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TRENDS, NETWORKS,
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THINKING IN THE
21ST CENTURY
(Quarter 4- Module 3/Week 3)
MODULE 3 – Dimensions of Technology

The learners should be able to:Department of Education

1. Identify dimensions of technology that are enabling and
SDO- City of San Fernando (LU)
inhibiting(HUMSS_MCT12-lld-f-1);
Region(HUMSS_MCT12-lla-f-2);
2. Discuss the benefits of technology 1
3. Explain weakest link in a system using strategic and intuitive thinking
(HUMSS_MCT12-lla-f-3).

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 Our Guide
For the parents:
1. Please guide your child while he is studying and answering the tasks provided in this
module.
2. Remind your child about his study time and schedule so he can finish the module.
3. Let your child answer the module activities independently however, assist him only
when necessary.
4. I will call on a certain time based on the schedule to explain the lessons in the module.
5. Kindly return the whole module and answer sheets on _________ during Fridays at
____________________.

For the learners:

1. Read carefully the directions so that you will know what to do.
2. If there are directions or topics in the module that are difficult for you to understand,
feel free to ask from your parents or companions at home. However, if you still could
not understand, you can call me at this number, _____________so I could explain it
to you clearly.
3. Answer the activities in the module on the specific day for the subject. Use a separate
sheet of paper for your answers. Avoid writing or tearing the pages of this module
because this will be used by other pupils/students like you.
4. Write important concepts in your notebook regarding your lesson. This will help you
in your review later.
5. You need to finish the activities in this module so that you can give this to your
parents on ___________________________.

Always remember these health tips:

1. Remember to wear your face mask properly and regularly.
2. Always wash your hands with clean water and soap.
3. Cover your mouth and nose with handkerchief whenever you cough or sneeze.
4. Follow the one-meter distance so that you will prevent the spread of the virus.

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This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

This will give you an idea of the skills or competencies

What I Need to Know you are expected to learn in the module.

This part includes an activity that aims to check what

you already know about the lesson to take. If you get all
What I know the answers correct (100%), you may decide to skip this
module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link the current
lesson with the previous one.
In this portion, the new lesson will be introduced to you
in various ways; a story, a song, a poem, a problem
What’s New opener, an activity or a situation.

This section provides a brief discussion of the lesson.

This aims to help you discover and understand new
What is it concepts and skills.

This comprises activities for independent practice to

What’s More solidify your understanding and skills of the topic. You
may check the answers to the exercises using the Answer
Key at the end of the module.
This includes questions or blank sentence/paragraph to
be filled in to process what you learned from the lesson.
What I have Learned

This section provides an activity which will help you

transfer your new knowledge or skill into real life
What I can do situations or concerns.

This is a task which aims to evaluate your level of

Assessment mastery in achieving the learning competency.

In this portion, another activity will be given to you to

Additional Activities enrich your knowledge or skill of the lesson learned.

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 LESSON
DIMENSIONS OF TECHNOLOGY
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What I Need to Know
Technology is everywhere: at work, at school and at home. We use computers
to do our assignments. We use cellphones to communicate with or loved ones. We watch our
favorite movies on our television. Indeed, technology has played an crucial role in our lives
from communicating with our friends over enormous distances to entertainment such as games,
social media, Facebook, twitter and You Tube. Technology continues to affect our lives. But
is technology always good and beneficial to us? Are there any disadvantages? We will find out
as we proceed to the next parts of this module.
At the end of this module, you shall be able to:
1. Identify dimensions of technology that are enabling and
inhibiting(HUMSS_MCT12-lld-f-1);
2. Discuss the benefits of technology (HUMSS_MCT12-lla-f-2);
3. Explain weakest link in a system using strategic and intuitive thinking
(HUMSS_MCT12-lla-f-3).

What I Know
ACTIVITY 1- DECODE ME
I. Try to guess the answer by decoding numbers into their corresponding letters such that
1=A 2=B 3=C 4=D on the blank provided before each item.

____________a. 3-15-13-13-21-14-9-3-1-20-9-15-14

____________b. 9-14-6-15-18-13-1-20-9-15-14

____________c. 3-15-13-16-21-20-5-18

____________d. 1-4-22-1-14-3-5-13-5-14-20

____________e. 20-5-3-8-14-15-12-15-7-25

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 LESSON
DIMENSIONS OF TECHNOLOGY
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What’s In

Computer
A computer is a collection of hardware components that function together as a system An
electronic device, operating under the control of instructions stored in its own memory, that
can :

• Accept data (input)

• Process the data according to specified rules (process)
• Produce results (output)
• Store results for future use (storage)

Mobile Phone
A mobile phone is a wireless handheld device that allows users to make and receive calls.
While the earliest generation of mobile phones could only make and receive calls, today’s
mobile phones do a lot more, accommodating web browsers, games, cameras, video players
and navigational systems.
Source: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/2955/mobile-phone
Internet
The Internet, sometimes called simply "the Net," is a worldwide system of computer networks-
a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get
information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers).
It is a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication
facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
Source: https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Internet
Information
Information can be transmitted in time, via data storage, and space, via communication and
telecommunication. Information is expressed either as the content of a message or through
direct or indirect observation.
Communication
Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place, person or group
to another. Every communication involves (at least) one sender, a message and a recipient.
Source: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/what-is-communication.html

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Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
- is a range of technologies for gathering, storing, retrieving, processing, analyzing, and
transmitting information
- encompasses both the internet as well as the mobile one powered by wireless networks. It
also includes antiquated technologies, such as landline telephones, radio and television.
The advent of ICT allows learners to critically comprehend its expansive capacity to make and
create social change, enhance democratic processes, local and global networks and
relationships.
• The advent of ICT allows learners to critically comprehend its expansive capacity to
make and create social change, enhance democratic processes, local and global
networks, and relationships.
• Research shows that we are all becoming more familiar with the extraordinary power
of ICTs. ICTs have much potential to improve the standards of living throughout the
world. Our challenge now is to harness that potential for the benefits of all people.
• ICTs have helped to improve the wellbeing of individuals and communities around the
planet. They have given new meaning to human rights, in particular the freedom of
expression and information.
• ICTs creates better communication platforms and development of application and
software in the service of human rights, ecological justice, and peace promotion across
the globe.
• The rapid technological advancement ushers an era where information and
communication are at the tip of one's finger.

What’s New
ACTIVITY 2- Gadget Matrix
List down all the gadgets that you’ve ever owned and used. Beside them write what are
their uses, who are more likely to be benefited, where are they being used. Write as many
possible answers as you can. Under rank column, decide on the most useful or important gadget
such that 1 is equivalent to most important, 2 is second most important and 3-third most
important.
Gadget What? Who? ( people Where? Rank
(functions, benefited) (places)
uses, purpose)

1.

2.

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4.

5.

What is It
Positive Effects of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) on Society
1. EDUCATION
Schools use a diverse set of ICT tools to communicate, create, disseminate, store, and
manage information. In some contexts, ICT has also become integral to the teaching-learning
interaction, through such approaches as replacing chalkboards with interactive digital
whiteboards, using students’ own smartphones or other devices for learning during class time,
and the “flipped classroom” model where students watch lectures at home on the computer and
use classroom time for more interactive exercises.
When teachers are digitally literate and trained to use ICT, these approaches can lead
to higher order thinking skills, provide creative and individualized options for students to
express their understandings, and leave students better prepared to deal with ongoing
technological change in society and the workplace.
Source: http://learningportal.iiep.unesco.org/en/issue-briefs/improve-learning/curriculum-
and-materials/information-and-communication-technology-ict
2. MEDICINE
ICT can help improve patient safety through the direct access to the medical case story,
checking the treatments online, keeping track of the patients’ progress and anticipating possible
medical errors. In general terms, they are regarded as generally positive tools among
professionals and users. Since they provide a way to increase the patient safety, their use is
being promoted in many countries.
ICT have been defined as technology with a high transformative potential, since it
introduces new ways to carry out medicine and develop health care. They are definitely
essential to renew primary health care since they contribute to a personalized following of
chronic diseases; they improve the access to health care in rural populations; and they
contribute to the optimizing data measuring and supervision.
Source: https://www.seriousgamesforhealth.com/en/the-main-benefits-of-using-ict-in-the-
health-care-field/

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3. BUSINESS
ICT includes all digital technology that assists individuals, businesses and
organizations in using information. It covers all electronic products that deal with information
in a digital form. Therefore, ICT is concerned with digital data storage, retrieval and
transmission.
ICT makes a business more efficient, effective and promptly respond to customers’
needs. ICT can assist business activities including design, manufacturing, R&D, distribution
and sales and feedback.
Source: https://www.bau.edu.lb/Research/Information-and-Communication-Technology-in-
Business
4. GOVERNMENT
In the Philippines, many transactions with government offices are now possible and
available online thanks to ICT. Application of birth certificates, passport, NBI and more.
ICTs creates better communication platforms and development of application and software in
the service of human rights, ecological justice and peace promotion across the globe.

5. RELIGION
Advances in technology have a way of changing the world around us. With an
institution as old as religion, the means and methods of reaching your audience are bound to
change over time. While there is no real replacement for community worship and togetherness,
technology is making it easier for people to study religion and feel connected to their faith.
Television, radio, social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and you tube have allowed religion
to extend their influence, beliefs, and faith on a global scale, having reached millions of people
from all over the world.
Source: https://www.brescia.edu/2013/08/how-technology-is-transforming-religion

What’s More
The Disadvantages of ICT

1. Phishing and Spoofing

Spoofing attack is when a malicious party impersonates another device or user on a network in
order to launch attacks against network hosts, steal data, spread malware or bypass access
controls. There are several different types of spoofing attacks that malicious parties can use to
accomplish this. Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames,
passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money), often for malicious
reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

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2. Blackmail/Extortion
Extortion (also called blackmail, shakedown, out wresting, and exaction) is a criminal offence
of unlawfully obtaining money, property, or services from a person, entity, or institution,
through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection.
Using the Internet to threaten to cause damage with the intent to extort from any person any
money or other thing of value.
3. Accessing Stored Communications
Accessing Stored Communications or hacking; Intentionally accessing, without authorization,
a facility through which an electronic communication service is provided. The act of obtaining
unauthorized access to data from computer network. This is typically done to commercial and
government sites to threaten its owner. In late 2015, a group of Anonymous Philippines hacked
the Twitter account of actress Maine Mendoza, who plays the famous character Yaya Dub of
the popular AlDub tandem and posted links and messages on the account.
4. Sports Betting
Sports Beating is engaging in the business of betting or wagering on any sporting event or
contest over the Internet. In some countries, gambling (including sports betting) is illegal even
if you are doing it over the Internet.
5. Non-Delivery of Merchandise
Devising any scheme to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or
fraudulent pretenses, or promises, and using the Internet for the purpose of executing the
scheme. The non-delivery scam occurs when the scammer places an item up for sale when
there is actually no item at all. The item is subsequently never delivered to the buyer after they
purchase the item.
6. Electronic/Cyber Harassment
Cyber harassment refers to online harassment. Cyber harassment or bullying is the use of email,
instant messaging, and derogatory websites to bully or otherwise harass an individual or group
through personal attacks. Cyber harassment can be in the form of flames, comments made in
chat rooms, sending of offensive or cruel e-mail, or even harassing others by posting on blogs
or social networking sites. Cyber harassment is often difficult to track as the person responsible
for the acts of cyber harassment remains anonymous while threatening others online. This
usually applies to school-age children.
7. Child Pornography
Using the Internet to transmit child pornography. Child pornography is distributed nowadays
mainly through the Internet. Child pornography are produced not only on a professional scale
by commercial providers, but also privately using victims from the producer’s own
environment, from the exploitation of children by clients of child prostitutes. Child
pornography is sold over commercial websites and also exchanged in closed groups or via peer-
to-peer networks. Criminal groups also use the Internet to make big money selling child
pornography.

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8. Prostitution
Persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing any individual to travel in interstate commerce to
engage in prostitution.The internet has become one of the preferred methods of communication
for prostitution, as clients and prostitutes are less vulnerable to arrest or assault and for its
convenience
9. Drug Trafficking
Delivering, distributing, or dispensing a controlled substance by means of the Internet. Darknet
markets are used to buy and sell recreational drugs online. Some drug traffickers use encrypted
messaging tools to communicate with drug mules. The dark web site Silk Road was a major
online marketplace for drugs before it was shut down by law enforcement (then reopened under
new management, and then shut down by law enforcement again)
10. Criminal Copyright Infringement
Criminal Copyright Infringement, the act of piracy mainly for financial gain. In late 2014, the
number one pirate website, The PirateBay, was raided for the second time due to years of
pirating movies, music, games, books, and other software. These kinds of websites earn money
through advertising.
Source: http://katrinagervacio.blogspot.com/2016/07/cybercrimes-areillegal-acts-done.html

What I Have Learned

ACTIVITY 3- MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE
I.MODIFIED TRUE or FALSE. Write T if the statement is true otherwise change the
italicized word/s to make the statement correct on the space provided before each number.
__________1. The slow-paced technological advancement ushers an era where information
and communication are at the tip of one's finger.

__________2. ICTs have much potential to improve the standards of living throughout the
world.

__________3. One of the advantages of ICT in the business sector is to provide learners with
additional resources to assist resource-based learning.

__________4. ICT ruins interpersonal relationships providing an emotional outlet.

__________5. Addiction to the use of social media can lead to social isolation in most cases.

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ACTIVITY 4- POSTER-SLOGAN
Poster-Slogan Making. Draw and describe how technology impacts society nowadays. (Focus
on the advantages disadvantages of technology)

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

Assessment
I. Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Use the answer sheet provided for
you.
1. When teachers are digitally literate and trained to use ICT, these approaches can lead to
higher order thinking skills.
A. Business sector
B. Education sector
C. Government sector
D. Medical field

2. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of ICT in the field of medicine?

A. improving patient safety through the direct access to the medical case story,
B. checking the treatments online
C. anticipating possible medical errors

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 D. assisting distribution and sales and feedback

3. It is a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication

facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
A. communication B. internet C. information D. network
4. It is a criminal offence of unlawfully obtaining money, property, or services from a person,
entity, or institution, through coercion.
A. cyber bullying
B. extortion
C. phishing
D. sports betting

5. ICT makes a business more efficient, effective, and promptly respond to customers’ needs.
A. Business sector
B. Education sector
C. Government sector
D. Medical field

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY

I. ESSAY. Answer the question below briefly but SUBSTANITALLY. (10 pts)
1. Explain how ICT affects your social relationship with others.
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

2. If you were to invent something that helps promote and improve human life conditions on
earth, what piece of technology would you rather work on?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

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References
Book References

Renato T. Dela Cruz and Ronel P. Dela Cruz. Wired! Trends Networks and Critical Thinking
Skills in the 21st Century: A textbook on Humanities and Social Sciences. The Phoenix
Publishing House Inc.; c2017.

Online Resources

▪ https://www.techopedia.com/definition/2955/mobile-phone
▪ https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Internet
▪ https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/what-is-communication.html
▪ http://learningportal.iiep.unesco.org/en/issue-briefs/improve-
learning/curriculum-and-materials/information-and-communication-technology-
ict
▪ https://www.seriousgamesforhealth.com/en/the-main-benefits-of-using-ict-in-the-
health-care-field/
▪ https://www.brescia.edu/2013/08/how-technology-is-transforming-religion
▪ http://katrinagervacio.blogspot.com/2016/07/cybercrimes-areillegal-acts-
done.html

Development Team of the Module

Writer/Illustrator/Layout Artist:
Editor/Evaluator/Reviewer:
Management Team:
Romel Christian Z. Miano, Special Science Teacher I
Krysna C. Milanes, Teacher II
Brenda A. Sabado, Principal IV - LUNHS
Thea Zonette S. Medrano, OIC-Assistant Principal
Pearl Frigillana Abat, EPS In-Charge
Dr. Rowena C. Banzon, CESO V, SDS
Dr. Wilfredo E. Sindayen, ASDS
Dr. Agnes B. Cacap, Chief- CID
Dr. Jose Mari P. Almeida, Chief- SGOD
Genevieve B. Ugay, EPS- LRMS
Hazel B. Libatique, Librarian II
Aurelio C. Dayag, Jr., PDO II

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Answer Key

What I Know Activity 1: Decode Me

a. communication

b. information

c. computer

d. advancement

e. technology

What I Have Learned Activity 3: Modified True or False

1. fast-paced

2. T

3. education sector

4. improves

5.T

Assessment

1. b

2. d

3. b

4. b

5. a