Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM
Region IVA CALABARZON
SDO City of Sto. Tomas

LS6 Digital Citizenship

Name of Learner: ____________________________ Date: _________________
CLC: ______________________________________ Level: ________________
___________________________________________________________________

Lesson:

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

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.

1. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

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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. a 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.

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 Let’s learn
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

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1. Electronic Mail (email)
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.

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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 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.

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 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.

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

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

Why we Use the Internet?

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

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➢ Internet Use in School ➢ Internet Use in Hospital
 engage

Activity 1
Direction: Label the following pictures with words or expressions from the box
below. There are two extra expressions.

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 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.

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.

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

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 learner’s reflection:
❖ What do you mean internet?
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

❖ Why internet is important now a days ?

_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

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:
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ALS Mobile Teacher
District

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

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ALS Learner Signature ALS Teacher Parents/Guardian Signature
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 LS6 Origin of Internet

Key answers:
Let’s Think About This
1. X 2. V 3. X 4. √ 5. X 6. √
7. V 8.X

Pre-Test
A. Learners answer may vary from their own experiences.
B.

1. check a. to the Internet

2. surf b. a 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

Let’s See What You Already Know

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Activity 1

Chatting Playing games taking virtual tours

Watching films Surfing the Internet

Sending e-mail
Log on to website Online Shopping

Activity 2

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Post-Test
A. 1. True 2. False 3. True 4. True 5. False 6. True

B.

listen play
send
chat
surf
buy look at

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