Empowerment

Technologies
QUARTER 4
MODULE
Digital Citizenship and the Filipino people
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Empowerment Technologies
Quarter 4 – Module 3: Digital Citizenship and the Filipino people

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EXPECTATIONS
Learning Competency
✓ share anecdotes of how he/she has used ICTs to be part of a
social movement, change, or cause to illustrate aspects of digital
citizenship; and
✓ identify a local or regional cause or issue for Social Change
related to specific professional tracks that can be addressed or
tackled using an ICT Project for Social Change
Learning Objectives
At the end of the learning period, the students shall have:
1. understood how the Filipinos utilized the ICTs to achieve social
change;
2. conceptualized a petition about their chosen issue; and
3. justified how the Filipinos practiced digital citizenship.

LESSON

The Role of ICT in Recent History

1. Radio Veritas and EDSA I (People Power Revolution)

Cardinal Tagle pointed out that Radio Veritas’ essential function is to spread
the right information, especially the Word of God. On April 11, 1969, the Radio
Veritas facility was inaugurated by Cardinal Antonio Samore, a Vatican
official, and Cardinal Rufino Santos, the former Archbishop of Manila (Vatican
News, 2019).
It was an unpopular radio station back then; eventually, it gained more
audience after the station covered the assassination of former senator Benigno
“Ninoy” Aquino on August 21, 1983, that government-run media reported
hours later (CMFR Philippines, 2011). When late Jaime Cardinal Sin spoke
over the Radio Veritas calling the Filipino people for support, two million

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 Filipinos from different sectors participated in the four-day major protest that
took place along EDSA from February 22 to 25, 1986.
2. Text brigades and EDSA Dos
Before the Filipinos turned in the comfort of chatting and Messenger, the
Philippines was named the “Text Capital of the World” (Philippine Mission
Org.). In 1995, Short Message Service (SMS) was introduced as a promotional
gimmick until in 1998, Philippine mobile-service providers launched it as a
service targeting hearing-impaired users. From “I’ll call you” to “I’ll text you”,
most of the Filipinos used this service for communication since it was free,
but soon, telcos started charging 1 peso per SMS. It is much cheaper than a
voice call, and this led to the ownership of a mobile phone by around five
million Filipinos by 2001.
It was also 2001 when EDSA Dos or Second People Power Revolution
happened. It started after 11 senators voted against the opening of the second
envelope that contains the crucial evidence that would allegedly prove acts of
political corruption by former President Joseph E. Estrada. After that vote,
Senator Aquilino Pimentel resigned as Senate President, the 11 prosecutors
in the impeachment trial resigned as well, and the Filipinos started to respond
to a text message stating “Military needs to see 1 million at a rally tomorrow.
Jan.19 to make a decision to go against Erap! Please pass on.” The protesters
started to gather around the EDSA Shrine on January 17, 2001, and ended
when former president Erap released a letter stating his resignation on
January 20, 2001.

3. Million People March

From August 22 to 26, 2013, a series of small-scale rallies happened in other
cities across the country and around the world, but the main protest took
place on Luneta Park. It is named “Million People March”, however, attendees
were only around 400,000 people. These protests happened due to the misuse
of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (or PDAF). PDAF is intended to
allow lawmakers to finance small-scale development or community programs,
such as scholarship programs, beyond the framework of the national
infrastructure program. The Million People March organizers and supporters
have used Facebook, Twitter and Change.org as their mediums.
Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform for change. It aims to help
people around the world create the change they want to see. In the past,
petitions were done by a group asking for signature via travel, however,
affixing your digital signature on the petition you want to support become easy
and accessible with the help of this website. As of August 23, Change.org
showed a total of 19 petitions with an estimated total of 26, 942 signatures
supporting various campaigns on the PDAF issues (CMFR-Phil. 2013).
4. Yolanda People Finder
Yolanda, with the international code name Haiyan, was recorded as one of the
most powerful typhoons in Philippine history. After the six landfalls made by
Yolanda on November 8, 2013, Leyte and Samar were lost on the map due to
power and communication lines being cut off. Months before Yolanda, the
Google Philippines office was officially launched in January 2013. Julian
Persaud, managing director of Google in Southeast Asia, said that the
Philippines is a key country due to its digital economy and tech-savvy
population. Philippine was chosen for the debut of Free Zone, which was an
early adopter of the Chrome browser. Now, how did Google get linked to the
victims of Yolanda?

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 Aside from social media, Yolanda victims took Google help to find their lost
loved ones through Google Person Finder. It is an open-access software
platform that offers a message board to post and check for information about
each other's situation and alerts for people affected by a natural disaster. Just
by clicking the “I’m looking for someone” button and typing their name,
thousands of people affected by the Yolanda typhoon have been aided.

How to start an online petition?

1. Visit change.org. For the first time user, you can sign up with your Facebook
account, otherwise, input your log-in details.

Image source: https://www.change.org

2. Click the start petition button. Choose the kind of issue you’re petitioning on.
After that, you will follow the four steps.
3. Click the Save and Preview button.

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 You can support any petition you
want. Read the petition details to see if
this petition matters to you. If it is, fill in
the box on the right side. Complete the
sentence “I’m signing because…” and
click the sign this petition button.

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 ACTIVITIES

Activity 1
Directions: Create your petition. Write the following petition details.

Petition Title:
_________________________________________________________________________

Draw an image for your petition. (Can be digital)

(Your name here) (Name of your petition target)

_________________________ started this petition to ____________________________________.

____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________

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ACTIVITY 2
Directions: Browse and click on any petition you want to support that is posted on
Change.org. Print screen your signed petition including your answered “I’m signing
because…” and paste it below.

WRAP-UP

1. Directions: Complete the table below:

CAMPAIGNS ICT
FOR SOCIAL DATE OBJECTIVE / PURPOSE / ISSUE PLATFORM
CHANGE USED

EDSA (People
Power Revolution)

EDSA Dos

Million People
March

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 Yolanda People
Finder

2. Directions: Arrange the following step in chronological order. Write the numbers
1-5 on the blanks provided.
____ Choose the recipient(s) of your petition.
____ Add photo or video and click the save and preview button.
____ Compose a 3-paragraph long explanation of how this will create a change.
____ Write your petition title.
____ Click the start petition button. Choose what kind of issue you are petitioning on
___________________

VALUING

1. Based on the events mentioned, did the Filipinos properly and effectively
exercise their digital citizenship? Why?
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________.

2. Can you say that Filipino youth are practicing their digital citizenship properly
and effectively for the betterment of society? How?
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________.

References
Delavega, C. (2020). Quarter 4 – Module 3: Digital Citizenship and the Filipino
People [PDF Document]. Department of Education - Schools Division of Pasig
City.

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 WEEKLY School: GENERAL SANTOS CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Quarter: Quarter 4
HOME
LEARNING Teacher: HUMSS-1D Week: Week 3
PLAN Subject: Empowerment Technologies Date: April 25-29, 2022

Day and Learning Learning

Learning Tasks Mode of Delivery
Time Area Competency
6:00–6:45 Wake up, eat breakfast and get ready for the scheduled lessons.
6:45-7:30 Doing other activities before the start of the lesson. (Exercising, taking a bath, changing clothes)
M-W-F Specific Activities For Printed Modular: Learners or
Empowerment share anecdotes of how Parents/guardian will hand-in the
At the end of the learning period, the students shall have:
or Technologies he/she has used ICTs to output, answer sheets or activity
1. understood how the Filipinos utilized the ICTs to
(for the be part of a social sheets to the school based on the date
achieve social change;
T-TH Strand) movement, change, or and time scheduled (submit at the
2. conceptualized a petition about their chosen issue; and
cause to illustrate drop box).
3. justified how the Filipinos practiced digital citizenship.
As reflected aspects of digital
in the class citizenship Instructional Delivery
For Digital Modular: Learners may
program. CS_ICT11/12-ICTPT- ▪ Use the SLM on familiarizing oneself, doing self- upload/submit the output, answer
IIl-15 awareness activities and exploring oneself through the sheets or activity sheets to the LMS
concept notes of the lessons. (Google Classroom) based on the date
identify a local or
regional cause or issue Assessment/Activities and time scheduled.
for Social Change Answer/Do the following:
related to specific o Wrap-Up *As the learner/parent enter the
professional tracks that o Valuing school, strict implementation of the
can be addressed or minimum health protocols will be
tackled using an ICT Note: Summative tests may be given every Thursday or Friday followed as prescribed by the DOH and
Project for Social every other 2 weeks as the basis for written tasks. IATF.
Change IPT may be given for performance tasks.
CS_ICT11/12- Note: Teacher can communicate to
ICTPT-IIm-p16 his/her learners and do oral
questioning and assessment to the
learner for follow-up and verification.

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