EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGY

What is Empowerment Technology
Empowerment Technology or E-Tech often deals with the use of different technologies such as mobile phones, telephone, computer and other devices to locate, save, communicate and to inform. Empowerment Technologies is a specialized module designed to provide students with the foundation of knowledge and skills needed to succeed in environments that require the use of computer and the Internet. It covers topics for building essential 21st century skills in working, collaborating, and creating contents online. This course will aid in teaching competencies that are essential in the information Age, such as the state of ICT technologies; online safety, security, ethics, and etiquette; productivity tools with advance application techniques; imaging and designing for online environment; multimedia tools; and powerful tools to create a social change, which are aligned to the standards set by the Department of Education for the senior high school level. This is divided into two units: the first unit allows the students to discover the world of ICT in general and also helps them improve their skills in various applications. Real-life applications are integrated throughout the text in the exercises. The second unit allows the students to develop, promote, and publish a campaign for social change using various free tools and services.
What is the Importance of Empowerment Technology?
Empowerment Technology is important since it makes our individual lives easier in different aspects such as for school matters, office or work matters and for our individual matters. Before, blackboards and whiteboards are one of the tools used in teaching students. Now, there are already LCD Projectors that is being used by many institutions or schools nowadays. By the help of Empowerment Technology, teachers made their lives easier through the use of these projectors and the students as well made their lives easier in acquiring knowledge. E-Tech is not just useful for the school matters, but it is also useful in an office or work matters and for personal matters as well. For example, when you are ought to make a presentation. Since, technology has evolved, we already has these presentation softwares such as Microsoft presentation, Prezi, Lotus’ Freelance Graphics and etc. Without these presentation softwares, we will all still be stuck onto those visual aid presentation. Empowerment Technology doesn’t just conserve time, but it can make our lives easier.
Empowerment Technology is important for it also helping our country for its modernization plans. We are now living in a world where everyone is upgrading its systems. It is called modernization. Empowerment technologies can help in modernization because it can strengthen our plans to be competitive with other countries by building up some new technologies for the betterment of our nation. Philippines has a potential onto being competitive with other countries such as Finland, Japan, and United States – that its success toward the field of technology is far beyond what everyone expected.
Empowerment Technology is important, for without E-Tech, it will hinder our future success in the field of technology.