LIVING IN THE IT ERA

Course Code GE ELECT 2 Week/Day 3 / MW

Duration 9:00 – 10:30 am
Lesson No. 3
Course Description Living in the IT Era
Lesson/Topic Information and Communication Technology
Learning Outcomes 1. Demonstrate a sense of readiness for the upcoming semester;
2. Identify their learning outcomes and expectations for the course;
3. Recognize their capacity to create new understandings from reflecting
on the course;
4. Know the role and importance of ICT.
Values Integration 1. Act in recognition of professional, social, and ethical responsibility.
Reference A. Textbook:

W. Samuel, S. G. Ajumo, E. C. Anderson and S. Worgu (2016). ICT As A

Change Angent
For Socialization and Social Engineering. IOSR Journal of Computer
Engineering (IOSRJCE) eISSN: 2278-0661,p-ISSN: 2278-8727, Volume 18,
Issue 4, Ver. II

B. Webliography

https://www.digitalistmag.com/cio-knowledge/2019/02/26/evolution-of-
technologycontinues-whatis-next-in-2019-06196611/

https://bit.ly/30IZ4FO

https://ailynvlla.home.blog/2019/03/04/how-ict-affect-our-daily-life/

https://bit.ly/32Vlpm6

https://www.wikijob.co.uk/content/application-advice/job-applications/what-are-
ict-skills

https://bit.ly/2BuODwV

Course Coach MATHEEN R. TABID

OVERVIEW

The quickening pace of evolution in technology is very evident in this era. It seems that it is

progressing faster than ever. From year to year, the evolution of technology is one of staggering

promise and opportunity--as well as uncertainty. Basically, technology has been around before, and

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as long as there are people, information technology will be there also because there were always

ways of communicating through technology available at that point in time. The future may be

unknown, but digital advancement continues to reshape our world in ways that encourage people to

form new habits, find new ways to work together, and become better human beings. And, in most

cases, these changes translate into a range of opportunities and disruptions across every industry.

Humans have always been quick to adapt technologies for better and faster communication.

each other. It is the cheapest means of

communication.
ENGAGEMENT IN RELEVANT CONTENT AND
APPROPRIATE LEARNING ACTIVITY/IES ICT allows students to monitor and
manage their own learning, think critically
and creatively, solve simulated real-world
History of ICT
problems, work collaboratively, engage in
ICT, or information and communications ethical decision-making, and adopt a
technology (or technologies), is the infrastructure global perspective towards issues and
and components that enable modern computing. ideas. It also provides students from
remote areas access to expert teachers
Although there is no single, universal definition and learning resources, and gives
of ICT, the term is generally accepted to mean administrators and policy makers the data
all devices, networking components, applications and expertise they need to work more
and systems that combined allow people and efficiently.
organizations (i.e., businesses, nonprofit
agencies, governments and criminal enterprises) Job Opportunities
to interact in the digital world.
In the employment sector, ICT enables
Uses of ICT In Our Daily Lives organizations to operate more efficiently,
so employing staff with ICT skills is vital to
Communication the smooth running of any business. Being
We all know that ICT take a major role for us by able to use ICT systems effectively allows
means of communicating, way back in the past employees more time to concentrate on
our parents use to make letter and send it via areas of their job role that require soft
post mail. But now with the help of ICT it is skills.
easier to communicate with our love ones. We For example, many pharmacies use robot
can use cellular phones that design for technology to assist with picking
communicating with other people even they are prescribed drugs. This allows highly
miles away far from you. trained pharmaceutical staff to focus on
Nowadays people are in touch with the help of jobs requiring human intelligence and
ICT. Through chatting, E-mail, voice mail and interaction, such as dispensing and
social networking people communicate with checking medication.

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networks that otherwise wouldn't be possible

and can access more information than ever
before. The communities and social
Nowadays, employers expect their staff to have
interactions young people form online can be
basic ICT skills. This expectation even applies to job
invaluable for bolstering and developing
roles where ICT skills may not have been an
young people's self-confidence and social
essential requirement in the past.
skills.
Nowadays, finding a job is different, you can just
As the ICT has become ubiquitous, faster and
use your smart phone, laptop, desktop or any
increasingly accessible to non-technical
gadgets that is available in the comfort of your
communities, social networking and
home.
collaborative services have grown rapidly
Education enabling people to communicate and share
interest in many more ways, sites like
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Facebook, Twitter LinkedIn You tube, Flicker,
can impact student learning when teachers are second life delicious blogs wiki’s and many
digitally literate and understand how to integrate it more let people of all ages rapidly share their
into curriculum. interest of the movement without others
everywhere. But Facebook seems to be the
Schools use a diverse set of ICT tools to
leading areas of where people communicate
communicate, create, disseminate, store, and
and share their opinions. What a change!
manage information. In some contexts, ICT has also
“Nothing is permanent, but change” (As
become integral to the teaching/learning interaction,
Heraditus in the 4thcentury BC). Internet can
through such approaches as replacing chalkboards
be seen as the international networks of
with interactive digital whiteboards, using students’
interconnection of computer networks, the
own smartphones or other devices for learning
main purpose for the institution of internet are
during class time, and the “flipped classroom” model
quest for information i.e. browsing, electronic
where students watch lectures at home on the
mail, knew groups fill transfer and access and
computer and use classroom time for more
use of other computer. Socialization can be
interactive exercises.
seen as a process by which a child adapts a
When teachers are digitally literate and trained to behavior to be an effective member of the
use ICT, these approaches can lead to higher order society, which can only be achieved through
thinking skills, provide creative and individualized learning or education. Impact of ICT in The
options for students to express their Society
understandings, and leave students better prepared
Positive impacts of Information and
to deal with ongoing technological change in society
Communication Technology
and the workplace.

Socializing • Access to information: Increase in

access to information and services that
Social media has changed the world. The rapid and has accompanied the growth of the
vast adoption of these technologies is changing how Internet. Some of the positive aspects
we find partners, how we access information from of this increased access are better, and
the news, and how we organize to demand political often cheaper, communications, such
change. as VoIP phone and Instant Messaging.
• Improved access to education, e.g.
distance learning and online tutorials.
The internet and social media provide young people
New ways of learning, e.g. interactive
with a range of benefits, and opportunities to
multi-media and virtual reality.
empower themselves in a variety of ways. Young
people can maintain social connections and support • New tools, new opportunities: ICT

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gives access to new tools that did not automation. e.g. robots replacing people
previously exist: digital cameras, photo- on an assembly line. Job export. e.g. Data
editing software and high quality printers, processing work being sent to other
screen magnification or screen reading countries where operating costs are lower.
software enables partially sighted or blind Multiple workers being replaced by a
people to work with ordinary text rather than smaller number who are able to do the
Braille. same amount of work. e.g. A worker on a
• Communication: Cost savings by using e.g. supermarket checkout can serve more
VoIP instead of normal telephone, email / customers per hour if a bar-code scanner
messaging instead of post, video linked to a computerized till is used to
conferencing instead of traveling to meetings, detect goods instead of the worker having
e-commerce web sites instead of sales to enter the item and price manually
catalogues. Access to larger, even worldwide, • Reduced personal interaction: Most people
markets. need some form of social interaction in
• Information management: Data mining of their daily lives and if they do not get the
customer information to produce lists for chance to meet and talk with other people
targeted advertising. Improved stock control, they may feel isolated and unhappy.
resulting in less wastage, better cash flow, • Reduced physical activity: This can lead to
etc. health problems such as obesity, heart
• Security: ICT solves or reduces some disease, and diabetes.
security problems, e.g. Encryption methods • Cost: A lot of ICT hardware and software is
can keep data safe from unauthorized expensive, both to purchase and to
people, both while it is being stored or while it maintain. An ICT system usually requires
is being sent electronically. specialist staff to run it and there is also
• ICT allows people to participate in a wider, the challenge of keeping up with ever-
even worldwide, society. changing technology.
• Competition: this is usually thought of as
being a good thing, but for some
organizations being exposed to greater
competition can be a problem. If the
• Distance learning: students can access
organization is competing for customers,
teaching materials from all over the world.
donations, or other means of funding
• ICT facilitates the ability to perform nationally or even internationally, they may
‘impossible’ experiments’ by using lose out to other organizations that can
simulations. offer the same service for less money.
• Creation of new more interesting jobs.
Examples would be systems analysts,
programmers and software engineers, as
well as help desk operators and trainers.

Negative impacts of Information and

Communication Technology

• Job loss: Manual operations being replaced by

REFLECTION AND RESPONSE/ACTION

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Activity .1Answer the following.

1. What is the relevance of ICT in your chosen course?

2. Name at least 4 uses of ICT in our daily livesdan

explain.

3. Give 5 positive impacts and 5 negative impacts of ICT in the society.

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OPERATING SYSTEM

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