WORLD WITHOUT COMPUTER

   In our present time, computer is considered as one of our needs. why? because everyone of us use computer to accomplish their task, to do their homework, to socialize, to know the latest trends in fashion, to read books online etc. but how about the world without computer?
     before computer is introduced to the world we only use paper, pencil and pen to get information, we only rely our knowledge on the books that we read.for example, the difference between police station before and police station today. police station before have no computer they will just find their files manually by scanning all the files inside the big, metal, locked cabinet and look for the files. how about police station with computers? they will just browse their computer click here, click there and that's it they will now print the files. they don't need to scan all files one by one.

     How about education without computer? many countries internationally overuse the computer, they use it everywhere, anywhere they want to. especially in education.
     but before computers arrived in schools, all of us in the world use books, papers and pens to learn, we are all learning based on the books of our great philosophers. and suddenly computer came and everything change, nowadays we are just using books when our teacher said so. we are all depend our learning to computers whether we  like it or not.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2009/07/teaching_without_technology.html

T.L.E. SKILLS COMPETITION 2012

In the first place, Congratulations to Camarin campus for being the overall champion of T.L.E. skills competition. 

this is Jackielyn and Estrillita they participated in table skirting, unfortunately they didn't win, but for me they are the winners. of course they are my classmate. for me they are the best, that's why we choose them to participate there.

this is their work! beautiful but there is something that is missing? the flowers!

All of us third year in main participated in skills competition because were only thirteen, Janine in flair tending, kuya mico in wood working, glen in electronics and hair styling in cosmetology, lors, maye and jaja in quiz bee, jacky and magno in table skirting, myself, jam and belai in cosmetology. 

this is my favorite part! the cos-play.why my favorite because I am the one that do the make-up of jamille and many of my professor loved it they say that it was simple but beautiful. and i won third place in that aspect. I'm so proud of myself. 

this is miss Jamille Albano as ERZA SCARLET of fairytail. 

we can improve the T.L.E. skills competition if we add the other aspect in our major. like maybe cooking or others. but all in all it was great. i had fun. even i don't have enough sleep during the preparation of costume. 

FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY

We cannot stop the spread of new technology. it is like a virus that spread in our body, it can multiply in million in one minute. there is a lot of gadgets invented everyday, unlike before we just do our task using our hands only. but now by just clicking we can do anything. that's technology.We can be updated in technology if our government use our resources to improve the technology here. we can be LIKE the JAPAN, USA, and many more countries in terms of technology. 

like this mouse, we can perform our task faster because of this mouse, we can use it anywhere. 

this video blew me away! this is so amazing, imagine every where there is technology. oh my gosh, even the cup of our coffee, even a single mirror can be your computer. even a card can be your cellphone. you can zoom in or zoom out a very tiny picture. 

I am proud to say that my generation is the best generation ever!.

Reflection # 4

Article about SOPA

A Limited view about SOPA

iThink 
By JAMES SORIANo

January 25, 2012, 3:47am

MANILA, Philippines — If you were online last Thursday, it is likely that you have chanced upon or heard about the issue regarding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which was being debated last week in the US Lower House, and its corresponding bill in the Senate, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, or the Protect IP Act (PIPA). That’s because the biggest sites on the Web, such as Google, Facebook, and Wikipedia, carried out online protests against the passage of these bills into law. So that if you didn’t actually go to these pages, though chances are you might have, you might have heard about it in the news that night, if not on Yahoo! News.

This is not to mention the 7,000 or so other websites who carried out online ‘rallies’ of their own in the similar form of page blackouts, conspicuously large banners, or statements creatively worked into logos. But for two bills that, as their titles suggest, aim to curb online piracy, counterfeiting, and other infringements of intellectual property, all of which pose a threat to people who rely on the internet to make a living (these websites included), why is it that there is so much uproar in the internet community?

This was how it seemed to me when news of SOPA and PIPA started making it to the cable news networks some days before the protests started. Much of the airtime focused on commentaries and discussions of the interests that lay on either side of the fence: much of the time, it was framed as a conflict between traditional Hollywood media companies and organizations such as the MPAA and the more innovative, up-and-coming groups on the internet. The rhetoric in many cases clearly favored the opposition, but it was still difficult to understand; it is easy to be turned off when the more technical aspects of the internet, such as DNS blocking, proxy servers, and IP addresses are mentioned.

In fact, given a little patience all this jargon is easily understood. And it is extremely important to do so, because at the heart of the opposition to SOPA and PIPA is how it affects a central feature of the internet: the Domain Name System, or DNS.

Simply speaking, DNS is the framework which allows us to type in names such as www.myblog.com or www.yourwebsite.net on our address bars as opposed to numbers such as 110.24.166.132. These numbers represent the IP addresses, or the “real” addresses of various sites, and the DNS can be thought of as a people-friendly system for accessing these sites. The most commonly-used analogy for the DNS is that it operates like the Internet’s phone book, where a user “dials” the domain name to reach the website he/she wants, which DNS translates into IP addresses, therefore allowing us to connect to the corresponding website via URL and other locating tools. It is a people-friendly system that makes navigating the internet not just possible, but also easy and convenient.

One of the critical features is DNS blocking which, as CNET suggests, is the internet equivalent of a death penalty because it renders a website accused of copyright infringement virtually inaccessible—at least, for those of us who are not as well-versed with computers, or do not have that controversial plug-in. This is a problem for many websites that host or generate content—online news, blogs and social networks included. The problem arises with the fact that a) the sites themselves are possible for policing their own content, which is extremely costly and ruins the experience of consumers, and b) the broadness of the bill’s wording could supposedly make it very easy to shut any site down due to a single complaint (not to mention a host of other problems like the vulnerability to private action, the extent of the liabilities, etc.) This problem, the fact of being constantly monitored as well as the need for websites to monitor themselves, constitutes a threat to the very survival of many online communities, businesses, and pages.

What does this mean for users like us? For one thing, the bill will make it difficult if not impossible to watch copyrighted content that is illegally uploaded on YouTube (episode excerpts, for example, or entire segments of movies or TV series episodes.) It might also make it very difficult to post content on Facebook (for example, homemade videos using songs by popular artists) because the site will have to monitor the materials posted. Thus, posting may now take a longer time: hours, if not days. And of course, if any site with a .com or .net is reported to have published pirated content (torrents of albums and movies, for example), it will be rendered permanently inaccessible for many conventional net users.

In a country like ours, where piracy is so innocuous that people brush aside the fact that it’s illegal, the effects are potentially huge. But this is only because we have become used to an internet regime where content, copyrighted or not, is so easy to acquire, and generally free of charge. The larger question still, of course, is whether this sort of a regime is best for the flourishing of the internet. Sites such as Google and Facebook have provided a measured response: in a way, yes, but there is still a need to combat piracy in the long run. What they are clamoring for is a more targeted and creative solution to the problem of rogue websites that steal intellectual property and profit off them.

In the meantime, SOPA has been shelved by its sponsor, Rep. Lamar Smith, until a consensus regarding the solution can be reached. It is a victory for the online community today, but eventually the issue will have to be faced again in the near future.

What is SOPA?

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a United States bill introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Provisions include the requesting of court orders to bar advertising networks and payment facilities from conducting business with infringing websites, and search engines from linking to the sites, and court orders requiring Internet service providersto block access to the sites. The law would expand existing criminal laws to include unauthorized streaming of copyright material, imposing a maximum penalty of five years in prison. A similar bill in the Senate is called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).

Proponents of the legislation say it will protect the intellectual property market and corresponding industry, jobs and revenue, and is necessary to bolster enforcement of copyright laws, especially against foreign websites. Claiming flaws in present laws that do not cover foreign owned and operated sites, and citing examples of "active promotion of rogue websites" by U.S. search engines, proponents say stronger enforcement tools are needed.

Opponents say the proposed legislation threatens free speech and innovation, and enables law enforcement to block access to entire internet domains due to infringing material posted on a single blog or webpage. They have raised concerns that SOPA would bypass the "safe harbor" protections from liability presently afforded to Internet sites by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Library associations have expressed concerns that the legislation's emphasis on stronger copyright enforcement would expose libraries to prosecution. Other opponents state that requiring search engines to delete a domain name could begin a worldwide arms race of unprecedentedcensorship of the Web and violates the First Amendment.

On January 18, 2012, the English Wikipedia, Reddit, and an estimated 7,000 other smaller websites coordinated a service blackout, or posted links and images in protest against SOPA and PIPA, in an effort to raise awareness. In excess of 160 million people saw Wikipedia's banner. A number of other protest actions were organized, including petition drives, with Google saying it collected over 7 million signatures, boycotts of companies that support the legislation, and a rally held in New York City.

In response to the protest actions, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) stated, "It's a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users and arm them with misinformation", and "it's very difficult to counter the misinformation when the disseminators also own the platform".

The sites of several pro-SOPA organizations such as RIAA, CBS.com, and others were slowed or shut down with denial of service attacks started on January 19. Self-proclaimed members of the "hacktivist" group Anonymous claimed responsibility, and said the attacks were a protest of both SOPA and the United States Department of Justice shutdown of Megaupload that same day.^[2]

Opponents of the bill have proposed the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN) as an alternative.^[3][4] On January 20, 2012, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Smith postponed plans to draft the bill: "The committee remains committed to finding a solution to the problem of online piracy that protects American intellectual property and innovation ... The House Judiciary Committee will postpone consideration of the legislation until there is wider agreement on a solution."

Background about SOPA

SOPA

SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act, or House Bill 3261, was introduced to the United States House of Representatives on Oct. 26, 2011 with bipartisan support. Its intent is to more heavily enforce copyright infringement across the web, holding severe consequences for any site owner whose property is found to be in disobedience.

• Advocates, largely those in and supporting the entertainment industry, believe the bill is needed to crack down on increasing levels of online piracy, particularly from foreign websites.
• Dissenters believe that SOPA goes against First Amendment rights, is a form of Internet censorship and would limit information accessibility on the web.

SOPA hearings were held in November and December 2011. On Jan. 13, 2012, a provision that would have required service providers to block access to International sites accused of piracy was dropped.

The following day, the White House announced its opposition to SOPA, stating that it “will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cyber-security risk or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.”

Congress shelved SOPA on Jan. 14, until a strong consensus is arrived upon. On Jan. 17 it was announced that markup of SOPA will likely resume next month.

Implication of SOPA in Educational Technology

What SOPA means for Education, Technology, and the Future of the Internet.

There’s a lot of talk about the Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”) right now and for good reason. The future of the Internet depends on the outcome of these discussions. That’s because a controversial pair of bills are making their way through congress and they would definitely affect you.

SOPA is essentially an Internet Kill Switch that lets the US Attorney General force an Internet Service Provider to stop all traffic to a particular site within 5 days.

SOPA could be problematic for some educational websites. For example, not all education technology apps and websites have the proper copyright permission for every single image or video they use. If they ever run into trouble that has legal ramifications, SOPA could play a role. While I think that education-oriented websites are not the target of SOPA, it would be a shame if they were caught in the cross-fire.

It would also mean big problems for people looking to start their own education technology company. Young entrepreneurs worry about the bill possibly stunting intellectual and technological advancement in the country.

What follows below is my attempt at cobbling together some of the best descriptions and multimedia explanations of  SOPA. Information is from NBC, Mashable, and Vimeo.

reviewer

     Lesson 1: A Review of Educational Technology 1

          The Educational Technology 1 course has truly paved the way for the learner to become aware, appreciative and equipped to use educational technology tools ranging from traditional to modern educational media. 

          In ET-1, the learner was also oriented towards averting the dangers of dehumanization which technology brings to the societies, such as through ideological propaganda, pornography, financial fraud, and other exploitative use of technology.

          on the application of educational technology to instruction. educational technology 1 showed the 4 phases of application of ET in teaching-learning, namely;

(a) setting the learning objectives (b) designing specific learning experiences (c) evaluating the effectiveness of the learning experience vis-a-vis the learning objectives (d) revision as needed of the whole teacher-learning process. 

      Lesson 2: An Overview: Educational Technology 2

          Educational Technology 2 is concerned with “Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning.” Specifically this is focus in introducing, reinforcing, supplementing and extending the knowledge and skills to learners so that they can become exemplary users of educational Technology.          Educational Technology 2 is intended to improve education over what it would be without technology.
Some of the claimed benefits are listed below:
-  EASY-TO-ACCESS COURSE MATERIALS

-  STUDENT MOTIVATION
- WIDE PARTICIPATION

- IMPROVED STUDENT WRITING

- SUBJECTS MADE EASIER TO LEARN

- DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION

          Educational technology provides the means to focus on active student participation and to present differentiated questioning strategies.

It broadens individualized instruction and promotes the development of personalized learning plans. Students are encouraged to use multimedia components and to incorporate the knowledge they gained in creative ways.
     Lesson 3: Educational Technology in the Asia Pacific Region

          New Zealand 2001 ICT Goals and Strategies

GoalGovernment with the education and technology sectors, community groups, and industry envisions to support to the development of the capability of schools to use information and communication technologies in teaching-and-learning and in administration.

          Australia IT Initiatives

In the Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for  schools, information technology is one of the eight national goals/learning areas students should achieve.

  The plan for achieving the national goal for IT are left to individual states and territories with the Educational Network Australia (EdNA) as the coordinating and advisory body.

          Singapore Masterplan for IT in Education

          Hong Kong Education Program Highlights

     Lesson 4: Basic Concepts on Integrating Technology in Instruction

          Integrating technology with teaching means the use of learning technologies to introduce, reinforce, supplement, and extend skill. There are different levels of integration of technology in instruction. There is NO INTEGRATIVE PROCESS if for example the teacher makes students play computer games to them a rest period during classes.

     Lesson 5: State-of-the-Art ET Application Practices

          Through school or training center computer courses, present-day students have become computer literate. They send e-mail, prepare computer encoded class reports, and even make power-point presentations sometimes to the surprise of their media tradition-bound teachers.

       Following the call for developing critical thinking among students, teachers have deemphasized rote learning and have spent more time in methods to allow students to comprehend/internalize lessons.

      Shifting focus from lower-level traditional learning outcomes, student assessment/examinations have included measurement of higher level learning outcomes such as creative and critical thinking skills.

      Recent teaching-learning models (such as constructivism and social constructivism) have paved the way for instructional approaches in which

      Students rely less on teachers as information-givers, and instead more in their efforts to acquire information, build their own knowledge, and solve problems. 

          Obstacles to IT pedagogical practice

    Use of the computer is time-consuming and expensive.

    Besides there also danger of a technology-centered classroom along the fear that computers may soon replace teachers.

    Teachers should balance their time for the preparation and application of instructional tools. Through wise technical advice, schools can also acquire the most appropriate computer hardware and software. At the same time, training should ensure that the use of ET is fitted to learning objectives.

    In addition, teachers should acquire computer skills for so that they can serve as models in integrating educational technology in the teaching-learning process.schools should now foster a student-centered learning environment, where in students are given leeway to use computer information sources in their assignments, reports and presentations in written, visual, or dramatic forms.

      Lesson 6: IT Enters A New Learning Environment

     MEANINGFUL LEARNING

It focuses to new experiences that are related to what the learner already knows. it assumes that:

   -Students already have some knowledge that is relevant to new learning

   -Students are willing to perform class work to find connections between what they already know and what they can learn.

     DISCOVERY LEARNING

The students perform task to uncover what is to be learned.

     GENERATIVE LEARNING

It viewed students as active learner who can attend to learning events, it is different from the simple process of storing information.

     CONSTRUCTIVISM

In constructivism, the learner builds a personal understanding through appropriate learning activities and good learning environment. 

     Leson 7: IT for higher Thinking Skills and Creativity

           In this lesson we should discuss the methods proposed for the use of computer-based technologies as an integral support to higher thinking skills and creativity

     higher level learning outcomes-

To define higher level thinking skills and creativity, we may adopt a framework that is a helpful synthesis of many models and definitions on the subject matter. The framework is not exhaustive but a helpful guide for the

teacher's effort to understand the learner's higher learning process

Thinking skills

Focusing-     Defining the problem, goal/objective-setting, brainstorming.

Information Gathering- Selection, recording of data of information.

Remembering-        Associating, relating new data with old.

Analyzing-    Identifying idea constructs, patterns.

Generating - Deducing, inducting, and elaborating.

Organizing- Classifying, relating.

Imagining- Visualizing, predicting.

Designing- Planning, formulating.

Integration- Summarizing, abstracting.

Evaluating - Setting criteria, testing, idea, verifying outcomes, revising.

The process

the process of implementation takes the students to the steps, efforts, and experience in project completion

The process is more important that the products

          the process refers to the thinking/affective/psycho-motor process that occurs on the part of the learner. This comprises the journey that actualizes learning

          The product is the result of this all-important process consisting in possibly a summary, a poster, an essay, a term paper, a dramatic presentation, or an IT-based product.

     Lesson 8: Higher Thinking Skills Through IT-Based Projects

     In this lesson, we shall discuss four types of IT-Based projects which can effectively be used in order to engage students in activities of a higher plane of thinking.

                              -Resource-based project

-       In these projects, the teacher step out of the traditional role of being an content expert and information provider, and instead lets the student find their own facts and information.

                            -Simple creations

-       Students can also be assigned to create their software  materials to supplement the need for relevant and effective materials.

-Creativity is said to combine three kind of skills/abilities:

·         -Analyzing- distinguishing similarities and differences seeing the project as a problem to be solved.

·         -Synthesizing- making spontaneous connections among ideas, thus generating interesting or new ideas.

·        - Promoting- selling of new ideas to allow the public to test the ideas themselves.

         -Guided hypermedia projects

-       The production of self-made multimedia projects can be approached in two different ways:

1.    As an instructive tool.

2.    As a communication tool.

                   -Web-based projects

            - Students can be made to create and post webpage’s on a given topic.

assignment

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/278350/techhnology-s-impact-education
          Computers nowadays are partnered with education, technology  is very important in education it helps our teacher to teach their lesson in an easy way also technology add extra fun while learning. technology in the classroom become richer and richer students can easily browse the internet to get the information they need. and in that process they can get higher scores in their examination and they will improve their study habits.

          Nokia, international youth foundation and Pearson foundation collaborate with the department of education and they implement the text2teach:the Bridgeit solution in the Philippines they combines familiar mobile product and existing wireless technologies to deliver educational programs to teachers and students who otherwise would not have access to these materials. as a result, teachers anywhere in the world have the power to select and receive digital educational programming like videos, pictures, text, audio files over technology already in use in their community.

           As Mr. Jerry Liao said " it is no longer a choice, nor an option, it's a must technology is part of our education and in some instances technology is our education"

DepEd receives computers from Intel

http://www.deped.gov.ph/updates/updateslinks.asp?id=493
The department of education received 2701 units of laptop computers from Intel Corporation in order to improve the classroom instruction using technology. And also the skills of the teachers and student s in terms of using modern technology to enhance their skills. As future teachers we n need to be knowledgeable in terms of modern technology. Our government makes an agreement to Intel, and GILAS (Gearing-up Internet Literacy and Access for Students). They will provide computers in order to uplift the education system here in the Philippines. It will serve as our advantage to other countries.

The department of education also provides teachers who are trained to handle the computers and in maintaining it. The connectivity and instillation is also the responsibility of department of education. Also the selection of schools who will receive the computers is in their hands. The schools need to have wireless connection to internet. The Intel Corporation, to do their part they provide service-training program for teachers.

We can’t stop the spread of technology; we should go with the flow in terms of technology. It for us to be globally competitive. Students I hope use technology for their own good not in other things that may pollute their minds.