Charls Aron Reyes

BSME-1A
GEC 10- Living I.T. New Era
Activities/Assessments (Midterms)
Chapter 4 Assessment
IDENTIFICATION: Read the questions carefully. Write your answer before the number.
Malicious Software 1. Malware is a short term used for _________.
Ransomware 2. It displays an image that prevents you from accessing your computer.
Pharming 3. _______ is a common type of online fraud.
Network etiquette 4. Netiquette is a short term used for _______.
Spam 5. The mass distribution of unsolicited messages, advertising or pornography to addresses
which can be easily found on the internet.
Spyware, adware 6. ______ and ______ are often used by third parties to infiltrate your
computer.
Trojan Horses 7. It is an executable file that will install itself and run automatically once it’s
downloaded.
Viruses 8. Malicious computer programs that are often sent as an email attachment or a
download with the intent of infecting your computer.
Spam 9. It is one of the more common methods of both sending information out and collecting it
from unsuspecting people.
Computer Ethics 10. It is a set of rules for behaving properly online.
Ransomware11. A type of malware that restricts access to your computer or your files
and displays a message that demands payment for the restriction to be removed.
Pharming 12. A means to point you to a malicious and illegitimate website by
redirecting the legitimate URL.
Cybercrimes 13. _______ are common threat to computer and the internet as a whole.
Hacking 14. Action taken by someone to gain unauthorized access to a computer.
Encryption Ransomware 15. It encrypts files on your system’s hard drive and sometimes on
shared network, drives, USB drives, and external hard drives and even some cloud storage drives
preventing you from opening them.
Spyware 16. They often come in the form of a free download and are installed automatically
with or without your consent.
Trojan Horses 17. A malicious program that is disguised as or embedded within legitimate
software.
Wi-Fi Eavesdropping 18. Virtual listening in on your information that’s shared over an
unsecured or not encrypted network.
Netiquette 19. It is the proper way to communicate in an online environment.
Spyware 20. Software that collects personal information about you without you
knowing.

Chapter 5 Activities/Assessment
Essay: Read the statement/s carefully. Answer the given statement/s concisely.

1. Discuss how digital technology change society in the area of:

a. Business
The involvement of digital technology in the field of business allows the transaction
between the customers and buyers possible in new and many ways. To be particular, for instance
is the impact of digital technology on offering products and services through online platforms or
applications such as Shoppee, Lazada, Tiktok and many more. The opportunities brought by this
mode of offering goods or services allow the concept of market to be possible in a new way.
Moreover, technological innovations also make the offering or manufacturing of goods and
services possible in faster and wider market, globally to be particular.
b. Job
Digital technology makes the job seeking opportunities open to the international stage.
And because of this, job seeking is faster by just tapping and typing in the web. In addition to
that, accomplishing task related to a particular job such as assorting data, managing finances, and
many more complicated job tasks to be done in a shorter period of time.
c. Health
Digital technology helps to rapidly increase awareness towards newly discovered
diseases just like how the World Health Organization took its step in raising awareness towards
COVID-19. Digital technology also eased the information exchange to fight unfamiliar
microorganisms and diseases just like how global health professionals take its step to develop
vaccines to minimize the casualties of COVID-19 during the hike of the community lockdown.
d. Lifestyle
Digital technology created negative impact on most of the users. The entertainment
caused by the various applications make the case of overweight and malnourished children rise at
an unexpected rate particularly during the pandemic. The sudden rise in this case, is mainly
caused by sedentary lifestyle caused by being stocked all day in one corner just playing and
streaming games and medias online. In the other hand, digital technology also helps to make the
discovery of better or new ways of having an active and healthy lifestyle brought by the exposure
of various perspectives of other health professionals and athletes on how they do their own
lifestyle.
e. Entertainment
Digital technology allows the accessibility of medias and entertainment be possible
within the reach of more users. Through applications like Netflix, Bilibili and many more, the
concept of movies that can only accessible inside the theater is not applicable anymore. Now, as
long as the user has internet connection, he has the unlimited capabilities to access entertainment
in any form anytime and anywhere he wanted.
f. Education
Digital technology allows the accessibility of knowledge and information possible
anytime and anywhere, particularly with the aid of internet. Because of these, anywhere can now
be a part of a classroom or can be a center of learning and discovery. Especially in the field of
research, they can resume they research as a team anywhere they are with the help of
applications that allows the users to interact through virtual classrooms.

2. Differentiate Technological Determinism and Social Constructivism. Elaborate and give

concrete examples.
Technological determinism is the concept that claims that technology plays the vital role
in shaping the society. In addition to that, it also claims that humans are the slave of the
technology. In other words, technological determinism states that technology is in the top of the
ecosystem which means that a society can’t achieve the state of being progressed without the
major help of the technology which even the human clings or depends onto. One of the best
example is the invention of steam engine which shows how the people rely too much on the
invention. In the other hand, social constructivism is the concept that contradicts the other
concept. In this concept the humans plays the major role in the society’s development. Moreover,
social constructivism states that human is not bound to technology and instead depends on the
idea of one another. To be more precise, this concept conveys the concept that the ability of
humans to think and formulate possible solutions is the major thing a society needs to achieve
true progress especially without relying on technology too much. One of the best examples in
this concept is cooperative learning where the participants helps or contributes their own views
about a certain topic to either teach one another or to add additional concepts for the sake of the
crowd.

3. Describe the process of technological change. How technological evolution takes place?
Technological change refers to the process of formulating ideas, innovation of these ideas
and distribution of ideas. To describe the process of technological evolution, the process starts in
the development of ideas. In this stage the main producer starts to brainstorm ideas that might
contain new services that the markets doesn’t have. After the development of ideas, the idea
starts to undergo the process of innovation. In these stage the developed ideas starts to undergo
trials to make the idea more marketable. Then at last after trials the idea will finally undergo the
process of distribution where the final product starts to be spread across the market.

Chapter 6 Assessment/Exercises

1. Enumerate 5 IoT devices and discuss what smart abilities they have.
a. Activity Trackers
It is consists of sensors which monitors and help to manage blood pressure, appetite,
physical movement and oxygen levels of the user.
b. Home Security
It is consists of variety of sensors, lights, alarms and cameras controlled by a smartphone
which ensures the safety of the establishments.
c. Industrial Security and Safety
It is consists of sensors that detects tresspassers and inside the establishments problems or
complications.
d. Augmented Reality Glasses
It allows the user to view animations in 3 dimensional setting.
e. Motion Detection
It detects vibrations that might help to identify anomalies and disturbances that might
result to catastrophic events.

2. Differentiate virtual reality technology and augmented technology from one another.
Virtual Reality technology is a world that uses virtual world and enhances a fictional
reality. In the other hand augmented reality is the world that uses real-world setting and enhances
both virtual and real world. To be more precise the difference between the two is that in virtual
reality you can explore underwater even though you’re not under the sea, while in augmented
reality you see tons of fish swimming through the world around you.
3. What are the positive and negative implications of these emerging trends to our culture and
society.
In a positive way, these emerging trends may help to improve and promote a society’s
culture and might enhance the interaction of individuals through various media. But in some
sense, these emerging trends might also cause to the destruction of the society and culture of a
particular place. It may destroy in the way that it either cause toxicities in the users verbal
vocabulary and prevents the promotion of the culture in that particular place.