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Empowerment TechnologiesQuarter 3 – Module 1:The Power of Information andCommunication TechnologiesLet Us LearnGreat day to you, dear learner! In this module you will demonstrate your understanding on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the context of global communication for specifi...

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Empowerment Technologies Quarter 3 – Module 1 : The Power of Information and Communication Technologies

Let Us Learn Great day to you, dear learner! In this module you will demonstrate your understanding on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the context of global communication for specific professional track, in which you will be able to explore the current state of ICT technologies (i.e., Web 2.0, 3.0, convergent technologies, social, mobile, and assistive media); and online systems, functions, and platforms. After going through this module, you are expected to: a. compare and contrast the nuances of varied online platforms, sites, and content to best achieve specific class objectives or address situational challenges (CS_ICT11/12-ICTPT-Ia-b-1); b. share plans on how to use your knowledge on the different trends in ICT; and c. independently compose an insightful reflection on the nature of ICT in the context of your life, society, and professional tracks (Arts, TechVoc, Sports, Academic).

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Let Us Try Name the Thumbnail Can you identify the icons below? Try to name them and see how digital native you are. Check your responses from the Answer Key provided at the end of this module.

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If you get 10 or more correct answers, there is no denying that you are a digital native and information and communication technologies have already been in your system. Find out more about ICT in the next discussions.

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Let Us Study The Power of ICT As countries around the world put up their best fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry is playing a key role in this journey. In the article of Mint (2020) entitled ―The power of ICT: Using technology to combat the pandemic‖, several examples to showcase the role and contribution of ICT were mentioned —from keeping in touch with friends, family members, and acquaintances to fulfilling basic needs such as health and education. Others are as follows. 

5G telemedicine is proving especially instrumental in the protection of medical personnel and quarantine ward automation, among others. For instance, remote gene sequencing, which is a 5G application, is helping improve the detection rates of Covid-19.

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Unmanned or self-driving vehicles that spray disinfectants on their own are helping reduce the risk of infection of those working in quarantined areas.

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Infrared temperature measurement tools and mobile trolleys for quarantine ward consultations are other examples of how the healthcare sector is currently benefitting from using ICT.

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The advent of 5G is also making it possible to provide telemedicine facilities in rural areas, with lesser transmission lag. Patients can communicate with their family members or counselors, and receive 24*7 medical interventions.

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Governments across the world, meanwhile, are using ICT to collect information about the epidemic and facilitate collaboration among different stakeholders.

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When it comes to the online education space, 5G technology is proving to be of paramount importance. Students can enjoy better download and upload speeds, and can connect with educators seamlessly from the comfort of their homes.

The listed examples give us a picture of the current state of ICTs and how these help in times of global crises and needs. These may sound so hightech but we cannot deny the fact that even in our homes and in our 3

everyday lives, ICT also play important roles in our coping of the different challenges. Directions: On a separate sheet of paper, write at least five (5) ways on how information and communication technologies have helped you in the following situations during the pandemic. A. In doing your daily tasks B. In connecting with people C. In continuing your learning and education D. In shopping and payments E. In keeping your physical and mental health Before we delve further into the current state of ICT, let us first understand the fundamentals of ICT.

What is ICT? Stands for "Information and Communication Technologies." ICT, in a very simplified sense, refers to technologies associated with the transmission and exchange of data in the form of sound, text, visual images, signals or any other form or any combination of those forms through the use of digital technology. It encompasses such services as telecommunications, posts, multimedia, electronic commerce, broadcasting, and information technology (TESDA). It focuses primarily on communication technologies which include the Internet, wireless networks, cell phones, and other communication mediums (Christensson, 2010). Today information and communication technologies are the one thing and so the repertoire of technologies expands further to encompass computers and computerrelated products, email, MMS, and other forms of communication (ICTE Solutions Australia, 2020). According to Christensson (2010), information and communication technologies have provided society with a vast array of new communication capabilities in the past few decades. For example, people can communicate in real-time with others in different countries using technologies such as instant messaging, voice over IP (VoIP), and video-conferencing. Social networking websites like Facebook allow users from all over the world to remain in contact and communicate on a regular basis.

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What is the state of ICT in the Philippines? MEC Network Corporation (2019) presented the history and the current state of ICT in the Philippines. Philippines ICT Throwback Before Before ICT in the PH 1928 Telecommunications in the Philippines was segmented. You could only call people within your own small city. 1928 Telecoms in the Philippines American-owned PLDT was incorporated and given the franchise to establish and operate telephone services in the Philippines. Small phone companies in the provinces were acquired to speed up the rollout process. 1968 Filipinos Connecting Filipinos to the World PLDT became a Filipino-controlled corporation bought by Ramon Cojuangco. 1987 Cellular Telephone Network PLDT established the country’s first cellular telephone network. 1993 Birth of the Philippine Internet With the support of the Department of Science and Technology and the Industrial Research Foundation, the Philnet project (now PHNET) was born. 1994 Our First Internet Connection Benjie Tan, who was working for ComNet, established Philippines’ first connection to the Internet at a PLDT network center in Makati City. 2013 The Massive Growth of the Country’s Mobile Networks Our mobile cellular subscriptions reached 102 million. 2014 Fastest Growing Connections The Philippines was named the fastest growing internet population in the last five years with a growth of 531%. The number of Philippine Internet users is 38 million out of a population of 100 million. 2017 Internet Connection Population Penetration 119M mobile phone subscriptions in the country (117% Penetration Rate) 95% Prepaid Greater 10% broadband subscription 55% mobile broadband subscription 80% subscribed to the Lowest Speed Plans (1-3 MBPS)

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Philippines ICT My Day The number of hours Filipino spent online

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What is World Wide Web? In order to understand World Wide Web, it's important to understand the differences between the World Wide Web and the Internet. Many people refer to them as the same thing, but in fact, although the end result is the common perception of most everyday users, they are very different. The world wide web, or web for short, are the pages you see when you're at a device and you're online. But the internet is the network of connected computers that the web works on, as well as what emails and files travel across (BBC, 2019). The internet could be likened to the roads that connect towns and cities together while the world wide web are the things you see on the roads like houses and shops. And the vehicles are the data moving around - some go between websites and others will be transferring your emails or files across the internet, separately from the web. Additionally, Lumsden (2012) describes the internet as a series of huge computer networks that allows many computers to connect and communicate with each other globally. Upon the internet reside a series of 6

languages which allow information to travel between computers. These are known as protocols. For instance, some common protocols for transferring emails are IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. Just as email is a layer on the internet, the World Wide Web is another layer which uses different protocols. The World Wide Web uses three protocols: o HTML (Hypertext markup language) - The language that we write our web pages in. o HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) - Although other protocols can be used such as FTP, this is the most common protocol. It was developed specifically for the World Wide Web and favored for its simplicity and speed. This protocol requests the 'HTML' document from the server and serves it to the browser. o URLS (Uniform resource locator) - The last part of the puzzle required to allow the web to work is a URL. This is the address which indicates where any given document lives on the web. It can be defined as :///

The different online platforms of World Wide Web: Web 1.0

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the first-generation web static and monodirectional read-only web and also as a system of cognition began as an information place for businesses to broadcast their information to people. limited user interactions or content contributions and only allowed to search the information and read it. main goal was to publish the information for anyone at any time and establish an online presence. 7

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web users simply surfed the web looking for information, and did not interact with the sites themselves in terms of returning user-generated data. just a brochure-ware dynamic and bi-directional wisdom web, people-centric web, participative web, and readwrite web allow assembling and managing large global crowds with common interests in social interactions users of web 2.0 have more interaction with less control flexible web design, creative reuse, updates, collaborative content creation and modification support collaboration and to help gather collective intelligence Examples: social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services and web applications semantic web desires to decrease human’s tasks and decisions and leave them to machines by providing machine-readable contents on the web is included two main platforms, semantic technologies and social computing environment make the web readable by machines and not only by humans improve data management, support accessibility of mobile internet, simulate creativity and innovation, encourage factor of globalization phenomena, enhance customers’ satisfaction and help to organize collaboration in social web. internet is able to predict the best possible answers to user’s question by learning from his/her previous choices. symbiotic web in which human mind and machines can interact in symbiosis will be as a read-write-execution-concurrency web with intelligent interactions no exact definition of it yet an underground idea in progress

Sources: Techopedia, Innovative Training Works Inc., (2016), and (Aghaei, Nematbakhsh, & Farsani, 2012)

Features of Web 2.0 o Folksonomy - It allows users to categorize and classify/arrange information using freely chosen keywords (e.g., tagging). Popular social networking sites such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. use tags that start with the pound sign (#). This is also referred to as hashtag. o Rich User Experience - Content is dynamic and is responsive to user’s input. An example would be a website that shows local content. In the case of social networking sites, when logged on, your account is used to modify what you see in their website.

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o User Participation - The owner of the website is not the only one who is able to put content. Others are able to place a content of their own by means of comment, reviews, and evaluation. Some websites allow readers to comment on an article, participate in a poll, or review a specific product (e.g., Amazon.com, online stores). o Software as a Service - Users will subscribe to a software only when needed rather than purchasing them. This is a cheaper option if you do not always need to use a software. For instance, Google Docs is a free web-based application that allows the user to create and edit word processing and spreadsheet documents online. When you need a software, like a Word Processor, you can purchase it for a one-time huge amount and install it in your computer and it is yours forever. Software as a service allows you to ―rent‖ a software for a minimal fee. o Mass Participation - It is a diverse information sharing through universal web access. Since most users can use the Internet, Web 2.0’s content is based on people from various cultures.

What is the difference between webpage, website, web browser, web server, and search engine? Webpage A web page or webpage is a document, commonly written in HTML, that is viewed in an Internet browser. This can be accessed by entering a URL address into a browser's address bar. Also, it may contain text, graphics, and hyperlinks to other web pages and files. A web page is often used to provide information to viewers, including pictures or videos to help illustrate important topics. It may also be used as a method to sell products or services to viewers. Multiple web pages make up a website (Computer Hope, 2020). Website A website is a collection of linked web pages (plus their associated resources) that share a unique domain name. Each web page of a given website provides explicit links—most of the time in the form of clickable portion of text—that allow the user to move from one page of the website to another (Mozilla Developer Network, 2020). Illustration below shows examples of webpage and website.

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Web Browser The web browser is an application program that displays a www document. It usually uses other internet services to access the document (Tech Differences, 2021). Below are some of the web browsers.

Web Server A web server stores and delivers the content for a website – such as text, images, video, and application data – to clients that request it. The most common type of client is a web browser program, which requests data from your website when a user clicks on a link or downloads a document on a page displayed in the browser. A web server communicates with a web browser using the HTTP. The content of most web pages is encoded in HTML. The content can be static, for example, text and images, or dynamic, for example, a computed price or the list of items a customer has marked for purchase (NGINX). The difference between the web browser and web server is that web browser requests the server for the web documents and services while the web server accepts, approve and respond to the request made by the web browser for a web document or services. 10

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Search Engine Search engines are answer machines. They are used to discover, understand, and organize the internet's content in order to offer the most relevant results to the questions searchers are asking. They work through three primary functions. One is crawling or scouring the Internet for content, looking over the code/content for each URL they find. Another is indexing. They store and organize the content found during the crawling process. Once a page is in the index, it’s in the running to be displayed as a result to relevant queries. And lastly, ranking as they provide the pieces of content that will best answer a searcher's query, which means that results are ordered by most relevant to least relevant (Muller & Moz Staff, 2021). Below are 10 best search engines in 2021, ranked by popularity. 1. Google 2. Microsoft Bing 3. Yahoo 4. Baidu 5. Yandex 6. DuckDuckGo 7. Ask.com 8. Ecosia 9. Aol.com 10. Internet Archive (Chris, 2021)

What are the current trends in ICT? As the world of ICT continues to grow, the industry has focused on several innovations. These innovations cater to the needs of the people that benefit most out of ICT. Whether it is for business or personal use, these trends are the current front runners in the innovation of ICT (Innovative Training Works Inc., 2016). 11

Convergence Technological convergence is the synergy of technological advancements to work on a similar goal or task. For example, besides using your personal computer to create word documents, you can now use your smartphone. It can also use cloud technologies to sync files from one device to another while also using LTE technology which means you can access your files anytime, anywhere. Convergence is using several technologies to accomplish a task conveniently. Social Media Social media is a website, application, or online channel that enables web users to create, co-create, discuss, modify, and exchange SM.jpguser-generated content. According to Nielsen, a global information and measurement company, Internet users spend more time in social media sites than in any other type of site. With this, more and more advertisers use social media to promote their product. Six Types of Social Media 1. Social Networks - These are sites that allow you to connect with other people with the same interests or background. Once a use creates his or her account, he or she can set up a profile, add people, create groups, and share content. Examples: Facebook and Google+.

2. Bookmarking Sites - These are sites that allow you to store and manage links to various websites and resources. Most of these sites allow you to create a tag that allows you and others to easily search or share them. Examples: StumbleUpon and Pinterest.

3. Social News - These are sites that allow users to post their own news items or links to other news sources. The users can also comment on the post and comments may also be ranked. They are also capable of voting on these news articles of the website. Those who get the greatest number of votes are shown most prominently. Examples: reddit and Digg.

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4. Media Sharing - These are sites that allow you to upload and share media content like images, music, and video. Most of these sites have additional social feature like liking, commenting, and having user profiles. Examples: Flickr, YouTube, and Instagram.

5. Microblogging - These are sites that focus on short updates from the user. Those subscribed to the user will be able to receive these updates. Example: Twitter and Plurk.

6. Blogs and Forums - These websites allow users to post their content. Other users are able to comment on the said topic. There are several free blogging platforms like Blogger, WordPress, and Tumblr. On the other hand, forums are typically part of a certain website or web service.

Mobile Technologies The popularity of smartphones and tablets has taken a major rise over the years. This is largely because of the devices capability to do tasks that were originally found in personal computers. Several of these devices are capable of using high-speed internet....