SPECIAL TOPICS FOR STS:

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The Information Age Series

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

 Learning Outcomes
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• Determine the human and social impacts of

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the developments in the information age.

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• Describe/illustrate how social media
affected their lives.
Introduction: A Simple Recall
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Introduction
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• Do they provide information or just noise?

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• More voices are trying to get our attention

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but how can we be sure that they share

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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

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something. It is this significance which

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makes words distinct from just any kind of

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vocal utterance.

• 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

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carry “information”.

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• Words are informed with meaning and

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given by the speaker and intended for
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

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

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that are used for secure communication. Historically, codes
have been used by politicians, spies and countries at war to

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prevent their enemies from knowing what they’re up to. Many
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

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speaker and received by the listener is

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useful in the pursuit of knowledge.

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• Science, from the Latin word scire
(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

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of organisms is brought about by
natural selection and survival of the
fittest.
 Did you get the MESSAGE?
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• Charles Darwin is the father of

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Evolution. He said that the

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

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fittest.

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Charles Darwin is the father Evolution. He said that the
organism that adapts well to the changes of the

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environment, survives.

• Words therefore can function across

space and time without reducing their
meaning.
 Early concepts…
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• The many seemingly

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different things in the
natural world must have
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a “UNIFYING
FACTOR”.
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.

• 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

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principle using a system differentiating between

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genus and species. Many species belong in one

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genus.

• The Linnean Era

• Carl Linneaus
 The ROLE of LANGUAGE
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USEFULNESS OF
LANGUAGE &

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WORDS HAVE
QUEST FOR TRUTH ABILITY TO
POWER
MAKE SENSE OF

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NATURE

For the ancient Greeks, language was

an object worthy of admiration.
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• Nature can be understood because it speaks

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in a language and the human brain, to a

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certain extent, can comprehend this

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language.

• 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

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language of nature, they can develop
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
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• Unfortunately, this fact is

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NOT always

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APPRECIATED!
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• There is a rich diversity in

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nature, which technology has

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allowed us to discover.
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Coconut tree = SCIENCE

Coconut fruit = TECHNOLOGY

Buko Juice Drink = USE

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• The ability to think and

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conceptually comprehend nature
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and the principles it follows
eventually leads to science.
The Inventions and their
antecedents
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• Sailors

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• Fire
• Steam engine
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• Witnessed in the succeeding centuries of

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development in the West.

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• The ancient fascination with language gave

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rise to the preservation of the words of
earlier people at the same time when the
West weakened itself due to internecine
warfare and conflicts.
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• From manual transmission of ideas through

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hand-copying to the Invention of the
Printing press.
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• The beginning of a TRUE REVOLUTION.
• In the age of information, the transmission
of ideas has undergone changes.
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• A modern example of technology feeding

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upon itself is the 20th century tour de force:

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the WORLD WIDE WEB through the
internet.

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

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of addressing data processing and

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information sharing needs among scientists

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for the European Organization for Nuclear
Research (CERN).
Truths about Information Age by
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• Information must compete.

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• Newer is equated with truer.

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• Selection is a viewpoint.
• The media sells what the
culture buys.
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• The early words gets the perm.

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• You are what you eat and so is

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your brain.
• Anything in great demand will be
counterfeited.
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• Ideas are seen as controversial.

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• Undead information walks ever on.

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• Media presence creates the story.
• The medium selects the message.
• The whole truth is a pursuit.
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1 Sharing
• With the ease of sharing information at

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present, its reliability becomes compromise.
• Fake news
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• Data Privacy
• Cyber bullying
• Social media scamming
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• How did the transmission of

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information evolve from the
ancient times?
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• Social media is a technology which

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facilitates the sharing of information, ideas,

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and other content in different parts of the

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globe. If social media was deactivated for a
month in the country, what could possibly
happen?
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• Social media also poses certain risks

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especially in the dissemination of false

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information. As a student, how will you use

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social media to ensure that you do not
propagate inaccurate and unreliable
information?
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word come from the speaker who is the

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thinker or the source, or from the
listener, who is the recipient of the

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communication?