Empowerment Technologies:

Information and Communication Technology

(Instructional Module)

Name:
 This Instructional Module serves as a review for
students who did not take quizzes or for late enrolees.
This is to fill in their scores they missed. Only the
students who have their valid reasons may take this
instructional module.
Read the whole module and answer the 50 points test
that can be found after the readings.

Lesson Objectives:
1. Improves their knowledge on how ICT affects their
everyday lives and the state of our nation;
2. Compare and contrast the differences between
online platforms, sites, and content;
3. Understand the future of the World Wide Web
through Web 3.0;
4. Learn the different trends in ICT and use them to
their advantage.
ICT (Information & Communication Tech.) Test 2, Direction: Write SO for social networks, BS for
• ICT deals with the use of different communication bookmarking, MS for media sharing, SN for Social News,
technologies such as mobile phones, telephone, Internet, etc.
MB for micro-blogging & BF for blogs and forums. It is
to locate, save, send, and edit information.
• Example: when we make a video call, we use internet. 2pts.each number.
_______ 1. Facebook
ICT in the Philippines
• Philippines as the “ICT Hub of Asia”. _______ 2. Plurk
• huge growth of ICT related jobs around the country, one of
_______ 3. Twitter
which is call center or BPO (Business Process Outsourcing)
centers. _______ 4. Tumblr
• According to 2013 edition of Measuring the Information
Society by the International Telecommunication Union, there _______ 5. reddit
are 106.8 cellphones per 100 Filipinos in the year 2012. _______ 6. Google+
• In a data gathered by the Annual Survey of Philippines
Business and Industries in 2010, the ICT industry shares 19.3% _______ 7. Instagram
of the total employment population.
_______ 8. Pinterest
• Time magazines declared Makati City, Philippines-Rank 1 as
the “Selfiest Cities around the world, and Rank 9 is Cebu City. _______ 9. Blogger

WWW (World Wide Web) _______ 10. StumbleUpon

• When WWW was invented, most web pages were static. _______ 11. Wordpress
Static (also known as flat page or stationary page) in the same
that the page “as is” and cannot be manipulated by the user. _______ 12. Digg
This referred to as Web 1.0.
_______ 13. Youtube
Example of Web 2.0
• Social Networking sites _______ 14. Flicker
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Video sharing sites
 • Web 2.0 allows the user to interact with the page
Let’s Test Your Learning!
Test 1, Direction: Write T if the
statement is True or F if False on the
blank before each number. It is
2pts.each number.
1. Web 2.0 is classified as dynamic webpage.
2. People Magazine conducted the research on “The Selfiest
Cities in the World”.
3. Web 2.0 introduced static web pages that allow users to
interact with the web page.
4. Folksonomy allows user to categorize and locate information.
5. Technological convergence is the synergy of technological
advancement to work on a similar goal or task.
6. According to Nielsen, users who use the Internet spend more
time in social media sites than in any other type of site.
7. Blogging sites are sites that focus on short updates from the
user.
8. Android is a mobile operating system for Apple devices.
9. Assistive media is a nonprofit service designed to help people
who have visual and reading impairments.
10. ICT deals with the use of diff. comm. Tech. to locate, send,
save & edit info.
Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web
11. Semantic web means that the page is stationary or flat page.
• Semantic Web– is a movement led by the World Wide Web
known as DYNAMIC PAGE; instead of just reading a page, the user
may be able to comment or create a user account. Dynamic page
refers to the web pages that are affected by user input or
preference.
Key Features of Web 2.0:
• Folksonomy – allows users to categorize and classify/arrange
information using freely chosen keywords (e.g. tagging).
Popular social networking sites such as Twitter, Instagram,
Facebook, etc. use tags that start with a pound sign (#) or
hashtag.
• Rich User Interface – content is dynamic and is responsive to
user’s input. An example would be a website that shows local
content. In the case of social networking sites, when logged
on, your account is used to modify what you see in their
website.
• User Participation– the owner of website is not the only one
who is able to put content. Others are able to place a content
on their own by means of comments, reviews, and evaluation.
• Long Tail – services are offered on demand rather than on a
one-time purchase. This is synonymous to subscribing to a
data plan that charges you for the amount of time you spent
on Internet or a data plan that charges you for the amount of
bandwidth you used.
Consortium(W3C). The semantic web provides a framework
that allows data to be shared and reuse to deliver web
content specifically targeting the user.
Web 3.0 is yet to be fully realized because of several problems:
• Compatibility-HTML files and current web browsers could not
support Web 3.0.
• Security – The user’s security is also question since the
machine is saving his or her preferences.
• Vastness-The World Wide Web already contains billions of
web pages.
• Vagueness – Certain words are imprecise. The words “old”
and “small” would depend to the user.
• Logic- since machines use logic, there are certain limitations
for a computer to be able to predict what the user is referring
to at a given time.
Key Terms:
• Web 1.0 – static websites without interactivity.
• Web 2.0 – websites that contain dynamic content.
• Web 3.0 – a concept of the World Wide Web that is designed
to cater to the individual user.
• Static – refers to the web that are the same regardless of the
user.
• Dynamic – refers to the that are affected by user input or
preference.

• Folksonomy – allows user to categorize and classify/arrange

Trends in ICT
1. Convergence– is the synergy of technological advancements
to work on a similar goal or task. For example, besides using
your personal computer to create word documents, you can
now use your smartphone.
information.
• Hashtag # – used to “categorize” posts in a website.
• Convergence – the synergy of technological advancements to
work a similar goal or task.

2. Social Media– is a website, application, or online channel • Social Media – websites, applications or online channels that
that enables web users to create, co-create, discuss, modify, enable users to co-create, discuss, modify, and exchange user-
and exchange user generated content. generated content.

Six types of Social Media:

a) Social Networks – These are sites that allows you to connect

with other people with the same interests or background.
Once the user creates his/her account, he/she can set up a
profile, add people, share content, etc.

Example : Facebook and Google+

• Blackberry OS– use in Blackberry devices. www.facebook.com

• Windows Phone OS – a closed source and proprietary

operating system developed by Microsoft.

• Symbian– the original smartphone OS; used by Nokia devices.

• WebOS– originally used in smartphones; now used in

smartTVs.

• Windows Mobile – developed by Microsoft for smartphones

and pocket PCs.

4. Assistive Media – is a non-profit service designed to help

people who have visual and reading impairments. A database
b) Bookmarking Sites– These are sites that allow you to store
of audio recordings is used to read to the user.
and manage links to various website and resources. Most of
these sites allow you to create a tag allows you to and others
easily share them.
Ex. : StumbleUpon/Pinterest

www.stumbleupon.com
 d) Media Sharing – These are sites that allow you to upload and f) Blogs and Forums– These websites allow user to post their
share media content like images, music and video. content. Other users are able to comment on the said topic.

Example: Flickr, Youtube and Instagram. Example: Blogger, WordPress and Tumblr

e) Microblogging– These are sites that focus on short updates

from the user. Those that subscribed to the user will be able to 3. Mobile Technologies – The popularities of smartphones
receive these updates. and tablets has taken a major rise over the years. This is largely
because of the devices capability to do the tasks that were
Example: Twitter and Plurk
originally found in PCs.

Several of these devices are caple of using high-speed internet.

Today the latest model devices use 4G Networking (LTE), which is
currently the fastest mobile network.

Mobile OS

 iOS– use in apple devices such as iPhone and iPad.

 Android – an open source OS developed by Google. Being

open source means mobile phone companies use this OS for
free.