Senior High School

Empowerment Technology
Activity Sheet
Quarter 3 – MELC 3
Contextualized Online Search and
Research Skills

REGION VI – WESTERN VISAYAS

Empowerment Technology
Activity Sheet No. 3
First Edition, 2020

Published in the Philippines.

By the Department of Education
Region 6 – Western Visayas

Republic Act 8293, section 176 states that: No copyright shall subsist in any
work of the Government of the Philippines. However, prior approval of the government
agency or office wherein the work is created shall be necessary for the exploitation of
such work for a profit. Such agency or office may, among other things, impose as a
condition the payment of royalties.

This Learning Activity Sheet is developed by DepEd Region 6 – Western

Visayas.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this learning resource may be

reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical
without written permission from the DepEd Regional Office 6 – Western Visayas.

Development Team of Empowerment Technology Activity Sheet

Writer: Kristian Jay L. Nanta

Illustrators: Anthony M. Cordilla
Editors: Vincent J. Castro
Lorgin G. Nuniala
Roslyn Q. Maceda
Sol Grace O. Timola
Layout Artist: Annamor M. Eleccion, Llaine Grace B. Coronel
Schools Division Quality Assurance Team:
Edna T. Arbon
Julie Ann J. Vegelio
Roquito O. Garcia
Sol Grace O. Timola
Division of Sipalay City Management Team:
Renato T. Ballesteros
Regie B. Sama
Ronie T. Tababa
Annamor M. Eleccion
Sol Grace O. Timola
Regional Management Team:
Ramir B. Uytico
Pedro T. Escobarte Jr.
Elena P. Gonzaga
Donald T. Genine
April C. Velez
Abraham Imas

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Introductory Message
Welcome to Empowerment Technology!

The Learning Activity Sheet is a product of the collaborative efforts of the

Schools Division of Sipalay City and DepEd Regional Office VI - Western Visayas
through the Curriculum and Learning Management Division (CLMD). This is
developed to guide the learning facilitators (teachers, parents, and responsible adults)
in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Basic Education
Curriculum.

The Learning Activity Sheet is self-directed instructional materials aimed to

guide the learners in accomplishing activities at their own pace and time using the
contextualized resources in the community. This will also assist the learners in
acquiring lifelong learning skills, knowledge, and attitudes for productivity and
employment.

For learning facilitator:

The Empowerment Technology Activity Sheet will help you facilitate the
teaching-learning activities specified in each Most Essential Learning Competency
(MELC) with minimal or no face-to-face encounter between you and the learner. This
will be made available to the learners with references/links to ease the independent
learning.

For the learner:

The Empowerment Technology Activity Sheet is developed to help you

continue learning even if you are not in school. This learning material provides you
with meaningful and engaging activities for independent learning. Being an active
learner, carefully read and understand the instructions then perform the activities and
answer the assessments. This will be returned to your facilitator on the agreed
schedule.

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 Quarter 3, Week 3

Learning Activity Sheets (LAS) No. 3

Name of Learner: ___________________________________________________

Grade and Section: _______________________ Date: _____________________

EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGY ACTIVITY SHEETS

Contextualized Online Search and Research Skills

I. Learning Competency (MELC)

Use the internet as a tool for reliable research and information gathering to best achieve
specific class objectives or address situational challenges. (CS_ICT11/12-ICTPT-Ia-b-3)

II. Background Information for Learners

Internet Research is a research method in collecting and gathering information via the
internet by using a search engine such as Google. Search Engine is a program that allows
users to search for content on the internet.

Examples of Search Engine

Google Aol Search Wow Baidu
Web Crawler Yahoo! Search MyWebSearch WolframAlpha
Bing Info Dogpile DuckDuckGo
Ask Infospace Contenko Internet Archive

Searching the Web

Getting the correct and reliable information is our goal in an internet research. We may
rely on the capability of a search engine but sometimes it may not give us the correct
information because of the keywords we entered a search engine. There are techniques in
searching information that can be applied in a search engine to get a better result. Some
search engines allow a combination of words and logic connectors of AND, OR, and NOT.

Tips for Effective Internet Research by George Mathews

1. Know what kind of research you want to do.
2. Make a list of keywords you will use in your search.
3. Enclose keywords in quotation marks.
4. Use the minus sign (-).
5. Try specialized search engines.
6. Skim through search results web pages.
7. Bookmark
8. Review your bookmarks.

Online Research Skills by Hannah Trierweiler Hudson

1. Check Your Sources
2. Ask Good Questions
3. Go Beyond the Surface

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 4. Be Patient.
5. Respect Ownership
6. Use Your Networks

Evaluating Websites

To help you evaluate the website’s credibility, here are the questions that you need to answer:
1. What is the domain type of the website?

If it is a personal website, then you should further evaluate the website.

2. Who wrote the article?
Check if the author’s credentials or affiliations are listed so you can tell whether the
author is qualified to write the topic. Also, check the publisher of the article if it is a
reliable publisher. Make sure that the author provides an e-mail or a contact
address/phone number.
3. What is the purpose of the document and why was it produced?
It is also important to check the document’s purpose and why it was produced. The
document should provide accurate information and must be objective in presenting it.
Some websites produce documents to motivate users to buy products. If this is the
case, information might be biased. However, bias is not necessarily bad, but you need
to investigate the author or connections.
4. When was the document published and updated?
The document should be regularly updated. As to the freshness of the date, it depends
on the information needed. For some topics, you want current information. For others,
you want information near the time it became known. The links should also be up to
date. There should be no dead links.

Copyright Issues

There are millions of information that we can get from the internet. Some of this
information is free but others are not. They are protected by copyright law.

Copyright is a protection given to the owner of the rights in an original work such as
books, musical works, films, paintings, and other works, and computer programs. This original
work is called intellectual property which is protected under Republic Act 8293 known as the
“Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines”.

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Copyright Infringement

This happens when the copyrighted work is used by another person without the
permission of the author or copyright holder. Any person who is infringing the right protected
work would be liable under the law. An example of this is the case of M.Y. Intercontinental
Trading Corporation (MITC), Tedwin T. Uy, Allianz Marketing and Publishing Corp. (Allianz),
and Fujian New Technology Color Making and Printing Company, LTD (Fujian) against St.
Mary’s Publishing Corporation (SMPC). Manila regional trial court ordered Fujian and its
partners to pay P24.7 million for the damages and cost of litigation for copyright infringement
to SMPC. Fujian and its three local partners were guilty of printing, copying, reproducing,
importing, distributing, and selling original and revised textbooks that they have illegally sold
to the Department of Education in Zamboanga, Municipality of Cabuyao in Laguna, and
Municipality of Matnog in Sorsogon without the approval of SMPC, the copyright owner of the
textbooks.

Fair Use

Research is important to the students and other people. Most of them rely on the
information that they can get online. Although this information is protected by copyright law,
we can still use this information without permission in a limited way under certain conditions
and purposes.

Fair use is the use of copyrighted material for comment, teaching, criticism, news
reporting, research, scholarship, and another similar purpose is not an infringement of
copyright. An example of this is when you post a quote from a person on your Facebook wall.
Include the name of the person who owns the quote in your post. Another example is when
you copy an image from the internet, give credit to the creator of the image. The copied image
should be used for educational purposes not for commercial use. In fair use, 5% of the content
of reference can only be copied. If 20% or less of reference is copied, there must be a
secondary use agreement and fee. And if 20% or more of the reference is copied, it requires
purchasing of creative work.

Guidelines for Fair Use

1. Majority of the contents created must be yours.
2. Give credit to the owner.
3. Do not make a profit from the copyrighted work.

III. Accompanying DepEd Textbook and Educational Sites

Tarun, I. M. (2016). Empowerment Technologies. Plaridel, Bulacan: St. Andres
Publishing House.
Rey Panaligan, “Publisher awarded P24.7 M in damages for copyright infringement”,
Accessed January 30, 2020,
https://news.mb.com.ph/2017/12/10/publisher-awarded-p24-7-m-in-damagesfor-
copyright-infringement/

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 IV. Activity Proper

Activity 1: Explain thoroughly why the website below is not credible as a source of your data
for your research.

Activity 2: Using the Internet, evaluate the given two web pages by answering the questions
on the table. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

http://animals.nationalgeographi
http://zapatopi.net/tre
c.com/animals/invertebrates/co
eoctopus/
mmon-octopus
What is the domain type?

Does the page list the author?

Does it provide accurate information?

Does the page list the publisher?

Does it offer limited advertising?

Does its present information objectively?

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Is the page current?

Is it updated?

Are the links up to date?

Does it contain dead links?

FINAL EVALUATION: Is the webpage
valuable and credible?

Activity 3: True or False Directions: Write “True” if the statement is true and write “False” if
the statement is false.
1. It is right to copy the works of other people without asking permission.
2. All Information from the internet is free.
3. Search engine is a tool used in an internet research.
4. All information from the internet is reliable.
5. Google is an example of a search engine.
6. Child pornography is a form of cybercrime.
7. Committing a crime on the internet is not punishable by law.
8. Do not share personal information with a suspicious website or user.
9. Share your password with anyone.
10. Think before you click.

Remember:

Website evaluation is an important skill that everyone should practice and master
through time. It is always important to learn which information are relevant and
reliable to be able to avoid misinformation and be a victim of fake news.

V. Reflection
1. Is research online reliable? Why or Why not?
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2. How can you show respect for others' intellectual property?

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3. What is the significance of using keywords when searching for information on the web?
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4. In what ways can this activity help you in enriching your Online search and Research
skill?
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5. What part of the activity did you find easy/difficult?

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6. How will your Teacher / Learning Facilitator help in improving your task?
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VI. Answer Key

Activity 1:

Activity 2:

Activity 3:

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