1. PPL 1O Health Unit Mrs. Petrin
Personal Safety
PPL 1O Health Unit
Mrs. Petrin

2. Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
Appropriate Use of Technology

3. Personal Health and Safety
The learning goal for this unit of study is to:
help you understand that your choices and behaviour affect yourself and others. This includes online behaviour.
enable you to make better choices regarding online behaviour.

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of today’s technology?

5. Brainstorm fast convenient cool / fun efficient
Benefits of technology…
Drawbacks of technology…
fast
convenient
cool / fun
efficient
makes the world smaller
lack of privacy
makes sources unreliable
too much trust in technology
permanence of content
addiction
too reliant on it
makes us lazy
distraction

6. Four Square Activity
For each of the statements that follow, decide whether you AGREE, AGREE BUT…, DISAGREE, or DISAGREE BUT …
Then, move to the corner of the classroom that corresponds to your choice.

7. “I couldn’t go a day without my cell phone or ipod.”
Agree or Disagree?
“I couldn’t go a day without my cell phone or ipod.”

8. “Social media causes people to be more connected to each other.”
Agree or Disagree?
“Social media causes people to be more connected to each other.”

9. “There should be more laws addressing online behaviour.”
Agree or Disagree?
“There should be more laws addressing online behaviour.”

10. “The world would be a better place without social media.”
Agree or Disagree?
“The world would be a better place without social media.”

11. “Most parents have no idea what their kids are posting online.”
Agree or Disagree?
“Most parents have no idea what their kids are posting online.”