Fake news

We’ve all heard the term fake news, it’s used to describe a lot of different things. Fake news isn’t just one single thing, it involves
different types of news and information sharing across lots of apps and websites. But what actually is a fake news?

Fake news is when news, stories, or hoaxes are created deliberately misinform or deceive

A lot of fake news stories are created just as a joke or because people are really, really bored, but some are posted to deliberately
trick us. They do that for two main reasons. The first is to get you to click on their site, so they can make money from advertising
or even from scams. The second is to make you think differently about something or someone, and that can be a big problem.

The problems start with the fact that today we are interacting with the news in a way that is completely different to any other
time of history. We used to get the news from just a limited number of places, it was easy to trust news stories because they were
produced by professional journalists working with well-known organizations. Everyone got the news from the same range of
newspapers and radio stations everyday and content was checked by editors, you knew who was writing the stories and quite
often their usual biases or points of view. But things have changed quickly. First, the news moved on to television, and then on to
the web, and now it’s on our phones and watches. Suddenly there’s so much news that’s hard to keep track of where it’s coming
from. It’s difficult to tell if the news we read, and watch is made by qualified journalists. People trying to go viral, even groups
deliberately spreading false information.

Assignment No. 11: Effects of Social Media

Complete what is ask for. Give the good (positive) and bad (negative) effect of social media to
the youth, adults and children. Give concrete examples.

Category Positive Effect Examples Negative Effect Examples

Children Cultivating technical Most jobs these days Sleep Problems Children who spend
and social skills in one involve a bit of know- more time with social
how on social media and media or who sleep with
internet usage. The mobile devices in their
earlier your kids learn rooms are at greater risk
how to navigate it safely for sleep problems and
the better this will serve in countries throughout
them in the future the world the use of
electronic media has
been linked with sleep
problems in children
including sleep onset,
shorter sleep times and
daytime drowsiness

Creative Interaction They can join in groups Behavioral Problems Children who watch
with classmates and others exhibiting a
work on projects specific aggressive
together for school. behavior for example
They can converse real- hitting are more likely to
time without having to perform the same
leave their room. aggressive behavior
immediately .
Youth Helps them find identity As teenagers personalize Lack of physical scrolling social media on
their profile, they activity their phones or other
experience a sense of devices meant that teens
independence. Aside sat for longer periods of
from being able to share time and had less time
their ideas and interest for exercise. As a result,
with others, they also get they missed out on the
to join groups that help beneficial impact of
them “fit in” and foster exercise on mental
their identity. health.

Build bridges over Through social media, Exposure to having harmful, false, or
barriers teenagers are able to cyberbullying private content about
meet new friends from them posted on social
foreign areas and distant media
lands. Communicating
with individuals from
different cultures can
help teens become more
sensitive to cultural
differences.
Adult Building a business As a new business that Depression and Anxiety Spending too long on
wants to get the word social networking sites
out about your could adversely affect
impressive offerings, your mood. Social
you can use social media media lets you see the
to build an interested carefully selected best
audience. Share valuable parts of everyone else's
content and establish a lives, which you then
brand voice that compared to the
resonates with your negatives in your own
target consumers. Social life. Comparing yourself
media is also an to other people is a sure
excellent place for more path to anxiety and
established businesses to unhappiness, and social
grow and sell through media has made this
marketing and much easier to do.
advertising.
General Addiction Social media can be
Motivating Young There’s no end to the more addictive than
People number of successful cigarettes and alcohol. It
businesses, has a powerful draw for
entrepreneurs, and many people that leads
influencers on social to them checking it all
media. This can be the time without even
inspiring for everyone, thinking about it.
but especially students
and young professionals
with big dreams and
goals. Many influencers
will openly share their
knowledge to help
others grow. Following
people that inspire you
to hold to your values,
dream big, and change
the world can be life
changing.
 GMOs foods, plants and Human Health Environment
animals Benefits Risks Benefits Risks
●Major dietary of ● irritable bowel
● there is no
the antioxidant syndrome known significant
lycopene ●kidney stones
damage to air,
●reduced risk of ●some urinary
water, land, soil,
heart disease and problems forests, etc. as
cancer ● gastroesophageal
long as pesticides
●vitamin C re ux disease have not been
●potassium used.
●folate ● rated tomatoes
●vitamin K as the second
Tomatoes best food in terms
of its greenhouse
gas emissions
● May support a ● cancer-causing ● they bring ● spread
healthy heart ● chemicals ocean nutrients— parasites such as
● May support ● carcinogens stored in their sea lice
brain function bodies—with ● while pesticides
● May be anti- them upstream, threaten other
inflammatory sometimes ocean creatures
● May support hundreds of and plants.
healthy ageing miles, depositing
nitrogen and
phosphorus that
Salmon forests need.

Assignment No. 12: Benefits and Risks of GMO to Human Health and Environ●ment

On the following boxes, pictures on GMO foods, plants, animals and agriculture are showed. Write your reaction on its
benefits and risks on human health and environment. (50 pts.)

● Rich in Vitamins ● It may increase ● Chickens are ● decreases in

and Minerals your cholesterol omnivores by water clarity
● Anticancer levels. nature and enjoy ● declines in
Properties ● The majority of chasing down submerged
● High Protein retail chicken plant-destroying aquatic
Levels breast is insects like vegetation
● Essential for contaminated with grasshoppers, ● harmful algal
Healthy Skin bacteria. grubs, beetles, blooms
and larvae, ● widespread
ridding an area of anoxia
Chicken potential pests in
a very short time
● rich in vitamin C, an ● corn gets ● degrades soil and
antioxidant that helps contaminated by often leads to harmful
protect your cells from fungi that put off runoff into streams
Corn damage and wards off and rivers.
toxins called
diseases like cancer ● corn affects our
and heart disease. mycotoxins. weather by:
● Yellow corn is a ● If you eat a lot of Decreasing chances
good source of the corn with these for extreme high
carotenoid’s lutein and toxins, you're at a actual temperatures
zeaxanthin, which are higher risk for certain during the day.
good for eye health cancers, liver Increasing the “feels
and help prevent the problems, lung like” temperatures.
lens damage that Increasing chances
issues, and slowing
leads to cataracts. for higher nighttime
of your immune temperatures.
system
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Guide questions: (80 points)
1. What are the five key sectors for application of nanotechnology identified in the document?
(1) information and communications technology and semiconductors
(2) food and agriculture
(3) energy
(4) health
(5) environment
2. Nanotechnologies which scored low in environment and health hazards and risks were
not considered, what do you think could be the reason why it is not identified for
prioritization?
Lack of evidence could be the reason why it is not identified for prioritization.

3. Differentiate the concept of nanostructured, nanocomposite, and nanoparticle.

Nanostructured Materials (NsM) are materials with a microstructure the characteristic
length scale of which is on the order of a few (typically 1–10) nanometers, and
Nanocomposites are materials that incorporate nanosized particles into a matrix of
standard material, while the nanoparticle is a small particle that ranges between 1 to
100 nanometres in size.

4. Do you think nanotechnology roadmap for the Philippines is achievable? Why or why
not? Give concrete evidences to support your answer.

There are currently a few Filipino experts now working on nanotechnology

development who have successfully integrated it in biotechnology and materials
science. Nanotechnology involves engineering of functional systems at the atomic
or molecular level.

VII. ASSIGNMENT

Assignment No. 13:

Word Bank

Define the following terms according to your own understanding. Write two to three sentences.
(20 points)

1. Nano
The word nano is from the Greek word 'Nanos' meaning Dwarf. It is a prefix used to describe "one billionth" of s
something.

2. Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the study and manipulation of matter at incredibly small sizes, generally between one and 100
nanometers. Nanotechnology is already benefitting areas such as health care, the environment, energy and national security.

3. Nanoworld

4. Nanoethics
Nanoethics is a set of ethical principles used in all nanotechnology-based research and diagnostic and therapeutic
measures.

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Assignment No. 14: Image Posting

Mount an image of the following data and put a caption to briefly describe.
(50 points)

Items Captions
Vehicle Fuel vehicle fuel means gasoline and any oth
inflammable gas or liquid, by whatsoever
name the gasoline, gas, or liquid may be
known or sold the chief use of which is a
fuel for the propulsion of motor vehicles
vessels.

Powerful computers the Japanese Fugaku is the world's most powerful

supercomputer,

Water filters a device for removing unwanted substances such as bacte

harmful chemicals from drinking water.

Carbon nanotubers Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are cylinder-shaped allotropic

of carbon, most widely produced under chemical vapor
deposition.
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Medical/diagnostic equipment
Stethoscopes
Stethoscopes are probably the most recogn
of all medical diagnostic tools. They are us
listen to heart sounds, the lungs, and even b
flow in the arteries and veins.
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