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Senior High School Contextualized Subject: Empowerment Technologies



Empowerment Technologies is one of the contextualized subjects of the senior high school curriculum. Some examples of the things that you will learn from taking this subject include:

  • Information and Communication Technology covering the topics of:
    • The current state of ICT technologies (i.e., Web 2.0, 3.0, convergent technologies, social, mobile, and assistive media)
    • Online systems, functions, and platforms
  • Online safety, security, ethics, and etiquette
  • Contextualized online search and research skills
    • Applied productivity tools with advanced application techniques including but not limited to
    • Mail merge and label generation
    • Custom animations and timing
    • Hyperlinking in presentations
    • Integrating images and external material in word processors
    • Embedded files and data
    • Advanced and complex formulas and computations
  • Imaging and Design For the Online Environment covering the topics of
    • Basic principles of graphics and layout
    • Principles of visual message design using infographics
    • Online file formats for images and text
    • Principles and basic techniques of image manipulation
    • Basic image manipulation using offline or open-source software
    • Combining text, graphics, and images
    • Uploading, sharing, and image hosting platforms
  • Usable platforms / applications currently include but are not limited to:
    • Google Sketch Up (freeware)
    • GIMP (open source/ freeware)
  • Online platforms as tools for ICT content development covering the topics of:
    • 1. The nature and purposes of online platforms and applications
    • 2. Basic web design principles and elements
    • 3. Web page design using templates and online WYSIWYG platforms
  • These online platforms currently include, but are not limited to:
    • Presentation/ visualization (Prezi, Soho, Slideshare, mindmeister)
    • Cloud computing (Google Drive, Evernote,Dropbox)
    • Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr)
    • Web Page Creation (Wix, Weebly)
    • File Management (zamzar, word2pdf)
    • Mapping (Google Maps, Wikimapia)
    • Team structure and dynamics for ICT content
    • Online collaborative tools and processes
    • Project management for ICT content
    • Curating existing content for use on the web
  • Collaborative development of ICT content covering the topics of:
  • Online collaborative tools that may be used currently include, but not limited to:
    • Google Docs/ MS Office 365
    • Prezi
    • Google Chat/ Hangouts
    • 4. Skype/ Viber/ Kakao Talk/ WeChat/ Line
  • Platforms that may be currently used to host newsletters and similar ICT content include but are not limited to:
    • Presentation/ visualization (Prezi, Soho, Slideshare, Mindmeister)
    • Cloud computing (Google Apps)
    • Social Media (Facebook Pages, Tumblr)
    • Web Page Creation (Wix, Weebly)
    • Blog sites (Blogger, WordPress, Livejournal, Issuu)
  • Multimedia and ICTs covering the topics of
    • Rich content in the online environment and the user experience
    • multimedia and interactivity
    • Web 2.0, Web 3.0, and user participation in the web
  • Types of rich and multimedia content currently include but not limited to
    • Video and audio, embedded and on-demand
    • Online games, tests,and courseware
    • Web-, game-, pod-, and vod-casting
  • ICTs as platform for change covering the topics of
    • ICT as medium for advocacy and developmental communication
    • The social power of social media
    • Digital citizenship and the Filipino people
  • Samples of this phenomenon include but are not limited to:
    • EDSA and Cardinal Sin’s call to action via radio broadcast
    • EDSA Dos and the use of text messaging to mobilize people
    • Million People March against Pork barrel via Facebook
    • Disaster relief operations and mobilization via Internet and text brigades
  • Developing an ICT Project for Social Change covering the topics of:
    • Planning and conceptualizing an ICT Project for Social Change
    • Research for ICT Projects, Audience profiling, (demographics and psychographics)
    • Designing and copywriting for ICT Projects
    • Developing and constructing the ICT project
  • Samples of these advocacies or projects include but are not limited to:
    • Antidrug campaigns
    • Youth election volunteer mobilization
    • Animal welfare and rights
    • Environmental conservation and action
    • Contemporary ICT issues such as cyber bullying, copyright infringement, green technology, and Internet addiction
  • Publishing an ICT Project covering the topics of:
    • Uploading and website management
    • Promotion, traction and traffic monitoring
    • Evaluation through user feedback/ interaction
  • Sustaining an ICT Project for Social Change covering the topics of:
    • Updating content and maintaining traffic to an ICT Project for Social Change
    • Monitoring social impact of advocacies communicated via an ICT Project for Social Change
  • Reflecting on the ICT learning process covering the topics of:
    • ICT, the self, and society

While studying, you will also be asked to demonstrate what you have learned by participating in class activities that may include the following:

  • Composing an insightful reflection paper on the nature of ICT
  • Applying advanced productivity tools to create or develop ICT content
  • Manipulating images to create original or derivative ICT content
  • Designing using online tools and applications to create original or derivative content
  • Developing an online portal or website to share ICT content
  • Developing an ICT Project for social change
  • Applying online safety and etiquette standards in the use of ICTs
  • Evaluating online resources based on layout, graphic, and visual message design.
  • Evaluating the quality, value, and appropriateness of peer’s ICT content
  • Assessing one’s experience in using online content based usability
  • Identifying a local or regional cause or issue for Social Change
  • Analyzing how target users are expected to respond to the proposed ICT project
  • Integrating rich multimedia content in design and development
  • Demonstrating how ICT Projects for social change are uploaded, managed, and promoted
  • Generating a technical report interpreting data analytics

These examples only cover the scope of the contextualized subjects. For the scope of the core and specialized subjects, please refer to their respective lists.

 

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