This document discusses empowerment technologies and ICT as a platform for social change. It begins with an activity using Kahoot, a game-based learning platform. It then covers topics like the power of social media, ICT for advocacy, and digital citizenship. Examples are given of how ICT helped enable social movements in the Philippines like the People Power Revolution and Million People March. The role of technologies like social media, texting, and people finder databases are discussed. The objectives are to understand how ICT enables social change and how to plan an advocacy campaign using ICT skills.

1. Empowerment Technologies
Vee Jay S. Blancia, LPT, ECT
SHS Teacher II

4. Kahoot Game

5. “I got stinky, I got dirty, but see, I
learned!”
1. How do you find the activity?
2. Is 60 seconds enough to complete a task?
3. What have you observed while playing the
Kahoot Game?

6. “I got stinky, I got dirty, but see, I
learned!”
4. How will you fix the puzzle easily?
5. To win, what should a player do with the
questions in the Kahoot Game?

7. “I got stinky, I got dirty, but see, I
learned!”
The students who were unable to finish
the task in 60 seconds or with the lowest
score will explain the photos in 30
seconds.

12. These photos have something to
do with the lesson today. As ICT
becomes an agent for the change
that we are experiencing, the point
is, how far have we gone right
now?

13. ICT as a Platform for CHANGE

14. Topics:
✔ Power of Social Media
✔ ICT as a Medium for
Advocacy
✔ Digital Citizenship

15. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able
to:
1. Understand the importance of ICT as a platform
for social change;
2. Understand the events that ICT helped realize;
and
3. Use prior ICT knowledge in planning a campaign

16. The Power of
Social Media

17. The power of Social Media
✔ What advantages do the creation of social media offer
citizens of developing nation?
✔ Should international policymakers and organizations
concerned with economic development and human
rights embrace social media as tools for achieving
those ends? How should social media fit into the
broader context of ICT?

18. The Role of ICT in Recent
History

19. EDSA (People Power Revolution)
✔ During a radio
broadcast of Radyo
Veritas in 1986,
Cardinal Sin
encourage the
Filipinos to help end
the regime of then
President Ferdinand
Marcos

20. EDSA (People Power Revolution)
✔ A major protest
took place along
EDSA from
February 22-25,
1986 – involving
two million Filipinos
from different
sectors.

21. EDSA Dos (2001 EDSA Revolution)
✔ EDSA Dos happened
during January 17-21,
2001. It fueled when
eleven prosecutors
walked out during the
impeachment of then
President Joseph
Estrada.

22. EDSA Dos (2001 EDSA Revolution)
✔ This revolution
would not have
been successful
without the power
of text brigade.
Source:
https://moonmon1310.wordpress.com
/

23. Million People March
✔ This is a series of
protests that mainly
took place in Luneta
Park from August 22-
26, 2013 – to
condemn the misuse
of the Priority
Development
Assistance Fund

24. Million People March
✔ The organizers and
the promoters of the
Million People March
used Facebook and
Change.org as their
medium of campaign.
Source: https://images.gmanews.tv/

25. Yolanda People Finder
✔ Recent storms in the
Philippine history
gave birth to the
People Finder
Database powered by
Google.

26. Yolanda People Finder
✔ During Typhoon
Yolanda (Haiyan), the
People Finder was a
vital tool for people
across the globe to
locate the situation of
their relatives

27. Yolanda People Finder
✔ It is now adapted
by most
organizations to
help people track
their loved ones.
Source: https://www.climate.gov/

28. Digital Citizenship

29. What is Digital Citizenship?
✔ A digital citizenship is a person using information
technology in order to engage in society, politics,
education and government.
✔ Digital Citizenship is how we should act when we are
using digital tools, interacting with others online, and
what should be taught to help the next generation be
better stewards of this technology.

30. “
Don’t push
people where
you want to be;
meet them
where they are.”
Meghan Keaney
Anderson
VP in Marketing,

31. Change.org

32. What is Change.org?
✔ Change.org is dubbed as the “world’s platform for
change” where anyone from online community can
create a petition and ask others to sign it.
✔ During the past times, petitions are only done through
signing of paper, usually done by a group asking for
signatures via travel.

33. What is Change.org?
✔ Change.org gives access to more people by allowing
the online community to affix their digital signatures on
a petition.
✔ Change.org’s mission is to help people from around the
world create the change they want to see.

34. Signing an Online Petition in
Change.org

35. Assessment