SPECIAL TOPICS FOR STS:

The Information Age Series

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Prepared by: Mrs. IRISH M. SEQUIHOD-UDTOHAN, MSBio

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 Learning Outcomes
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• Determine the human and social impacts of

the developments in the information age.

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• Describe/illustrate how social media

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affected their lives.
 Introduction: A Simple Recall
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 Introduction
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• Do they provide information or just noise?

• More voices are trying to get our attention

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but how can we be sure that they share
knowledge and the truth?

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What is a WORD?
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 WORD
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• It is a combination of sounds that represents

something. It is this significance which

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makes words distinct from just any kind of
vocal utterance.

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• It is made up of sounds and yet they
transmit something more significant, a
MESSAGE.
 WORD
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• The words are “informed” because they

carry “information”.

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• Words are informed with meaning and
given by the speaker and intended for

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listener. In otherwords, they communicate
meaning.
 Determine the MESSAGE
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 CRACK THE CODE
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• DECODE ME ACTIVITY

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 CRACK THE CODE
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• Secret message
Patterns

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Code
Puzzles

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Cryptography
CEASAR’s CIPHER
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Cryptography is the study of writing or solving secret codes

that are used for secure communication. Historically, codes

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have been used by politicians, spies and countries at war to
prevent their enemies from knowing what they’re up to. Many

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of the earliest codes, or “ciphers,” such as the one you will
create in this project were easy to create by hand. Now
cryptography is essential in computer science for keeping
everything from e-mails to bank account information secure.
 FILIPINO CIPHER: Our Own Version
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• The common system being generated by the

speaker and received by the listener is

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useful in the pursuit of knowledge.
• Science, from the Latin word scire

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(meaning to know), is one kind of
knowledge the Greeks wanted to
understand.
 Did you get the MESSAGE?
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• Charles Darwin stated that Evolution

of organisms is brought about by
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natural selection and survival of the
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fittest.

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 Did you get the MESSAGE?
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• Charles Darwin is the father of

Evolution. He said that the
organism that adapts well to the 1
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changes of the environment,
survives.
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 Did you get the MESSAGE?
Charles Darwin stated that Evolution of organisms is
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brought about by natural selection and survival of the
fittest.
Charles Darwin is the father Evolution. He said that the

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organism that adapts well to the changes of the
environment, survives.

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• Words therefore can function across
space and time without reducing their
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 Early concepts…
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• The many seemingly

different things in the

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natural world must have
a “UNIFYING
FACTOR”.

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 Early concepts…
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• Plato’s principle of “One and the Many”

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refers to the underlying unity among diverse
beings in the natural world.

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• For him, there is a common intrinsic nature
shared by different objects, which
determines their real sense.
 What the Biologists say…
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• Biologists devised a way to illustrate this

principle using a system differentiating between

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genus and species. Many species belong in one
genus.

• The Linnean Era

• Carl Linneaus

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 The ROLE of LANGUAGE
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For the ancient Greeks, language was
an object worthy of admiration.
 What we can understand...
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• Nature can be understood because it speaks

in a language and the human brain, to a

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certain extent, can comprehend this
language.

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• No wonder we are made STEWARDS by
GOD’s CREATION.
 Nature has a Language
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A more accurate statement is:

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Since people have discovered the laws and
language of nature, they can develop

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technology that uses these laws and language
for their benefit.
 Nature has a Language
• This language is, of course, MATHEMATICS,
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the great contribution of Isaac Newton.

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Body shape and symmetry
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Golden Ratio
 What we do…
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• Unfortunately, this fact is

NOT always
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• There is a rich diversity in

nature, which technology has
allowed us to discover. 1
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Coconut tree = SCIENCE

Coconut fruit = TECHNOLOGY

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Buko Juice Drink = USE
 Technological World
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• The ability to think and

conceptually comprehend nature
and the principles it follows
eventually leads to science. 1
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 The Inventions and their
antecedents
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• Sailors
• Fire
• Steam engine
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 The power of the Eidos (Idea)
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• Witnessed in the succeeding centuries of

development in the West.

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• The ancient fascination with language gave
rise to the preservation of the words of

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earlier people at the same time when the
West weakened itself due to internecine
warfare and conflicts.
 The power of the Eidos (Idea)
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• From manual transmission of ideas through

hand-copying to the Invention of the

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Printing press.
• The beginning of a TRUE REVOLUTION.

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• In the age of information, the transmission
of ideas has undergone changes.
 WORLD WIDE WEB
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• A modern example of technology feeding
upon itself is the 20th century tour de force:
the WORLD WIDE WEB through the

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internet.

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 WORLD WIDE WEB
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• Sir Tim Berners-Lee – invented it as a way

of addressing data processing and

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information sharing needs among scientists
for the European Organization for Nuclear

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Research (CERN).
 Truths about Information Age by
Robert Harris
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• Information must compete.

• Newer is equated with truer.
• Selection is a viewpoint. 1
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• The media sells what the culture
buys.
 Truths about Information Age by
Robert Harris
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• The early words gets the perm.

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• You are what you eat and so is
your brain.

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• Anything in great demand will be
counterfeited.
 Truths about Information Age by
Robert Harris
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• Ideas are seen as controversial.

• Undead information walks ever on.
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Media presence creates the story.
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The medium selects the message.
The whole truth is a pursuit.
 The Buzz about Information
Sharing
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• With the ease of sharing information at

present, its reliability becomes compromise.

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• Fake news
• Data Privacy

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• Cyber bullying
• Social media scamming
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• How did the transmission of

information evolve from the 1
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ancient times?

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• Social media is a technology which

facilitates the sharing of information, ideas,

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and other content in different parts of the
globe. If social media was deactivated for a

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month in the country, what could possibly
happen?
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• Social media also poses certain risks

especially in the dissemination of false

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information. As a student, how will you use
social media to ensure that you do not

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propagate inaccurate and unreliable
information?
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Does the power of the communicated
word come from the speaker who is the
thinker or the source, or from the

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listener, who is the recipient of the
communication?
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