Task #19: Week 1

The Impact of ICT In

Our Daily Lives
INTRODUCTION
 What is the issue all about?
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has an
important role in the world since we are now in the information
age era. With ICT, the company can make the business easier to
happen with the client, supplier and the distributor. It is also
very important in our daily lives. The lack of appropriate
information at the right time will result in low productivity, low
quality research works, and waste of time to pursue information
and even to do research which actually others had done or in
other countries. Nowadays ICT cannot be separated with our
daily needs.
 When/Where have you heard this issue?
I know the term globalization does not get used much these
days, but one of the major reason's globalization has quickened
its pace and continues to do so, is because of ICT. ICT helps
people communicate faster and cheaper than ever before. This
also means that people now have more information at their
fingertips than in any time of human history. Just the other day I
heard that an average person has more access to information
than the President of the United States did back in 1995, and
that’s only 13 years ago!
A problem can be defined as something that is difficult to
achieve or accomplish, ICT in the broadest sense, helps in
creating solutions every moment of every day. What ICT does is
help us find solutions faster, either through helping us dig for
solutions already out there or helping us communicate to find
answers together.
Additionally, the costs associated with ICT has come down
dramatically. Technology in the field has grown and left every
other industry in the Stone Age. For instance, had the
combustion engine technology kept up with the ICT industry
since the 1960’s, 4 liters of fuel would suffice to take us around
the world!
Thus, to sum I would say this. Embracing the ICT field is a must
in meeting the future needs of the country and the world.
Nothing is as accessible as technology nor comes at a cheaper
rate. The technologies and the service sector that is developed in
the ICT field will create jobs and be the engine that powers the
economy for many years to come.

 What is the Cause and Effect of this?

Problematic uses of ICT among young people in their personal
and school life.
1. Students Using Social Media
Of course, teachers fear their students will be playing around on
social media instead of using their devices for educational
purposes. Today’s kids spend quite a bit of time on Facebook,
Twitter, Snap Chat, Instagram, etc. To prevent this issue, when
preparing your network, make sure to include a next generation
firewall that provides application filtering.
2. Network Overload
When you put mobile devices in the hands of all the students,
teachers, and staff, your network can easily become overloaded
if it wasn’t appropriately designed to handle all those wireless
devices. Many schools current wireless network infrastructures
just are not designed to handle the amount of activity and the
number of devices that are sucking up bandwidth. Getting a
wireless site survey is vital for any new major classroom
technology integration like iPads or BYOD.

3. Security Breach
Students many times are more curious than they are malicious.
They want to push the boundaries just to see if they can. If
you're network allows them access to the admin servers, you can
bet they're going to get on it.
Security is the big challenge and one of the main reasons many
schools have never allowed major classroom technology roll-
outs previously. This can be avoided with what we call “Role
Based Access Control”. This allows you to know who, what,
when, and how people are connecting to your network and limit
their access based on that profile or role you have set up.
4. Cheating
At one time a student had to pull a paper written “cheat sheet”
out of their pocket to have the ability to cheat. It certainly seems
easier that they can now cleverly pull up a “cheat sheet” on their
device. The good news is, with the ever evolving change in
technology, software companies are developing ways to
alleviate the cheating problem by for example, allowing teachers
and administrator’s access to students’ screens while in the
classroom.
5. Gaming
There are a ton of free gaming apps out there and people love
them, especially kids. These addicting games can be quite the
distraction and take away from productivity in the classroom.
Again, like with number one, application filtering can fix this
issue.

 How does this issue affect you in your daily lives?

ICT has a great impact in our daily lives. For example, we can
read our local newspaper using the online newspaper. Another
example is we still can get connected with our family, relatives,
or colleges even if we are abroad by using the electronic mail,
yahoo messenger, call conference, or video conference.
Digital computer and networking have changed our economy
concept to the economy with no boundary in time and space
because of ICT. It brings a lot of advantages for economic
development enabling millions of transactions to happen in an
easy and fast way.
ICT is one of the economic development pillars to gain national
competitive advantage. It can improve the quality of human life
because it can be used as a learning and education media, the
mass communication media in promoting and campaigning
practical and important issues, such as the health and social area.
It provides wider knowledge and can help in gaining and
accessing information.
ICT has become an integral part of everyday life for many
people. It increases its importance in people's lives and it is
expected that this trend will continue, to the extent that ICT
literacy will become a functional requirement for people's work,
social, and personal lives.
 What can you contribute as part of the social change
that would be related to the topic selected?
As a human being I can only contribute as simple like small,
random acts of kindness to strangers in social media because
sometimes these random acts of kindness even start a ripple
effect that can spread far beyond the first actor. The great thing
is that it doesn’t take much effort or planning to create a positive
impact. Studies show that simple acts of kindness can actually
make the person doing them happier and can even have positive
health benefits. Even if the act itself is small, the impact for both
the beneficiary and the actor can be large.

SUMMARY OF THE RESEARCH

“Technology should improve your life, not become your life” –
Billy Cox
Modernized, Upgraded, Advanced – these are just some of the
words we can use to describe our world in our present
generation. Information Communication Technology (ICT),
from the word itself, are the applications and technologies we
use like cellular phones, computers, wireless signals, televisions
and Internet that helps us to disseminate or give information to
the public. ICT plays a very big role to me and to the society as
well, it helps us in terms of education, business, and our way of
living. With the help of ICT, convenience, knowledge and
interaction will be easily attained.
We can gain a lot of information and easily be aware and
knowledgeable of what is happening around us. From the latest
news and occurrences in any part of the world, to the newest
inventions, to the trending updates and innovations. What else
would you like to look for? For sure, you will not be left behind.
ICT makes our minds full of new ideas, discoveries, and
experiences we did not have before and it lets each individual
experience a different way of discovering and learning with
excitement because of its uniqueness.
Interaction is also one of the biggest contribution ICT has given.
This is the main reason why it was been created. Nowadays,
with the help of ICT, we can easily interact and connect with
other people living in any part of the world. We can send them
messages through emails and social medias or talk to them
through calls or can see them through video calls. We can now
have interviews, meet ups, long messages just with the use of
ICT without giving much effort.

But then, despite of these benefits of ICT, people seem to abuse

the usage of it and manipulate it in an inappropriate way. We
appear to be so addicted using these technologies where it comes
to the point that we are already losing our privacy and we are
already hurting others’ feelings and steps beyond their territory
and not knowing we are already wasting so much time doing
nonsense works with the use of ICT. As users of ICT, we must
always observe our responsibility towards it, we must not use it
if we do not have a good purpose. Operate it with care and with
proper behavior. Limit the usage of these technologies because it
may give us danger, if misused, that will lead to certain conflicts
and problems. Always remember that technologies are invented
to help make our life easier but that does not mean that we can
already forget the people around us and the real world.

FINAL REACTION AND CONCLUSION

It made me think that ICT is a really big help to
us ICTs have an impact on almost everybody
that has access to them and that the internet has
changed society and how we live.
ICT brings people from different parts of the
world together to communicate with each other
across the world. It gives an opportunity to
improving communication, to meet new people
online and establish a friendship, to share the
personal information online, increasing
opportunities for education. Undoubtedly ICT
gadgets have really made peoples life simple
and entertaining but Information, Media, and
Technology Skills are needed for the use of
ICT. ICT can have positive impact on our lives
but still, we have to be careful when using it
because we may suffer from some negative
impact by using them. We have to be wise in
using the ICT gadgets. Thus, ICT is the new
technologies of the digital age have been
accessible in our everyday life with a confusing
blend of guaranteed benefits with some
problems.
REFERENCES
https://iamalayne.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/how-ict-affects-
our-lives/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325570282_Positive_a
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https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/why-ict-
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https://www.waldenu.edu/why-walden/social-
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https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1183568.pdf
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