Student Reader Empowerment Technologies 5x2641

EMPOWERMENT 1 TECHNOLOGIES

1 Description: Information and communication technologies as a tool for curating, contextualizing, collaborating, and creating content and experiences for learning in the professional tracks. This Student Reader has a companion Supplement containing Additional Resources which are updated via this online link: https://idoc-pub.sitiosdesbloqueados.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f69f989099d8939b868293959eb6919b979f9ad895999b">[email protected]

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This Student’s Reader and its corresponding Teacher’s Guide consider the instructional design based on Section 5 of RA 10533: Pedagogical approaches in Curriculum Development | Thus Learning activities are designed to be:

inquiry-based, reflective, constructive, collaborative and integrative

UNIT 1 : A connected world needs more than a network of computers and gadgets. It needs technology enabled, confidently mindful and comionate digitally aware community of lifelong learners. LESSON 1: What is Information and Communications Technology (ICT)?

GOAL: At the end of the 2-week period, you will be able to independently compose an insightful reflection paper on the nature of ICT in the context of your lives, society, and chosen professional (i.e. Arts, Tech Voc (Technology

and Vocational) , Sports, and Academic Tracks) Take a quick look at the page containing the Glossary of to get a glimpse of what ICT and related concepts are. What do they all mean to you? So do you think you are ready for the Networked World? Or better yet, is your community ready for the Networked World? Search anything about Information and Communications Technology (ICT) or digital tools that interest you. Find out the latest about them or something similar to them that you have you used so far. Be ready to share them in class using traditional learning tools, e.g. pen and paper, or via ICT tools, e.g. online. Your search, ideally done online, should take you on an exploration about: 1. The current state of ICT tools (i.e., Web 2.0, 3.0, convergent technologies, social, mobile, and assistive media). 2. Online systems, functions, and platforms CHALLENGE QUESTION: A survey called “Networked World Readiness” contains 5 categories, namely: Access, Learning, Society, Economy, Policy. Which category is most important to you? As you continue your work using this Student Reader, you may realize that digital tools, such as those appearing in the following image would give you an idea of the range of possibilities to discover, disclose, connect, and cocreate, in a Networked World.

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How many of the items or icons in the image above are you familiar with? Which ones are you unfamiliar with? Whatever your answer, take a closer look at the Trivia/Glossary of . The list contains some key phrases that characterize the ICT tools that, when used properly, can empower s to make positive social change. TRIVIA/GLOSSARY OF 1. Assistive Media - a component under Assistive technology (AT), which is a generic term used to refer to a group of software or hardware devices by which people with disabilities can access computers. Assistive Media is also a name of a company: “the Internet's first audio solution

for persons with print reading/access barriers. The audio recordings of the literary works produced by Assistive Media are now easily accessible, on-demand, to the ever growing number of persons with disabilities who now use the Internet.” 2. Collaborative platforms - “is a category of business software that adds broad social networking capabilities to work processes.” 3. Convergent Technologies - an extension of the term convergence which means a “coming together of two or more disparate disciplines or technologies. For example, the so-called fax revolution was produced by a convergence of telecommunications technology, optical scanning technology, and printing technology.” Convergent Technologies also refers to an American computer company formed by a small group of people who left Intel Corporation and Xerox PARC in 1979 4. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) - ICT (information and communications technology - or technologies) is an umbrella term that includes any communication device or application, encoming: radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software, satellite systems and so on, as well as the various services and applications associated with them, such as videoconferencing and distance learning. ICTs are often spoken of in a particular context, such as ICTs in education, health care, or libraries. The term is somewhat more common outside of the United States. It may also be defined as Information and Communication Technologies (ICT or ICTs) are digital forms of communication including tools available on the Internet, such as blogging and email, as well as computer software, such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Word 5. Mobile Media - This refers to “media devices such as mobile phones and PDA’s were the primary source of portable media from which we could obtain information and communicate with one another. More recently, the smartphone(which has combined many features of the cell phone with the PDA) has rendered the PDA next to obsolete.[3] The growth of new mobile media as a true force in society was marked by smartphone sales outpacing personal computer sales in 2011.” 6. Online systems - Are online versions of information systems which is “ the process of and tools for storing, managing, using and gathering of data and communications in an organization. An example of information systems are tools for sending out communications and storing files in a business.” 7. Social Media - “are computer-mediated tools that allow people or companies to create, share, or exchange information, career interests, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks.”

8. Web 2.0 - “describes World Wide Web sites that emphasize generated content, usability, and interoperability. The term was popularized by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty at the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference in late 2004, though it was coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999.” 9. Web 3.0 - “a phrase coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called ‘the intelligent Web’ — such as those using semantic web, microformats, natural language search, data-mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and artificial intelligence technologies — which emphasize machine-facilitated understanding of information in order to provide a more productive and intuitive experience.” ACTIVITY: 1. Explore the content of the Networked World Readiness