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Empowerment Technologies: Department of Education Republic of The Philippines

This document provides an overview of lessons on information and communications technology (ICT). It includes 5 lessons over 6 weeks that will help students independently compose a reflection paper on the nature of ICT. The goal is to assist students in contextualizing online search and research skills. The document also includes a glossary defining 9 terms related to ICT, and challenges students to consider their community's readiness for the networked world.

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Empowerment Technologies: Department of Education Republic of The Philippines

This document provides an overview of lessons on information and communications technology (ICT). It includes 5 lessons over 6 weeks that will help students independently compose a reflection paper on the nature of ICT. The goal is to assist students in contextualizing online search and research skills. The document also includes a glossary defining 9 terms related to ICT, and challenges students to consider their community's readiness for the networked world.

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EMPOWERMENT

TECHNOLOGIES

Department of Education
Republic of the Philippines
Unit 1
Week 1-2
Lesson 1: What is Information and Communications Technology?
Lesson 2: Online Safety, Security, Ethics, and Etiquette
Lesson 3: Contextualized Online Search and Research Skills
Weeks 3-4
Lesson 4: Developing ICT content for specific purposes
Weeks 5-6
Lesson 5: Manipulating text, graphics, and images to create ICT
content intended for an online environment

TABLE OF CONTENTS
WHAT IS INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT)?
At the end of the 2-week period, you will be able to
independently compose an insightful reflection paper
on the nature of ICT in the context of your lives,
society, and chosen professional (i.e. Arts, Technical
Vocational, Sports, and Academic Tracks) track.

GOAL
1. Assistive Media - a component under Assistive technology (AT),
which is a generic term used to refer to a group of software or hardware
devices by which people with disabilities can access computers. Assistive
Media is also a name of a company: “the Internet's first audio solution
for persons with print reading/access barriers. The audio recordings of
the literary works produced by Assistive Media are now easily
accessible, on-demand, to the ever growing number of persons with
disabilities who now use the Internet.”

TRIVIA/GLOSSARY OF TERMS
2. Collaborative platforms - “is a category of business
software that adds broad social networking capabilities to
work processes.”

TRIVIA/GLOSSARY OF TERMS
3. Convergent Technologies - an extension of the term convergence,
which means a “coming together of two or more disparate disciplines or
technologies. For example, the so-called fax revolution was
produced by a convergence of telecommunications technology, optical
scanning technology, and printing technology.” Convergent
Technologies also refers to an American computer company formed by
a small group of people who left Intel Corporation and Xerox PARC
in1979.

TRIVIA/GLOSSARY OF TERMS
4. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) - ICT is an umbrella
term that includes any communication device or application, encompassing: radio,
television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software,
satellite systems and so on, as well as the various services and applications
associated with them, such as videoconferencing and distance learning. ICTs are
often spoken of in a particular context, such as ICTs in education, health care, or
libraries. The term is somewhat more common outside of the United States. It may
also be defined as, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT or ICTs) are
digital forms of communication including tools available on the Internet, such as
blogging and email, as well as computer software, such as Microsoft PowerPoint
and Word.

TRIVIA/GLOSSARY OF TERMS
5. Mobile Media - This refers to “media devices such as mobile phones and
PDA’s were the primary source of portable media from which we could
obtain information and communicate with one another. More recently,
the smartphone (which has combined many features of the cell phone with
the PDA) has rendered the PDA next to obsolete.5 The growth of new mobile
media as a true force in society was marked by smartphone sales outpacing
personal computer sales in 2011.”

TRIVIA/GLOSSARY OF TERMS
6. Online systems - are online versions of information systems, which is
“the process of and tools for storing, managing, using, and gathering of
data and communications in an organization. An example of
information systems are tools for sending out communications and
storing files in a business.”

TRIVIA/GLOSSARY OF TERMS
7. Social Media - “are computer-mediated tools that allow people or
companies to create, share, or exchange information, career interests,
ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks.”
8. Web 2.0 - “describes World Wide Web sites that emphasize user-
generated content, usability, and interoperability. The term was
popularized by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty at the O'Reilly Media
Web 2.0 Conference in late 2004, though it was coined by Darcy
DiNucci in 1999.”

TRIVIA/GLOSSARY OF TERMS
9. Web 3.0 - “a phrase coined by John Markoff of the New York Times
in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based services
that collectively comprise what might be called ‘the intelligent Web’—
such as those using semantic web, micro formats, natural language
search, data-mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and
artificial intelligence technologies—which emphasize machine-
facilitated understanding of information in order to provide a
more productive and intuitive user experience.”

TRIVIA/GLOSSARY OF TERMS
What do these mean to you?

So do you think you are ready for the Networked


World? Or better yet, is your community ready for the
Networked World?
Search anything about Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) or digital tools that interest you. Find out the
latest about them or something similar to them that you have
used so far. Be ready to share them in class using traditional
learning tools, e.g. pen and paper, or via ICT tools, e.g. online.

ACTIVITY
1. The current state of ICT tools (i.e., Web 2.0, Web
3.0, convergent technologies, social, mobile, and
assistive media).
2. Online systems, functions, and platforms

YOUR SEARCH, IDEALLY DONE ONLINE, SHOULD


TAKE YOU ON AN EXPLORATION ABOUT:
A survey called “Networked World Readiness” contains 5
categories, namely: Access, Learning, Society, Economy,
and Policy.
Which category is most important to you?

CHALLENGE QUESTION

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