Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking in The 21 Century Culture

Pasig Catholic College
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

School Year 2021-2022
PCC@109: Missio et Evangelizatio
Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century Culture

SEPTEMBER 2021
Miss Maria Katrina E. Josef
Module 6:
Information and Communications Technology
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
• Read and follow instructions carefully.

• Answer the “Let’s Try This” section before going through the lessons.
• Take note and record points for clarification.
• Compare your answers against the key to answers found at the end of the module if it’s applicable.
• Do the activities and fully understand each lesson.
• Answer the self-check to monitor what you learned in each lesson.
• Answer the posttest after you have gone over all the lessons.
OBJECTIVES
By the end of this module students will have completed the following objectives:
1. Discuss the functions, benefits and disadvantages of information and communications technology (ICT).
2. Identify the weakest link in a system using strategic and intuitive thinking.
3. Explain how ICT can facilitate social relationships and political movements.
4. Propose a creative intervention to improve human life using ICT through an online presentation in
collaboration with your Entrepreneurship subject.
TO DO LIST
Detailed instructions will be posted on our Ms Teams.
LECTURE NOTES
LET’S TRY THIS!

Fill up the K-W-L Chart. Write on the K-column what you know about the topic and on the W-column
what you want to know about the topic. At the end of the lesson, fill up the L-column with what you
have learned after all the discussion and activities.
K W L
Functions of ICT
Enabling Dimensions of
Technology in
Education
Benefits of ICT
Disadvantages of ICT
Identifying a System’s
Weakest Link through
Intuitive and Strategic
Thinking
ICT as Facilitator of
Social Relations and
Political Movements
Some questions presented in the pre-test are from Wired! Tends, Networks and Critical Thinking Skills in the 21st Century published by Phoenix Publishing House
Information and Communications Technology

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) traces its beginning during the Industrial
Revolution. It is considered as a sector that falls under the large umbrella of Information Economy
(IE), an economy characterized by the intensive use of ICT by businesses for the collection, storage, processing
and transmission of information. ICT industries enable the processing, communication, transmission, and
display of information using electronic means.
According to Techopedia, ICT refers

to “all the technology used to handle
telecommunications, broadcast
media, intelligent building management
systems, audiovisual processing and
transmission systems, and network-
based control monitoring functions.”
The terms cover wireless networks, cell
phone, internet, and other media for
communication.
New ICTs are providing the world

with new communication services such as video conferencing and instant messaging. Social networking sites
and mobile apps such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have made connecting and exchanging information
among users around the world instantaneous due to minimal barriers. They also enable their users to
communicate regularly despite the distance. Thus, ICT is perceived to be instrumental in creating a global
village, which is the world conceived as a single community linked by telecommunications.
Enabling Dimensions of Technology in Education

The key task of ICT is to furnish the purposes, uses, or functions needed by the customer or user. Some
of the functions are as follows:
Technical Function includes the provision of trainings, seminars and workshops on how to use the technology,
as well as the basic technological or technical needs of the user.
Infrastructure Function covers network, devices and other related equipment and setups such as those used for
withdrawing cash form an ATM.
ICT functions to facilitate empowerment when it is mandated by an institution to be actively engaged in

realizing its mission, in enhancing productivity, in improving its communication system, and in strengthening
and broadening its linkage structures.
Paul Heinrich (2011) enumerates the uses of ICT in the interrelated dimensions of learning, management
and communication. These are dimensions of technology that are enabling the necessary processes in
the educational setting.
Learning: Learning with ICT covers key areas such as
research, modeling and simulation, online courses and revision
units, communication, publishing, and collaboration. Effective
learning is supported by modern technology hardware such as
tablets, smartphones, desktop and other WiFi-enabled devices.
Change is inevitable; thus, the schools should be flexible
to accommodate new technologies.
Management: This refers to the Management
Information System (MIS), which takes care of report writing,
home-school links, attendance, examination entries and target
settings. The MIS also includes storing grades
electronically and making them available to teachers. The
parents are allowed to monitor their children’s performance
data through the web.
Communication: This is about projecting the right image of the school through its website, which
provides the public an idea about the school.
BENEFITS OF ICT
• Personalized learning has become a trend, students are more motivated to explore given the opportunity
to learn according to one’s style.
• Learning becomes more enjoyable and teaching becomes more interactive compared with the traditional
method of teaching.
• The internet can boost the selling of products either brand-new or second hand by cataloguing them on
classified ads websites such as eBay, Shopee, Lazada and OLX.
• Distance Education, allows flexible place and time, which suit the student’s availability.
DISADVANTAGES OF ICT
• Internet users should be aware and conscious of cyberbullying, theft and online predators.
• It prevents or minimizes person-to-person contact.
• Plenty of bad information and unreliable sources.
• Technology fever: a behavior that grips gadget users. A tendency to keep updating ICT gadgets and
being up-to-date.
IDENTIFYING A SYSTEM’S WEAKEST LINK THROUGH

INTUITIVE AND STRATEGIC THINKING
The weakest link refers to the part that is likely to fail, to cause a problem or to easily break. As it is the
most vulnerable part of a system, its is the easy point for attackers. The weakest link can be part of a
software system, an infrastructure, an application or the people- administrators, technical support and users
who easily succumb to social engineering.
Social Engineering is the science of getting people to comply with your wishes and concentrates on the
weakest link of the security chain. It is defined as the use of deception to manipulate individuals into
divulging confidential or personal information that mat be used for fraudulent purposes.
How is the weakest link detected? Through strategic thinking and intuitive thinking. Using
strategic thinking, security practitioners apply a good risk analysis of the available data to identify and
address the most serious risk or problem which is the weakest link. They also employ analogy and
some sort of logic in detecting the weakest link. Using intuitive thinking, computer virus creators send the
infected files not in the form of formal-looking email attachments to select and discriminate recipients but in
attention-catching or fun-looking ones to computer users who would readily open such attachments and thus
are considered weakest links.
ICT AS FACILITATOR OF SOCIAL RELATIONS AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS
ICT also has effects in social relations and political movements by facilitating collective actions among
people and groups who do not know each other but are united by common interests and concerns. People of
common interests and advocacies can easily locate one
another, converse, exchange ideas, and plan their actions and
strategies through the internet. The internet has become a
venue for all kinds of groups to communicate, collaborate and
cooperate. These interconnections can result in either positive
or negative impact or both.
Arab Spring. This phenomenon in the Arab world
was inadvertently sparked by Mohamed Bouazizi, a street
vendor in Tunisia who set himself in fire in 2010 to protest
after a council inspector confiscated his vegetable stall. News
about this spread and others saw this as an opportunity
to protest against the larger socioeconomic ills of the
country.
Occupy Wall Street. Twitter played a significant role in
facilitating communications among the participants of
Occupy Wall Street, an anti-capitalist movement. Twitter
became a forum where the participants shared information
and interacted with one another. At the local level, Occupy
protesters used Twitter to communicate sensitive
information about the protests and police action. They used
Twitter to pave the way for interstate communication
exchanges.
Terrorism. Extremist and terrorist groups have also used
ICT, especially websites, Facebook, Youtube and Twitter to
further illegal and destructive acts and recruit members
and adherents. Producing well-scripted and choreographed
videos and recorded executions. Cyberterrorism is an
unlawful attack and threats of attack against computers,
networks, and the information stored therein to
intimidate or coerce a government and its people in
furtherance of political or social objectives. However, attacks
that focus on nonessential service are not considered
cyberterrorism. Four elements that characterize
cyberterrorism:
• Politically motivated attacks leading to physical injury;
• Cyber attacks causing fear and or bodily harm from cyber attack techniques;
• Attack against critical information infrastructures such as energy, transportation, financial
and government operations; and
• Attacks not primarily aimed at monetary profit.
ACTIVITIES
Self- Check: Use the five W’s chart to organize the information you have learned from this lesson.
What?
Who?
Where?
When?
Why?
Post-Test:
*Please see MS Teams for the detailed instructions.
Propose a creative intervention to improve human life using ICT through an online presentation in collaboration
with your Entrepreneurship subject.
REFERENCES
Enriquez, R. (2020). Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century. Diwa Learning System Inc
Dela Cruz, R & Dela Cruz R. (2017). Wired! Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century.
Phoenix Publishing House

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Pasig Catholic College

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century Culture

• Read and follow instructions carefully.

Detailed instructions will be posted on our Ms Teams.

LET’S TRY THIS!

Information and Communications Technology

According to Techopedia, ICT refers

New ICTs are providing the world

Enabling Dimensions of Technology in Education

ICT functions to facilitate empowerment when it is mandated by an institution to be actively engaged in

IDENTIFYING A SYSTEM’S WEAKEST LINK THROUGH

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