Living in the IT Era

By Sir Derick Calip

Information and
Communication
Technology
Information and
Communication
Technology
What is Information?
• Information is facts provided or learned
about something or someone.
• Information is knowledge acquired from
another.
• Information is knowledge you can
convey to others.
• Knowledge gained through study,
communication, research, instruction.
Information and
Communication
Technology
Methods for transfer of information:
• Image
• Text
• Sound
• Video
Information and
Communication
Technology

Technology
• From Greek word “techne” which means
art, skill, or craft “logia” means study
generally, technology makes better.
• Technology is applications of scientific
knowledge to solve problem or perform
a specific function
• Example:
• The simplest form of technology
is the development and use of
basic tools.
Information and
Communication
Technology

Information Technology
• Use of computers to store, retrieve,
transmit, and manipulate data or
information.
• Information technology involving the
development, maintenance, and use of
computer systems, software, and
networks for the processing and
distribution of data.
History of ICT
• ICT or information and communications
technology (or technologies), is the
infrastructure and components that enable
modern computing.
• Although there is no single, universal
definition of ICT, the term is generally
accepted to mean all devices, networking
components, applications and systems that
combined allow people and organizations
(i.e., businesses, nonprofit agencies,
governments, and criminal enterprises) to
interact in the digital world.
Uses of ICT in
Our Daily
Lives
Communication
• We know that ICT takes a major role for us
by means of communicating, way back
the past our parents use to make letter
and send it via post mail.
• But now with the help of ICT it is easier to
communicate with our loved ones. We can
use cellular phones that design for
communicating with other people even
they are miles away far from you.
• Nowadays people are in touch with the
help of ICT. Through chatting, E-mail,
voice mail and social networking
people communicate with each other. It is
the cheapest means of communication.
Uses of ICT in
Our Daily
Lives
Communication
• ICT allows students to monitor
and manage their own learning,
think critically and creatively, solve
simulated real-world problems, work
collaboratively, engage in ethical
decision-making, and adopt a global
perspective towards issues and
ideas. It also provides students from
remote areas access to expert
teachers and learning resources and
gives administrators and policy
makers the data and expertise they
need to work more efficiently.
Uses of ICT in Our
Daily Lives

Job Opportunities
• In the employment sector, ICT enables
organizations to operate more
efficiently, so employing staff with ICT
skills is vital to the smooth running of
any business. Being able to use ICT
systems effectively allows employees
more time to concentrate on areas of
their job role that require soft skills.
• For example, many pharmacies use robot
technology to assist with picking
prescribed drugs. This allows highly
trained pharmaceutical staff to focus on
jobs requiring human intelligence and
interaction, such as dispensing and
checking medication.
Uses of ICT in Our
Daily Lives

Job Opportunities
• Nowadays, employers expect their staff
to have basic ICT skills. This expectation
even applies to job roles where ICT skills
may not have been an essential
requirement in the past.
• Nowadays, finding a job is different, you
can just use your smart phone, laptop,
desktop or any gadgets that is available
in the comfort of your home.
Uses of ICT in Our
Daily Lives
Education
• Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
can impact student learning when teachers are
digitally literate and understand how to integrate it
into curriculum.
• Schools use a diverse set of ICT tools to
communicate, create, disseminate, store, and
manage information.
• In some contexts, ICT has also become integral to
the teaching- learning interaction, through such
approaches as replacing chalkboards with
interactive digital whiteboards, using students' own
smartphones or other devices for learning during
class time, and the "flipped classroom" model
where students watch lectures at home on the
computer and use classroom time for more
interactive exercises.
Uses of ICT in Our
Daily Lives

Education
• When teachers are digitally literate and
trained to use ICT, these approaches
can lead to higher order thinking skills,
provide creative and individualized
options for students to express their
understandings, and leave students
better prepared to deal with ongoing
technological change in society and the
workplace.
Uses of ICT in
Our Daily
Lives
Socializing
• Social media has changed the world. The
rapid and vast adoption of these
technologies is changing how we find
partners, how we access information from
the news, and how we organize to
demand political change.
• The internet and social media provide
young people with range of benefits, and
opportunities to empower themselves in a
variety of ways. Young people can
maintain social connections and support
networks that otherwise wouldn't be
possible and can access more information
than ever before. The communities and
social interactions young people form
online can be invaluable for bolstering and
developing young people's self-confidence
and social skills.
Uses of ICT in
Our Daily
Lives
Socializing
• As the ICT has become ubiquitous, faster
and increasingly accessible to non-
technical communities, social networking
and collaborative services have grown
rapidly enabling people to communicate
and share interest in many more ways,
sites like Facebook, Twitter LinkedIn You
tube, Flicker, second life delicious blogs
wiki's and many more let people of all
ages rapidly share their interest of the
movement without others everywhere.
What a change! "Nothing is permanent,
but change" (As Heraditus in the
4thcentury BC).
Uses of ICT in
Our Daily
Lives
Socializing
• Internet can be seen as the
international networks of
interconnection of computer
networks. T
• he main purpose for the institution of
internet are quest for information
i.e., browsing, electronic mail, knew
groups fill transfer and access and
use of another computer.
Socialization can be seen as a
process by which a child adapts a
behavior to be an effective member
of the society, which can only be
achieved through learning or
education.
Impact of ICT in
The Society

Positive Impacts:
• Access to information: Increase in access
information and services that has accompanied
the growth of the Internet. Some of the positive
aspects of this increased access are better, and
often cheaper, communications, such as VoIP
phone and Instant Messaging.
• Improved access to education:, e.g., distance
learning and online tutorials. New ways of
learning, e.g., interactive multi-media and virtual
reality.
• New tools, new opportunities: software and
high-quality printers, screen magnification or ICT
gives access to new tools that did not previously
exist digital cameras, photo-editing screen
reading software enables partially sighted or
blind people to work with ordinary text rather
than Braille.
Impact of ICT in
The Society
Positive Impacts:
• Communication: Cost savings by using
e.g. VoIP instead of normal telephone,
email / messaging instead of post, video
conferencing instead of traveling to
meetings, e-commerce web sites instead
of sales catalogues. Access to larger,
even worldwide, markets.
• Information management: Data
mining of customer information to
produce lists for targeted advertising.
Improved stock control, resulting in less
wastage, better cash flow, etc.
• Security: ICT solves or reduces some
security problems, e.g., Encryption
methods can keep data safe from
unauthorized people, both while it is
being stored or while it is being sent
electronically.
• ICT allows people to participate in a
wider, even worldwide, society
Impact of ICT in
The Society

Positive Impacts:
• Distance learning: students can
access teaching materials from all
over the world.
• ICT facilitates the ability to perform
'impossible' experiments' by using
simulations.
• Creation of new more interesting
jobs. Examples would be systems
analysts, programmers and
software engineers, as well as help
desk operators and trainers.
Impact of ICT in the Society
Negative Impacts:
• Job loss: Manual operations being replaced by
automation. e.g., robots replacing people on an
assembly line. Job export. e.g., Data processing work
being sent to other countries where operating costs
are lower. Multiple workers being replaced by a
smaller number who can do the same amount of
work. e.g. A worker on a supermarket checkout can
serve more customers per hour if a bar-code scanner
linked to a computerized till is used to detect goods
instead of the worker having to enter the item and
price manually.
• Reduced personal interaction: Most people need
some form of social interaction in their daily lives, and
they do not get the chance to meet and talk with
other people they may feel Isolated and unhappy.
Impact of ICT in the Society
Negative Impacts:
• Reduced physical activity: This can lead to health
problems such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.
• Cost: A lot of ICT hardware and software is expensive,
both to purchase and to maintain. An ICT system usually
requires specialist staff to run it and there is also the
challenge of keeping up with ever r-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 organization
is competing for customers, donations, or other means of
funding nationally or even internationally, they may lose
out to other organizations that can offer the same service
for less money.
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