VISION.

A premier Academic Community of life – long learners

working with one mind and one heart to search for, discover
and share the Truth (Gaudium de Veritate) for the promotion of
Authentic human and societal development.

Core Values:

Caritas (Charity)
Veritas (Truth)
Unitas (Unity)
 GE ElEc 1 livinG in thE it Era
• Module 1 Introduction to ICT

Objectives:
• Understand the importance of IT milestones
• Explain the implications of ICT in the workplace and society
• Assess the positive and negative impact of ICT in the modern Era
MISSION. The University of San Agustin is an Augustinian,
Catholic and Filipino educational institution that aims to
form the members of its academic community in Virtus et
Scientia to serve Western Visayas, the Philippines, and the
world.
It is clearly revealed in its mission that the University is
committed to:
1. Build an academic community imbued with Augustinian
values
2. Institutionalize a culture of excellence in teaching,
research and extension programs and services compliant to
educational standards
3 . Fo r m a n e m p ow e r e d , i n n ov at i ve , r e s p o n s i ve , a n d
sustainable organization.
The College of Nursing, Nutrition and Dietetics commits to
provide quality Augustinian education through integral
formation, instruction, community extension, research and
innovation through continuous improvement of its services to
meet client satisfaction.

AUGUSTINIAN GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES

An Augustinian graduate is:
A transformative community builder oriented towards God.
A restless critical and creative thinker.
A social communicator of the Truth.
 · What is Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
· History of ICT
· Nature, Characteristics and Merits ICT
· Need and Importance of ICT
· Impact of ICT in Society

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is

defined as 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, visio/video-conferencing, etc.).
 Ø Pre-Mechanical Period (3000 BCE - 1450)
Ø Mechanical Period (1450 - 1840)
Ø Electro-Mechanical Period (1840-1940)
Ø Electronic Period (1940-Present)

PrE-MEchanical PEriod
Humans started communicating to one another through words and pictograms curved in rocks

SUMMERIAN PICTOGRAMS
Shows the earliest form of communication among humans

PAPYRUS
Made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge.
Invented in this period and considered as paper used as a writing surface.
Later compiled and bounded together that created BOOKS
 PAPYRUS

SUMMERIAN PICTOGRAMS

ABACUS
 LIBRARIES
Considered as the first data centers in the history
Created to compile and store books

ABACUS
The most popular device created in this period
Come from China
The first device to process information.

MEchanical PEriod
This period interest in automating and speeding up numerical calculations.
Served as the bridge between the current period and the pre-mechanical period.

PASCALINE

A mechanical calculator invented by the famous mathematician inventor Blaise Pascal

along with Wilhelm Schickard
Pascaline
Analytical Engine
 ANALYTICAL ENGINE
Considered as the first programmable mechanical computer
Invented by Charles Babbage which he earned the title “Father of Computers”

ElEctro-MEchanical PEriod
The use of electricity for handling and transfering information bloomed.

Controlling of electricity began in this period by using vacuum tubes in devices which later on led to the
development of electronic gadgets today.

The machines were mechanical in nature but run by electricity.

TELEGRAPH
Considered the fist electrical communications device
First invented and the first working model by William Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1837.

The first single-circuit telegraph invented by Samuel Morse, an American inventor, was introduced in 1844
Give rise to the Morse code
Cooke and
Wheatstone
telegraph

Morse Code and

Telegraph
TELEPHONE
Alexander Graham Bell was granted patent for the telephone in 1876.

ElEctronic PEriod
This period highlights the advent of solid state devices or electronic devices
The developed methods of connectivity used for sharing processed information stored in computers and
processing devices resulted in the creation of internet or the World Wide Web.

The four main events found in this period; these are:

LATE VACUUM TUBES PERIOD

ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND COMPUTER (ENIAC)

The first electronic general purpose computer.
Around 167 square meter
Processing speed was slower than the machines used today.
TRANSISTOR
An electronic device invented in 1947.
The foundation of every electronic device today.
Its properties and functions are similar to vacuum tubes, but it is lightweight and faster.
The first full transistor computer was developed in 1957.
It was faster than vacuum computers.

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
Credited to Jack Kilby for introducing the device in 1958.
It is composed of transistors and circuit elements compressed in a single package.

THE COMPUTER PROCESSOR PERIOD

ENIAC
TRANSISTORS
Integrated circuits

Integrated circuits and

microprocessor
ICT in the workplace
Computers and internet access have transformed the way many people work:
· businesses rarely produce written letters or reports or do not use typewriters any more
· documents are more likely to be sent by email than by post or fax
· employees with laptops or smartphones can work from home or while they travel

There are positives to an employee having a computer, especially one with internet
access:
· use of email and instant messenger to interact with colleagues and clients
· access a host of information online to help with research-related tasks

But there are negatives too. The internet is full of distractions and employees may
prefer to play games, browse and update social networking sites or reply to personal
emails and instant messages than to get on with their work.

Employers are aware of this and often block access to certain websites. These
restrictions may be relaxed during lunchtime or outside of working hours.
Lower Communication Cost

Faster communication speed

Paperless environment

Effective Sharing of Information

Social Problems

Health Problems

Ø Immateriality: they carry out the process of creating essentially

immaterial information, which can be transposed with transparency and
instantaneously to distant places.
Ø Interactivity: the tics make possible the exchange of information between a user and
a computer, and it is precisely this interaction that allows to adapt the resources used to
the requirements and characteristics of said user.

Ø Interconnection: it has to do with the creation of new possibilities, starting from the link
between two technologies.

Ø Instantaneity: this feature refers to the ability of Information and

Communication Technologies to transmit information over long distances and in a
very fast manner.

Ø Digitization: information is represented in a unique universal format, which allows

sounds, texts, images, etc., to be transmitted through the same means.

Ø Wide scope that covers the cultural, economic, educational fields, among
others: Information and Communication Technologies have not only generated a
considerable impact in a single area or in a specific group of individuals, but have also
expanded and penetrated important areas such as the economy , education, medicine,
among others, all this at a global level.
Ø Greater influence on processes than on products: Information and Communication
Technologies not only give individuals the possibility of accessing a large amount of
information to build knowledge from it, but also allows them to do so through association with
other connected users to network. Individuals have a greater role in the creation of
knowledge collectively.

Ø Innovation: the development of tics has been characterized by generating a need for
innovation, especially with regard to the social field, giving rise to the creation of new
means to enhance communications.