Subject: Modern communication services. Job market transformation

Author: Magdalena Jankun

Addressee

Second‑grade student of high school and technical secohigh school (extended level)

Program basis

XII. The role of traditional and modern services in socio‑economic development: transport, communication, educational, research and development, financial and tourist services.

Student:

1 . shows, on the basis of statistical data and thematic maps, the differentiation of the share of individual modes of transport in world and Polish transport;

2. demonstrates the role of telecommunications in shaping the information society.

General aim of education

The student will discuss changes occurring in the world as a result of the development of information and communication technologies.

Success criteria

• discuss the diversity of access to information and communication technologies in the world;

• you will explain how the labor market is changing as a result of the development of information and communication technologies;

• discuss changes in everyday life as a result of the development of information and communication technologies;

• you will tell profits and losses resulting from the development of information and communication technologies.

Key competences

• communicating in the mother tongue;

• communicating in a foreign language;

• learning to learn;

• IT competences.

Methods / forms of work

• using ICT tools;

• work with educational and multimedia material on the epodreczniki.pl platform;

• talk / discussion;

• snowball method;

• individual work, in pairs, in groups and the whole class team.

Teaching aids:

• e‑manual for teaching geography;

• interactive whiteboard;

• projector;

• tablets / computers;

• physical map of the world;

• statistical yearbooks;

• geographical atlases.

Lesson phases

Introduction

1. The teacher gives the students the topic and goals of the lesson.

2.The student asks students to provide information to which sector of the economy we include communication services. Leading discussion.

Realization

1 . The teacher asks students to indicate elements included in information and communication technologies. Discussion of the whole class team.

2 . What is the role of ICT in current times? Positive and negative aspects. Students work using the snowball method. Each student considers the given problem individually and formulates a written answer. Then the students sit in twos and set a common position. Then the two get together in fours, fours in eights etc. and each time a common sentence is agreed. At the end, one common position of the whole class is developed.

3 . On the multimedia board, the teacher displays a diagram from the e‑manual: Losses arising from computer crimes. Common discussion and giving reasons affecting these indicators.

4 . The teacher displays a diagram from the e‑manual on the multimedia board: Changes in the employment structure. Analysis of the entire class team. Students draw conclusions.

5 . The teacher displays on the interactive whiteboard a diagram from the e‑textbook: Employment structure in selected countries (Poland, Norway, Japan, India, Niger). Students give reasons and draw conclusions.

6 . Students, using the e‑textbook, explain the concepts of offshoring and outsourcing. Explanation on the class forum. Discussion.

7 . The teacher displays on the interactive whiteboard a map from the e‑book: World – the best countries for outsourcing in 2014. Common analysis, reasoning and discussion.

8 . Students explain the term digital exclusion. In pairs, they analyze the comparison from the e‑manual: Internet in the world, and the table: Countries with high and low percentage of people with Internet access. They point to examples on the world map. They present applications on the class forum.

9 . Work in pairs. Students using source materials, such as an e‑textbook, a geography teaching handbook, Internet resources and statistical yearbooks, prepare information on the development of mobile telephony in the world. Presentation of information on the class forum.

Summary

1 . The teacher evaluates students' work, taking into account input and commitment.

2 . At the end of the class, the teacher displays on the interactive whiteboard exercises that are performed by the whole class team.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

Modern communication services. Job market transformation.

Information and communication technologies like any other tool bring a lot of benefits but also a lot of threats. It is important to remember that their abilities can be used against us even if we do not have bad intentions.

Traditionally, we can distinguish three economic sectors: agriculture, industry and services. The contribution of services in the employment of all people increases along with the level of the development of the country. In highly developed countries it is very often above 75%.

Such a structure of the employment in individual sectors of economy results from the development of technology. Automated technology has reduced the need for employees performing repetitive tasks. Plastic, miniaturization and recycling of the materials decrease the need for raw materials necessary to produce many items. At the same time, it turned out that the process of creation is much simpler than later selling the product. Thus there was an increase in a demand for information about the size of the expected market, the diversity of people's wealth and their habits or even about growth and weight of potential customers. Banks and insurance companies needed to know about the financial situation of borrowers. For transport companies the essence was to know about goods to transport as well as expected weather conditions at a specific place and time. To let the economy function efficiently, the development of services that enables fast and safe contacts, is crucial.

The development of the information and communication technologies has caused many significant changes in the job market. The basic tool in many places became a computer hence the common need to master computer skills. At the same time there is an increasing demand for creative people to create more and more advanced computer software.

The abolition of technological time and spatial constraint led to new phenomena: offshoring and outsourcing. Both terms do not have Polish equivalents.

Information and communication technologies are developing very quickly. According to estimates, in the middle of 2014, almost 3 billion people have already had an access to the Internet, which is about 40% of world population. At the same time, that means that 4 billions people still do not have such access. It is about 25% of the European population and 80% of the sub‑Saharan population.