`Computer 6 Using the Computer and the Internet Safely and

Responsibly
What is ICT? – Information and Communication
Technology, or ICT, is a set of tools and resources used 1. Do not share your password with anyone.
to create or distribute, store, and manage information. 2. Do not give out your personal information such
It is also used for communication. These tools include as home address, birthday, and telephone
computers, radios, TVs, telephones, and the Internet. number.
3. Chat only with people you know personally.
Role and Importance of ICT in Society
4. Do not reply and open attachment and link to to
1. Education any email or text message that you receive from
 ICT improves and makes teaching and learning people you do not know.
experiences appealing, interesting, and 5. If you opened a site that you find disturbing
engaging for teachers and learners alike. close the site and tell your parents about it.
 Electronic learning or e-learning describes all 6. Do not join activities where others will be hurt
forms of learning that are based on electronic by harsh words, gossip, threats, and other
technologies. forms of cyberbullying.
 Advantages: adaptive time, place and pace of 7. Do not believe everything you see or read in the
learning, access and availability of education internet. Just bvecause it is there does not
tools anytime and anywhere. mean that it is true, and find out if the
2. Commerce information you have read is factual or merely
 Provides tools and systems that enables made up.
efficient communication, data management,
Various Online Activities
and analysis.
 It also helps businesses to advertise their 1. Using E-mail
products in different online platforms. 2. Social Networking
 It helps companies to stay organize with their 3. Instant Messaging
files and data. 4. Participating in a Chat room
3. Government 5. Using the web
 Save time and effort by utilizing government 6. Exchanging Ideas in a Forum
websites to access products and services, apply 7. Writing a BLog
for business permits, request to or submit 8. Using Wikis
documents ,pay their taxes and social security 9. Conducting on Audio and Video Conference
premiums, and for other transactions. 10. Doing Online Surveys
4. Labor 11. Massive Multiplayer Online
 Robotics in the automotive industry improves 12. Watching Movies
productivity and precision.
Understanding Malware
 Super computers help experst in analysing how
to maximize labor and resources for economic Viruses
development and growth.
 There are software which you as a pupil can use  These are programs designed to damage or
to search foe books you can borrow from your change your data.
local or school library.  Viruses will not only corrupt or delete, data on
5. Community your computer but will replicate themselves in
 ICT tools are important in disseminating others computers as well.
information or advisories about various events Worms
and occurrences such as forthcoming festival,
track of a typhoon, traffic conditions, water  These are malicious programs that reproduce
interruptions and anti- disease measures. again and again. Worms do not harm any data
or files on your computer.
  They make the operating system of the
computer vulnerable to malfunctions.

Spyware

 Type of malicious software that works like a spy

it tracks your internet activities.
 It helps hackers gather and use your
information for their own activities without
your knowledge.

Adware

 These are the programs that are designed to

display advertisements on your computer,
redirect your search requests to advertising
websites and collect information about the
types of websites that you visit.

Tips to Avoid Malware

1. Make sure that your antivirus software is up to

date.
2. Do not click carelessly on links within emails.
3. Back up your computer files or data.

Reflect:

Give 1 tip to share to other people on how to be a

responsible user of ICT and safe online presence.

Successful Entrepreneur in the Philippines

 1. Henry Sy – SM
2. Tony Tan Caktiong – Jollibee
3. John Gokongwei Jr. – Robinsons Mall,
Cebu Pacific , Mini Stop, Summit

Buying and Selling Products based on needs

and Demands
Activity: Encircle the letter of the correct
answer
1. A. ball
2. C. buyer
3. A.Service The Buying Process the buying decision process model
4. D. seller starts with the:
5. D. service
1. Recognition of needs and wants – purchase will
6. A. soy sauce
not take place without first knowing what you
7. C. conduct a survey of prospective
need and want.
and qualified buyers of the product
 A need is an important product that you must
8. A. understanding the buying
decision process acquire while a want is a product that you
9. B. jewelry desire but it is not important.
10.C. needs  A need is a necessity while a want is a luxury.
 For example , you need water to survive while
Buying and Selling products based on Needs you may want soft drinks to satisfy your thirst
and Demands but you don’t need it.
Buying and Selling for Profit is nothing new. 2. Information Search – buyers search for the
It has been around for thousand, of years the business environments to look for the potential
only difference has that the currency is product choices. Information may come from
switched from barter system to Philippine print , radio, television, and online advertising.
Money.  Evaluation of choices takes place after
buying different products/services to
choose from.
2 primary reasons:  Purchase decision step is where actual
purchasing takes place.
1. The first reason is the advent, wide acceptance
 For example you want to buy a cell
and use of the internet and
phone in store A but one of your friends
2. The second reason is what I refer to as the new
told you that store a is selling cell
economy
phones
Buying and Selling process that are not of good quality. So your
decision to buy a cell phone at store a
In order to effectively promote your product, you will be disrupted.
should first understand the buying decision process,and  After purchasing evaluation is the next
later prepare for selling strategies step which would determine whether
Buying Process – is the series of steps that a consumer the buyer will make similar purchases
will take to make a purchasing decision – Shawn from the same seller in the future on
Grimsley in Education Portal the basis of being either satisfied or
dissatisfied.
 actualization or self-fulfilment needs our
personal awareness and less concern with the
opinions of others selling of products.
The Selling Process Selling of Products Based on Needs and
Demands
1. Prospecting and Qualifying – research for your In the school and the community
potential buyers 1. Demands – are a step ahead of wants.
2. Approach – make a small talk Examples include the following
3. Presentation – present your product. 1. bottled water - is one of the most in -
4. Objection Handling demand products in school and community
5. Closing- this step is where the seller asks if the that can provide a solution to the need.
customer is willing to purchase. 2. Used clothing commonly known as “ukay-
6. Following-up – additional sales and customers ukay business offers imported products and
referrals. sometimes overruns sold at lwer price
NEEDS WANTS number
clothing cellphones
shelter laptops Identify which is a NEED or WANT
food Cars
education Bags ______ 1. New shoes
Health Care watches ______ 2. Water
Needs – are basic necessities of people ______ 3. Food
Wants – are goods that people desire to have. ______ 4. Shelter
______ 5. New car
Abraham Maslow - is a well-known American ______ 6. Bread
psychologist he proposed the different levels of needs ______ 7. Additional clothes
and human beings the basic needs of men are food ______ 8. Extra cellphone
clothing and shelter. ______ 9. Fish
______ 10. meat
 He called them basic because it pertains to
survival biological and physiological needs of people
Read and analyse the situations below. Identify
things needed in order to live this level had been very
each if the situation is a Need or Want. Write
helpful to all people once the need of a person is
your answers on the space provided.
satisfied he or she moves to the next level.

A brief description of Maslow's hierarchy of needs 1. Maria is having a problem about her school
project expenses because her mother's income
is just enough for their food. She decided to sell
1. Physiological needs or basic needs are things banana chips to her classmates so that she will
needed to survive such as food water air sleep have money to buy the materials needed for
clothing and shelter the project.
2. Security need or safety - needs are also Answer: _________
important for survival but not as demanding as
basic needs: 2. You are bored sitting alone in the house and
 examples of these are employment health care and turns on TV to watch news.
safe home . Answer: _________
3. Social needs - include the need for belonging
love affection friendship ,attachments and 3. One sunny morning, Joshua is playing on the
families park with his friends. He saw that his friend has
4. Esteem needs - include personal worth social a new toy. He feels jealous while watching it, he
recognition and accomplishments and fifth self-
 ran towards his mother and asked her to have
the same new toy.
Answer: _________

4. Angelo is having lunch with his father at the

restaurant, after eating, he again asks to eat ice
cream even if his already full.
Answer: ________
5. Arnold is a hardworking pupil in their school. Every
morning he brings fruits and
vegetables to the teachers to sell so that he can have
money to buy medicine for his sick mother.
Answer: ________

6. You are starving. You go to a restaurant and order

a cup of rice and one-piece fried chicken.
Answer: ________

7. After eating the rice and chicken, you ordered

another two cups of rice, two pieces of fried chicken
and a dessert.
Answer: ________

8. Mrs. Pedrosa was happy to announce to her pupils

that there will be a gift-giving activity in their school.
She said that all pupils will receive supplies,
raincoats, slippers and school bags. The pupils were
happy to hear the good news.
Answer: ________

9. While watching TV, you keep on changing

channels for a good TV show.
Answer: ________

10. You walked for one hour under the heat of the
sun. In a little while, your throat became dry. you
went to the shop and bought one bottle of water.
Answer: ________