After taking up NSTP 1, the group had been aware of the different crisis hitting different communities. There are food problems, medical needs, business predicaments, money dilemmas, corruption quandaries, educational hindrance, transportation inconvenience, poverty tribulation and everything else. As well-educated citizens, blaming the government won’t make the current situation any better. And as the saying goes, “If we want change, change must start from us.”
Based from the different information gathered and observations found, Brgy. Bayanan of Muntinlupa City makes a great candidate to conduct starting “the change”. Aside from the fact that transportation-wise, it is very convenient, the group discovered more than that. After examining the needs of the said community, analyzing from the details we have, and stipulating the skills we could share, different ideas were raised. Ideas wherein probably would answer, absolutely not all, but at least one of the crisis of the community.
With just the group’s spare time to be used for the said service to the community, two ideas were raised. The first is a TREE PLANTING ACT. Environmentally-wise, this is the perfect solution for our number one problem: Global Warming. Are the group’s planting efforts to create a big impact enough?
The second proposal was a Basic Computer Applications Workshop. Basically, as every member of our group is a Computer Science student, the members are very much aware of the so-called Computer Illiteracy Boom. Not everyone is well-heeled enough to get a chance to learn the computers.
In this point in time where technology is at its peak and no sooner the group expects that it will go beyond hitting the highest point, change has been common scenery nationwide especially to the industrial field which is a big factor on giving our country a stable economic growth.
Business offices became accustomed to all necessary know-how which would contribute to the growth of their companies; one good example is the shifting from doing the paper works and databases manually to the usage of computer through which in its own right earned great deal of significance, thus we should concentrate in helping children to have knowledge on how to navigate the computer and use its different applications.
Computer literacy is a skill; a talent that should be enhanced as it will serve as a good tool to achieve long term goals.
Basically, computer illiteracy is the lack of knowledge and inability to use computers and technology efficiently. It also refers to the negative comfort level someone has with using computer applications and programs.
Since 2005, computer literacy has been a major asset in the developed and still developing countries. The level of computer literacy one must achieve to gain an advantage over others depends both on the society one is in and one's place in the social hierarchy. Prior to the development of the first computers in the 1950s, the word computer referred to a person who could count, calculate, and compute. The fear of some educators today is that computer training in schools will serve only to train data-entry clerks of the next generation, low level workers of the knowledge economy.
On the other hand, some hope that enhanced computer literacy will enable a new generation of cultural producers to make meanings and circulate those in the public sphere. One of these enhancements can be in terms of a workshop, wherein professionals and/or volunteers share ample knowledge to give these unfortunate members of the society to have a background on computers, and not to get left behind.
Illiteracy is not caused by lack of intelligence. It is often a result of outside factors or disabilities that can be addressed. If we can send a people to the moon, should not every person on earth have the ability and opportunity to operate even the simplest application in the computer? Knowing how to use technology, or being computer literate, is a prerequisite for succeeding in today’s technologically advanced and quickly evolving global society.
Every person needs to acquire literacy in his/her early development, because the ability to manipulate the computers is a useful skill in so many daily activities, from writing letters, emails, and reports, and everything else. Being computer literate also develops the mind, imagination, and critical thinking skills. However, many people in the world are not computer literate, and many do not even have the opportunity to become literate in their lifetime.
One of the major causes of illiteracy, especially computer, is poverty and the subsequent lack of access to substantial materials. Realistically, students who would have gone on to continue their education past the 5th year sometimes quit school in order to work on the farm or in a factory in order to assist with the family income. Also if a family is poor, food and the basic necessities of life take precedence before books and computers can be purchased.
The effects of illiteracy often negatively impact a nation’s ability to develop its human resources. Countries with a high illiteracy rate are more likely to be disadvantaged in the global economy. If a populace is not literate, it cannot be as involved in high tech jobs. New careers in the sciences, mathematics, and technology are primarily established in countries that have literate populations.
Another major effect of illiteracy is not having access to basic information that is distributed via books, newspapers, or the Internet. This type of information could include practical advice to increase the quality of life, such as how to participate in microfinance projects. In short, illiteracy does not encourage positive social change, personal growth, or the preservation and development of language and culture.
Knowing this kind of problem that not only the government faces, but all members of the community, an action must be done. Will a community service based on teaching applications be a significant help to the future molded by the younger generation?
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