INFORMATION AND

COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
 The twenty-first century has been
characterized as the information age.
No doubt, one of the greatest
achievements of this age has
something to do with the technology,
ICT especially the increasing power of
communications. ICT is providing an
extra-ordinary opportunity to hone
our critical thinking and problem-
solving skills. communication skills,
creativity and innovation.
 is an extended term for information
technology (IT) which stresses the
role of unified communications and
WHAT the integration of
telecommunications (telephone lines
and wireless signals), computers as
IS well as necessary enterprise
software, middleware, storage, and
ICT? audio-visual systems, which enable
users to access, store, transmit, and
manipulate information. 
 Education – Many
How has ICT educators are already
positively
affected the
using and infusing
life of the technology as a teaching-
members of
the society or learning pedagogy
the digital
citizens?
through the use of
different platforms.
Business – Most
entrepreneurs are
making use of the
internet and different
social networking sites
to promote their
businesses and products.
Government – In the
Philippines, many
transactions with government
offices are now possible and
available online. Application
for birth certificates,
passport, NBI and like are
maximized by some Filipinos.
Computers, e-mail, internet, fax
machines, mobile phones are only
among the information communication
tools that can be considered an integral
part of work activities in almost all
companies or institutions in the
Philippines and abroad. The
development and access of different
technologies like wireless networking
and mobile devices significantly
transformed user into content
producers.
       With ICT in our schools, learners are not only
consumers but content creators as they write, edit,
publish, participate, co-create and collaborate with
others through the use of technologies. ICT hastens
global and democratic network across the planet. The
Internet is an apparatus for causal connection as well
as open spaces where individuals can voice out their
ICT and Global issues. ICT can generate global social awareness
Networks through social network sites. Social networking sites
also facilitate the mobilization of grassroot movements
and advocates especially among the younger
generation. ICT promotes social development by
sharing knowledge, fostering cultural activity,
increasing democratic participation, and enhancing
social cohesion. Technological advances have
improved life and brought the world’s people closer.
 1.COST
DISADVA 2.MISUSE OF ICT
NTAGES
3.SCHOOL
BAGS+LAPTOPS
 More and more resources are being put
into ICT in schools – the cost of laptops,
wireless broadband, projectors for
example contribute a large percentage
of the school’s budget.
A $850 million Standard ICT Operating
COST Environment (SOE) system has begun
in 2012, enabling students to tap onto
wireless networks in their schools with
speeds up to 1Gbps to do their school
online assessments or research for their
projects – particularly in the secondary
and tertiary levels of education.
  Instead of using their laptops or tablets for their
studies and online tests, more often than not
students stray away and visit social networking
sites like Facebook or Twitter.
 Then, listening to the teachers in lessons are no
longer their main priority – they would be too
MISUSE focused on playing games or visiting social
networking sites. 
OF ICT  This would result in lower academic grades.
However, should the student be focused to their
studies, such activities may not play out and
that would mean ICT is an advantage to them.
 A student using Facebook in class.
  Crescent Girls’ School, one of the 5 Future
Schools in Singapore, requires each student to
own a laptop. Coupled with heavy textbooks,
notes and homework, the laptop is quite a burden
to the students’ back. 
SCHOOL  An average laptop weighs about 2.0kg. Although
homework is online, there are often times that
BAGS+LAPTO the homework is to be printed out and handed in. 
PS  Schools are becoming more dependent on e-
learning (learning on the internet) but textbooks
are mostly print publications. Hence, the weight
of this laptop, textbooks, and homework may
bear health consequences in the near future.
Neural and
social
networks.
 neural
network
 In information technology, a neural network is
a system of hardware and/or software
patterned after the operation of neurons in the
human brain. Neural networks — also called
artificial neural networks — are a variety of
deep learning technologies. Commercial
applications of these technologies generally
focus on solving complex signal processing or
pattern recognition problems. Examples of
significant commercial applications since 2000
include handwriting recognition for check
processing, speech-to-text transcription, oil-
exploration data analysis, weather prediction
and facial recognition.
social
networking
 Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one’s
business and/or social contacts by making connections through
individuals, often through social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn and Google+.
 Based on the six degrees of separation concept (the idea that any two
people on the planet could make contact through a chain of no more than
five intermediaries), social networking establishes interconnected online
communities (sometimes known as social graphs) that help people make
contacts that would be good for them to know, but that they would be
unlikely to have met otherwise.
 Depending on the social media platform, members may be able to contact
any other member. In other cases, members can contact anyone they have
a connection to, and subsequently anyone that contact has a connection
to, and so on. Some services require members to have a preexisting
connection to contact other members.
 While social networking has gone on almost as long as societies
themselves have existed, the unparalleled potential of the Web to
facilitate such connections has led to an exponential and ongoing
expansion of that phenomenon. In addition to social media platforms, the
capacity for social interaction and collaboration is increasingly built into
business applications.