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Community and Service
How do we live in relation to each other?
How can I contribute to the community?
How can I help others?
The emphasis of community and service is on developing community awareness and a sense of belonging
and responsibility towards the community so that students become engaged and feel empowered to act in
response to the needs of others.
Community and service starts in the classroom and extends beyond it, requiring students to discover the
social reality of self, others and communities. This, in turn, may initiate involvement and service in the
communities in which they live. Reflection on the needs of others and the development of students’ ability
to participate in and respond to these needs both contribute to the development of caring and responsible
learners.
Students will explore the nature of past and present communities through technology, as well as their place
in their own communities. Incorporating community and service into the study of technology encourages
responsible citizenship as students deepen their knowledge and understanding of the world around them.
The MYP technology course should help students to reflect on the role of technology in society and the
impact of technology and technological developments in local and global settings. Often by considering
local technology‑based issues students can pursue community and service activities for themselves, and
find ways in which a technology product/solution can be applied to meet a social need or solve a community
problem.
Sample questions
• What is the role of technology in a community and in the world?
• How does technology shape communities and our lives?
• How does technology communicate across time and cultures?
• How can I learn about communities through technology?
• What are the powers and limitations of technology in my community and in the world?
• To what extent do people and/or communities change through technology experiences?
• How can technology influence a community? How can communities influence technology?
• What is my role in the community? How can I contribute to my community through technology?
• What would the world be like without technology?
Health and Social Education
How do I think and act?
How am I changing?
How can I look after myself and others?
This area of interaction is about how humanity is affected by a range of social issues (including health). It
includes an appreciation of these effects in various cultural settings and at different times. It is concerned
with physical, social and emotional health and intelligence—key aspects of development leading to a
complete and balanced lifestyle.
Health and social education goes beyond the sole provision of information and acquisition of knowledge,
and encourages the development of critical‑thinking skills and attitudes that play an important role when
making decisions and confronting life options. Health and social education encourages respect for the self
as well as respect for others. This enables students to understand how personal decisions and actions can
affect themselves as well as others.
Sample questions
• How does technology affect society, individuals, me?
• Can technology be used to influence people and societies?
• To what extent do people change through technology experiences?
• To what extent can technology contribute to the well‑being of people and societies?
• Can technology communicate the health of a society and/or nation?
• Is technology a luxury or a necessity in societies?
• In what way does technology allow me to express myself?
• Can I create a product/solution to communicate with others?
• How can learning technology facilitate my understanding of myself and others?
• How important is technology for personal and social development?
• How can my learning of technology help me make healthier choices?
• What behaviours and attitudes will I seek to change in myself?
Environments
What are our environments?
What resources do we have or need?
What are my responsibilities?
This area of interaction considers environments to mean the totality of conditions surrounding us, natural
and human‑made. It focuses on the wider place of human beings in the world and how we create and affect
our environments. It encourages students to question, to develop positive and responsible attitudes, and to
gain the motivation, skills and commitment to contribute to their environments.
Sample questions
• How can technology influence natural and human‑made environments?
• In what way can environments influence technology?
• What issues do natural and human‑made environments present for technology?
• In what way do environments affect people that develop technology?
• How can technology enable me to understand and contribute to different environments?
• How can technology impact on the school environment?
• What realistic changes can I make that will impact positively on my environments?
• What are the powers and limitations of technology in addressing issues of natural and human‑made
environments?
Human Ingenuity
Why and how do we create?
What are the consequences?
Human ingenuity looks at human contributions in the world both in their particular context and as part of a
continuing process. It stresses the way humans can initiate change, whether for good or bad, and examines
the consequences. This area also emphasizes both the importance of researching the developments
made by people across place, time and cultures, and the importance of taking time to reflect on these
developments.
The study of MYP technology provides many opportunities to incorporate human ingenuity into the
curriculum. Human ingenuity goes beyond the sole creation of the product/solution. It leads students to
examine experience and reflect on the creative process. Students are expected to reflect on the origin,
process, context, development and impact of the product/solution on individuals, societies and the
world. Technological developments and innovations can be assessed from a social, economic, political,
environmental, cultural and ethical perspective.
Sample questions
• What is technology? Where does technology come from?
• How has technology evolved over time?
• How can technology initiate change?
• In what ways have humans shaped technology? In what ways has technology shaped our lives?
• What are the effects of technology evolution?
• What would the world be like without technology?
• In what way has knowledge influenced technology?
• In what way has technology influenced knowledge?
• To what extent are sciences and technology interrelated?
• How is technology developing in my time and culture?
• How do different technologies impact each other?
• On what basis do I choose the technology I use in different contexts?
• What contributions to development has technology made?
• Who are the technology pioneers in my time? What makes them pioneers?
• To what extent do people change through technology experiences?
• Can technology be unethical?
• How have my own views of technology changed?
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