E-Tech (Lesson 1)

Lesson 1CT

Empowerment

Empowerment

refers to the process of giving yourself, or other people, the capacity to achieve a specific end goal.

Empowerment Technology

refers to computer technology that we used almost everyday, which enable us to do task that in the past require professional help.

Empowerment through ICT

aims to give individuals the tools and resources necessary to take initiative, as well as gather and analyze information or situations, thus making decisions to solve problems and improve services or performances.

Information Literacy

-Determine the nature and extend of information needed

-Access the needed information effectively and efficiently

-Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose

-Understand many economics, legal,and social issues surrounding the use of information ethically and legally

-Evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system

Technology Literacy

-how to manipulate, navigate the technology itself

-the ability to use digital technology, communication tools, and/or networks to define an information need, access, manage, integrate and evaluate information, create new information or knowledge and be able to communicate information.

ICT and Society

-Communication

-Economics

-Education

-Travel

Communications

-Social Networking Sites

-Instant messaging and video calls

-Forums and Webinars

Economics

-Online Marketing

-Convenient Business Transaction

-Online Payment Gateway

Education

-Source of Learning, Teaching, and Research Materials

-Online Learning Communities

-Recording and Computation of Grades

-Managing Records and other Administrative Purpose

Travel

-Online Booking and Reservation

-Online Tracing of Reservation

Demands in Workplace

1. ICT skills

2. Communication skills

3. Analutical skills

Information Communication Technology (ICT)

deals with the use of different communication, technologies, such as mobile phones, telephones, internet, etc., to locate, send, and edit information.

Trends in ICT

-Convergence

-Social Media

-Mobile Technologies

-Assistive Media

Convergence

synergy of technological advancements to work on a similar goal or task.

Social Media

a web application, or online channel that enables web users to create, co-create, discuss, modify, and exchange web generated content.

Social Media

a. Social Network

b. Bookmarking sites

c. Social News

d. Media Sharing

e. Micro Blogging

f. Blogs and Forum

Social Network

sites the allows you to connect with other people with the same intrest or background

Bookmarking sites

sites that allows you to store and manage links to various and resources

Social News

sites that allows user to post their own news items or links to other news sources

Media Sharing

sites that allows you to upload and share media content like images, music, and videos.

Micro Blogging

sites that focus on short updates from the user

Blogs and Forum

websites allow user to post their content. Other users are able to comment on the said topic

Mobile Technologies

-devices capability to do tasks that were originally found in PCs

-the popularities of the smartphones and tablets has taken a major rise over the years.

Mobile Operating System

-IOS

-Android

-Blackberry

-Windows Phone OS

-Windows Mobile

-Symbian

-Wetios

IOS

use in apple devices such as iPhone and iPad

Android

an open source developed by Google. Being open source means mobile companies use this OS for free.

Blackberry OS

use in Blackberry Devices

Windows Phone OS

a closed source and propietary operating system developed by microsoft.

Windows Mobile

developed by Microsoft for smartphones and pocket PCs

Symbian

the original OS: used by Nokia devices

Wetios

originally used in smartphone; now used in smart TV

Assistive Media

is a non profit service designed to help people who have visual and reading impairment. A data base of audio recordings is used to read to the user.

web 1.0

-Static, also known as FLAT PAGE

web 2.0

-Dynamic Page, allows user to interact

-the user may able to comment or create a user account

Key Features of Web 2.0

1. Folksomy

2. Rich User Interface

3. User Participation

4. Long Tail

Folksonomy

allows user to categorize and classify/arrange information using freely chose keywords (e.g tagging). Social Networking uses tags that starts with a pound sign (#) or hashtag

Rich User Interface

content is dynamic and is responsive to users input

User Participation

the owner of websites is not the only one who is able toput content. Others are able to place content on their own by means of comment, reviews, and evaluation

Long tail

product is not sold directly but offered as a service on demand basis and income is generated as monthly fee and pay per consumption.

web 3.0

Semantic Web - is a movement led by the World wide web Consortium (W3C). Provides framework that allows data to be shared.

Web 3.0 is yet to be fully realized because of several problems;

1.Compability

2.Security

3.Vastness

4.Vagueness

5.Logic

Compability

HTML files and current web browsers could not support Web 3.0.

Security

The user’s security is also question since the machine is saving his or her preferences.

Vastness

The World Wide Web already contains billions of web pages.

Vagueness

Certain words are imprecise. The words “old” and “small” would depend to the user.

Logic

there are certain limitations for a computer to be able to predict what the user is referring to at a given time.

World Wide Web

a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet.

Internet

The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet.