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To do well in this module, you need to remember and do the following: Carefully read the module and do the activities neatly and accurately. Break tasks into manageable parts. Complete all activities even if you may not be asked to hand these in, but they will help you learn the material. If you are having problems, do NOT wait to request help. The longer you wait the bigger the problem becomes! To deepen your understanding and knowledge try to browse on the internet or other available resources. (Use your internet and other device in a productive way) Be Honest in answering all the activities written in this module. Try to Explore, Discover and Learn something new, dont depend to what is written in this module. Always indicate the link or resources that you used in answering this module. READING CHANGES EVERYTHING !-Mike Schmoker Materials Needed for this module Flashdrive Gmail and Facebook Account Cellphone, Laptop or other Devices Internet Connection
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Tigaon, Camarines Sur Basic Education Department Passion for Truth and Compassion for Humanity” INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Your Digital World INTRODUCTION Are you updated to the latest model of cellphone, computers, tablets or other gadgets? Are you interested to the new innovation and discoveries of technology nowadays? Have you ever wondered why they always upgrade and update the different technology every now and then? You are a member of an “Always On” generation, accustomed to spending 8 hours or more a day looking at a various screens-on cellphones, on computer, TV’s, online games and other social media accounts. What are the developments that have encouraged these kinds of behavior? The answer is Information Technology. It refers to a general term that describes any technology that helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and/or disseminate information. Because of the demands of society and sometimes it is considered our needs nowadays there are alot of discoveries and innovation related to Information technology like the internet, broadband, the world wide web; PC and Laptop computers; mobile phones; and email that would give as a lot of information that we can use to our day to day lives specially this time of pandemic. But the questions are, do you use the technology or your gadgets in a productive way? Essential questions: How computer savvy benifits you? How does information technology affect in education, health, money, leisure, government, and careers? How does Information Technology facilitate email, networks, and the use of the internet and web? What four basic operations do all computer use and what are some of the devices associated with each operation? How does communications affects these operations? Content Standard: Demonstrate an understanding of the different technology that helps to manipulate and disseminate information. Performance Standard: Create a simple video clip that gives awareness to the viewer using the new technology. Formation Standards: Demonstrate VERACITY and OPENNESS in providing meaningful ideas while using the different innovation and discoveries of technology. Enduring Understanding: Information Technology is becoming like a second skin-an extension of our intellects and even emotions, creating almost a parallel universe of “digital selves”. Being computer savvy means knowing what computers can do and what they can’t, knowing how they can benefit you and how they can harm you. Action goal: Use computer application tools to maximize creativity in developing digital outputs. LESSONS AND COVERAGE In this module, your learning will be maximized as you take the following lessons: Lesson 1.
Lesson 1.1 The Practical User: How Becoming Computer Savvy Benefits You Tigaon, Camarines Sur Basic Education Department Passion for Truth and Compassion for Humanity” Inventor in the field of technology. What do you want to invent or innovate that will contribute to the world of technology? Write or draw it inside the box. (10 points) -------You did it Well! Congratulations ---------- In this lesson you will learn the following: What does being computer savvy mean? What are its practical payoffs? Analyze the picture below, if you are going to post it to your social media account what hashtag or caption would you put on? Activity 1 1aab6ac16db6fb6bd4228b5c90948f20_modern-technology- tech-clipart_978- It is a programmable, multiuse machine that accepts data-raw facts and figures-and processes, or manipulates, it into information we can use, such as summaries, totals, or reports. COMPUTER
What are its practical payoffs?
1. You will Know to make better buying decisions Always make judgements about quality and usefulness when buying equipment and software. **2. You will know how to fix ordinary computer problems
- You will know how to upgrade your equipment & integrate it with** new products New gadgetry and software are constantly being developed. A knowledgeable user learns under what conditions to upgrade, how to do so, and when to start over by buying a new machine. 4. You will know how to use the internet most effectively The sea of the data that exists on the internet and other online sources is so great the finding what’s best or what’s really needed can be a hugely time-consuming activity. 5. You will know how to protect yourself against online villains The online world poses real risks to your time, your privacy, your finances, and your peace of mind-spammers, hackers, virus senders, identifying thieves, and companies and agencies constructing giant databases of personal profile. 6. You will know what kinds of computer uses can advance your career Even top executives now use computers, as do people in careers ranging from police work to politics, from medicine to music, from retail to recreation. Lesson 1.2 Information Technology & Your Life: The Future Now Tigaon, Camarines Sur Basic Education Department Passion for Truth and Compassion for Humanity” You have been using computers a long time and in a multitude of ways, or perhaps not. In either case, this module aims to deliver important practical rewards by helping you become “computer streetwise”- that, is computer savvy. Computer Savvy means knowing what computers can do and what they can’t, knowing how they can benefit you and how they can harm you, knowing when you can solve computer problems and when you have to call for help. What are the things you consider every time you buy computer or gadgets?
ACTIVITY 3: Digital Poster ACTIVITY 2: Let’s Identify
Lesson 1.3: Infotech is All-Pervassive: Cellphone, Email, the Internet, & the E-World Tigaon, Camarines Sur Basic Education Department Passion for Truth and Compassion for Humanity” Visit the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zMNjraEMvY In more recent times, there has been the addition of communication among computers-which is what happens when people “go online” on the internet. In this context, online means using a computer or some other information device, connected through a network, to access information device and services from another computer or information device. A network is a communications system connecting two or more computers; the internet is the largest such network. Information technology is already affecting your life in exciting ways and will do so even more in the future. Let’s consider how. ENIAC Smartphones (“Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator”) ACTIVITY 5: Check this out Visit the following link related to the Effects and use of Technology in education, health and medicine, financial and leisure activities. Write some keypoints or words that you learned from the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXs5O1yGlg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-3kYjsWTJI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSU3tWK6Fio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlBqg9WZgfI Keypoints:
Tigaon, Camarines Sur Basic Education Department Passion for Truth and Compassion for Humanity” Photo: Corbis/Getty Images https://www.google.com/search?q=Smart+Phones+2020+hd&tbm Marlyn Wescoff [left] and Ruth Lichterman were two of the female programmers of ENIAC. ENIAC-(Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator) One of the first computers, it was the outcome of military-related research delivered to the U.S. ARMY in 1946. It contained 17,500 vacuum tubes, linked by 500,000 soldered connections. It filled a 50-foot long basement room and weighed 30 tons. Today, a single microchip, no bigger than a fingernail, can do more than those 30 tons of hardware. It was the first general-purposed, programmable electronic computer, the grandparent of today’s lightweight handheld machines-including the smart cellphone. Draw or Name the cellphone or gadgets that you encounter before and up to present.
The Phone Grows Up
How has the telephone changed? Cellphone e-mania has swept the world. All across the globe, people have acquired the portable gift of gab, with some users making 45 or more calls a day. Strategy Analytics has estimated that the world wide web mobile phone subscriptions will rise to 3.9 billion in 2013; more than half the world’s population will be using mobile phones by 2010. ACTIVITY 6: Name and Draw It!
Tigaon, Camarines Sur Basic Education Department Passion for Truth and Compassion for Humanity” Considering what you had learned in managing you Email. Your task is to create your own Gmail Account. visit the link below and follow the steps for you to easily accomplish the task. https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/gmail/setting-up-a-gmail-account/1/ If you successfully finish the task, use your Gmail account in sending your personal information to my Gmail account ([email protected]). 10 Internet World Wide Web Internet or “net” The mother of all the networks It is also called information superhighway It is a worldwide computer network that connects hundreds of thousands of smaller networks. These networks link educational, commercial, nonprofit, and military entities, as well as individual Simply called Web It is an interconnected system of internet computers (called servers) that support specially formatted documents in multimedia form. Protocol of the Web Internet protocols are sets of rules that allow for inter-machine communication on the internet. HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol -transmitting files written in Hypertext Markup Language or HTML over networks. SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol -sending email messages and attached files to one or more electronic mailbox. FTP- File Transfer Protocol VoIP- Voice over internet Protocol Internet and World Wide Web Web Browser Is a software which allows you to access and display the information or HTML files that are on the World Wide Web. It allows you to access text, images, videos and sounds on the Web using Computer. Basic Features of a Web Browser Title Bar -It is the text that appears at the top of the browser window. Tool bar -It includes the menu bar and command buttons to help you use your browser. It has navigational buttons to go back, forward, home page or reload websites. Address Bar
- This input box displays the address, or the URL of the web page you are viewing. URL-Uniform Resource Locator It is a formatted text string used by web browsers, email clients and other software to locate a network resource on the internet.
Tigaon, Camarines Sur Basic Education Department Passion for Truth and Compassion for Humanity” One of the basic features of a web browser is a search bar to input terms into a search engine. This comes in handy when you want to look for a specific topic or information on the web. You will need an internet connection for this activity. (30 points)
1. Open your preferred browser ( Example: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome)
- On the search bar, search for the recent issue about COVID 19
- Choose from one of the results that you have found.
- Read and analyze what you have found. Make a simple reaction of your chosen issue.
- Send the URL and your output to my Gmail Account. ([email protected]) CRITERIA DESCRIPTION POINTS Content The information provided is relevant, complete, clear and have a connection to the topic.
Organization of Ideas Follow the given instructions and all the ideas are well organize
TOTAL 30
CHAPTER 1 NAME:__________________________ GRADE/SECTION:_____________ DATE RECEIVED:__________________ DATE RETURNED:____________ Score Sheet Title of Activity Total Score Score
- Pre-assessment (^) 10
- Activity 1 10
- Activity 2: Let’s Identify (^) 10 ACTIVITY 8: Surfing the Web
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