🌐 Beneficial and Harmful Effects of Technology
5.1: Beneficial and Harmful Effects
Popcorn Hack #1
What do YOU think is a beneficial effect?
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What do YOU think is a harmful effect?
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What do YOU think is a beneficial effect?
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What do YOU think is a harmful effect?
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Today, our group will go over examples of Beneficial, Harmful, and Debatable aspects of technology.
✅ Beneficial Effects of Technology
Automated Telephone Trees: These help companies redirect calls and save money, reducing hold times for customers.
Science and Technology: Tools like MRI scanning and DNA sequencing help diagnose diseases and develop new medicines. They played a major role in creating vaccines such as for COVID-19.
Access to Education: Digital encyclopedias, online databases, and eBooks provide broad and easy access to learning materials.
Popcorn Hack #2
What do you think is the most beneficial of these? Why?
Brainstorm additional beneficial effects of technology!
What do you think is the most beneficial of these? Why?
Brainstorm additional beneficial effects of technology!
⚠️ Harmful Effects of Technology
Unsafe Use / Cyberbullying: Young users are vulnerable to scams, inappropriate content, and cyberbullying. Social pressures can cause depression and anxiety.
Social Media: Proven to affect teen mental health. Challenges and harmful trends have led to tragic consequences like the "blackout challenge."
Technological Dilemmas (e.g., Self-Driving Cars): Raises ethical concerns—should we let machines make life-or-death decisions?
🤔 Neutral Effects: Beneficial and Harmful
Artificial Intelligence:
- Benefits: Helps with assignments, analyzes data, boosts productivity, and supports healthcare.
- Harms: Environmental impact, potential misuse (deepfakes), and concerns over critical thinking in schools.
UAVs / Drones:
- Benefits: Useful in search & rescue, agriculture, and wildfire monitoring.
- Harms: Privacy concerns, crash risks, and ethical concerns in military use.
Gene Editing:
- Benefits: Potential to cure genetic diseases, improve crops, and boost food security.
- Harms: Can cause irreversible genetic harm, raise ethical issues, and may affect future generations.
Popcorn Hack #3
Pick a dilemma from above. Do you think it’s more beneficial or harmful?
Pick a dilemma from above. Do you think it’s more beneficial or harmful?