Empowerment Technologies
Quarter 1
Introduction to Information and
Communication Technologies and
Rules of Netiquette
At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to:
1. improve their knowledge on how ICT affects their everyday
lives and the state of our nation;
2. compare and contrast the differences between online
platforms, sites, and content;
3. understand the features of Web 2.0;
4. understand the future of the World Wide Web through Web
3.0; and
5. learn the different trends in ICT and use them to their
advantage.
Multiple Choice: Write the letter of your answer on a separate sheet of
paper.
1. Which of the following web pages allows interaction from the user?
A.Comment B. Social C. Dynamic D. Static
2. Which of the following features where users can categorize and locate
information through tagging?
A. Folksonomy . C. Rich user experience
B. Hashtags D. Taxonomy
3. The following are features of a dynamic website. Which of them
allows users to put their own content?
B. Long tail C. Rich user experience
B. Mass participation D. User participation
4.Whichprovidesacommonframework
toallowdatatobesharedand reused
acrossplatform,enterprise,and communityboundaries?
A.SemanticWeb C.Web 1.0
B.W3C D.Web2.0
5.WhatmagazinedeclaresthattwoPhilippinecitiesarepart
ofthetop10intheirresearchabout “TheSelfiest Citiesaround
theWorld”?
A.Candy
C.Reader’sDigest
B.People D.Time
6.Whichofthefollowingreplicatesandcantransferfromonecomp
utertoanother?
A.Adware C.Rogue
B.Keylogger D.Virus
7.Whichofthefollowingtrickstheuserintoposingthatitisa
securitysoftware?
A.Adware
C.Rogue
B.Private
D. Spam
8.Whichofthefollowingused torecord
thekeystrokesdonebytheuser?
A.Keylogger
C.Phishing
B.Malware
D.Spam
9.Whathas beendesignedtosend youadvertisements?
A.Adware C.Spyware
B.Malware D.Trojan
Introduction to Information
and Communication
Technologies
How many of the items or icons in the image above are you
familiar with? Which ones are you unfamiliar with?
Whatever your answers, take a closer look at the discussion
below. The list contains some key phrases that characterize
the ICT tools that, when used properly, can empower users
to make positive social change.
Information and
Communication
Technologies (ICT) deals with
the use of different communication
technologies such as mobile phones,
telephone, and internet to locate, save, send,
and edit information.
FEATURES OF WEB 2.0
1. 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.
#HASHTAG
FEATURES OF WEB 2.0
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.
FEATURES OF WEB 2.0
3. Long Tail. Services are offered on demand rather
than on a one-time purchase. In certain cases, time-
based pricing is better than file-size-based pricing or
vice versa. This is synonymous to subscribing to a
data plan that charges you for the amount of time
you spent in the Internet, or a data plan that charges
you for the amount of bandwidth you used.
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).
Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web
Semantic Web -is a movement led by the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The term was
coined by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim
Berners-Lee. It provides a common framework that
allows data to be shared and reused across application,
enterprise, and community boundaries.
Several Problems in using
Web 3.0
1. Compatibility -HTML files and current web
browsers could not support Web 3.0.
2. Security -the user’s security is also in question since
the machine is saving his or her preferences.
3. Vastness -the World Wide Web already contains
billions of web pages.
4. Vagueness -certain words are imprecise.
5. Logic -since machines use logic, there are certain
limitations for a computer to be able to predict what the user
Trends in ICT As the world of ICT continues to grow, the
industry has focused on several innovations which cater to the
needs of the people who benefit most out of it. The following
trends are the current front runners in the innovation of ICT.
1. Convergence. Technological convergence is the
synergy of technological advancements to work on a similar goal
or task. It is the use of several technologies to accomplish a task
conveniently.
2. Social Media. Social media is a website,
application, or online channel that enables web users to create, co-
create, discuss, modify, and exchange user-generated content.
3. Mobile Technologies. The
popularity of smartphones and tablets has taken a
major rise over the years because of the devices’
capability to do tasks that were originally found in
personal computers. Today, the latest mobile devices
use 5G Networking (LTE), which is currently the
fastest mobile network.
Rules of Netiquette
This lesson discusses the appropriate and
inappropriate online behavior that you as users need
to know and appreciate. It helps you understand the
social nature of digital media and later you discover
the status of your own digital life. Moreover, this
lesson gives emphasis on the importance to act
properly and responsibly to possible consequences
on engaging these digital tools.
Cite situations where Information and Communication
Technologies have improved the lives of people.
Teenagers like you are exposed to many things
powered by the internet because they are
mostly into socializing, playing games, reading
sports news, shopping, etc. The internet has
given you the most powerful tools that your
parents did not enjoy during their early days.
For this reason, you must observe proper
internet usage.
Online Safety and Security
Internet is a powerful tool used to promote
business, gain new friends, and stay in touch with the old
ones. It is also a source of entertainment through games,
online communities, and everything in between. But there
is always the “other side of the coin”. Internet is one of the
most dangerous places especially if you are unaware of
what you are doing with it.
Internet is defined as the information superhighway
means that anyone has access to this highway, can
place information, and can grab that information.
Therefore, everyone is a prospect to cybercrime
threats. We may not experience it now but whatever
information we share today could affect our future.
With this reason, social networking sites like
Facebook continue to improve their security
features.
Internet Threats
Here are some of
the threats you
should be aware of
when using the
internet.
2. Spam – unwanted email mostly from
bots or advertisers. It can be used to send
malware.
3. Phishing – its goal is to acquire
sensitive personal information like passwords and
credit card details. Pharming – a more
complicated way of phishing where it exploits the
DNS (Domain Name Service) system.
Protecting Reputations
Online Embarrassing moments nowadays
can be captured using any device you could
imagine. Unlike the old days, doing
something embarrassing was not much a big
deal. Worst is that anyone can easily upload it
over the internet and cannot be undone. This
puts you in a traumatic situation and risk the
lives of your family. So, before posting
something over the internet, think first before
you click.
Think Before You Click Things you might
want to consider before internet posting.
1. Once you post something on the web, you have no
control of who sees your posts.
2. Your friends depend on you to protect their reputation
online.
3. Set your post to “private”.
4. Avoid using names. Names are easy for search
engines to scan. 5. If you feel that a post can affect you
or other’s reputation, ask the one who posted it to pull it
down or report it as inappropriate.
Copyright Infringement If you
create something like an idea, an invention, a
form of literary work, or a research, you have
the right as to how it should be used by others.
This is called “intellectual property. The
copyright law includes your rights over your
work, and anyone who uses it without your
consent is punishable by law.
Tips to avoid copyright infringement 1.
Understand. Copyright protects literary works, photographs, paintings,
drawings, films, music (and lyrics), choreography, and sculptures, but it does
not protect underlying ideas and facts.
2. Be responsible enough to know if something has a copyright.
3. Be creative. Ask yourself whether what you are making is something that
came from you, or something made from somebody else’s creativity. It is
important to add your own creative genius in everything that will be credited to
you.
4. Know the law. There are limitations to copyright laws. For instance, in the
Philippines, copyrights only last a lifetime (of the author) plus 50 years. There
are also provisions for “fair use” which mean that an intellectual property may
be used without a consent as long as it is used in commentaries, criticisms,
search engines, parodies, news reports, research, library archiving, teaching,
and education.
1.Do you agree or disagree with the provisions of the
copyright law? Defend your answer.
2. How would you feel if someone posted something
embarrassing about you? What would you do?
3. Make your own three (3) Do’s and Don’ts in a
table form when using social networking site like
Facebook.
I have learned that:
1.To stay safe online, I must
_________________________________________.
2. There are several internet threats which include
____________________.
3. Malwares could be in the form of a
_________________________________.
4. It is our responsibility to protect other’s reputation
online so we should be ___________.
5. It is important for everyone to understand the laws
particularly on Copyright Infringement in order to
_________________.
