THE INFORMATION AGE

LESSON 9

Jocelyn
 LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of this lesson, students are expected
to:

 discuss Information Age

 outline the history of Information Age
 spot truthful and fake news
 explain instances of cyberbullying; and
 cite the importance of Information Age in
various aspects of the society
Introductio
n nowadays can be described as technologically
Our society
•

advanced, data-driven, fast paced, and modern.

• Information is easily accessed and shared.
• Various areas of our society are continuously being
influenced by this very fast pace of modernization.
• We can clearly see and experience how the economy,
industry, business, transportation, education, health, and
environment are being transformed because of digital age.
 WHAT IS
INFORMATION AGE?
The Information Age is believed to have started in the
last quarter of the 20th century and it is characterized by
rapid, effortless access, and management of information
through written or digital publications with the use of
computers and computer networks.

 also referred to the Digital Age and the New Media Age because it
can be closely linked with the development and application of computers
in various aspects of the society.
 WHAT IS
INFORMATION AGE?
Richard Saul Wurman the author of Information
Anxiety, is a trained architect, a very prolific
writer, the founder of the TED conference, and a
well-known public speaker.

 Information Anxiety is the pressure we feel to

maintain some level of information awareness in the face of
ever-increasing quantities of information
 HISTORY OF INFORMATION AGE
Four Ages of Information
1. Pre-mechanical Age
 the earliest age of information
 time between 3000 B.C. and 1450 A.D.
 Humans started in communicating through simple picture drawing on the rocks
called as petroglyphs.
 Phoenician alphabet
 Papyrus roll was used created from papyrus plant
 First book was developed
 Calculator- the first sign of Information processor
 The popular model of that time was the abacus.
 HISTORY OF INFORMATION AGE
Four Ages of Information
2. Mechanical Age
 is when we first start to see connections between our current
technology and its ancestors time.

 time between 1450 and 1840

 lot of new technologies are developed in this era

 slide rule (an analog computer used for multiplying and dividing) were invented.
 Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline (mechanical computer).
 Charles Babbage developed the difference engine (tabulate polynomial
equation)
 HISTORY OF INFORMATION AGE
Four Ages of Information
Age
3.  finally getting close to some technologies that resemble our modern day
Electromechanical
technology.
 time between 1840 and 1940
 beginnings of telecommunication.
 The telegraph was created in the early 1800s.
 Morse code was created by Samuel Morse in 1835.
 The telephone (one of the most popular forms of communication ever) was created
by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
 The first radio developed by Guglielmo Marconi in 1894
 HISTORY OF INFORMATION AGE
Four Ages of Information
Age
3. Electromechanical
( con’t…)
 first large-scale automatic digital computer in the
United States was the Harvard Mark 1 created
by Harvard University around 1940. This
computer was 8ft high, 50ft long, 2ft wide, and
weighed 5 tons - HUGE.
 HISTORY OF INFORMATION AGE
Four Ages of Information
Age
4. Electronic
 The electronic age is what we currently live in.
 It can be defined as the time between 1940 and right now.
 The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was the first high-
speed, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range
of computing problems. This computer was designed to be used by the U.S.
Army for artillery firing tables. This machine was even bigger than the Mark 1 taking
up 680 square feet and weighing 30 tons - HUGE. It mainly used vacuum tubes to
do its calculations.
HISTORY OF INFORMATION AGE

Four Main sections of digital computing

First Second
Generation
the era of vacuum tubes and punch
cards like the ENIAC and Mark 1.
Generation
replaced vacuum tubes with transistors, punch cards were
replaced with magnetic tape, and rotating magnetic drums
Rotating magnetic drums were were replaced by magnetic cores for internal storage. Also
used for internal storage. during this time high-level programming languages were
created such as FORTRAN and COBOL.

Third Fourth
Generation
replaced transistors with integrated circuits, magnetic tape was
used throughout all computers, and magnetic core turned into
Generation
brought in CPUs (central processing units)
which contained memory, logic, and control
metal oxide semiconductors. An actual operating system showed circuits all on a single chip. The personal
up around this time along with the advanced programming computer was developed (Apple II). The
language BASIC graphical user interface (GUI) was developed.
 HISTORY OF INFORMATION AGE
• In the present generation, there is no doubt that
information has turned out to be a commodity, an
overdeveloped product, mass-produced, and
unspecialized..

• very important tool that helps improve our way of life.

• Information Age will continue to move forward and far

greater our minds could imagine.
 HISTORY OF INFORMATION AGE
Several fields or disciplines
AI or Artificial 01 Robotics 02 Cloud and Edge
03
Intelligent and Computing
Machine Learning

Blockchain
05
Outsourcing 06
Automation
04

Networking
Software and
07 Communication 08 09
Applications
 Science and
Information Age
• Information Age gradually transformed our workplace, it also
affected the scientific community.

• Experiments can now be performed digitally by employing

automated experimental techniques.

• Bioinformatics, scientists apply the principles of computer science

and statistical algorithms to store, process, and analyze extensive
collection of data (Kantardjieff K. and Ng Thow Hing M. 2012).
 Science and
Information
• Researchers and scientists Age
can now easily share
their experimental results and
recommendations, access and store information
with the use of internet..

• The availability of wide range of information at

hand also entails the call for responsible
generation of information and proper citation
and recognition of authors and publishers
 Information Age and
Cyberbullying
• Words are so powerful that they can either make
or break people and relationships.

• Words spoken, written, and shared or posted

through the social media sites can strengthen,
inspire, offend, and hurt other people who read
them.
 Information Age and
Cyberbullying
• It is undeniable that our social media has shaped
recent events. It does not only update us of
current events but can also provoke us.

• We often see posts and commentaries that are

meant to embarrass, offend, criticize, or
threaten people
 The Emergence of Fake
• If truthful newsNews
is available, so does fake news.
This fake news continues to circulate throughout
various forms of print and nonprint media.

• Pew Research Center showed that for people

under 30, online news is becoming more popular
than TV news while those people under 50 get
half of their news online and the rest on TV.
 The Emergence of Fake
• Fake news isNews
becoming viral because there
are more and more people being involved in
disseminating them.

• Sometimes it is easier and more convenient for

people to share the fake news than to actually
go over the information and evaluate for its
reliability.
 The Emergence of Fake
News
• Factors that contributes to rapid
dissemination of fake news is confirmation bias.

 It is a sense of pleasure to share information they

believe in even if it may not actually be truthful or
valid.

People tend to accept information that confirms

their beliefs and opinions.
How to Spot Fake News?
Fake news tends to spread as fast as contagious diseases are.
So, it is just necessary to be guided and guarded from the
ignorance and further damage that can be brought about by
misinformation
 Practical tips from Nagler, C. (2017)
of Harvard Division of Continuing Education can help us spot a fake news.

1. Vet the publisher’s

credibility.
 What is the publication's
 Would the publishing  What is the domain point of view?
site meet the academic name?
citation standards?
 Who is the author?
 Practical tips from Nagler, C. (2017)
can help us spot a fake news.
1. Vet the publisher’s credibility.
Would the publishing site
01 the academic citation
standards?
What is the
publication’s point of What is the domain
view? 02 03 name?

Who is the author? 04

 Practical tips from Nagler, C. (2017)
can help us spot a fake news.

2. Pay attention to quality and

timeliness.

Notice spelling errors and dramatic

punctuations from the article. Check if the
story is current or recycled?
 Practical tips from Nagler, C. (2017)
can help us spot a fake news.
3. Check the sources and
citations.
How did you find the
01 article?

Who is (or is not), and

what do they say? 02

Is the information
03 available on other site?
Is the

Can you perform reverse 04

researchers and images?
 Summary Tips on How to spot Fake News

 A reliable article is usually quoted or posted on other websites.

 Library databases can be used for confirming the credibility of information

presented in an article.

 Also by checking cited sources, you can confirm that the information
presented has been accurately applied and not modified to satisfy the
author's point of view.

 Images should also be taken into consideration especially if they seem

edited just to conform to the concept suggested in the article or story
hank you for listening