LESSON 1- INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

OBJECTIVE
 Compare and contrast the nuances of varied online platforms, sites, and contents to best achieve specific class objectives
or address situational challenges.
ICT IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATION
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) plays an important part in our lives and in all aspects in our society. ICT has become the
main method of communication, getting information and education, attaining services from business, hospitals, utilities, government,
purchasing products and services, doing personal and business transactions, and expressing social advocacies and awareness.
EDUCATION
 Modern have computers for research and learning by students and the family for school lessons. They are also used to learn about
other people, places, current events, and recent technologies.
 Computers in school are used for fast, easy, and effective instruction and learning in Computer, Math, Science and English. Teachers
used images, videos, and Computer-Based Training (CBT) programs to present topics visually to enhance learning.
 Courses on the internet called Online Instructions are available to learn various lessons such as origami, cooking, and even earn a
college degree.
 Libraries are now equipped with computers to organize books and to expand the references available to the students through the
internet.
 Students used computers to type reports, do their assignments, and communicate with teachers.
 Schools used computers to keep the database of information about the school and its students.

Classroom Library Web Server

Telecommunications
 Computers in homes, private and government offices, hospitals, and almost everywhere are used to get in touch with other people.
Everyone uses the computer to send messages and other information all over the world. Computers are used to send letters, pictures,
video clips, and music. Talking to and seeing friends, relatives and acquaintances are maid easier and a lot cheaper by the use of
computers connected to the internet.
 Computers are also used in the mobile phone communications to control calls and SMS (short message service) or text traffic.
 VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a voice communication application via the internet, which costs less than traditional means.
Commerce
 Shops and supermarkets use software which calculates the bills and efficiency processes both cash and credits transactions. Online
shopping continues to grow in popularity since it provides a lot of choices for items and pricing from various sources, as well as the
convenience of doing everything at home or place where you would rather be.

Supermarket TV Station Sports Simulation

Sports and Recreation

 There are simulation software where athletes can practice their skills, and the computer will identify the flaws in their techniques.
 Use of computerized fitness programs, gadgets, and equipment

 Computers in television stations and movie outfits are used by Movie Directors to create special effects for TV and movies, to make
watching movies exciting and truly entertaining.
 Computers at home are used to play games, listen to music, and watch movies.
Arts, Design and Music
 Image and graphics design, photo editing, and music arrangements.
 Music and videos are shared online by their creators and can be downloaded for free or for a free.

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 Video Animation Music Recording Drawing

Media and Visual Arts

 Architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture.
 Animation, web design, and mobile designs.
 Photography, film making, audio, and video.
 Computers are used by Animators to create cartoon characters in movies.
 Characters created by computers look real for example, dinosaurs look as if they still exist today. Dangerous and almost impossible
with state-of-the-art computer programs run by well-trained artists.
Health Services
 Computers in hospitals are used by doctors to store medical data, patients records, research materials, and other materials, and other
information to effectively diagnose and treat patients.
 Online health information and consultations are now available on the internet. Sharing of valuable experience and expertise helps
treat patients with rear and serious diseases faster.
 Computers in operating rooms assists doctors perform microsurgery with accuracy and better chances of success.
 Computers are used in hospitals to monitor the patients condition. These computers send out alarm signals whenever the patients
condition become critical, so doctors and nurses can attend to them immediately.
 Emails are used extensively to communicate with the doctors efficiently. Test results and diagnosis are sent via the internet.
 With the internet, doctors share experiences and medical data with other doctor around the globe to research and diagnose the
patients with greater accuracy.

MRI machine Doctors Researchers

Science and Research

 Modern laboratories have computers used by chemists to invent materials, medicine, and products to improve life.
 Physicist look for new renewable, safe, and affordable power sources using computers.
 Mathematicians solve complex problems with the use of super fast computers.
 Inventors design and test their products in the computer using simulations ensure a working model before actual manufacturing.
Travel and Hotel Booking
 Airline fares and tickets are now paid online; hotel and housing are also reserved using the internet, and even ship travels are also
booked online.
 Travel routes and maps can be downloaded to your PDAs or print maps to ensure you will travel faster and not get lost in your trip.
 Computers in airports are used by air traffic controllers to control and schedule take-off and landing of planes, to ensure safety.
 Computers on airplanes help both military and commercial pilots to fly and land their airplane safely and efficiency. They use the
computers to know how far they are from their destination, how high they are, learn the planes condition, and many other
information.
 Cars, boats, and other gadgets are equipped with navigational aids designed to help the travelers reach their destination faster.
 You can book an air ticket or railway tickets and even make hotel reservations online. Travelers can also browse images of the places
they want to see, and even view the amenities inside the hotel in advance.

Aircraft Automotive Business

Business and Accounting

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  Computers in groceries are used by cashiers to store prices of goods, determine inventory of goods, and locate the goods in the store.
 Computers in offices are used to store daily business deals and transactions.
 Secretaries type their letters on the computer, print, and store them for future use.
 One can always use the computers in the office to do several business activities like planning and scheduling. There are software’s
used to store contact information, generate plans, and schedule appointments.
 Call centers use computers to record received or transmitted large volume of requests by telephone to administer incoming product
support or information inquiries from consumers or telemarketing.
 Data encoders use computers to enter or update data into a computer system database.
 Medical transcriptionists use to computer to convert voice-recorded reports, as dictated by physicians or other healthcare
professionals, into text format.
 Accountant use computers to know the financial status of the business.
 Accounting process is done using computers, like preparation of financial reports in fast and accurate manner. With gathered and
researched information, computers can be used to predict future trends of business. Timely and accurate information to business
managers will give them better decisions as where they would direct their business .
Manufacturing Industries
 Automobiles and other vehicles are manufactured using computer-aided machineries and robots; this is called computer-aided
manufacturing (CAM). CAM is a programming tool that helps produce better products faster and cheaper with precision and accuracy.
 Computers in manufacturing also manage raw materials, suppliers, costs, and inventory.
 Computers in industry are also used to design new and better machines, test them in the computer before they are manufactured.
 Some industries are fully automated, meaning all the processes are being done by robots under computer control such as in car
manufacturing, book publishing, and in some electronic fabrication. This is called Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM).

Manufacturing Machine Fabrication Machine ATM Machine

Banking
 Almost all our financial transactions are done by computer software. They provide ease, security, speed, and convenience. Banks
usually provide remote services to their clients by installing Automated Teller Machines (ATM) controlled by a network computer,
which dispenses cash and client information.
 Banks are computers so that people can get and deposit money anytime of the day. They also use computers to record customers
account information. Computers help banks do business away from their location, example of which is ATM.
Mathematics
 Computerized calculations in the creation of buildings, machines, bridges, airplane, and radio communications.
 Solve differential equations and advanced numerical algorithms to solve the equations on high performance computers.
 Software can help simulate data and demonstrate it using statistical graphs, like a bar chart, table, or diagram mode.

Drawing Plan Architect Engineer

Engineering and Architecture

 Architects design houses, buildings and bridges using Computer Aided Design (CAD) programs which is a lot faster and presentable.
 Civil Engineers use computers to calculate the strength of footing and foundations of a building.
 Electrical engineers design and determine electrical power requirements of buildings and houses.
 Mechanical engineers use computer in their work to design and build machineries and vehicles such as cars, boats and airplanes with
better aesthetics, accuracy, and safety.
Agriculture
 Computers are used in research, monitoring to improve agriculture, crop, and animal production, care and management.
 Food processing and packaging.

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 Agriculture Researchers Magazines

Writing and Publishing

 Books, magazines, newspapers, music, and videos are important products to share. Current information, inspiring and creative stories,
great compositions, entertaining movies, educational books, and a lot more are all products of publishing.
 Print publishing such as books, newspapers, and magazines are designed and prepared using powerful desktop computers using
drawing, photo editing, and lay-out programs.
 Videos are edited in powerful and faster computers since videos have higher memory requirements. Video editing programs together
with other programs used in prints publishing maybe employed together to craft and finish a movie.
 Books are shared online by their creators and can be downloaded for free, or for a fee.
 Read news using online newspapers, read books using eBooks, research for materials, and journals online.
Government Service
 Computers in government offices are used by Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to compute taxes of real properties such as homes and
buildings.
 The city government uses computers to render service to its citizens; for example, the traffic lights are controlled by computers to
lessen congestions of vehicles.
 The National Statistics Office (NSO) uses computers to record the birth, marriages, and deaths of the country’s citizens. It is also used
to record other valuable personal information.
 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) record all citizens traveling abroad. DFA issues computer-generated passports, the latest
passports have bar codes included for faster information retrieval and monitoring.

CCTV monitoring Fighter Jets Maps

Military Applications
 Computers are used to guide weapon systems from any source and pinpoint targets with precision and accuracy.
 Computers on board mechanical vehicles are used to locate and diffuse bombs.
 Computers control unmanned airplanes, or drones to locate enemy locations, and deliver firepower when necessary.
 Computers use software embedded in many modern weapons to ensure accuracy and precision. Computers also process valuable
information or intelligence especially impending terrorist attack.

Weather Analysis
 There are supercomputers used to analyze and predict the weather of the day. Data gathered from weather satellites will be
calculated by these computers to give the wind direction, wind velocity, volume of rainfall, and other important weather information.

Space Exploration
 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the U.S.A. uses computers in spacecraft to explore planets and other
heavenly bodies.
 Computers are likewise used in Earth control stations for the spacecraft and satellite on mission.
 Computers are also used on satellites and control stations to monitor weather, transmit voice and data, and other applications around
the world.
 Computers on board spacecraft are equipped with camera, video, and other sensors that send vital data back to earth.

Weather Forecast Space Shuttle Space Explorer

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Aeronautics
 Pilots are trained using software which simulates flying. Flight simulations are safe and cost-effective means of training future pilots
without the risk of a real airplane crash. They employ software to enhance both visual and mechanical reflexes to new and even
seasoned pilots.

The Current State of ICT

Web 1.0 is a term coined to differentiate the first stage of the World Wide Web (WWW) in comparison with the present stage of the internet
technology. At the beginning of the WWW, there were very few web content creators and many of them where so called “read only web” since
there was no user interaction. At this stage, the web pages where static, meaning you can read the text and look at the photos, but the user
could not interact with it to obtain more information. The feedback mechanism was thru private email and direct comment was not available.
Web 2.0
The transition between the end of web 1.0 and beginning of web 2.0 cannot exactly be determined, since the change was gradual as the
internet technology became more and more interactive. The term web 2.0 was first used around the year 2004 to differentiate the current
internet technology with the past technology, Web 1.0. This was the beginning of the wide use and popularity of the social media such as
Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. The users can now interact, contribute and create their own internet space and content resulting in the
explosion of information available for everyone on the net. The internet is now available to everyone whether you are an expert or not. The
internet is now a means to interact and communicate with people in a virtual community, allowing social connection around the globe.

In Web 2.0, web pages are now written using web programs such as PHP, Python, Ruby or Perl – all dynamic programming languages. It is now
easy to share your photos, videos, stories, and your opinions over the web. Web 2.0 is the advent of the “read-write” web. As we look to
Wikipedia (information and Encyclopedia). YouTube (video sharing), Flickr (photo sharing), and other sites that rely on the contribution of the
users for content, the potential of the WWW is becoming evident. There is however another stage of this WWW technology, one that is
described by the father of the WWW Tim Berners-Lee and that is “read-write-execute” web. This stage is now called the Web 3.0.

Web 3.0
Web 3.0 is named and referred to by web experts as semantic web or data driven web content and response. As the user interacts or responds,
contributes, and collaborates on the web, the context of the search of the user is process by a programming language to help the user by
presenting option of what the person is interested in. for example, if the user searches for hotels in a particular city, the web posts adverts of
hotels on that city from services, either from TripAdvisor.com, Booking.com, Agoda.com, and others. Web 3.0 will not make obsolete or change
Web 2.0, but it simply describes an additional use of data created by the users and the use of the vast data available on the net, to assist or
help the users by presenting to them the best option available in the context of their research.

Some content sites such as Flickr (photo sharing website) now provide a web service, wherein one can develop a program to interact with the
website to search for desired images. This has become necessary since the number of images available on the site continues to grow in the
billion of photos, a program to automate the search become necessary.

Is Web 1.0 obsolete? Not necessarily. There are some websites that sell specialized products that do not have Web 2.0 capabilities and may not
have any business need to interact with the users. In shorts, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 are simply nomenclature to describe a current
state of technology being employed on the internet differentiating one from the other.

Web 2.0, Web 3.0, and User Participation in the Web

In Web 1.0, the user is limited to viewing the website. Web 2.0 is an internet technology and application that allow user participation,
collaboration, interaction, content creation, and involvement in the virtual community. Websites were created using dynamic programming
languages that make the users part of the creation, expression, and development of their own digital space. Specially, the users can share
videos and photos, create a blog site, participate in wikis, communicate with others, react, and comment to authors at the same time consume
and view internet content shared by others.

Web 3.0 is the next development on the web, with all the information, user generated content, and contributions, it has created a vast
resource to tap and use for the benefits of the user. Web 3.0 utilizes the web content as created and contribute by the user into useful
information as needed by the user. Web 3.0 is referred to as data driven or semantic web that are used by web services to meet the needs of
the end user. For example, if the user is searching for airlines to travel from Manila to New York, some sites will send ads of the cheapest
possible fare, length of travel, the number of stops, and other pertinent formation for the benefit of the user.

Technological Convergence
The smartphone is an example of technological convergence as it provides functionality of various individual separate and different devices
now available in one gear. The smartphone can function as a telephone, camera, radio, TV, and gaming console. All these tasks were once only
available and useable on a singular and different gadget.
Technological convergence is an evolution of technological developments that merge into a new system bringing together different types of
application and media. Interaction with seamless synergy between various applications and media are now possible because of technological
innovations. For example, a tablet computer is a device that allows the use of its monitor as a game console, video or radio playback, display
photos, browse websites, and stream various application and data from the internet. Therefore, the tablet is another example of technological
convergence where various data formats, as mentioned above, are doable in one device.

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Social Media
Social media is a collection of internet-based communication tools and computer-assisted channels dedicated to allow users to interact,
communicate, and share information in a virtual community network.
The most common social media sites are:
1. Facebook- is a popular free social networking site with more than a billion users around the globe that allows its users to create profiles,
upload photos and videos, create and join groups, react to friends’ posts, create events, send messages, keeping in touch with close friends,
and relatives.
2. Twitter- with more than 300 million users in 2016, this social networking site allows users to microblog or broadcast short messages called
“tweets”. Registered twitter members can also read and follow tweets of other users.
3. Instagram- is another free social networking app that enables the user to share mobile photo and video either publicly or privately, and
through other networking sites such as Flickr, Tumbler, Facebook, and Twitter.
4. Snapchat- is designed for the mobile networking application. Snapchat is also designed for photo sharing, chat, and messaging services.
Images and videos shared in this app last only for a short time and they are gone after.

Mobile Media
With the growing mobile media, the smartphone has dominated sales growth of the digital world, outpacing laptops and personal computers.
Smartphone is an integration of various technologies rolled into one, such as the cellular phone, PDA (portable digital assistant), photo, and
video camera. The inherent portability and reduced size of the smartphone allow people to capture, write, share, and communicate to anyone
and anywhere as long there is an Internet connectivity or cellular signal.

Assistive Media
Assistive Media is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 in Ann Arbor, Michigan USA. The organization was the first internet-based reading
service for person with visual and reading impairments, as echoed from the word of its founder David H. Erdody.
Originally producing and distributing voice-recorded written materials on the defunct audio cassettes to various libraries for the blind and
physically handicapped, their work are now accessible on demand through the Internet due to the advances in audio technology. Donations
and grants allowed Assistive Media to start recording books for online library to serve people with disability to serve people with disability at a
faster pace and making available online books for the visually impaired.

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Grade and Section: __________________________________ Date: ______________________

ACTIVITY (WEEK 1)- EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGY

1. Compose an insightful reflection paper on the nature of ICT in the context of your life, society, and professional tracks like Arts, Tech-Voc,
Sports or Academic. Write your answer on the space provided.

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