3 ICT IN VARIOUS CONTENT AREAS

Learning Outcome:

LO. 1. Review teaching plans that require learners to connect the content of
the lesson to society.

LO. 2. Practice the 21st Century Literacy skills in preparing for a lesson.

LO. 3. Be familiar with the Digital Literacy Skills that a 21 st century learner
and teacher should possess.

21st Century Literacy Skills

Literacy Then and Now

The word literate defines a person’s ability to read and write, separating the
educated from the uneducated. With the arrival of new millennium and the advancement of
technology that changed society, the concept of literacy has assumed new meanings. In
fact, the current generation of teenagers are now called “E-Generation” which means
those who possesses digital competencies to effectively navigate the multidimensional and
fast-paced digital environment.

21st Century society requires new literacy; one more broadly defined than the
ability to read and write, with the addition of numeracy skills. 21 st century society is
accelerated or more advance in terms of technology and living. It is also media-saturated
which is becoming dependent on the use of media. There is also a rise of various automated
machines as if everything is self-operating or robotic.

Ever since humans existed, communication is present. History provides examples of

societies trying to build connectivity into their communication infrastructures centuries
ago. Using different technologies during their time, they created methods in which they
could communicate faster, easier, and better. With our advanced technology nowadays,
older generations find it hard to travel to cyberspace like learning a new language.

Today, humans will seek for better communication methods but the difference is
now, we have more various choices, along with new tools and strategies and greater
knowledge of effective communication. Future generation will have technology to
communicate, create, manipulate, and design and self-accurate.

The New Literacy and Education

Today’s classroom setting is filled with digital literate students. So there is a need
for teachers of today’s and future generation to be equally or more literate than them.
Since the world is advancing, more and more information are needed to be learned. For
centuries, school and education is designed to make sure students learn facts about the
world. This is proved to various assessments.

 Today, students need to learn how to find what they need to know when and when
they need to know it.
 Students need to have the higher order thinking skills to analyze and evaluate
whether the information they find is useful or what they want to know.
 OBE program is implemented wherein teachers no longer give all of the information
to students; rather teachers are “guide on the side.”
 Creative classrooms today are the ones where everyone is learning including the
teachers.
 Curriculum, classrooms and activities should be designed that will engage students
in problem solving and discovery.

19th – 20th Century Learning

 Limited access to knowledge and information, primarily through print.

 Emphasis on learning content knowledge that may or may not be useful in life.
 Goal is to master content knowledge.
 Facts and information are “spoon-fed.”
 Print media-based.
 Conceptual learning on individual basis.
 Teacher-dominated.

21st Century Learning

 Infinite access to knowledge and information, increasingly through internet.

 Emphasis on process for lifelong learning.
 Goal is to solve skills and solve problems.
 Teachers use discovery, inquiry-based approach.
 Multi-media based
 Project-based learning on tam basis.
 Student-centered.

Categories for the 21st Century Literacy Skills

 1. Learning Skills (The 4 C’s)
Teaches students about the mental processes required to adopt and improve
upon a modern work environment.
 Critical Thinking – when students find solution to problems. Helps students
figure stuff out for their selves when they don’t have a teacher at their
disposal.

 Creativity – thinking outside the box. Empowers students to see concepts in

a different light, which leads to innovation. Requires someone to understand
that “the way things have always been done” may be best 10 years ago but
someday that has to change.

 Collaboration – getting students to work together, achieve compromises, and

get the best possible results from solving a problem. Key element is
“willingness.” All participants have to be willing to sacrifice parts of their
own ideas and adapt to others to get good results.

 Communication – the glue that brings all o these educational qualities

together. Students need to know how to effectively convey ideas among
different personality types. Miscommunication leads to failure.

2. Literacy Skills (IMT)

Focuses on how students can discern facts, publishing outlets and the technology
behind them. It is determining trustworthy sources and factual information to separate it
from the misinformation that floods the internet.

 Information Literacy – helps students understand facts, especially data

points that they’ll encounter online. Teaches students how to separate facts
from fiction.

 Media Literacy – Identifying publishing methods, outlets and sources.

Students will learn which media formats or outlets to embrace and which
ones will they ignore.

 Technology Literacy – understanding the machines that make Information

age possible. Computers, programming and more devices are becoming more
important, the world needs more people to understand those concepts. It
gives students basic information they need to understand what gadgets
perform what tasks and why. As a result, students can adapt into the world
more effectively.

3. Life Skills (FLIPS)

 It pertains to someone’s personal life.

 Flexibility – ability to adapt to changing circumstances. It is one of the most

challenging qualities to learn because your way isn’t always the best way and
you have to know and admit when you’re wrong. It requires humility and
accepts that they’ll always have to learn even when they’re experienced. It is
also knowing when to change, how to change and how to react to change.

 Leadership – someone’s liking for setting goals, walking a team through steps
required and achieving goals collaboratively. It is applicable to different
careers. Even members of lower position needs to have leadership skills as it
helps them understand their leader’s decisions. It is basically motivating a
team to achieve a goal.

 Initiative – Starting projects, strategies and plans on one’s own. Requiring

students to be self-starters.

 Productivity – Being able to finish a task that can benefit one’s own and
others.

 Social Skills – meeting and networking with others form mutual benefits.
One’s success also depends on one’s relationship with other people. Today’s
students possess wide range of social skills. Some are very social and some
are far behind their peers. Some may far ahead but socializing comes
natural to them.

Digital Literacy

It is basically the technologies in the classroom. It is achieving the 21 st century

literacy skills by using the different technologies inside the classroom.

Why is it important to be Digitally Literate?

 The explosion of fake news

Non-literate students are at a high risk of not being able to tell
credible sources from non-credible sources. It takes critical thinking, digital
skills and understanding to be able to comprehend the complexity of website
evaluation.
 Digital literacy creates new ways to teach and learn within the classroom
As more and more young people gain access to technology, they will
discover new ways to interact with the content they enjoy. Take Google
Classroom, Zoom and Messenger as an example.
 The 21st Century Society calls for it
 Various jobs and professions are slowly indulging to the use of
technology. News papers nowadays are adapting to electronic publishing and
sites.
 To ensure that students are safe and smart while navigating social media
sites
There are message links that contain viruses that are spreading
nowadays. Some of these links even leads to porn sites which are not
suitable for children. Cyber bullying is also rampant in social media. Some
youth suffer from being bashed instead of being praised. Although social
media rants can be sued with defamation or the false statement presented
as facts that causes damage to a person’s character, it is no guarantee that
it will not affect the child’s mental health. (Libel is through writing while
Slander is through verbal)

Goals of Digital Literacy

1. FIND
Learn where and how to find reliable sources; like being familiar with search
engines and legal platforms for downloading music and art.

2. SORT
Learn how to identify relevant information for project or research. Most
students include irrelevant information in their assignments after copy-pasting it
from online sites.

3. EVALUATE
Determine the value of a source. One must learn how to evaluate if the
author or publisher of the information that he gathered are credible and reliable.

4. MANAGE
Know and understand how to use information. This includes proper citation,
copyright and safely and legally downloading media files.

5. CREATE
Know how to create their own work without plagiarizing or infringing on the
copyright of other works.

“9 Key P’s” of Digital Citizenship

Digital citizenship knows the rights and responsibilities of a digital citizen.

1. Passwords – knowing how to create secure passwords. E-mail and online banking
should have higher level of security and never use the same passwords as other
sites.
2. Private Information – These are information that can be used to identify a
person. Details like addresses, emails, and phone number must be protected.

3. Personal Information – These are more personal details about you like the
number of siblings you have or favorite food. These are the details that determine
your uniqueness from other users of a specific site. Note that you must be vigilant
with who you share these information with.

4. Photographs – Beware of posting private details like license plates in the photos
you share in your social media accounts. This helps you to avoid being tracked. Geo-
tagging is attaching the location information in the form of metadata or set of data
that describes and gives information about the other data.

5. Property – Being able to understand copyright and how to generate a license for
their own work. This is respecting property rights of those who create intellectual
property.

6. Permission – Knowing how to get information for work they use and citing it
properly. APA format (American Psychological Association)
Web page w/ author – “phase/sentence” (author, year published)
- Last name, First name initial. (year). Title. Retrieved
from: url
No author – “phrase/sentence” (“title,” year).
- Title. (year). Retrieved from: url
No date – “phrase/sentence” (author, n.d.)
- Author. (n.d.). Title. Retrieved from: url

7. Protection – Understand viruses, malware, phishing, ransomware and how these

work.
a. Viruses – a program or code that reproduces itself when a program is run.
It affects or damages programs and data. Most common scenario is
viruses that are transferred through files that are hidden in the
flash drive.
b. Malware – similar to viruses, it replicates itself and gather data or
information and sends it back to the attackers. It can be derived
from weak links.
c. Ransomware – a type of malware created to target organizations and steal
information and hold this information as hostage for a ransom.
d. Phishing – stealing personal information in a fraudulent way. It works by
sending out emails that seems like from a legitimate website and asks
you to validate or update and asks for your username and password.

8. Professionalism – Knowing how to properly interact in their social lives. It is being

aware of the netiquette or the correct and acceptable way of communicating on the
internet and their online grammar. Professionals should try to avoid having
grammatical errors online, especially when having many public viewers and also avoid
using inappropriate and unethical words. Your action calls for respect.

9. Personal Brand – Your voice and how you want to be perceived online (trademark).
Are you intentional about what you share? What would you want your audience to
remember about you?

Activity!

Create a lesson plan and gather information online or through printed

books while keeping in mind the 21st Century Literacy skills and the Digital
skills.