Social Networking Debate
Introducing Grace and
Jane
Is there an argument against social networking?
Mobile phones – What’s that all about?
Teacher’s Guide
The social networking debate: good or bad?
How has social networking changed the way we live our lives?
Introducing Grace and Jane:
Introducing Grace and
Jane
Is there an argument against social networking?
Mobile phones – What’s that all about?
Teacher’s Guide
Jane was born in the 1960s; in 1974, at the age of 11, she started secondary school and had to catch the school bus from her house to the school. She joined the local Girl Guides where she attended meetings every Monday night. In those days, Brownies and Girl Guides were taught that there were certain essential items they should always have in their pocket; one of these items was a two pence piece so they could make a phone call from a telephone box in an emergency.
Grace was born in 1990; in 2001 she started secondary school and also had to catch the school bus to school. Her favourite past-time is video gaming on her Xbox with her friends, either at home or online. When Grace left school she bought herself a smartphone so that she could keep in contact with her friends all of the time, using social networking as well as texts. In her hunt for a job, Grace turned to YouTube. She made a video of herself, promoting herself, as with a written CV but using video and narrative instead.
She posted it on YouTube, with links from her other social networking profiles, and hopes that this is the way forward in standing out from the crowd in the job market. Over 14 million people in 2011 used social media to find their last job.
When Jane was a teenager and wanted to communicate with her friends, she would use the home phone to ring them up and have a chat. Her father was always timing her to make sure the phone calls didn’t last too long and so cost a lot of money! If Jane and her friends wanted to spend time together they would
Jane
Is there an argument against social networking?
Mobile phones – What’s that all about?
Teacher’s Guide
The social networking debate: good or bad?
How has social networking changed the way we live our lives?
Introducing Grace and Jane:
Introducing Grace and
Jane
Is there an argument against social networking?
Mobile phones – What’s that all about?
Teacher’s Guide
Jane was born in the 1960s; in 1974, at the age of 11, she started secondary school and had to catch the school bus from her house to the school. She joined the local Girl Guides where she attended meetings every Monday night. In those days, Brownies and Girl Guides were taught that there were certain essential items they should always have in their pocket; one of these items was a two pence piece so they could make a phone call from a telephone box in an emergency.
Grace was born in 1990; in 2001 she started secondary school and also had to catch the school bus to school. Her favourite past-time is video gaming on her Xbox with her friends, either at home or online. When Grace left school she bought herself a smartphone so that she could keep in contact with her friends all of the time, using social networking as well as texts. In her hunt for a job, Grace turned to YouTube. She made a video of herself, promoting herself, as with a written CV but using video and narrative instead.
She posted it on YouTube, with links from her other social networking profiles, and hopes that this is the way forward in standing out from the crowd in the job market. Over 14 million people in 2011 used social media to find their last job.
When Jane was a teenager and wanted to communicate with her friends, she would use the home phone to ring them up and have a chat. Her father was always timing her to make sure the phone calls didn’t last too long and so cost a lot of money! If Jane and her friends wanted to spend time together they would