Pre-IGCSE (Computing)

Dr. Khin Me Me Thein

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Digital Literacy: Dilemmas

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Everyday life is full of dilemmas.

A dilemma is a situation where you have to make a difficult choice

between two or more things.

When you use digital technologies you are faced with choices and
dilemmas.

Everyone makes mistakes - it is an important part of growing up.

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Social media are interactive technologies.

You can use them to make and share things online.

You can share ideas and thoughts, images, videos and writing.

The things you make yourself are called user-generated content.

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 Don’t try to be like
What does it mean to ‘be yourself’? someone else. Be the best
version of you.

✓ Humans are very complicated living things.

✓ We change as we grow.

✓ We work together and alone.

✓ We understand the world around us in different ways.

✓ We start friendships, argue, and make friends again.

✓ We want to make a difference in the world.

✓ We want to be treated with respect.

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Fake social media profiles

▪ Reasons for this

►To protect yourself
►To allow you to express your individuality without being criticized by others.
►To try out different types of personality or sides of your own personality.
►To share or post content that only certain people will be interested in, for
example hobbies.
►These are called affinity groups. Affinity means that you like something.
►To post content that is personal for friends or family.
►To post private thoughts, rude or worrying content.
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Types of social media

⁎ Social networking sites

⁎ Social review sites

⁎ Image sharing and video hosting sites

⁎ Microblogging

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Social networking sites

►Social networking sites help you to connect

with family, friends, new people and people
trying to sell you things.

►You can share your thoughts, images and

videos, achievements, education and work
history.

►You can join groups to connect with people

with similar interests.

►You can look for new jobs.

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Social review sites

►On a social review site, people post

comments about experiences they have
had and things they have bought.

►You can read their thoughts about

these things.

►You can share your own experiences

with others.

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Image sharing and video hosting sites

►People use image and video sharing

sites to create and share images and
videos.
►The companies that run the sites can
curate the content.
►This means they select what to show
first and how to group the content.
►The users of the site can also do this.

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Microblogging

►Microblogging means making short

messages that can be shared with
many people at once.

►On many microblogging sites you can

use the hashtag symbol # to help other
people find your content.

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Self-study

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Thank You!!!