Lesson 279: Write about how technology helps people

💡 TECHNOLOGY & FUTURE SKILLS (40 Lessons) • 🟠 E. Future and Innovation

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Objective

I can write simple sentences about how technology helps people. I can choose kind, safe examples, remember that people are in charge of tech, and share my ideas with a picture and writing page.

Materials

Mini-lesson — How technology helps people

Technology can be a helper in our lives. It can make some jobs easier, help us learn, and help us stay in touch with people we love.

Examples of helpful technology

  • A video call app that lets you see family who live far away.
  • A maps app that helps your family find a new park or library.
  • A reading app that reads stories aloud and helps you practise words.
  • A screen reader or big text setting that helps people who find small text hard to see.
  • A robot helper that does a dangerous job so people can stay safe.

Writing about how tech helps

  • We can start a sentence with: "Tech helps people by…"
  • We can say "It helps ______." (kids, families, doctors, teachers, etc.).
  • We use kind, true ideas that feel right for our family or school.

People are still the boss

  • People choose which tools to use.
  • People decide when to start and stop using technology.
  • We can write: "People are in charge of how we use tech."

Kind and safe tech use

  • Helpful tech use is kind, safe, and balanced.
  • We still need breaks, outside time, and off-screen play.
  • If something feels confusing, scary, or unkind, we tell a trusted adult.

Adults can say: "Today we will choose good examples and write about how technology helps people in kind, safe ways. People are always in charge."

Picture strip: "How tech helps people"

Guided Practice — Say and trace sentences about helpful tech

Use this talk-and-trace activity to help your child get ready to write about how tech helps people.

  1. Ask: "Can you think of one way technology helps someone?" (for example, video calls, maps, reading apps, robot helpers).
  2. Help your child choose one idea, such as: "Tech helps us call Grandma." or "Tech helps doctors."
  3. Say the sentence together slowly. Count the words on your fingers.
  4. On paper, you (the adult) can write the sentence neatly. Your child can read it with you.
  5. Invite your child to copy one key word (like tech, helps, or people) in the tracing pad.
  6. Repeat with one more idea if your child is ready, such as: "Tech helps teachers show pictures."
  7. Remind them: "We are writing about tech that helps people in kind, safe ways. People are still in charge."
Tracing Pad
Tracing snapshot for print
Tip: As you trace, say a sentence such as "Tech helps people, and people are in charge."

Practice — My "tech helps people" writing page

Use this page to help your child make one clear picture-and-writing page about how technology helps people.

  1. On a new page, write the title: "How technology helps people".
  2. Ask your child to draw one picture of technology helping someone (for example, a video call with Grandma, a map that helps the family, a robot doing a hard job).
  3. Under the picture, help them write a first sentence: "Tech helps people by ______." (for example: "calling family" or "showing doctors important pictures").
  4. If they are ready, add a second sentence: "It helps ______." (kids, families, teachers, nurses, etc.).
  5. Add one more line together: "People are in charge of how we use tech."
  6. Read the page out loud. Ask: "Is this a kind, safe way for tech to help?" Change any ideas that do not feel kind or safe.
  7. Put the page in your learning folder as proof that your child can write about how technology helps people.

Quick Check — How technology helps people

Answer each question about helpful technology, kind and safe ideas, and who is in charge.

1) Which is a way technology helps people?

Video call apps can help families see and talk to each other.

2) Which tool could help people find a new place?

Map apps can help families find parks, shops, and other places.

3) What can a reading app help you do?

Reading apps can help you practise words and stories.

4) Who is in charge of how we use tech?

Adults and families decide when and how to use technology.

5) Which sentence could go on a kind writing page?

We choose kind, helpful ways that tech can be used.

6) What could you write to show that people are in charge?

We always remember that humans guide and control technology.

7) Which is a good way to choose ideas for your writing page?

Helpful ideas are kind and safe for others.

8) Why might a screen reader or big-text setting be helpful?

Accessibility tools can help more people use technology.

9) What should you do if a tech use or idea makes you feel worried?

Adults can help you choose safer, kinder ways to use tech.

10) What is the big idea of this lesson?

We are learning to notice helpful tech and write about it in kind, safe ways.

Assessment (parent/teacher)

Exit ticket (student)

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