MRS. GRACE ZELL S.

GALLEGO
TLE – Teacher I
Information in Society

Cell phones becomes a regular

part of every life for most of us.

We text using cell phones

sending messages to our family
members, our classmates, and to
our friends and the chances are,
we take for granted.
But cell phones have their
limit

They only work

when near cell
sites.
Cell phones are just one part of the
technological field known as
ICT also involves not only cell
phones but also
 Computers
 Telephones
 Television (TV)
 Radio
 The Internet
 All other devices which use

these
Introduction to ICT
ICT didn’t just spring out of thin air.

The technology that has made ICT

widespread and available has been
in development for several decades
– or, indeed, even centuries.

Telefacsimile or Fax Machine – one

of the first ICT devices to be
invented and patented
Scottish inventor Alexander Bain
who patented fax machine in 1843.
he also invented a working model in
1846. While his theory was sound, the
technology to create a usable,
widely available fax machine wasn’t
available until the 1970’s
Prior to fax machine, telegraphy and
the other forms of communication
by means of copper wire cables
were already being invented, with
the first one being built for regular
communication by Carl Friedrich
Gauss and Wilhelm Weber in 1833,
connecting the Gottingen
Observatory to the Institute of
Physics.
The development of wireless
telegraphy commended when
Guglielmo Marconi was able to
transmit the letter “S” frim his
station in Cornwall, England, to
another station in Newfoundland,
Canada. The first ever trans-Atlantic
transmission of a wireless signal.
That was in 1901.
Continuation . . .
From there, Telegraphy found a
useful role in communicating
messages through great distances,
and companies were formed to
profit from this new basic service.

One of these, the Radio

Communication of the Philippines,
Inc., made its money through
transmission of telegram messages
which was delivered just about
anywhere in the world at a cost of
less than a peso per word.
Continuation . . .

Copper and other metallic wires

served as the primary means of
communications for over a century,
until fiber optic cables became
widely available in the 1980’s and
1990’s

Copper cables could only carry so

much by way of electrical signals, as
they carried relied on pulses of
electricity, compared to fiber optic
cables, which would carry a lot more
signals through pulses of light.
Continuation . . .

Fiber optic cables give a clearer

signal because they are less prone
to electromagnetic interference,
which means less information is lost.
Wireless Technology got a boost with
the advent of reliable radio
equipment, which could send and
receive messages. These wireless
units were deployed in various places,
particularly in ships so that they
could stay in touch with other ships
and with radio stations on shore.

One of these units, installed in the

doomed ship, Titanic, broadcast the
international distress signal of the
day, CQD, on April 14, 1912, as a sink
ship.
Continuation . . .

Today, wireless technology is in use in

our cell phones – whenever we use
these to text, call up someone, or to
access the internet – in the same way
television sets use wireless
technology to receive signals from a
TV station.
 Information Technology (IT)
and ICT
Information Technology
(IT) – refers to the
technology needed for
processing information.

Information Appliances
(IA) – refers to devices
that can process
information, signals,
graphics animations,
video and audio; and
can exchange such
information with another
IA device.(acc. to
wikipedia)
 Information Technology (IT)
and ICT
Information Technology
(IT) – is one of the
driving forces of today’s
world.

Information Appliances
(IA) devices, such as
personal digital
assistants (PDA) and, of
course, cell phones, are
becoming widespread.
 Information Technology (IT)
and ICT
Wireless Application
Protocol (WAP) – is an
open international set of
standards that allows
handled or remote
wireless devices to
access information
through the internet or
through other networks
or computing devices

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)-

uses radio signals to
allow laptops to access
the Internet.
 Information Technology (IT)
and ICT
The Philippines
established its first
connection to the
internet in 1994, and in
that same year the first
Philippine Internet
service provider (ISP)
went to operation. Since
then the number of
Internet users in the
country has grown to
29,700,00 as of June
2009 – which represent
about 30% of the
population.
 Information Technology (IT)
and ICT
ICT – is the widespread
use of internet and other
electronic media, in
combination with
computers and software,
has created the field.
It focuses on the needs
of specific industries and
commerce in general,
and concerns itself with
research in solving the
challenges which are
encountered when using
IAs and IT.
 Information Technology (IT)
and ICT
Given the nature of the
spread of the internet,
the development of ICT
worldwide is dependent
on the increase in the
number of telephone
lines, cell phones and
computers which can
connect to the internet,
according to a study
conducted by the
International
This means that governments
Telecommunication
throughout the world need to create
Union (ITU).
and strengthen telecommunications
network infrastructure to handle the
demand.
 Information Technology (IT)
and ICT
Wireless
Communications
technology continues to
advance and in the near
future, there will be
integration of various
Internet access
technologies in a single
device, like a cell phone.
The user will be which
between them with ease
and as needed.
Smart Technologies are now also being
developed which will eventually free the
user from such tasks. The phone itself will
do the switching so that it will automatically
select the best access to use, such as WiFi.
 ICT and the Society

The home is one of the

places where ICT is most
widely used. Just
listening to the radio
requires
communications
infrastructure, in the
form of transmitted
radio waves; and the
same goes for the TV.
The landline telephone also makes use of
communications infrastructure in the form of either
metal wires or fiber optics cables. The use of personal
computer from home to e-mail messages or to talk via
webcam to loved ones applies communications
infrastructure in the form of fiber optic cables.
 ICT @ Schools

Schools and workplaces

are also other places
where ICT is used.
Chances are, your
school has a webpage
on which people can get
information about your
school.

The widespread use of ICT has its effect on society at

large. Chances are, by the time a child attends his first
day in schools. He would have had some sort of
experience with an electronic game device like PSP or a
Nitendo DS, and maybe even a computer – if the parents
allow their child to use one.
 ICT @ School

This kind of early

contact with ICT makes
it mandatory for schools
and other educational
institution to take e-
learning into account,
making it a subject as
mandatory as math or
language.

This need for e-learning has resulted in different options

for education. Campus-based education is the traditional
education which one can get from a university, while off-
campus or distance education is given to students who
aren’t in the same physical location which the
educational institution is in.
 ICT @ School

This educational
institutions can be
traditional brick-and-
mortar institutions which
have been around for
centuries, or they can be
schools which only
deliver their courses
online.
 From 1G to 4G

1G, 2G, 3G, 4G . . You

may have heard a few of
these terms mentioned
in advertisements for
electronic
communications devices
before. They are often
associated with cell
phones.

But have you given

much thought what they
really mean?
 1G

1G refers to the
generation of analog
mobile
telecommunications
technology epitomized by
the first cell phones, which
uses radio signals
modulated to a higher
frequency range to
prevent interference.
 2G

2G stands for second

generation wireless
telephone technology. It
means that digitization is
used in the processing and
transmission of the
signals.
2G was also known as the
Global System for Mobile
(GSM) communication
technology. It was through
this that text (short
message service, or SMS)
messaging was
introduced.
 3G

3G is the enhancement of
2G which allowed
multimedia streaming
together with existing
speech and SMS Services.
It met the higher
requirements of the
International
Telecommunication Union
(UTI).
 4G

4G is the generation of
ultrafast wireless
telephone technology. It
encompasses Internet
Protocol (IP) telephone
services, ultra broadband
internet, gaming, and
multimedia streaming. It is
non-backward compatible
such that the transmission
system used in the
previous generations will
no longer apply.