LIVING IN THE

IT ERA

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LESSON OBJECTIVES
After successful completion of this lesson, the student can be

✓ Explain clearly the Information and Communication

 Technology
✓ Understand the history of ICT
✓ Know the uses and impact of ICT in our lives and in the
society
TOPIC OUTLINE

Information and Communication Technology

✓ History of ICT
✓ Uses of ICT in our Daily Lives
✓ Impact of ICT in the Society
Living in the IT Era…
✓it is a condition in which people blend, integrate and live
 in adaptation to dynamic trends of technology

What is
What is Living? Information
✓is to exist
Technology? ✓the condition of being
alive
✓it is technology which uses computers to
What is Era? gather, process, store, protect,
transfer and manipulate
✓referring to period or time ✓referring to information.
remarkable years

Living in the IT Era…

Question to Ponder?
 ✓ Is it necessary to adapt the dynamic trends of
technology? Yes or No? WHY?

✓ Do we really need technology to live and have a good

life? Yes or No? WHY?

✓ Is technology will always give us beneficial effect?

Yes or No? WHY?
Overview

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✓ 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.
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✓ Basically, technology has been around before, and

as long as there are people, information technology
will be there also because there were always ways of
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communicating through technology available at that

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point in time.
Overview
 communication.

✓ 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
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technologies for better and faster

Information and Communication Technology

Definition…
✓ is the convergence of computing, telecommunication and governance policies for
how information should be accessed, secured, processed, transmitted and stored.
✓ a diverse set of technological tools and resources used to transmit, store,
create, share or exchange information.
➢ these technological tools and resources include computers, the Internet
(websites, blogs and emails), live broadcasting technologies (radio, television
and webcasting), recorded broadcasting technologies (podcasting, audio
and video players, and storage devices) and telephony (fixed or mobile,
satellite, video-conferencing, etc.).

✓ refers to all the technology used to handle telecommunications, broadcast

media, intelligent building management systems, audiovisual processing and
transmission systems, and network-based control and monitoring functions.
History of Information and Communication Technology

History…
✓ 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
Job Opportunities
Communication ✓ In the employment sector, ICT
✓Nowadays people are in touch with enables organizations to operate more
the help of ICT. Through chatting, efficiently, so employing staff with ICT
E-mail, voice mail and social skills is vital to the smooth running of
networking people communicate with any business. Being able to use ICT
each other. It is the cheapest means of systems effectively allows employees
communication more time to concentrate on areas of
their job role that require soft skills
 Education
✓ ICT as 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
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learning during class time

Socializing
✓ The internet and social media
provide young people with a range of
benefits, and opportunities to empower
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themselves in a variety of ways. Young
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people can maintain social connections
Uses of ICT in our Daily Lives and support networks that otherwise
wouldn't be possible and can access
more information than ever before

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Impact of ICT in the Society

Positive Impacts
positive aspects of this increased
Access to Information
access are better, and often cheaper,
✓ Increase in access to information and communications, such as phone and
services that has accompanied the Instant Messaging.
growth of the Internet. Some of the
Improved Access to Education
✓ In this new era, access to education
is easy, e.g. distance learning and
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reality. Impact of ICT in the Society

New Tools, New Opportunities

✓ ICT gives access to new tools that did
not previously exist: digital cameras,
photo-editing software and high quality
printers, screen magnification or
screen reading software enables
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partially sighted or blind people to work

with ordinary text rather than Braille.
Information Management
✓ Data mining of customer information
to produce lists for targeted advertising.
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Impact of ICT in the Society

Communication
✓ Cost savings by using e.g. VoIP
instead of normal telephone, email /
messaging instead of post, video
conferencing instead of traveling to
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instead of sales catalogues. Access to
larger, even worldwide, markets.
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.
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Impact of ICT in the Society

Other Positive Impacts…

✓ ICT allows people to participate in a
wider, even worldwide, society

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access teaching materials from all over
the world

✓ ICT facilitates the ability to perform

‘impossible’ experiments’ by using
simulations

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 Impact of ICT in the
Society
Negative Impacts Job
Loss
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
✓ Manual operations being replaced by to enter the item and price manually
automation. e.g. robots replacing people
on an assembly line. Job export. e.g.
Data processing work being sent to other
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a smaller number who are able to do the
 good thing, but for some
organizations being exposed to
greater competition can be a problem.
If the organization is competing for
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of funding nationally or even
internationally, they may lose out to
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Impact of ICT in the Society other organizations that can offer the
same service for less money.
Reduced Physical Activity
✓ This can lead to health problems
such as obesity, heart disease, and
diabetes.

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Note to Remember

We are living in an era where capturing

moments using our phones is more
important than actually living these
moments with whoever is beside us.
THANKSir Alberto A. Hobrero

YOU!
LIVING IN THE IT ERA (GEE001)