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Legal note
This document is a curation made of infographics taken
from Pininterest. It’s intended to help secondary
school students understand better the Internet
phenomenon so they can make the best out of it in a
professional way.
Infographics’authorshiphasbeenkept,soeachauthor can
be credited for his work. No commercial outcomes are
expected from this document. Feel free to share and use
it, as long as the infographics aren’t altered in any
manner..
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How to use this book
1. Before you start read what aims you are going
to achieve.
2. Analyse the infographics at hand.
3. Look up the words you don’t know.
Remember you don’t have to comprehend
everything!
4. Answer the tests to check your understanding.
5. Answer the open questions, and be succinct!
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1 Introduction
Aims
1. To have a glimpse of the history of Internet,
and understand its evolution.
2. To know some figures about technology.
3. To map out your digital life.
4. To identify the roles people adopt when
surfing on the Internet.
5. To see mobile phones from a new perspective.
6. And, to realize that e-learning exists.
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Questionnaire #1
1. What’s happened after 2009? Write a brief
explaining the main events in the history of
Internet.
2. In your opinion, what’s been the best invention
in the history of the Internet?
3. What do you think the future will be?
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Questionnaire #2
1. What sites do you usually use and what for?
2. Do you identify yourself with the figures of
the infographic?
3. In your opinion, what are the best ways to
access the Internet? Enumerate them.
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Questionnaire #3
1. What language do you usually use to surf the
web?
2. What do you think it’s the best language to
look for useful information?
3. Will a new language pop up in the top most
used ones?
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Questionnaire #4
1. How do you spend your time online?
2. Do you have any control upon your Internet
usage? (Schedules, plannings).
3. Have you ever had an Internet addiction
problem?
4. Do you know any good alternatives to the
most used sites like Google, Facebook,
etc?
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Questionnaire #5
1. How do you spend your time online?
2. Looking at the figures, where do you fall in?
3. Has texting destroyed your grammar?
4. Do you care about the reliability of your
information sources?
5. How do you picture the future?
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Questionnaire #6
1. Draw a three column table: 1) name, 2) number,
and 3) usage. Analyse the following items:
music, applications (laptop and mobile),
documents, images., etc. Draw conclusions
from that table: what’s the real usage of your
digital data?
2. Do the same for your Internet profiles: mail
accounts, social network accounts, friends,
followers...
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Questionnaire #9
1. Draw a table with two columns: 1) name and
2) amount. Fill it in with the sites you
usually use and the amount of data you upload
to them.
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Questionnaire #10
1. What sites are social and which ones
professional?
2. What of the presented sites would you join in
and why?
3. Is the gender difference remarkable in the
Pininterest case? What do you think the reason
is?
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Questionnaire #11
1. Do you know what your Internet presence is?
2. Has your Internet presence got you into any
trouble?
3. What are your fears about your presence in the
Internet?
4. Have you already taken any measures to fix it?
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Questionnaire #13
1. How many of those Internet people have you
already found?
2. Do you identify yourself with some of them?
3. Design a strategy to deal with each one of
them.
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Questionnaire #14
1. How many of those Internet people have you
already found?
2. Do you identify yourself with some of them?
3. Design a strategy to deal with each one of
them.
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Questionnaire #16
1. What’s the usage of your mobile phone?
2. Looking at the figures, where do you fall in?
3. Make a list of professional things you could
do with your mobile.
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Questionnaire #18
1. Make a list of the things you practice piracy
in.
2. Has some content made by you ever been
pirated?
3. What’s your opinion on product prices and
piracy?
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Questionnaire #19
1. How do you protect your digital devices
(antivirus, firewall, antispyware)?
2. Look up information about: phising.
3. Have your digital identity ever been stolen?
4. Have you ever suffered cyberbullying or the
like?
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Questionnaire #20
1. Picture the future and write a brief about
where technology is heading.
2. Think about the ethical problems we are going
to experience in the following years.
3. Enumerate how you are going to use the actual
and coming technology to grow as an
individual, and as a professional.
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Closing questionnaire
1. Have you liked this book? What would you
change or add?
2. Have the English texts used been clear?
3. Is there anything missing you’d like to deal
with?
Thank you for your help!