UNIVERSITY OF ANTIQUE

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

GRADUATES STUDIES
Sibalom, Antique

CI 103
ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
ARVIN S. BERNARDINO
Reporter
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COMPONENTS OF THE INTERNET AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB

The Internet is an increasingly important part of everyday life for people around the world.

The Internet dominates our lives, so much that over the years, it's become just another part of our
everyday existence, something we accept quickly.

In fact, we are in “Always on” Generation.

“Always On” Generation is accustomed to spending 8 hours/ more a day looking at various screens -
cell phones, computers and on TVs.

In an “Always On” Generation, a Digital Native exists - coined by anthropologist on a person

constantly busy with text messaging, chatting, email and the internet.

 The Internet
The Internet, sometimes called "the Net," for short, worldwide system of computer networks and
similar devices – network of networks.

Today, the Internet is a public, cooperative and self-sustaining facility accessible to millions of people
worldwide. It is used by many as the primary source of information consumption, fuelled the creation
and growth of its own social ecosystem. Social media and content sharing has become one of the
largest uses of the Internet. Furthermore, best tool of communication with anyone else in the world,
and do much more.

You can do all of this by connecting a computer to the Internet, which is also called going online.
When someone says a computer is online, it's just another way of saying it's connected to the Internet.

THE TYPES OF INTERNETS

Here’s a list of the primary types of Internet available today:

1. DIALUP CONNECTION.

It uses a phone line and is slow and inefficient. This type of Internet is obsolete.

2. DSL (Digital subscriber line).

It uses a modem for connecting the Internet; it is 10 times faster than the Dialup connection.

3. ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network).

It uses a modem but more versatile. It connects different devices like computers, fax machines or
phone lines. You can transfer video, audio and other information while still on the phone
 4. Cable modem.

It allows you to connect a modem with a Television Cable Provider.

5. Wireless (WiFi).

It is the most popular type of Internet connection today. Quickly and efficiently connects to
laptops, smartphones and other digital devices.

6. Broadband

It is a high-speed Internet that used coaxial or fiber optics cables.

7. Cellular.

Mobile phone companied provides this type of Internet. Cellular connections use 3G (3rd Generation),
4G, LTE (Long-Term Evolution) and the latest is the 5G.

THE USES OF THE INTERNET

The Internet's versatility has contributed significantly to its widespread reliance and popularity. Not
only can users communicate instantly with each other via e-mail, instant messaging, IRC and video
conferencing, but the Internet also offers:

 Access to social media and content sharing

 The ability to post resumes and search for jobs
 The opportunity to take courses online for education, self-improvement, and upskilling
 Gaming online
 Shopping online
 Paying your bills and doing banking online
 Online dating
 Meeting like-minded people in forums and discussion groups
 Streaming movies and television shows and listening to music
 Reading news/entertainment/sports articles via online news sites

Additionally, the Internet’s worth boost through during the worst days of the global pandemic,
allowing people to keep working, and studying, talking, and conducting commerce.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Internet

ADVANTAGES OF THE INTERNET

 Access to an endless information, knowledge, data and education

 Improved communication between people, groups, organizations regardless of distance
 Spreading awareness and raising funds/resources for charitable purposes
 Allowing easy access to unlimited entertainment and sports
 The ability to monitor and control personal accounts like bank
 The ability to easily save information offline and online such cloud storage.
 Access to the Internet of Things (IoT), Intelligent Things and Intelligent applications.

DISADVANTAGES OF THE INTERNET

 Excessive time spent online

 Opens for Cyber criminals, data/identity stealing, internet scams, malwares and viruses, stealing
funds
 Online harassment, cyber bullying, Fake News spreading, online negativity
 Heath risk
 INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS
Internet Service Provider (ISP), company that provides Internet connections and services to
individuals and organizations. The rise of commercial Internet services and applications helped fuel a
rapid commercialization of the Internet.

Top Internet Service Providers in the Philippines

1. Converge ICT Solutions

2. One SKY
3. PLDT
4. Smart Bro Home Wifi
5. DITO Telecommunity
6. Globe Broadband
7. Red Fiber
8. Starlink
9. RISE
10. Streamtech

THE INTERNET AND EDUCATION

In many ways, the Internet and education simply means talking about Contemporary Education.

The Internet is already an integral element of education in all nations, and its worldwide educational
significance will continue to increase throughout the years.

THE INTERNET AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL

1. First, is the potential of the Internet to offer individual learners increased freedom from the
physical limitations of the real world. This is often expressed in terms of reducing constraints
of place, space, time, and geography, with individuals able to access high-quality learning
opportunities and educational provision regardless of local circumstances. The Internet is
therefore portrayed as allowing education to take place on an any time, any place, any pace
basis.

The Internet support “freer” and “fairer” educational interactions and experiences. (Murphy 2012,
122).

2. Secondly, the Internet supports a new culture of learning—i.e., learning that is based around
bottom-up principles of collective exploration, play, and innovation (Thomas and Seely-Brown
2011). The Internet allows learning to take place on a many-to-many basis, thereby supporting
socio-constructivist modes of learning and cognitive development that are profoundly social
and cultural in nature. It considers learners to benefit from the socially rich environments that
the Internet can support (Luckin 2010). For example, it is often argued that the Internet offers
individuals enhanced access to sources of knowledge and expertise that exist outside of their
immediate environment.

In this sense, there is now considerable interest in the ability of the Internet to support powerful
forms of situated learning and digitally dispersed communities of practice. The Internet is
therefore seen as a powerful tool in supporting learning through authentic activities and
interactions between people and extended social environments.

3. Thirdly, the capacity of the Internet to support a mass connectivity between people and
information. The Internet supports forms of knowledge creation and knowledge consumption.
The networked relationships that Internet users have with online information have prompted
wholesale reassessments of the nature of learning. From this perspective, learning is
understood as the ability to connect to specialized information nodes and sources as and when
 required. Thus being knowledgeable relates to the ability to nurture and maintain these
connections (Chatti, Jarke, and Quix 2010). As George Siemens (2004) puts it, learning can
therefore be conceived in terms of the “capacity to know more” via the Internet rather than
relating to the individual accumulation of prior knowledge in terms of “what is currently
known.”

4. Fourthly, the Internet is seen to have dramatically personalized the ways in which people
learn. The Internet is associated with an enhanced social autonomy and control, offering
individuals increased choice over the nature and form of what they learn, as well as where,
when, and how they learn it. Education is therefore a wholly controllable aspect of one’s
personal life, with the Internet facilitating a digital manipulating of educational engagement
alongside daily activities and other commitments (Subrahmanyam and Šmahel 2011).

Indeed, Internet users are often celebrated as benefiting from an enhanced capacity to self-organize
and curate educational engagement for themselves, rather than relying on the norms and expectations
of an education system.

PROMINENT FORMS OF INTERNET-BASED EDUCATION

Most established of these are various forms of what has come to be known as e-learning—ranging
from online courses through to virtual classrooms and even virtual schools. Many early forms of e-
learning involved the predominantly one-way delivery of learning content, thereby replicating
traditional correspondence forms of distance education.

These programs (which continue to the present day) tend to rely on online content management
systems, albeit supported by some form of interactivity in the form of e-mail, bulletin boards, and
other communications systems. Alongside these forms of content delivery is the continued
development of so-called virtual classrooms—usually spatial representations of classrooms or
lecture theaters that can be inhabited by learners and teachers. Often these virtual spaces are
designed to support synchronous forms of live instruction and feedback, with learners able to listen to
lectures and view videos and visual presentations while also interacting with other learners via text
and voice. Other asynchronous forms of virtual classroom exist in the form of digital spaces where
resources can be accessed and shared—such as audio recordings and text transcripts of lectures,
supplementary readings, and discussion forums.

One of the most familiar forms of Internet-based education is the collective open creation of
information and knowledge, as exemplified by the Online Encyclopedia Wikipedia. Despite ongoing
debates over its accuracy and coverage, the educational significance of Wikipedia is considerable. As
well as being a vast information resource, the ability of users to contribute and refine content is seen
to make wiki tools such as Wikipedia a significant educational tool. As John Willinsky (2009, xiii)
reasons: Today a student who makes the slightest correction to a Wikipedia article is contributing
more to the state of public knowledge, in a matter of minutes.

Another notable Internet-based education has been the development of MOOCs (Massively Open
Online Courses). Now, most notably through successful large-scale ventures such as OPOU (University
of The Philippines Open University) and DLSU ACE (Academy of Continuing Education), MOOCs involve
the online delivery of courses on a free-at-the-point-of-contact basis to mass audiences. At its heart,
the MOOC model is based on the idea of individuals being encouraged to learn through their own
choice of online tools—what has been termed personal learning networks. This focus on individually
directed discovery learning has proved especially appropriate to college-level education.
 The World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or the Web) Web is a collection of information that can be accessed
using the Internet. In other words, the Web is a service on the Internet.

The Web is an open-source information space where documents (formatted and annotated using
HTML and other web resources) are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) interlinked
using hypertext links and accessed via the Internet.

The first Web page was created at CERN by TIM BERNERS-LEE on August 6, 1991.

The Web is the most widely used part of the Internet.

Web browsing is done through a Web browser, the most popular of which are Google Chrome,
Firefox and Internet Explorer. The appearance of a particular Web site may vary slightly depending on
the browser used. Later or more updated versions of a particular browser are able to render more
complex features, such as animation, virtual reality, sound and music files.

USING A WEB BROWSER

A web browser is a type of software that allows you to find and view websites on the Internet.

There are many different web browsers, but some of the most common ones include Google Chrome,
Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox.

WEB PAGE

A web page or webpage is a document, commonly written in HTML, which is viewed in an Internet
browser. A web page can be accessed by entering a URL address into a browser's address bar. A web
page may contain text, graphics, and hyperlinks to other web pages and files.

What is the difference between a website and web page?

A website refers to a central location containing more than one web page.

HOMEPAGE OF THE WEBSITE

A home page is actually a webpage that can serve as the starting point. It's the default web page that
loads if you enter a site's domain only. The home page is actually utilized to facilitate navigation to
various other web pages on the website by providing links to all the areas available on the site.

URLs and the address bar

Each website has a unique address, called a URL (short for Uniform Resource Locator). It's like a
street address that tells your browser where to go on the Internet. When you type a URL into the
browser's address bar and press Enter on your keyboard, the browser will load the page associated
with that URL.

CATEGORIES OF WEBSITE
Here’s a list of some of the most popular on the website today:

1. eCommerce website

It is a website that allows you to sell products online.

2. Business website

It is a website for consulting, corporate, and any business online.

 3. Blog website

It is a website for people to share written and visual content. Blogging affiliate with advertisers earns
money. Most popular types of blog include travel, food and lifestyle.

4. Portfolio website

It is a website for creative professional such graphic designers, artists and writers. They use this
website to consolidate and display examples of their works.

5. Event website

It is a website for streamlined event management, from invites to marketing. This will be the event’s
central command station.

6. Personal website

A website created for your personal individuality and interest such as fan website or hobby website.
This will give your online presence a boost.

7. Membership website

It is a website that ensures exclusivity by requiring visitors to sign up or pay a fee to receive full access
to its services, tools and resources.

8. Nonprofit website

It is a website that informs your visitors of your organization’s mission, vision, goals and core values.
It may be whether school, church and government.

9. Informational website

It is a website that acts a resource to convey information. This often includes long form content to
satisfy reader curiosity and implement search functions.

10. Online Forum

A website allows you build community around a shared interest. Users can discuss topics, compare
experiences, ask questions and interact with people with similar professions, hobbies and worldviews.

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