Aesthetic: Media and Information Literacy

Our first output in the Media and Information Literacy. We will make a aesthetic hard copy of the following.

Evolution of Media engage the learners in a discussion on how media and information has evolved throughout history. Describe the four ages to the class. 

Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s) - People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. Examples: 

•Old Fabric/Paper - It began in India. They use fabrics or paper and traditional writing materials to keep informations and to send messages to other people.

• Cave paintings (35,000 BC) - these are painted drawing on the wall of a cave walls or ceiling, often depicting animals. It started 40,000 years ago. And the exact purpose of the Paleolithic paintings or cave paintings is not known.

•Bamboo Inscription - It originated in China. And they use it as the main media for documents during prehistoric era.

•Horn - During prehistoric era, they used horns to capture attention or to call everybody's attention if there are important messages that everyone needs to hear.

•Fire/Smoke - they used fire as their "electricity" during prehistoric age. And they use smoke, to also call for everyone's attention.

•Hieroglyphics - this is just like the cave paintings, but it originated in Egypt. And it is carved in the rocks or clay tablets.

• Clay tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC) 

• Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC) 

• Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC) 

• Dibao in China (2nd Century) 

• Codex in the Mayan region (5th Century)

• Printing press using wood blocks (220 AD) 

Industrial Age (1700s-1930s) - People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press). Examples: 

•Telegraph - Invented by Samuel Morse. The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines.

•Typewriter - Cristopher Latham Sholes invented the typewriter with the help of Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule. Although other important inventors had tried to make a typewriter, they

weren't commercially successful. But Cristopher Shole's typewriter was certainly the first commercially successful one, invented in 1867.

•Spinning Jenny - this is used to make frabrics during industrial times. Mostly, women are the one who's using this device.

•Steam Engine - during Industrial Revolution  they use this for their transportation.

•Difference and Analytical Engine - this was invented by Charles Babbage. This device was their "calculator" during industrial age.

•Phonographs - This is invented by Thomas Edison. He invented this so that some people will be able to hear their favorite band's songs.

• Printing press for mass production (19th century) 

• Newspaper- The London Gazette (1640)

• Typewriter (1800)Telephone (1876)

• Motion picture photography/projection

(1890)

• Commercial motion pictures (1913)

• Motion picture with sound (1926)

• Telegraph

• Punch cards

Electronic Age (1930s-1980s) - The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. In this age, long distance communication became more efficient. Examples: 

• Transistor Radio

• Television (1941)

• Large electronic computers- i.e. EDSAC (1949) and UNIVAC 1 (1951) 

• Mainframe computers - i.e. IBM 704 (1960) 

• Personal computers - i.e. HewlettPackard 9100A (1968), Apple 1 (1976) 

Information Age (1900s-2000s) - The Internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network. People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized. We are now living in the information age. Examples: 

• Web browsers: Mosaic (1993), Internet Explorer (1995) 

• Blogs: Blogspot (1999), LiveJournal (1999), Wordpress (2003) 

• Social networks: Friendster (2002), Multiply (2003), Facebook (2004) 

• Microblogs: Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007) 

• Video: YouTube (2005)

• Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality

• Video chat: Skype (2003), Google Hangouts (2013) 

• Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo (1995) 

• Portable computers- laptops (1980), netbooks (2008), tablets (1993) 

• Smart phones

• Wearable technology

• Cloud and Big Data