# 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

- Plain paper or a notebook page for writing
- Pencils, crayons, or markers
- Optional: a device where an adult can safely show pictures of helpful technology (for example, video calls, maps, screen readers)
- Trusted adult helper (parent, carer, or teacher)

## 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
Lines
Trace
Pen

## 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?

It makes people fight on purpose. It lets families see each other on video calls. It hides all messages from adults.
Video call apps can help families see and talk to each other.

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

A broken pencil. A toy with no map at all. A maps app that shows the way on a screen.
Map apps can help families find parks, shops, and other places.

3) What can a reading app help you do?

Practise reading and listening to stories. Throw the device across the room. Make the text so tiny no one can see it.
Reading apps can help you practise words and stories.

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

The tablet or phone by itself. People, like families and teachers. A stranger we do not know.
Adults and families decide when and how to use technology.

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

"Tech helps me be mean to other people." "Tech helps me never listen to adults." "Tech helps teachers show pictures that help us learn."
We choose kind, helpful ways that tech can be used.

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

"People are in charge of how we use tech." "Tech is the boss of everyone." "No one decides how we use tech."
We always remember that humans guide and control technology.

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

Pick ideas that hurt or tease others. Pick ideas that help people, animals, or the Earth. Pick ideas that make you hide the page from adults.
Helpful ideas are kind and safe for others.

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

It makes words disappear so no one can read. It makes screens too bright for everyone. It helps people who find small text hard to see.
Accessibility tools can help more people use technology.

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

Tell a trusted adult and ask for help. Keep it a secret and feel upset. Write it down and never show anyone.
Adults can help you choose safer, kinder ways to use tech.

10) What is the big idea of this lesson?

Tech is always bad and never helps anyone. Tech can help people in many ways, and we can write about this while remembering that people are in charge. We should never talk about how tech is used.
We are learning to notice helpful tech and write about it in kind, safe ways.

## Assessment (parent/teacher)

Student can name at least one way that technology helps people. Student can explain that people, not devices, are in charge of how tech is used. Student can create a simple picture-and-writing page about helpful technology. Student chooses kind, safe examples of tech use. Student can read or tell an adult at least one sentence from their writing page.

## Exit ticket (student)

😀 I can write about how technology helps people and explain my picture. 🙂 I know some ways tech helps people but still need help writing my sentences. 😅 Writing about how tech helps people still feels a bit tricky for me.

#### Next time I will practise…

Thinking of kind, helpful ways tech is used Writing short sentences that explain my ideas Remembering that people are in charge of tech
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