Learning Through TED – Del Harvey
· RMA
Note*
“Tweet” can be a verb or a noun. Twitter is now owned by Elon Musk and its name has changed to “X”. However, people still often refer to it as Twitter.
TASK 2 : Put the words from the exercise into the correct gaps.
root out / stakes + high / innocuous / calamity / high-stakes / cut-and-dried
1). The (__) for this speech are (__) – it could decide who becomes president.
2). We need to (__) anyone who is secretly taking money from our company via
the online payment service.
3). Unfortunately, there is no (__) answer to the problem of immigration.
4). I thought he was going to be aggressive, but his behaviour was (__), actually he was very polite.
5). This is a (__) speech – it could decide who becomes president.
6). If that big country attacks that little country, it will be a (__) because other countries would become involved.
TASK 3 : Watch the first 4 minutes of the TED Talk and answer TRUE or FALSE for these statements:
1). Del Harvey’s job is to manage a trust fund for Twitter investors?
2). It took less than 6 minutes for Twitter to go from 2 million tweets to 500 million tweets?
3). The vast majority of activity on Twitter is “safe”?
4). It is difficult finding “problem” tweets due to the large number of daily tweets?
5). There is a 99.999% chance that Twitter users will tweet something risky?
6). Del’s job is challenging because people do weird things?
7). “Yo bitch” will always be offensive in any context according to Del?
Discuss
1). At least 90% of your internet and social media usage is being tracked. How do you feel about this?
2). Is Social Media a trustworthy supplier of news?
3). Do you follow anyone on Social Media?
4). Who do you think are the most followed people on “X” (Twitter)?
TASK: Discuss these words and phrases with your teacher:
- Indicative / (to be indicative of something)…
- Cognitive dissonance
- Exhibiting behaviour / exhibiting (a type of) behaviour
- Gloomy
- Scam
- Cookie
TASK: Watch the second part of the TED Talk and decide if these statements are TRUE or FALSE:
1). All suspected SPAM accounts are closed down by Twitter without any questions?
2). “Phishing” is when someone tries to steal another person’s account information through redirection?
3). The stakes are higher when dealing with phishing (compared to SPAM)?
4). Del likes to visualize her cat’s history to help her with problems?
5). Her cat, Eli, is worth $1,000?
6). Photos taken on mobile phones now contain a lot of “geo data”?
7). Due to the nature of her job, Del’s world-view is gloomy?
TASK: Q&A
1). What measures do you take to protect yourself online?
2). Have you ever been the victim of an online scam?
3). Do you think cookies should be banned?
4). Mark Zuckerberg owns all of your Facebook / Whatsapp photos! Discuss…