Lesson 1 & 2

Question 1

• The plural of medium;
• broadly describes all channels of communication;
• from printed paper to digital data.

Answer 1

Media

Question 2

It is the raw material that fuels our decision-making, enables us to learn and grow, and helps us to communicate with one another. The building block of knowledge.

Answer 2

Information

Question 3

The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.

Answer 3

Literacy

Question 4

Describes a set of abilities that enables an individual to acquire, evaluate, and use information.

Answer 4

Information Literacy

Question 5

The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create, using all forms of communication.

Answer 5

Media Literacy

Question 6

Empowers people to think critically about information and use of digital tools.

Answer 6

Media and Information Literacy

Question 7

The ability of an individual to responsibly and effectively use technological tools to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create, and communicate information.

Answer 7

Technology Literacy

Question 8

People or groups of people imparting or exchanging messages through speaking, writing, gestures, or even using symbolic forms.

Answer 8

Communication

Question 9

It is defined as an event or set of events that prompted a different course in history.

Answer 9

Turning Points

Question 10

Refers to the time before machines were introduced to produce goods on a large scale.

Answer 10

Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)

Question 11

Rock/cave paintings

Answer 11

Pictographs

Question 12

Rock carvings

Answer 12

Petroglyphs

Question 13

“wedge-shaped”

People wrote it using a reed stylus cut to make a wedge-shaped mark on a clay tablet. It was done by the Ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia.

Answer 13

Cuneiform

Question 14

Hieroglyphics

What is the definition of the Greek word, “hieros”?

Answer 14

Sacred

Question 15

Hieroglyphics

What is the definition of the Greek word, “gluptien”?

Answer 15

Carved in stone

Question 16

An official acquittance certificate inscribed onto a copper plate A.D. 900. Earliest known calendar-dated document found within the Philippine Islands.

Answer 16

Laguna Copperplate Inscription

Question 17

Where was the Laguna Copperplate Inscription found?

Answer 17

Lumban, Laguna

Question 18

One of the Philippines’ precolonial writing system

Answer 18

Baybayin

Question 19

What is the definition of “baybay”?

Answer 19

To spell

Question 20

Crafting cloth sheets to record their drawings and writings.

Answer 20

Silk papers in China (2,000 years ago)

Question 21

Mixture of mulberry bark, hemp and rags with water, mashed it into pulp, pressed out the liquid and hung the thin mat to dry in the sun. Created in in Lei-Yang, China.

Answer 21

First invention of papers

Question 22

The writing material of ancient times and also the plant from which it was derived, Cyperus papyrus.

Answer 22

Papyrus

Question 23

Enabling widespread publishing of a variety of texts, and the dissemination of knowledge and literacy.

Answer 23

Woodblock Printing
Tang (618-906) and Song (960-1279) Dynasties

Question 24

The movable metal type printing machine, that allowed for easier publication, was invented by whom?

Answer 24

Johann Gutenburg (1394-1460)

Question 25

Philippines first books (1593)

Tagalog Doctrine by Father Juan de Plasencia

Answer 25

Doctrina Christiana, en lengua española y tagala

Question 26

Chinese Doctrina by Fray Juan Cobo

Answer 26

Wuchi t’ien-chu cheng-chiao chen-chuan shih-lu

Question 27

A period of scientific and technological development in the 18th century. Transformed largely rural, agrarian societies into industrialized, urban ones.

Answer 27

Industrial revolution (1700s-1930s)

Question 28

Who invented the steam power printing press with rotary metal cylinders and the ability to print both sides?

Answer 28

Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer

Question 29

Developed between 1830s-1840s by Samuel Morse and other inventors. It transmitted electrical signals over wire.

Answer 29

Telegraphs

Question 30

Created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876

Answer 30

Telephones

Question 31

Utilized the power of electricity that made electronic devices. Led to the creation of the transistor.

Answer 31

Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)

Question 32

Who developed the idea of a radio or wireless telegraph?

Answer 32

Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi in the 1890s

Question 33

Captures moving images in a form that could be coded onto radio waves and then transformed back into a picture on a screen. Invented by Philo Taylor Farnsworth in September 7, 1927.

Answer 33

Television

Question 34

The digital age. The rapid technological advancement and innovation with the use of microelectronics.

Answer 34

Information Age (1900s-Present)

Question 35

When did the Philippines first connect to the Internet? (PLDT)

Answer 35

March 29, 1994

Question 36

What was the first ever social media site?

Answer 36

sixdegrees

Question 37

Purpose of Pictographs/Petroglyphs

Answer 37

SYMBOL
* Symbolic representation of codes produced by early humans.

RELIGIOUS
* Generally considered to have a symbolic or religious function, sometimes both.

INFORM
* Informed and transmitted cultural and ritualistic aspects of hunting and daily life within the tribe.