relations, and science policy. TRUE

Exercise1. Reflection Task: Instructions - On the space below, paste a magazine or newspaper
cutout or print of any photograph that depicts an issue or problem in science and technology.
Then, answer the questions that follow.

1. What is the issue or problem depicted in the photograph?

 The issue depicted in the photo is about a man who handed all his work to a android.
2. How does this particular issue or problem impact the well-being of humans today?
 Success comes with patient and perseverance. We are the one who creates our life
successful, so if we put our trust to other things we might fall. That’s why as a human
being and the highest creation of God let’s control our action, we can lend help but not to
the point of letting someone to do it all for you.
3. Why is it important for people to study and an academic field, especially in learn
about STS as depicted in the photograph? Addressing the issue or problem.
  It is important to study STS to know our limits on using technology. Abusing technology
will lead to nothing, it will benefit no one especially us if we didn’t use it correctly.
Exercise 2. Our View of Science and Technology
Instructions: On a LETTER SIZE (short) bond paper create a slogan that reflects your
view of science and technology. It should specifically state whether you view science and
technology as good or bad, both, or neutral. Be creative. You can use different art materials to
make it visually appealing and impactful.

Exercise 3. Issues in Science and Technology

“Emotion-Sensing and Facial Recognition”

1. What is the emerging ethical dilemma all about?

 Emotion recognition is a method used in software that permits a program to “examine”
the sentiments on a human face by utilizing sophisticated image dispensation.
2. What factors or events led to this dilemma?
 The factors that led this dilemma is the inventor wants to make the surrounding a better
one and his way is to examine the real feeling of a person and the real information about
the person without having a hard time and listen to lies.
3. What are the societal implications of this dilemma?
 The societal implication of this dilemma is it makes life easier and it makes work fast.
For example when entering to work, there is no delays because you are just going to
stand and the machine will automatically scan you.
4. Why is it important to question the moral and ethical issues surrounding innovations in
science and technology?
 It is important to question the moral and ethical issues in science and technology because
without questioning we will lose the real knowledge we should gain. We should asked to
have more knowledge about it. I also believe that questioning is the art of knowledge.
5. In the face of this dilemma, why is it important to study STS?
 Studying STS is important in this dilemma because it helps the community and its people
to discover new things around us. If we put important to STS relating to this dilemma it
will benefit our knowledge about the things that are impossible to occur. It helps us to
build a better nation and a better person.
Assignment 1. Metacognitive Reading Report

Complete the metacognitive reading report below

1. Difficult Concepts
a. Effects of GMO
b. I’m not familiar with some concepts of eugenics
c. The termination of pregnancy to lower the number of infants born with genetic disease

2. Learning Insights
a. Before Reading the article I thought that
 Before, I thought that Science and Technology are the same.

However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that

 After reading this article, I’ve learned that science is not the same as technology. Science
provides the best way of understanding the world and technology is a reliable scientific
knowledge which is value-free and has no moral value.

b. Before Reading the article I thought that

 Science and technology are two terms that can be used interchangeably.
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that
 Science is the knowledge and understanding, while technology is the application of it.
Science is the idea and concepts behind technology.

c. Before Reading the article I thought that

 Science itself was dangerous. Science as we all know it, is and are responsible for
whatever is around us. Science was the result of everything and science was the root of
everything that makes our lives easy and less hassle.
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that
 Technology was older than science. Technology gave rise to the machines and crafts that
early humans did examples are, agriculture, metal works. The absences of science was
still there and only technology is at work before. Science made no contribution to
technology. But when science came, it provided and produced ideas about how the world
works wherein the ideas in technology result is usable objects.

3. Discussion Questions
a. What is the best way to do to avoid other people to think that science and technology are the
same?
b. Reading the introduction part of the article, why are scientists called “soulless group of males
who can do damage to our world”?
c. Elaboration about genetic pornography.
Diagnostics: "Why is it important to study the history of Science and Technology?" Come up
with a five- to seven-word title for your essay. Write your essay on a letter size bond paper.

“Studying Science and Technology is the Art of Knowledge”

Science and Technology are one of the important things to learn in the modern contemporary
society. Studying science and technology unlock many questions like “How does science and
technology produce new products, new ways to understand difficult things, new ways of living
and new institutions?”, it also answers the question “How does new technology gives us insight
about the future? Understanding the social, cultural and material elements of science and
technology influence the production of new practices we adapt, the new ways of understanding
we gain in the surroundings. Studies of technology and science provides students with insight
into how different processes of knowledge are initiated and progressed, and how innovative
technological processes are developed, employed and increase in importance. Studying
technology and science gives students an insight into the understanding of technology and
science itself. Throughout the course of study students will become familiar with changes of
social and cultural analyses of modern science and technology.

Exercise 1. Poster Making

A balisong or also called a fan knife, butterfly knife or

Batangas knife, is a folding knife. Its features are the two
handles counter-rotating around the tang such that, when
closed, the blade is covered within the handles itself. The
blade is connected to the handle. It was commonly used
by Filipino, especially tagalog people. The name balisong
is derived from barngay Balisong, part of the
municipality of Taal, Batangas province. It can also use
as a tool for self-defense. Before its creation Filipino
doesn’t know how to protect themselves easily when it
comes to unexpected danger. In addition, before its creation people have a little knowledge about
impressing their family, when balisong was created many people gain an idea of making tricks to
make someone happy. Taal, Batangas is famously known for crafting balisong (butterfly knife).
After many years of creating balisong, the town produced export-good knives. Taal is well-
known for its old ancestral houses, one particular ancestral house (now a museum) where
Marcela Coronel Mariño de Agoncillo grew up in Taal, Batangas built in the 1770s by her
grandparents, Don Andres Sauza Mariño and Doña Eugenia Diokno Mariño, (added by Slavstan
Mariño). Its poblacion (central business district) is designated as a National Historical Landmark.
The municipality is known as the Balisong
and Barong Tagalog Capital of the
Philippines. The town is home to hundreds of
heritage structures dating from the Spanish
colonial period.

Assignment 2. If were an Inventor

What is your invention? What does it do?
 My invention is called E - Umbrella or also known as Electronic Umbrella. It can do a lot
of things that can help the user even though it’s raining or sunny day. My invention has a
cold and hot compress air - it's working automatically depending on the season for
example when it's raining the handle of the umbrella will release hot air to warm the
hands of the user (vice versa). It is also stretchable, it depends on how many are using it
in a single time. The user who is holding the handle will click the button for the umbrella
to stretch out. On the other hand, when you open it, it has a button in the handle and when
you fold it you need to click the button too then it will fold and it has its own container to
automatically wrap the umbrella.
1. How is your invention similar to or different from existing tools or technologies in terms
of function?
 It is similar to other umbrellas because now we already have an umbrella that has an
automatic button to click for it to open but it differs from other umbrellas because it has
its own cold and hot compress air that's automatic sets on the season we have.
2. Why is there need for this invention? How will this invention make the world a better
place to live in?
 The world needs this kind of invention to survive. How did I say that? As I can see how
the world is changing in one snap of a finger the best example of this is the season, the
season now is not complementing with the season we have before. A year ago, when it
was already the month of April the season is hot but nowadays even though it was the
month of April it is raining.
Diagnostics (PAGE 18)
Instructions: On the space provided, write TRUE if the statement is correct or FALSE if it is not.
1. An intellectual revolution emerges as a result of the interaction of man and society. TRUE
2. Intellectual revolutions are necessary in understanding how society is transformed by science
and technology. TRUE
3. Intellectual revolutions are often met with huge support and general acceptance. FALSE
4. Intellectual revolutions shape science and technology and often spare society from its
influence. TRUE
5. The Copernican Revolution introduced the concept of heliocentricism. TRUE
6. According to Copernicus, the Earth is at the center of the solar system. FALSE
7. The Darwinian Revolution changed the way people understood nature and evolution. FALSE
8. Charles Darwin received huge support from the church. FALSE
9. Sigmund Freud introduced scientific approaches to understanding the human subconscious.
TRUE
10. The Freudian Revolution was, in itself, controversial and met with resistance. TRUE

Exercise 1:
Instructions: Choose one among the three revolutions being discussed and write a 100 word
reaction paper on a letter size bond paper.
 The Darwinian revolution is generally taken to be one of the key events in the history of
Western science. Today it is still known for explaining the evolution of the human kind.
Darwin's revolutionary theory was that new species arise naturally, by a process of
evolution, rather than having been created forever immutable by God. The “Darwinian
revolution” remains an acceptable phrase to describe the change in thought brought about
by the theory of evolution, provided that the revolution is seen as occurring over an
extended period of time. Darwinian revolution emphasize the place on the issue of
species extinction and on generational shifts in opinion.

Exercise 2:

Instructions: Aside from the three intellectual revolutions discussed in this section, other
intellectual history in revolutions also took place across many parts of the world, such as in
North America, Asia, Middle East, and Africa. Research on a particular intellectual revolution
that took place in any of the four geographical locations Prepare a written that will highlights
your chosen intellectual revolution. Use the following guide questions for your output. (Letter
size bond paper)
1. What is the intellectual revolution all about?
 The intellectual revolution is all about Asian revolutionaries sought not simply to achieve
independent nationhood, but also to transform their societies internally.
2. Who are the key figures in the revolution?
 Mao Zedong of China, Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam, Gandhi of India, Sukarno of Indonesia,
Nasser of Egypt, Ataturk of Turkey, and Khomeini of Iran are the key figures of the Asian
Revolution.
3. How did the revolution advance modern science and scientific thinking at the time?
 A belief in the superiority of Western values combined with economic and technological
innovations in shipbuilding, weaponry, and communications to create a potent mix that
would challenge Asian societies in many ways.
4. What controversies met the revolution?
 In China, this meant condemning old Confucian customs and hierarchies and undertaking
fundamental socio-economic and political reforms. Mohandas Gandhi took a different
approach, rejecting Western-inspired “civilization" and advocating a return to
“traditional" Indian ways. In both examples, internal transformation was considered a
necessary component of revolution for national independence.

Assignment 3. Metacognitive Reading Report

Complete the metacognitive reading report below

1. Difficult Concepts
a. Intelligent Design Creationist Philosophy
b. Modern Evolution Synthesis
c. Darwin Idealism and Ancestry of Aids/HIV

2. Learning Insights
a. Before Reading the article I thought that
 Charles Darwin’s achievement was only the scientific theory of evolution and its
explanations
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that
 Charles Darwin has studied many fields of science such as geology, zoology and botany
and has contributed a lot of knowledge and data through his various observations,
experiments, writings such as coral reef formation and earth movements throughout his
career.

b. Before Reading the article I thought that

 Charles Darwin alone developed and wrote the theory of evolution
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that
 The writings of Malthus, Spencer, Wallace, and many others help set the evolutionary
stage and Charles Darwin was only the one that finalized evolution by natural selection
with his publication of The Origin

c. Before Reading the article I thought that

 Religion and Science were contradictory to each other in every aspect and mean such as
creationism and evolution
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that
 In modern times, religion is now being explained as having an evolutionary origin as a
natural phenomenon once the brain evolved a critical mass and complexity. This is what
is called as an evolution of imagination. Therefore they complement each other in some
way.
3. Discussion Questions
a. What exactly was the “monkey trial” and “trial of the century” and what about it gave so much
impact that religious beliefs felt threatened?
b. Can Darwinian reasoning be applied to other fields like medical science?
c. Is society ready to shift to another paradigm when another decides to shift from the norms?

Diagnostics: Instructions: research on the major contribution of the following Filipino scientists.
Alternatively, you may identify 10 Filipino scientists and their contributions that are not part of
the list. (Letter size bond paper)

 Anacleto Del Rosario - invented the formula for producing a pure kind of alcohol from
tuba in a nipa palm.
 Francisco Quisumbing - a Filipino botanist claimed to be the inventor of Quink ink used
by The Parker Pen Company
 Gregorio Zara - He designed a microscope with a collapsible stage; helped design the
robot Marex X-10
 Julian Banzon - He researched on the production of ethyl ester fuels from sugarcane and
coconuts and devised a method of extracting residual coconut oil through chemical
means.
 Manuel Guerrero - a writer for the publications "La Republica Filipina, La
Independencia, and La Patria"
 Ignacio Mercado - contributors in recording medicinal plants. Known to be the first local
botanist to record more than 200 plants that thrived in the Philippines.
 Trinidad Pardo de Tavera - A very valuable contribution to Philippine historiography was
his study of Father Murillo Velarde's map of the Philippines, pub lished in 17 34, which
was the first detailed map of the Archipe lago, notable for its accuracy and neatness.
 Ramon Barba - a Filipino inventor and horticulturist best known for inventing a way to
induce more flowers in mango trees using ethrel and potassium nitrate
 Agapito Flores - the inventor of the fluorescent lamp, which is the most used source of
lighting throughout the world today. The fluorescent lamp allegedly got its name from
Flores. Written articles about Flores said he’s born in Bantayan Island in Cebu.
 Juan Salcedo, Jr. - developed enriched rice, a rice variety fortified with Vitamin B1 that
helps prevent beriberi. His discovery helped reduce the cases of beriberi in the
Philippines and in other countries.
Exercise 1. Philippine Science and Technology Innovation
Instructions: Among the chosen scientists and inventors featured in your flash cards, identify the
impact of their inventions and discoveries. Address the questions below to create a written

output.

Exercise 2. The Fate of the Philippine Science and Technology Innovation

Instructions: Among the chosen scientists and inventors featured in your flash cards, identify the
impact of their inventions and discoveries. Address the questions below to create a written
output.
1. How did these inventions and discoveries impact the society?
 The society received a great impact because of these two people. Their inventions and
discoveries help the society to grow and known in the different parts of the world.
2. How were these inventions and discoveries supported by the government?
 These inventions and discoveries were supported by the government by firstly giving the
inventor a great name for the people to know who discovered them and also by
publishing them in social media, newspapers and of course by letting people to use and
see them.

3. Did these inventions and discoveries serve the public good? Explain your answer.
 Yes, because of these inventions and discoveries many unseen things were opened and
because of these discoveries the Philippines were very known for its beautiful
surroundings.