Empowerment

Technology
LESSON I: ICT and Its Current State
 1. How many of you use social
media websites?
2. What is the most popular
social media site?
3. Who among your member use
internet to get News?
4. Who among your members
use iPhones or Android phones?
5. Who among you
here are familiar with
assistive media?

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INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
Is a study of computers as data
processing tools. It introduces
students to the fundamental of
using computer systems in an
internet environment.
It deals with the use of different
communication technologies
such as mobile phones,
telephone, Internet to locate,
save, send and edit information.
ICT and Its Current
State
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 ICT and Its
Current State
The essence of what it From mastering the use
is to be human is our of steam in machines and
ability to learn, change contraption to create
and adapt. more than what we
immediately need,
Throughout our history, mastering electricity
we underwent three itself bringing daylight in
significant night and transcending
technological radically our ability in
revolutions that storing and processing
drastically changed the data.
way we live.
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 Current State of ICT
ICT is following certain trends as it is
developing in this time and age. This
trend dictates the idea and design of how
ICT delivers information to people.
The following are emerging
technologies, principles or concepts in
ICT.

1. Convergent Technologies
2. Social Media
3. Mobile Technologies

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 This is when multiple different
devices combine into a single
CONVERGENT gadget because of technological
TECHNOLOGIES advancement. One example of
this is smartphone, where it can
do the functions of a television,
radio, computer, telephone,
camera and GPS as a single
device.

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SOCIAL MEDIA
These are software,
applications or platforms
that allow users to
communicate in an online
social communities or
network. Social media
allows people to
communicate faster through
a larger number of people.
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MOBILE
TECHNOLOGIES
This is a term for These devices from
devices that are the past were
easily carried originally big and
bulk, but due to
and allows fast the technological
means of advancement, they
communication. become smaller
and more compact.

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World Wide
Web (WWW)
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.
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 World Wide Web (WWW) vs Internet
WORLD WIDE WEB (www)
The web on the other hand, refers to
the software aspect as it relates to the
Protocols or HTTP (HyperText Transfer
Protocol)

INTERNET
The internet is the hardware aspect
because it relates to computer
networks, connections and
infrastructures.

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WEB PAGES
Web page is a hypertext document connected
to the World Wide Web.   It is a document that
is   suitable for the World Wide Web.

The different online

platforms of World
Wide Web:
1.Web 1.0
2.Web 2.0
3.Web 3.0
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Activity # 1

Technological
Convergence
Directions: Using the Venn
Diagram below, list down how
each one is like the other.
Write your answer in a table
like the one below
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Activity # 1.2

ICT across the

Fields
Information Communication
Technology supports many
industries. Using the internet
as your source, search the
internet for specific
application(s) of ICT in each
industry indicated on the boxes
below.
 ICT and Its Current State
ICT has greatly influenced people’s lives. That in most situations, it is taken for
granted. Using the table below, think of things you’re doing/you’ve done that
involves ICT technologies. Then beside it, research or ask older people how were
their lives then without ICT technologies. Then create a generalization or
conclusion based on the information you have collected.
Activity # 1.3
Assignment # 1
The Future of
ICT
In the past, telephones were
used to communicate in long
distances. This technology is
not mobile, meaning it can’t
be carried anywhere.
Today, the most common
telecommunication device
allows people to communicate
that can fit in our pockets.
Imagine an ICT device
twenty (20) years from now,
that will have a drastic effect
on our society. Give your ICT
device a name and describe
your work with an essay
explaining what it is and
what it does. The essay must
be at least two hundred
(200) words.
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 Thank You!
Prepared by: Ms. Romarie L. Quijano