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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? remarkable years
gather, process, store, protect,
✓referring to period or time ✓referring to transfer and manipulate
information.
 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 into a range of opportunities and disruptions
across every industry. Humans have always
been quick to adapt technologies for better and
faster 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

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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 employees more time to concentrate on
areas of their job role that require soft skills
Communication

✓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

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✓ In the employment sector, ICT enables

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Uses of ICT in our Daily Lives networks that otherwise wouldn't be
possible and can access more information
Education than ever before

✓ 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
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Socializing
✓ The internet and social media provide
young people with a range of benefits, and
opportunities to empower themselves in a
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Impact of ICT in the Society

 Positive Impacts
Access to Information

✓ Increase in access to information and

services that has accompanied the growth
of the Internet. Some of the positive
aspects of this increased access are
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better, and often cheaper,

communications, such as phone and
Instant Messaging.

Improved Access to Education

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✓ In this new era, access to education is Impact of ICT in the Society

easy, e.g. distance learning and online
tutorials. New ways of learning, e.g. New Tools, New Opportunities
interactive multi-media and virtual reality.
✓ ICT gives access to new tools that did
not previously exist: digital cameras,
photo-editing software and high quality
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or blind people to work with ordinary text

rather than Braille.

Information Management

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Improved stock control, resulting in less Impact of ICT in the Society

wastage, better cash flow, etc.
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
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Security

✓ ICT solves or reduces some security

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both while it is being stored or while it is
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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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✓ Distance learning: students can access

teaching materials from all over the world

✓ ICT facilitates the ability to perform

‘impossible’ experiments’ by using
simulations
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Negative Impacts Job Loss Impact of ICT in the Society

✓ Manual operations being replaced by
automation. e.g. robots replacing people on an
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work being sent to other countries where images/automation.html

operating costs are lower.
Impact of ICT in the Society
✓ Multiple workers being replaced by a
Reduced Physical Activity
smaller number who are able to do the same
amount of work. e.g. A worker on a supermarket
checkout can serve more customers per hour if ✓ This can lead to health problems such
a bar-code scanner linked to a computerized till as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.
is used to detect goods instead of the worker
having to enter the item and price manually Competition

✓ this is usually thought of as being a good

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exposed to greater competition can be a
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problem. If the organization is competing
for customers, donations, or other means
of funding nationally or even internationally,
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they may lose out to other organizations
that can offer the same service for less
money.

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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.

THANK Sir Alberto A. Hobrero

YOU!
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