Explain Pre-Teens and Teens the problems of a surveillance state and internet privacy
I want to present an audience, consisting of mostly teens and pre-teens, the problems of a surveillance state, e.g. if everything is recorded what you are doing. That leads to an internal scissor in your head, i.e. you forget words and therefore actions if you are not allowed to use them, and it changes your thinking.
My problem is that I have already an approach, but it is still quite complex (I was thinking about something like playing "Taboo" where they should describe actions without saying a list of words, which gets bigger and bigger). But I've been told that this approach is a) too long and b) way too complex.
So I was wondering if there exists another approach which is easier to explain and to understand (target audience is between 11-16, between "We have used this strange thing called PC once" and "well, I am using the PC for mailing & facebook"). Preferably the approach should be included in a game, after the learning and understanding is much better in a game than just telling them the problems
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You are trying to go in at the deep end with the internal scissors. Start out simpler: Ask them to think about something they would only tell their very best friend about. Then have them imagine everyone knowing all of a sudden. Because that is, an a way, what is happening: you are mailing or IM'ing your best friend, and some person you don't even know can read it.
That is admittedly not the main point yet, but it is the point at which your audience can be pulled into the topic.
Once they have realised that bit, random strangers reading their private messages to their friends, you can help them move on.
Admittedly, I have no idea how to pack this into a game, but it may be a better starting-point to make them see that there is indeed an issue.
I love teaching through playing games, but in this case, I can't think of anything.
However, young people of this age are quite interested in current events. So, I would pick a couple of examples taken from news stories.
You could think about how much you want to lecture and how much you want to listen. It partly depends on the number of young people in your audience; it also depends on how much time you have available and how much material you feel you need to cover.
I want to present an audience, consisting of mostly teens and pre-teens, the problems of a surveillance state, [...]. That leads to an internal scissor in your head, i.e. you forget words and therefore actions if you are not allowed to use them, and it changes your thinking.
When I Google "internal scissor", I don't get any relevant articles. Are you sure this a real scientific theory with a sound basis in fact? If not, maybe you should re-evaluate the content of the lecture. The first step in explaining something to others is to make sure you understand it well yourself. You also have to research it fully to make sure you are using standard terminology.
Just based on ordinary experience, I kind of doubt the "internal scissor" theory as outlined above. In a constant surveillance scenario, I would hardly "forget" words I'm not allowed to use. If anything, I'd be more aware of words I'm not allowed to use than otherwise.
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