Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Division of Dasmarinas City

Learning Activity Sheets (LAS)

LS6 Digital Citizenship

Name of Learner: ____________________________ Date: _________________
CLC: ______________________________________ Level: ________________
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Lesson: ORIGIN OF INTERNET

Learning Competency:
 Explain the origin of internet.
(LS6DC-DS-PSD-AE-1)/ALS K-12 CG 2019 pp. 257

What is this Module About?

Today, the Internet is one of the most effective and efficient ways to
communicate. Whether it is through Facebook, Myspace, Yahoo, or another website,
the internet gives us the opportunity to connect with all kinds of different people and
read news and information from all over the world. Internet can improve the quality of
education in many ways. It opens doorways to a wealth of information, knowledge and
educational resources, increasing opportunities for learning in and beyond the
classroom.

In this module you learn:

 meaning of the word internet
 origin of the internet
 9 uses of the internet and its application
 why internet is important?

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 Let’s think about this

Direction: •Look at the following pictures below. Put (√) of the pictures shows
the use technology or internet and put (X) if not.

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 LS6 DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP: ORIGIN OF INTERNET

Name of Learner: ____________________________ Date: _________________

CLC: ______________________________________ Level: ________________
 Explain the origin of internet.
(LS6DC-DS-PSD-AE-1)/ALS K-12 CG 2019 pp. 257
PRE – TEST:
Direction: A. Answer the following questions briefly.
1. How often do you use the Internet? ________________________
2. Do you have a mobile phone? ____________________________
3. Can you connect to the Internet with it? How? ____________________
4. Have you ever played online games? What’s your favorite? ____________
5. What’s your favorite internet website? How often do you visit it? _______
6. Do you chat online?___________
7. Have you ever made new friends on the Internet? ____________
8. Do you use instant messaging? What software do you use? __________
9. Which Internet browser do you prefer? (e.g. IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome) ____________
10. Are you a member of a social networking site? (e.g. Facebook, Hi5, MySpace)_________

B. Direction: Match the following word in Column A with its corresponding used in Column
B. Draw a line to connect your answers.
Column A Column B

1. check a. to the Internet

2. surf b. computer

3. play c. music

4. use d. a thumb drive

5. download e. the Internet

6. upload f. an email account

7. open g. your email

8. plug in h. an email

9. connect i. photos.

10. send j. online games

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 Let’s see what you already know

Direction: Choose the correct word that is appropriate to the sentence. Circle your answer
in the colored words.

Let’s learn 4
Internet- is a global computer network providing a variety of information
and communication facilities, consisting o f interconnected networks using
standardized communication protocols.

The Internet is the biggest world-wide communication network of

computers. The Internet has millions of smaller domestic, academic,
business, and government networks, which together carry many different
kinds of information. The short form of internet is the 'net'.
It is used by billions of people all over the world.

The Internet (or internet)- is the global system of

interconnected computer networks that u ses the
Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate
between networks and devices. It is a network of
networks that consists of private, public, academic,
business, and government networks of local to global
scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless,
and optical networking technologies. The Internet
carries a vast range of information resources and
services, such as the inter-linked hypertext
documents and applications of the World Wide Web
(WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file
sharing.

Origins of the Internet

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Top 9 Uses of Internet

1. Electronic Mail (email)

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The first major use of the internet is Email. People thronged to Email for sharing information,
data files, Photos, Videos, Business communications, and any other files instantaneously with
others. This had enabled faster communication betwee n people and improve business
efficiency. Email has reduced the usage of paper considerably and reduced load on physical
mail systems.

2. FTP File Transfer

This is the second major use case for the internet in
the early days. FTP is the file transfer protocol that
enables data exchange between two stakeholders over
internet media in a secure way. The data exchange
may occur between two business entities or
customers with business and vice versa.

3. Search Engines
These engines locate the information one seeks,
available in whichever server across the globe
(world wide web). Go ogle, Yahoo, and MSN are the
renowned search engines in use today. One can
search on anything in this site and the search
question can be in any format. In fact, People have
started using the word Google as a generic verb
synonymous to search.

4. E-Commerce
The Internet enables the selling of go ods and
services in online mode. There are many e-
commerce platform vendors like Amazon, Ola who
aggregate several products/services available in the
market and sell them through their portal to
customers. Products are procured by platform
vendors, stored in their warehouses, packed and
distributed by them in their own brand. Customers
get a good discount and they don’t have to visit
physical stores.

5. Online Banking
Called as Net banking, it allows doing
banking transactions at ease sitting at home
or while on mobile. Footfalls in the bank
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branches have come down appreciably with almost all th e services are available in net
banking 24×7. Any amount of money can be transferred instantaneously through this facility.
E-Banking supports Electricity bills, Telephone bills, and other services payment.

6. Cashless Transactions
Bill Payment at merchandise outlets through
debit cards, credit cards, UPI gateway are on
the increase. Cash circulation gets reduced in
the system to the extent of the growth of these
transactions. It’s growing by more than 50%
every year and it is expected to grow by 10
times over the next 5 years.

7. Education
The Internet offers a wealth of educational
material on any subject with structured
navigation and search facilities. One can seek
any reading material and the internet will get it
for them from any server in any part of the
world and people need not have to go to
libraries to go through books. Those who cannot
attend physi cal (face to face) class can take an
online course where they get connected to the
teacher, in the other part of the world, in video
mode and get taught on the subject backed up
other audiovisual tools.

8. Collaboration
Online chat tools like messenger, Skype, and other video
conferencing tools help people to get connected 24 x7
and have a hassle-free business and personal discussion.
This avoids unwanted travel by people and save their
time for productive use. The Internet has also facilitated work
from home with seamless connectivity to the office and avoid
daily commuting.

9. Social Networking
Internet connects people online and enables them to form
social groups. Information, Ideas, views, and opinions on
any social/political issues are exchanged. The political and
social organization makes use of this platform in promoting
their interest among the public.

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 Applications of Internet
With the evolution of IOT, Artificial Intelligence technologies, supported by computing
resources in the cloud, more and more new applications are being developed over the internet
layer and few of them are:

 Tracking the Vehicle – Fleet  Monitoring the health of the

Management system moving vehicle – Telematics

 Autonomous and Driverless

vehicle – 5G networks  Remote diagnostics and
triggering preventive
maintenance of equipment

Connected Machines –
 Entertainment – Contents
Manufacturing
sharing platform (OTT),
Internet TV, Web Serials
 Monitoring Children in the
home from outside  Online streaming of events

Why we Use the Internet?

This is the basic uses of the internet which are as follows:

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 Seek information on anything across the globe on a real-time basis.
 Communicate, collaborate with others.
 Telecommute to office or work from home.
 Do transactions with business entities.
 Down load files from a remote.
 Get educated and entertained.
 Carry out social.
 Do group activities.
 Collect operational data from remote equipment (stationary as well as moving).
 Process data while it is streamed to the central server.
 Get real-time data on the surrounding devices, systems, weather to automate activities.
 Design a decision-taking system as against the decision support system.
 Connect people, stakeholders, machines and everything.

Why Internet is important?

Internet has opened a new world for
many people around the
world. .Internet allows people to improve the
quality of their life. It opens access to the
previously inaccessible things. With almost
three millions of users, internet has been
emerging as one of the most important tools of
communication. Appropriate use of the
internet makes our life easy, fast and simple.
The internet helps us with facts and figures,
information and knowledge for personal, social
and economic development.

Engage
 Internet Use in School  Internet Use in Hospital

Activity 1

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Direction: Label the following pictures with words or expressions from the box
below. There are two extra expressions.

Activity 2
Direction: Match the words with their meanings:

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 Let’s see what have you learned:

Direction: A. Direction: Read the following story. Answer the questions that follow by
writing True if the statement is true and False if the statement is false.

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 Answer the following questions:
__________1. Arpanet is the father of the Internet. ______________________
__________2. Arpanet could be used by the general public.
__________3. Commercial entities changed the original nature of the Internet.
__________4. In1996 a CNN report stated that the Internet usage had increased
enormously in just 2 years.
__________5. The birth of the PC (personal computer) did not increase the number of the
Internet users.
__________6. The Internet is a powerful communication tool.

B. Direction: Read the text and fill in the blank with thec correct words inside
the box.

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NATUTUNAN KO_______________________________________________________________
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learner’s reflection:
 What do you mean internet?
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  Why internet is important now a days ?
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References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

https://www.britannica.com/technology/Internet

https://www.educba.com/uses-of-internet/

https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/

https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/?
gclid=CjwKCAiAuoqABhAsEiwAdSkVVKOjPeToCDMjUano4AJsFWHH-qI9dfSFcWnxE_c1OUZd1E9s-
X4FWxoCgjkQAvD_BwE

Prepared by:

VIRGINIA C. CERRADO
ALS Mobile Teacher

Note: Note: “Always use the internet in an appropriate way.”

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ALS Learner Signature VIRGINIA C. CERRADO Parents/Guardian Signature

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