Lesson 1 Current State of ICT
Lesson 1 Current State of ICT
Communication
Technology
Lesson Outline
• The current state of ICT technologies s (i.e., Web 2.0,
3.0, convergent technologies, social, mobile, and
assistive media)
• Online systems, functions, and platforms
At the end of this lesson
• The learners shall be able to: compare and contrast
the nuances of varied online platforms, sites, and
content to best achieve specific class objectives or
address situational challenges
Information and Communication Technology
User’s Contribution
Blogs, Wikis, Etc.
Features of Web 2.0
• Folksonomy – it allows users to
categorize and classify/arrange
information using freely chosen keywords
(e.g, tagging)
• #Halalan2022
• #Du30
Features of Web 2.0
• Rich User Experience – Content is
dynamic and responsive to user’s
input. An example would be
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
• User’s 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 a
article, participate in poll, review a
specific product
Features of Web 2.0
• Long Tail – Services that are offered on
demand rather that on a one time
purchase.
Features of Web 2.0
• Software as a Service – users will
subscribe to a software only when
needed rather than purchasing them.
This is a cheaper option if you do not
always need to use a software
Features of Web 2.0
• Mass Participation – It is a diverse
information sharing through universal
web access. Since most users can use the
Internet, Web 2.0 content is based on
people from various cultures.
Web 3.0
• also called as semnatic web
• Semantics – ability of web technologies to
understand and interpret human-generated
content
• The aim of web 3.0 is to have machines
understand the user’s preferences to be able to
deliver web content specifically targeting the user
• Apple’s Siri
Trends in ICT
• Convergence – is the combination of two
or more different entities of technologies
to create a new single device.
•
Trends in ICT
• Social Media – It is a website application,
or online channel that enables web users
to create, co-create, modify and
exchange user-generated content
6 Types of Social Media
• Social networks – sites that allow you to
connect with other people with same interest or
background
• Bookmarking sites – sites that allow users to
store and manage links to various websites and
resources and to tag
• Social News – sites that allow users to post their
own news items or links to other news resources
6 Types of Social Media
• Media Sharing – Sites that allow users ti
upload and share media content like
images, music and video.
• Microblogging – sites that focus on shorst
updates from the user. Those who are
subscribed will receive updates
• Blogs and Forums – sites that allow users
to post their content
Trends in ICT
• Mobile technologies – the popularity if
smartphones and tablets has taken a
major rise over the years. This is largely
because of the device’s capability to do
task that were originally found in
personal computers.
Different types of Mobile operating systems
• iOS – used in apple devices
• Android – an open source OS developed by Google
• Blackberry OS – blackberry devices
• Windows phone OS – developed by Microsoft
• Symbian – original OS used by Nokia
• WebOS – originally used for smartphones, now used
for SmartTV’s
• Windows Mobile – developed by Microsoft and
pocket Pcs
Trends in ICT
• Assistive Media – It is a non profit service
founded in 1996 in Michigan USA.
• David H. Henry
• designed to help people who have visual
and reading impairments. A data base of
audio recordings is used to read to the
user