LESSON 1

GOAL
At the end of the 2-week period, you will be able to independently compose an insightful
reflection paper on the nature of ICT in the context of your lives, society, and chosen
professional (i.e. Arts, Technical Vocational, Sports, and Academic Tracks) track.

Assessment

ICT and Society

1. Do you have a smartphone? What are the mobile applications that you use most
often?
I have smartphone and on my smartphone, there are many applications that I
use. Among those applications, I use INSTAGRAM the most. Before I mostly used
FACEBOOK but I found it bored and I tried to use INSTAGRAM and it was more
interesting. I can see the post that I am interested because INSTAGRAM recommends
posts. That's why I found INSTAGRAM more interesting and that application is the one
that I mostly use nowadays.

2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a mobile application that acts
as an online coach/personal trainer on your computer/smartphone?
The advantages of having an online coach/personal trainer are you can hire a
coach in a less price and you can ask or have consultations on the time that you want.
But for the disadvantages, the lessons or the consultations that the online coach that
give might be found in the internet easily and you can't know if the coach is well trained
or profession.

3. List the advantages and disadvantages of watching YouTube videos of exercises and
workouts.
The advantages of watching YouTube videos of exercise or workouts are there
will be no fees to learn the motion of exercise. At the same time, it is easy to find the
video and you can exercise on the time that you are free. But for the disadvantages, the
way that you follow such as the position might be wrong and if there is a poor internet
connection, it might be hard to learn and watch.
Social Media
1. Do you use social media? What social media accounts do you own? How often do
you use social media?
I use social media and I have accounts in Facebook, Instagram, Line, Kakaotalk,
and many more. And I use those social media during my free time.

2. What are the consequences of posting too many things online?

If we post too many things online, there will be personal information that the
people that you don't know can know. If the people that you don't know see your
personal information, you might get scammed and there will be no privacy.

3. What is your online social media presence? How much of your personal life is
displayed online? What do you think are the benefits and risks of displaying personal
information?

I have Facebook and Instagram and like half of my day is displayed online
because I post my days on online everyday. The benefit is that you can get useful
informations and you cam share your life to others easily but for the risk, others might
invade your personal information.

Online Safety and Piracy

1. Choose two websites that you use often that ask for your personal
security (ex. your email account and your social media account).
For us, the websites that usually ask about personal security are gmail and
facebook. Like most of the emails, it is really important to be assured when it comes to
security because there are important files and documents that are stored in that
particular website. It often asks about the mobile number and questions that can be
used to retrieve whenever something happened to your account like for example if you
forgot your password. Facebook also requires the same thing with an email. It has a
personal security requirement for us to be able to have a secured and safe account
without having the doubt.
2. Go to their respective home pages and search for their Privacy Policies.

3. Which privacy policy provisions are most important to you? Why?

 The most important privacy policy provisions based on what we read is the
disclosure of information because it is the crucial part since the time we entered the
world of social media. It exposed us into a public platform wherein our information are
all around the web. That’s why we are really looking into something that can protect us
from the possible leakage of our private informations.

Rubrics for reflection paper

Criteria Guide Questions Weak Fair Goo Very

1 2 d Good
3 4
Organization Was the information logical and
presented in a sequence that the
audience can follow?
Information is presented in a logical
and interesting sequence and
points are expressed clearly.
Objectives Objectives of the paper are clearly
stated, appropriately repeated and
strongly supported.
Language The language choices are
choices thoughtful and support the
effectiveness of the paper.
Self- The writer demonstrates deliberate
awareness reflection and demonstrates
awareness of one’s own thought
processes.
Levels of Reflection may challenge long-held
Learning assumptions or demonstrate new
perspectives. The reflection
provides insight into personal goals
and levels of learning.

LESSON 2
GOAL
At the end of the lesson, you will be able to understand better the 24/7, social nature of
digital media. In particular, you will be able to:
● Explore your digital life; and
● Learn that it is important to act responsibly when carrying
out relationships over digital media.

Assessment
Discuss what surprised you the most and which answers were the closest to or farthest
from your own experiences.13
1. 82% of teens say that they own which of the following?
a) cell phone
b) smartphone
c) iPod Touch or similar device
d) iPad or similar device
2. What percent of teens describe themselves as “addicted” to their cell phones?
a) 11%
b) 27%
c) 41%

d) 63%
3. 68% of teens say they do which of the following at least once a day?
a) text
b) visit a social network
c) instant message (IM)
d) use email
4. How many characters (letters, punctuation marks, symbols, and spaces)
can you send in a regular text message?
a) 110
b) 140
c) 200
d) 250
5. How often do 34% of teens visit social networking sites?
a) at least once a day
b) several times a day
c) once a week or less

d) never
6. What percent of teens say that they don’t understand their social networking site’s
privacy policies?
a) 24%
b) 35%
c) 46%
d) 61%
7. What percent of teens still prefer face-to-face communication with their friends over
communication online or via texting?
a) 22%
b) 36%
c) 49%
d) 61%

8. What percent of teens say they have said something bad about someone online that
they wouldn’t have said in person?
a) 33%
b) 67%
c) 49%
d) 25%
9. What percent of teens say that social networking helps them connect with people
who share a common interest?
a) 35%
b) 42%
c) 57%
d) 66%
10. What percent of teens agreed they wish they could “unplug” for a while?
a) 13%
b) 27%
c) 29%

d) 43%
Searching Using Google Scholar: From Broad to Narrow

1. Choose a general topic of interest (e.g. boxing)

2. Enter the search term on Google Scholar. Write down the first
three articles that come up.
3. Narrow your search. (e.g. Manny Pacquiao). Repeat step 2.
4. Further narrow your search. (e.g. Manny Pacquiao speed and agility). Repeat step 2

Topic Results

Topic (broad):

Topic (narrow):

Topic: Philippines

ARTICLE I: Hanunoo agriculture. A report on an integral system of shifting cultivation in

the Philippines. Vol. 2.

Author(s) : CONKLIN, H. C.
Book : For. Devel. Pap. 12 FAO. 1957 pp.209 pp. ref.bibl. 187
Abstract : In this second volume [for Vol. 1 see Fld Crop Abstr. 11: 775] the term
swidden agriculture is preferred to shifting cultivation for defining any agricultural system
in which fields are cleared by burning and are cropped discontinuously (implying periods
of fallowing which are always, on average, longer than periods of cropping). This is a
study of one type of swidden farming system in the Philippines as practised by the
Hanunoo of Mindoro Island (12-13° Lat. N). The Hanunoo, about 6000 people living on
approximately 800 sq. km. of forest- and grass-covered uplands, practice no permanent
field agriculture. The present study was conducted on a few settlements in the Yägaw
area. The territory has a tropical monsoon climate. A detailed analysis is made of each
of the 5 distinct phases in any Hanunoo full swidden cycle: site selection; cutting;
burning; cropping and fallowing. Fallowing occupies two-thirds to three-fourths of the
total time of a complete cycle. Intercropping is general. A 7-page table shows the crops
grown together with their local, English and scientific names, their uses, and sowing, or
planting, data. Another table shows their harvesting periods. Grain annual cropping,
mainly rice, is the focus of agricultural work from May to December. An index, and a
glossary of Hanunoo terms, are given. The Hanunoo system requires a minimum of a
little more than 2 ha. of cultivable land per person to maintain its present average of a
12-year swidden cycle; the present land-population ratio is about 4 ha./person. No
suggestions are made for improving the standard of living of the group studied; there
appears, however, to be no urgent need for such suggestions as this is a case of a
good, stable equilibrium between man and his environment.-E. Biasutti Owen.
Record Number : 19591700517
Language of text : not specified
Language of summary : not specified
Indexing terms for this abstract:
Descriptor(s) : burning, climate, fallow, farming systems, glossaries, harvesting,
intercropping, rain, selective felling, shifting cultivation, sowing, tropics, upland areas,
wet season
Identifier(s) : agricultural systems, bush fallowing, fallowing, flaming, rainfall, rainy
season, seed sowing, slash and burn, swidden agriculture, terminologies, tropical
countries, tropical zones
Geographical Location(s) : Philippines
Broader term(s) : APEC countries, ASEAN Countries, Developing Countries, South East
Asia, Asia

ARTICLE II: Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence From a Commitment Savings
Product in the Philippines

Nava Ashraf Dean Karlan Wesley Yin

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 121, Issue 2, 1 May 2006, Pages 635–
672, https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.2006.121.2.635
Published: 01 May 2006

Abstract
We designed a commitment savings product for a Philippine bank and implemented it
using a randomized control methodology. The savings product was intended for
individuals who want to commit now to restrict access to their savings, and who were
sophisticated enough to engage in such a mechanism. We conducted a baseline survey
on 1777 existing or former clients of a bank. One month later, we offered the
commitment product to a randomly chosen subset of 710 clients; 202 (28.4 percent)
accepted the offer and opened the account. In the baseline survey, we asked
hypothetical time discounting questions. Women who exhibited a lower discount rate for
future relative to current trade-offs, and hence potentially have a preference for
commitment, were indeed significantly more likely to open the commitment savings
account. Mter twelve months, average savings balances increased by 81 percentage
points for those clients assigned to the treatment group relative to those assigned to the
control group. We conclude that the savings response represents a lasting change in
savings, and not merely a short-term response to a new product.

ARTICLE III: Medicinal plants of the Philippines.

Author(s) : Quisumbing, E.
Bulletin : Department of Agriculture and Commerce, Philippine Islands Technical
Bulletin. 1951 No.16 pp.1234 pp.
Abstract : This is a title only record which contains no abstract. Please see the
bibliographic details to the right.
Record Number : 20057007481
Language of text : English
Language of summary : English
Indexing terms for this abstract:
Organism descriptor(s) : Bryophyllum pinnatum, Cassia, Coffea, Kalanchoe, plants,
Pterocarpus, Pterocarpus indicus, Pterocarpus macrocarpus, Santalum, Saxifragales,
Senna obtusifolia
Descriptor(s) : coffee, cotyledons, medicinal plants, sprouting, weeds
Identifier(s) : Burma, Cassia obtusifolia, drug plants, Jawa, Kalanchoe pinnata, Lao
People's Democratic Republic, medicinal herbs, officinal plants, Pterocarpus echinatus,
Pterocarpus vidalianus
Geographical Location(s) : Cuba, Indonesia, Java, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New
Guinea, Philippines, Spain
Broader term(s) : Bryophyllum (Spermatophyta), Crassulaceae, Saxifragales, eudicots,
angiosperms, Spermatophyta, plants, eukaryotes, Caesalpinioideae, Fabaceae,
Fabales, Rubiaceae, Gentianales, Papilionoideae, Pterocarpus, Santalaceae,
Santalales, Senna (Spermatophyta), Developing Countries, Greater Antilles, Antilles,
Caribbean, America, Latin America, APEC countries, ASEAN Countries, South East
Asia, Asia, Indonesia, Indochina, Least Developed Countries, Commonwealth of
Nations, Threshold Countries, Melanesia, Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands,
Developed Countries, European Union Countries, Mediterranean Region, OECD
Countries, Southern Europe, Europe

NARROW: Philippine Rice

Intergenerational transfers in Philippine rice villages: Gender differences in traditional
inheritance customs

Abstract
This paper examines education, land, and nonland asset transfers from parents to
children in five rice villages in the Philippines. A model with family fixed effects explains
transfers better than either individual heterogeneity or observed parent and child
characteristics without family fixed effects. Families facing different land constraints
exhibit significantly different patterns of educational investment in children. In a
subsample with completed inheritance, daughters receive less education, land, and total
inheritance, but are compensated with nonland assets. Parents also exhibit preferential
behavior towards children of the same gender: daughters of better educated mothers
receive more land, nonland assets and total inheritance; better educated fathers give
land preferentially to sons, but favor daughters in education.

NARROW: Philippine Rice Farmers

Rubrics for participation

Criteria Exemplary Proficient Developing Unacceptable

4 3 2 1
Frequency of Student Student Student Student does
participation initiates initiates initiates not initiate
and quality of contributions sometimes. contribution contribution &
comments regularly. Comments once. needs instructor
Comments are mostly Comments to solicit input.
are always insightful & are Comments are
insightful and constructive; sometimes uninformative,
constructive. mostly uses constructive, lacking in
Comments appropriate with appropriate
are balanced terminology. occasional terminology.
between Occasionally, signs of
general comments insight.
impressions, are Student does
not use
appropriate
terminology;
opinions & too general comments
specific, or not are not
thoughtful relevant to always
criticisms or the relevant to
contributions. discussion. the
discussion.
Listening Student Student is Student is Does not listen
skills listens mostly often to others;
attentively attentive inattentive regularly talks
when others when others and needs while others
present present reminder to speak or does
materials, ideas, focus on not pay
perspectives. materials. class. attention while
Student Student Occasionally others speak;
reflects and builds on makes detracts from
builds on others’ disruptive discussion;
others’ remarks. comments sleeps, etc.
remarks. Occasionally while others
needs are speaking.
encourageme
nt or
reminder
LESSON 3

GOAL
At the end of the lesson, you will be a better user of search engines. In particular, you
can be more deeply aware of search techniques that will give results that are useful for
your academic and chosen career.

Assessment

Ask the students to search about recipes of local delicacies or how to create popular
crafts and products in their town. What search terms can they use? Be guided by the
material found in the Student Reader entitled “What matters in a query?” Simulate in the
class how search engines work by doing the following activities:
The Philippines is a country that celebrates every occasion; birthday, anniversary,
graduation, fiestas among others. It doesn’t matter what occasion is being held, you can
always serve the Cassava Cake as it is one of the most popular desserts ever present
in the menu of every Philippine household during festivities. The root crop, Cassava,
originated in Southern Mexico but there’s plenty of it in the Philippines. Its plant grows
about 3 meters tall and is called Kamoteng Kahoy in Tagalog. There are many ways in
which you can prepare the crop like simply boiling it and mixing red sugar but the
Cassava Cake Recipe, which started in Lucban, Quezon is the one that became the
favorite on special occasions. It is also a favorite “pasalubong” for family and friends
and why not? It’s one of the most deliciously creamy desserts or merienda you can ever
have. Several “pasalubong” centers in Southern Luzon offers a wide variety of take-
home pies or cakes and the Cassava Cake is one of them.

Cassava Cake Recipe Tips & Preparation

The Cassava Cake Recipe contains sugar, eggs, coconut milk and of course,
grated cassava. After purchasing the best cassava in the market, you also have to
check on the freshness of the coconut milk and the eggs. You should also remember
that to come up with any luscious food, the ingredients should always be fresh. It is
placed in tin molds like the ones used in Leche Flan, which is also another favorite
dessert in the Philippines. Make sure that you follow the directions especially the
number of minutes needed in Baking or Steaming this dessert to ensure that it will have
that creamy, mouthwatering taste. Its creaminess is what makes it a common favorite
and distinct from other Desserts you can taste.
Cassava Cake Recipe

Prep time
15 mins
Cook time
1 hour 15 mins
Total time
1 hour 30 mins

Author: Recipe ni Juan

Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 15
Ingredients
• 2 kilos grated cassava
• 6 cups coconut milk (squeezed in 2 coconuts)
• 1 big can evap milk
• ½ kilo brown sugar (Segunda)
• Butter for greasing
For toppings:
• 1½ cups coconut cream
• 3 pcs.eggs
• 1 big can condense milk
• 1 small box cheddar cheese (grated)
• macapuno (optional)

Instructions
1. Mix grated cassava, sugar, evap milk and coconut milk.
2. Adjust your mixture by adding water if you think your mixture is too dry but not too
watery.
3. Greased the pan then pour the cassava mixture and bake in a preheated oven of
350°f for 1 hour until translucent in color.
4. Remove from the oven and put the mix toppings except for the cheese and bake
again until topping is golden brown in color.
5. Remove again from the oven and add the grated cheese on top and bake for
another minute until the cheese is golden brown.
6. Serve.

Quezon is also known as “The Coconut Capital of the Philippines” because it

produces more coconut than any other place in the Philippines. Quezon province was
formerly called “Kaliraya” then “Tayabas”. It was changed into “Quezon” province only in
the year 1946.

Step 1: Select a Coconut

It is very difficult to find a perfectly shaped coconut. So we use whatever available with
us. In most of the husked coconuts, you may find a small portion of fiber left intact
covering the three indentations or holes on top of the shell. This prevents the coconut
meat from getting spoiled.
Remove the left-over fiber from the coconut and fix it firmly using any kind of attachment
so that the three indentations face upwards.
Step 2: Cut a Hole on Top
• Using a round cutting tool pit and a drilling machine, cut a hole of about 1-1/2
inches in diameter on top the coconut
• Remove the shell and coconut meat from the cut portion and drain out the water
from inside the coconut.
Step 3: Remove the Coconut Meat
• Using a knife or a coconut scrapper, remove the coconut meat from inside the
shell.
• Clean the inside with the scrapper so that no trace of the meat remains inside the
shell
Step 4: Scrap Out the Fiber
• We need to clean all the fibrous material from the outer surface of the shell. Use a
knife to scrap out as much possible from the outer surface.
Step 5: Sand Out the Outer Portion
• It is not possible to scrap out all the fiber from the shall using a knife. Here I have
used a Rotary tool and a sanding drum to remove all fibrous material from the
outer surface of the shell.
Step 6: Mark Your Design
I am going to do a simple design using the shell

• Roughly mark the center of the shell opposite to the round hole we made earlier
• Using a compass and pencil, mark a circle on top
• Divide the circle into eight equal parts.
• A small hole drilled on the markings with a micro drill bit will help in holding the
needle point of the compass over the coconut shell.
• You can mark further designs of your choice on the shell using the compass
Step 7: Drill Out the Design
• Drill holes along the lines marked on the outer surface of the shell. I have used a
rotary tool and flex shaft attachment to drill out holes on the shell. You can make
any design of your choice with any tool available with you. As this is my first project
with a coconut shell, I used a simple design.
Step 8: Mark More Designs
• Using the compass, mark more designs on the outer surface of the shell. You can
also use any template or just draw a free hand design on the shell
Step 9: Drill Out the Design
• Using a rotary tool with a flex shaft attachment and different sizes of drill bits, I
made my design on the coconut shell. The last picture shows the view of the
completed design through the top hole
Step 10: Decorate With Lighting
You can tie threads on the edge holes and hang the coconut shell from the ceiling or
any where you like. A blinking multi-colored LED can be used as lighting inside the shell.
You can see the reflection of lighting on the opposite wall in the last picture.
People spend a fortune for these types of decorative lighting, where as here we made
one which costed nothing other than few hours of labor

What Matters in a Query?

1 Every word matters.

Try searching for [who], [the who], and [a who]

2 Order matters.

Try searching for [blue sky] and [sky blue]

3 Capitalization does not matter.

Try searching for [barack obama] and [Barack Obama]

4 Punctuation does not matter.

Try searching for [red, delicious% apple&] and [red delicious apple]