Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION III
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF TARLAC PROVINCE
BENIGNO S. AQUINO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

BENIGNO S. AQUINO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

EMPOWERMENT
TECHNOLOGY
 LESSON I

Importance of Empowerment Technology

✓ Empowerment Technology, also known as E-Tech, is frequently concerned

with the use of various technologies such as mobile phones, telephones,
computers, and other devices to locate, save, communicate, and inform.
Empowerment Technology is important because of its innovative applications
in our daily lives. Empowerment Technology is important for three reasons:
communication, making our lives easier, and making our lives more
enjoyable.

✓ Empowerment Technology is important because it serves as a means of

communication. Many gadgets and other devices have improved their uses
over the years. Previously, a mobile phone was only used for texting, calling,
and playing simple games. Because of technological convergence or the way
technology changes or evolves its system, a cellular phone is now used for
more than just texting, calling, and playing games. It is now used for
communicating with people from other places via the internet and applications
or software’s such as Facebook, messenger, twitter, viber, kakao talk, and so
on, which are consistently used by the majority of us. Without these
applications or softwares, we would be unable to communicate with people
who live far away on a daily basis. Because Empowerment Technology is
well-known among all of us, communicating with people who live far away
will no longer be a problem. Friendships that had been shattered by distance
can now be repaired thanks to the use of Empowerment Technology.

✓ Empowerment Technology is important because it makes our lives easier in a

variety of ways, including school matters, office or work matters, and personal
matters. Previously, blackboards and whiteboards were among the tools used
in the classroom to teach students. There are now LCD projectors that are
widely used in many institutions and schools. We'd all be stuck with those
visual aid presentations if we didn't have these presentation softwares.
Empowerment Technology not only saves time, but it can also make our lives
easier.
What is Information and Communications Technology?
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) often deals with the use of
different technologies such as mobile phones, telephones, computer, Internet, and other
devices, as well as software and applications to locate, save, send, and manipulate information.
Empowering ICT is important for its innovative uses impacts our daily lives. It has affected
our ways of communicating, made our lives more convenient, and assisted countries towards
their modernization plans. Thus, there is a need to create a foundation of understanding in the
world of ICT. ICT has greatly contributed to how easy our lives have been today. Our gadgets
have become part of our necessity that we check on them after we wake up. It made
communication easier. We can use cellular phones that are designed for communicating with
other people even if they are miles away from us. It has also assisted us in our work since there
are Internet-based jobs. It has revolutionized our education and in the modernization of our
economy.

ICT in the Philippines

Philippines is dubbed as the “ICT Hub of Asia” because of huge growth of ICT-related
jobs, one of which is BPO, Business Process Outsourcing, or call centers. In a data gathered by
the Annual Survey of Philippines Business and Industries in 2010, the ICT industry shares
19.3% of the total employment population.
When the internet was fully commercialized in 1995, it has tremendously impacted
culture and commerce, including the rise of near instant communication by email, instant
messaging, telephony (Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP), two-way interactive video calls,
and the World Wide Web with its discussion forums, blogs, social networking, and online
shopping sites. Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses
the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
The World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is an information system on the Internet that allows documents
to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for
information by moving from one document to another. It was invented by Tim-Berners Lee.
The World Wide Web browser software, such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer/Edge, Mozilla
Firefox, Opera, Apple's Safari, and Google Chrome, let users navigate from one web page to
another via the hyperlinks embedded in the documents. These documents may also contain any
combination of computer data, including graphics, sounds, text, video, multimedia and
interactive content that runs while the user is interacting with the page. The Web has enabled
individuals and organizations to publish ideas and information to a potentially large audience
online at greatly reduced expense and time delay.

Types of Web Pages

• Web 1.0 or The Web. It is the first stage of the World Wide Web evolution. It is a flat
or stationary page since it cannot be manipulated by the user.

• Web 2.0 or The Social Web allows users to interact with the page, the user may be
able to comment or create a user account. Most website that we visit today are Web 2.0.

• Web 3.0 or Semantic Web. The semantic web provides a framework that allows data
to be shared and reuse to deliver web content specifically targeting the user. Search
Engine will learn about you and your habits from each search you perform and will
gather details about you from your previous activities like likes and social postings and
present the answers as per your preferences.
Below is a comparison of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
CRITERIA WEB 1.0 WEB 2.0 WEB 3.0
Communication Broadcast Interactive Engaged/ Invested
Information Static/ Read-only Dynamic Portable & Personal
Focus Organization Community Individual
Content Ownership Sharing Immersion
Interaction Web Forms Web Application Smart Applications
Search Directories Tags/ Keywords Context/ Relevance
Metrics Page Views Cost per Click User Engagement
Advertising Banners Interactive Behavioral
Technologies HTML/ FTP Flash/ Java/ XML RDF/ RDFS/ OWL

Features of WEB 2.0

FEATURES WEB
2.0
allows users to collectively classify and find information using
FOLKSONOMY freely chosen keywords (e.g. "tagging" by facebook). Tagging uses
the pound sign #, often referred to as hastag.
dynamic content that is responsive to user input (e.g., a user can
RICH USER "click" on an image to enlarge it or find out more information)
EXPERIENCE
the owner of website is not the only one who is able to put content.
USER Others are able to place a content on their own by means of
PARTICIPATIO comments, reviews, and evaluation.
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services that are offered on demand rather than on a one-time
purchase. This is synonymous to subscribing to a data plan that
LONG TAIL charges you for the amount of time you spent in the Internet, or a
data plan that charges you for the amount of bandwidth you used.

SOFTWARE AS users will subscribe to a software only when needed rather than
A SERVICE purchasing them.