CASE NO. 8

Additional Two (2) Years in Elementary and in High School

MANILA, Oct. 11 (PNA) -- A group composed of the country’s leading businessmen and education personalities championing education reforms has expressed its support to the plan of the Department of Education (DepEd) to add two more years or “senior high school” to the current 10-year basic education curriculum. In a statement, the Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) said the plan unveiled by Education Secretary Armin Luistro during the World Teachers Day celebration was long overdue as it called on education stakeholders, including the business community, to support the plan.

“We at Philippine Business for Education or PBEd welcomes the government’s strong resolve to finally put in place a decades-old proposal for a K+12 basic education cycle. PBEd reiterates that the additional years in basic education cannot be separated from the issue of poor quality of the education system,” the group’s statement said.

The group said the current 10-year basic education cycle has only resulted to poor performance of students.

“Forcing into 10 years a curriculum that is learned by the rest of the world in 12 years has resulted in poor performance by our students. This, over and above the poor quality and lack of teachers, textbooks and workbooks and facilities, continues to make learning a growing challenge for more and more of our students,” PBED added.

Earlier, Secretary Luistro said that despite the measures implemented by the department in recent years, the poor quality of basic education is reflected in the low achievement scores of Filipino students. He cited the 69.21 percent passing rate of Grade 6 students in last year’s National Achievement Test (NAT) as still needing reform measures though it is already a 24 percent improvement rate over the 2005-2006 NAT passing rate. Likewise, the NAT for high school was 46.38 percent last year, a slight decrease from 47.40 percent in 2008-2009. International education surveys like the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMS) ranks the Philippines 34th out of 38 countries in Math and 43rd out of 46 countries rated in Science. In 2008, even with only the science high schools participating in the Advanced Mathematics category, the country ranked lowest. PBEd said these reasons are more than enough to convince those opposed to the plan to rally around the DepEd.

“PBEd calls on the various education sector stakeholders to rally around the K+12 effort. It shall be no easy task and it shall most certainly make the necessary reforms even more complex, requiring even larger investments. However, K+12 coupled with other systemwide reforms like those under the Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA) are essential if we want our children to learn to learn and learn to achieve,” the statement said.

“Certainly, with K+12, business shall be able to open its doors to hiring high school graduates as is the practice in almost all other countries in the rest of the world. Consequently, K+12 also further opens up doors to global opportunities for our young Filipinos. We also call on the members of the legislature to support this program, to be guided by a real concern with what is best for our youth rather than what is merely popular. Those who insist on throwing obstacles in the way of K+12 are condemning our kids to poverty and sabotaging their opportunities for a better life,” the group added.

At the same time, the group junked the arguments raised by those who are against the plan that it would make life difficult for the poor who have to bear two more years of schooling of their children. PBEd believes that making Kinder and an additional two years available to all in the public basic education system is another pro-poor and poverty-combating initiative of the Aquino Government. K+12 gives to the masses the extra years of schooling that for many years has only been available in private elite education institutions. Studies have shown that every additional year of schooling improves the income potential of a student as she/he enters the world of work,” they said.

Among the leading personalities at PBEd are Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, Jose Cuisia, Manuel Pangilinan, Ricardo Romulo, Ramon Del Rosario Jr., Oscar Lopez, Washington Sycip, George Yang and Tony Tann Caktiong. Luistro said the two years of senior high school intend to provide time for students to “consolidate acquired academic skills and competencies.”

“The curriculum will allow specializations in science and technology, music and arts, agriculture and fisheries, sports, business and entrepeneurship and subjects for advanced placements,” the official said. But he added the program will not sidetracked the DepEd’s effort in addressing the problems besetting the basic education sector such as the lack of classrooms, textbooks, teachers and other facilities.

The department has already included a provision for substantial physical requirements for the 2011 budget, and Luistro said they are looking to introduce in subsequent years a budget that will constitute a significant increase not just in nominal terms but also in real terms.The DepEd will get a P207 billion budget next year, up from this year’s P172 billion. Of the amount, the department has allocated P12 billion for the construction of new classrooms nationwide. (PNA)
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OPINION/COMMENT:

The purpose of Additional 2 years in Elementary and in High School to enhance the basic knowledge of the student for oncoming in college. If they in college they will only enhance their knowledge on their major subjects concerning in their degree. I am agree if that will happen lots of parents or guardians will suffer in difficulty of life. would translate to added burden to parents who could barely send their children to school. For a poverty-stricken country such as ours, the proposal to add two years to basic education is a question of survival. Quality should be the point for education even in small span of time in learning in school still it benefits much.

CASE NO. 7

Ways to Secure Computer Systems from being Compromised


1. Regularly scan your computer system

Regular Scanning of your Computer System is one of the important things to do because it helps a lot in maintaining the security to avoid losing of information stored on your computers or important files and other data.

2. Cleaning Up of your computer system

It is important to get in the habit of running a computer clean up to protect yourself against hackers that can exploit your operating system and view all of your files and where you have been on the Internet.

3. Use UPS to protect your hard disk failure and data loss due to the power failure

Uninterpretible Power Supply (UPS) is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to a load when the input power source, typically the fails. It provide instantaneous or near-instantaneous protection from input power interruptions by means of one or more attached batteries and associated electronic circuitry for low power users, and or by means of diesel generators and flywheels for high power users.

4. Install software programs that is compatible to your computer system

Installing software programs that is compatible to your computer system is better to avoid avoid errors in running that particular programs. And it lessen the time in installing it because it easy for the computer system to adapt that said software programs.

5. Verify File Integrity

The integrity of the file is just as important as anything in it -- both to guard against tampering and to ensure that files aren't corrupted during downloads or from being transported on bad media. Such things are rare, but they do happen, and they contribute in their own small way to what might be the only available copy of something becoming unusable.

6. Install proper Tools

Good tools make tieing off the top rail much easier and faster. Its better to use proper tools to avoid the destruction of your computer system because using unappropriate tools it tends breaks the parts of the computers.

7. Make sure your computer is physically secure

When the computer isn't being used make sure it's switched off to minimize electricity. It also protected from all unauthorized changes that are undetectable to authorized users. In most of the hacking cases, integrity of resources is compromised.

8. Defragmentation

It is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation in file system. It does this by physically organizing the contents of the disk to store the pieces of each file close together and contiguously It also attempts to create larger regions of free space using compaction to impede the return of fragmentation. Some defragmenters also try to keep smaller files within a single directory together, as they are often accessed in sequence.

9. Know your processes

Knowing what is running on your computer will increase your ability to identify potentially harmful processes. To make things easier, break things down into simple parts. I know it may sound silly, but your first part should be on how to turn on a computer if you know that simple process then you know how to use the computer system.

10. Know your Registry

Residual files, unused or undeleted drivers, and corrupt or bad entries in registry settings will quickly litter even the newest of computers causing a loss of performance and general PC instability. If you keep your registry clean and know what is inside, you will be in a better position to realize immediately when performance has taken a downturn. Therefore it is advisable to invest in a good registry cleaner: one that allows you to scan your registry thoroughly and fix all errors. Moreover, the cleaner must be able to backup your registry.

CASE NO. 6

Republic Act No. 7394. The Consumer Act of the Philippines it is the policy of the state to protect the interests of consumer, to promote his general welfare and to establish standards of conduct for business and industry. The state implemented this Law to measure the following objectives: protection against hazards to health and safety; protection against deceptive, unfair and unconscionable sales acts and practices; provision of information and education to facilitate sound choice and the proper exercise of rights by the consumer; provision of adequate rights and means of redress; and involvement of consumer representatives in the formulation of social and economic policies.

Through this Republic Act No. 7394 it helps the consumers to expand their business. If their are any consumer who violates the Law their are appropriate penalties to the violation. The best interest of the consumer shall be considered in the interpretation and implementation of the provisions of this Act, including its implementing rules and regulations. It is very useful in our lives now a days because it purpose to provide advertisement to endorsed the product to become more popular to other people. It also help the financial aspects of the business. encourage fair, honest and equitable relations among parties in consumer transactions and protect the consumer against deceptive, unfair and unconscionable sales acts or practices. Grossly inimical to the interests of the consumer or grossly one side in favor of the producer, manufacturer, distributor, supplier or seller. A deceptive act or practice by a seller or supplier in connection with a consumer transaction violates this Act whether it occurs before, during or after the transaction. An act or practice shall be deemed deceptive whenever the producer, manufacturer, supplier or seller, through concealment, false representation of fraudulent manipulation, induces a consumer to enter into a sales or lease transaction of any consumer product or service. The State shall adopt measures designed to protect the consumer against substances other than food, drugs, cosmetics and devices that are hazardous to his health and safety.

A deceptive act or practice by a seller or supplier in connection with a consumer transaction violates this Act whether it occurs before, during or after the transaction. An act or practice shall be deemed deceptive whenever the producer, manufacturer, supplier or seller, through concealment, false representation of fraudulent manipulation, induces a consumer to enter into a sales or lease transaction of any consumer product or service. Without limiting the scope of the above paragraph, the act or practice of a seller or supplier is deceptive when it represents. An unfair or unconscionable sales act or practice by a seller or supplier in connection with a consumer transaction violates this Chapter whether it occurs before, during or after the consumer transaction.

An act or practice shall be deemed unfair or uncionscionable whenever the producer, manufacturer, distributor, supplier or seller, by taking advantage of the consumer's physical or mental infirmity, ignorance, illiteracy, lack of time or the general conditions of the environment or surroundings, induces the consumer to enter into a sales or lease transaction Grossly inimical to the interests of the consumer or gross one-sided in favor of the producer, manufacturer, distributor, supplier or seller.

CASE NO. 5

1. How new technology is rewiring our our brains?

Answer:

“The technology is rewiring our brains” because technology use can benefit the brain in some ways, researchers say. Imaging studies show the brains of Internet users become more efficient at finding information. And players of some video games develop better visual acuity.More broadly, cellphones and computers have transformed life. They let people escape their cubicles and work anywhere. They shrink distances and handle countless mundane tasks, freeing up time for more exciting pursuits.For better or worse, the consumption of media, as varied as e-mail and TV, has exploded.The nonstop interactivity is one of the most significant shifts ever in the human environment.“We are exposing our brains to an environment and asking them to do things we weren’t necessarily evolved to do,” he said. “We know already there are consequences.”

I agree that technology is rewiring our brains because their are lots of people that are so dependent in technology. They sense that they cannot lived without technology. It is good to be rewired our brains but not in that much because intends to expect such thing from the process of evolution or imaginations.

Example:

Remember when publishers used to print books on paper? Actually, they still do. At least for now, anyway. But sometimes it's easy to forget.

“I was reading a book last night, and I wondered whether something I'd just read had been mentioned earlier in the book,” says Dianne Smith, a sales professional in Manchester, Massachusetts. “I wanted to do a search back through the preceding chapters to find the reference. Then I realized I was reading print and would have to flip back page by page. I laughed at myself. But I do love the good old-fashioned pleasure of page turning.”

Sharing electronic text can be a simple matter of pressing a few keys, says Matthew Kammerait, marketing and social media specialist for Quad/Graphics, a $5 billion book and magazine printer in Sussex, Wisconsin. Sharing a physical book? You might have to exchange actual molecules.

“Working on my iphone or laptop, etc., I've become very used to sharing just about everything I find interesting with others to foster dialogue,” says Kammerait. “When I'm reading a printed book, I find myself looking for Share widgets on the page.”

That's okay, Matt. We won't tell your bosses.

CASE NO. 4

1. What is Outsourcing?

Answer:

Outsourcing is usually the term used when a company takes a part of its business and gives that part to another company. In recent times, the terms has been most commonly used for technology related initiatives such as handing over the IT help-desk to a third-party. But it can also refer to non-technical services such as handing over the telephone-based customer service department. It is an arrangement in which one company provides services for another company that could also be or usually have been provided in-house. And also a trend that is becoming more common in information technology and other industries for services that have usually been regarded as intrinsic to managing a business. In some cases, the entire information management of a company is outsourced, including planning and business analysis as well as the installation, management, and servicing of the network and workstations. Can be defined as passing of service provision or production to another internal or external party. is the process of subcontracting to a third party. Outsourcing is a controversial issue because often it means that the companies are outsourcing jobs outside of the country's economy. Outsourcing occurs when a business secures (purchases) products and/or services from a third party, as opposed to producing them in-house.

2. What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Outsourcing?

Answer:

There are 7 Outsourcing Advantages:

1. Focus On Core Activities
2. Cost And Efficiency Savings
3. Reduced Overhead
4. Operational Control
5. Staffing Flexibility
6. Continuity & Risk Management
7. Develop Internal Staff

And most of all Outsourcing help us to save money, share risk, accommodate peak load and helps us to develop our internal staff. It reduce capital expenditure over a business process. Also management gets more time to concentrate over core competencies. This also reduces the dependency upon internal resources and increases the flexibility to meet the changing business and commercial conditions. The chief reason of outsourcing is to reduce capital expenditure over a business process. Also management gets more time to concentrate over core competencies. This also reduces the dependency upon internal resources and increases the flexibility to meet the changing business and commercial conditions.

There are 6 Outsourcing Disadvantages:

1. Loss of Managerial Control
2. Hidden Costs
3. Threat to Security and Confidentiality
4. Quality Problems
5. Tied to the Financial Well-being of Another Company
6. Bad Publicity and Ill-Will

we tend to loose the managerial control. This happens because it is harder to manage the outsourcing service provider as compare to managing one's own employees. This hidden and missed out costs of outsourcing is hard to predict causing overall costs to be underestimated. It can also prove to be a threat to the security and confidentiality of issues of a company. If your company is outsourcing business process such as payroll, confidential information such as salary will be known to the outsourcing service provider. It also result into the possible loss of flexibility in reacting to changing business conditions, lack of internal and external customer focus and sharing cost savings. Loss of internally generated talent is yet another problem associated with the outsourcing as it may hamper the growth of an employee by depriving him from the experience he would have gained by handling the business issue himself then by passing it over to some other external party.


3. What is the Implication of Outsourcing?

Answer:

Based on my understanding about Outsourcing, it is very important in terms of business. It is also great opportunity especially for the individuals who are lucky to have the job and its more advantageous for the company who is doing this kind of strategy. Let me define outsourcing first. It is getting resources or human resources outside the company or outside the country that the company is based on. The company or firm choose to have outsourcing as one of their strategies because it is very obvious especially for Internet marketing companies and manufacturing companies to work on this kind of tactic because it is cheap. The firm responsible chooses a country where they can find cheap raw materials for the product that they are making. Make sense? For web publishing or Internet marketing, when you are seeking for a human resource that will help you in creating and managing your website, what will you choose? The ones who are far from you but cheap or the ones who are near you but are very expensive. You see, to outsource a human resource, for example a writer, in the Philippines or India costs lesser than to hire a writer which is based in California. And the great thing is that, somehow Asian writers are more proficient in the English language compared to others.

Another benefit of outsourcing is the other way around. We had mentioned above that it is beneficial to companies or firm who are using it. But one of the best impact of this business strategy is the giving of more job opportunities to countries who had a low employment rate. Through this people from around the world who have the right talent for the job that the company is seeking get the chance of having a job for themselves. Also for manufacturing companies, they prefer to make a branch company in the place where they are getting their materials and because of that they have to build buildings and hire workers from that place. That will surely increase the employment rate of that particular country where the said company choose to outsource.

CASE NO. 3

Facebook is a social network founded in February of 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. Originally a social network for students of Harvard University, it became a hit on campus and expanded to other colleges. In 2005, Facebook opened itself to high schools, and in 2006, it was open to everyone. Since then, it has experienced tremendous growth, by passing MySpace in terms of global popularity.

In 2007, Facebook launched the Facebook Platform, which allowed developers to create applications on the network. Rather than simply being badges or widgets to adorn on a Facebook page, these applications allowed friends to interact by giving gifts or playing games, such as chess. In 2008, Facebook launched Facebook Connect, which competed with OpenSocial and Google friend Connect as a universal login authentication service.

1. What is Facebook?

Answer:

Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect friends, family, and business associates. It is the largest of the networking sites. It began as a college networking website and has expanded to include anyone and everyone. It is the most popular website in the whole world. It is also a great way to meet friends and keep up on what they are doing. It enables you to make your website more personalized and social. Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you. Everyone can use Facebook. Facebook is an example of Social Networking Site (SNS) that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep in touch with friends, post photos, share links and exchange other information. Facebook users can see only the profiles of confirmed friends and the people in their networks.


2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of facebook?

Answer:

The advantages of facebook are the following, first users are able to search for friends and acquaintances by e-mail address, school, university, or just by typing in a name or location for search. And it is the ability to share photographs uploaded from a phone, camera, or hard drive. As with other private information, users have the option to allow only friends to see their pictures or anyone. There is an unlimited amount of storage available, which is a major advantage of Facebook's photograph sharing capabilities. The disadvantage Facebook is the availability of your personal profile on the Internet for many people to see. It Affect Relationships because when we talk about long distance relationships, Facebook would be the one answer can count on. Though conducted on a distance, the system can still connect relationships right that very moment. But because relationships are built and strengthened just because of an Internet site, it tends to become weaker and it supports less emotional and most especially physical contact. Some relationships tumble down due to facts like these. It also affect Industry because the program is considered as a negative diversion especially to the schooling industry, affecting students to divert their attention.


3. What are the characteristics of Facebook why many people engage in this site?

Answer:

One of the characteristics of facebook is that theirs an unlimited amount of storage capabilities so that it easy for us to upload music, videos and photo it lessen the time to spend in uploading. It has its own chat room it easy for us to communicate. It also connects the people even though the distance is a hindrance for them. There are lots of application such as games like farm ville, cafe world, treasure island and etc., information like news that being posted by your friends or the administrator of facebook. Its ability of sharing and gathering relevant information. The people engage in this site because of the popularity of the site, it also considered the capabilities of a site. The application of Facebook is easy to follow or learned because the software they used is friendly user's.


4. Can you use Facebook in E-commerce? How and Why?

Answer:

Facebook can be used in E-commerce because facebook is a part of Social Networking. In creating website their are lots of options to be considered personal website or social website, and business website. And facebook have its own advertising page it easy for the buyer's and the seller's to have a connection, communication and transaction to a particular business. You will need to have basic business information ready before creating the Page decide on a page name and find any images you want to upload. Remember that your company logo is best for the profile picture. When you create the page you will need to include a description of your Web site, product, brand, or company. For them to have an effective and productive communication to their consumers and costumers and also their merchants.


5. How important Facebook in the society today?


Answer:

The importance of Facebook in the society today it lessen the time to spend in communicating other people. It helps us to keep in touch with our friends, family, relative, classmates and co-workers. It also shared relevant information that being posted. It also helps us to developed our Socializations character. It broaden our knowledged and expost us to the modern technology. It helps us to find and meet more friends. It also allow us to know the flow of the technology now a days. Facebook is the popular way to discover something in this world. We can gain more intructions and how to follow the diretion or the flow of the applications. It developed our potential to designed and to explore the application to make it effective and good.

CASE NO. 2

Global Warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans. It occurs when the earth heats up (the temperature rises). It happens when greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and methane) trap heat and light form the sun in the earth's atmosphere, which increases the temperature. This hurts many people, animals, and plants. Many cannot take the change, so they die. It is also affecting many parts of the world. Global warming makes the sea rise, and when the sea rises, the water covers many low land islands.

This is a big problem for many of the plants, animals and people on islands. The water covers the plants and causes some of them to die. When they die, the animals lose a source of food, along with their habitat. Although animals have a better ability to adapt to what happens than plants do, they may die also. When the plants and animals die, people lose two sources of food, plant food and animal food. They may also lose their homes. As a result, they would also have to leave the area or die. This would be called a break in the food chain, or a chain reaction, one thing happening that leads to another and so on.

Causes of Global Warming:

Many things cause global warming. One thing that causes global warming is electrical pollution. Electricity causes pollution in many ways, some worse than others. In most cases, fossil fuels are burned to create electricity. Fossil fuels are made of dead plants and animals. Some examples of fossil fuels are oil and petroleum. Many pollutants (chemicals that pollute the air, water, and land) are sent into the air when fossil fuels are burned. Some of these chemicals are called greenhouse gasses.

We use these sources of energy much more than the sources that give off less pollution. Petroleum, one of the sources of energy, is used a lot. It is used for transportation, making electricity, and making many other things. Although this source of energy gives off a lot of pollution, it is used for 38% of the United States’ energy.

Effect of Global Warming:

The effects, or impacts, of climate change may be physical, ecological, social or economic. Evidence of observed climate change includes the instrumental temperature record, rising sea level, and decreased snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere. Green house gases stay can stay in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years. No matter what we do, global warming is going to have some effect on Earth. Here are the 5 deadliest effects of global warming. Polar ice caps melting, Economic consequences, Increased probability and intensity of droughts and heat waves, Warmer waters and more hurricanes, and Spread of disease.

The Effect of technology in the Environment:

The effects of technology on the environment are both obvious and subtle. The more obvious effects include the depletion of nonrenewable natural resources (such as petroleum, coal, ores), and the added pollution of air, water, and land. The more subtle effects include debates over long-term effects (global warming, deforestation, natural habitat destruction, coastal wetland loss). Each wave of technology creates a set of waste previously unknown by humans: toxic waste, radioactive waste, and electronic waste.

One of the main problems is the lack of an effective way to remove these pollutants on a large scale expediently. In nature, organisms "recycle" the wastes of other organisms, for example, plants produce oxygen as a by-product of photosynthesis, oxygen-breathing organisms use oxygen to metabolize food, producing carbon dioxide as a by-product, which plants use in a process to

Effect of Technology on Environment:

The effects of technology on the environment are both obvious and subtle. The more obvious effects include the depletion of nonrenewable natural resources (such as petroleum, coal, ores), and the added pollution of air, water, and land. The more subtle effects include debates over long-term effects (global warming, deforestation, natural habitat destruction, coastal wetland loss.)Each wave of technology creates a set of waste previously unknown by humans: toxic waste, radioactive waste, electronic waste.

One of the main problems is the lack of an effective way to remove these pollutants on a large scale expediently. In nature, organisms "recycle" the wastes of other organisms, for example, plants produce oxygen as a by-product of photosynthesis, oxygen-breathing organisms use oxygen to metabolize food, producing carbon dioxide as a by-product, which plants use in a process to make sugar, with oxygen as a waste in the first place. No such mechanism exists for the removal of technological wastes.Humanity at the moment may be compared to a colony of bacteria in a Petri dish with a constant food supply: with no way to remove the wastes of their metabolism, the bacteria eventually poison themselves.