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The Setbacks of Piracy

As our technology advances, internet crime became rampant. The internet has been used as a haven for illegal activities such as piracy in which people download content illegally without the permission of the owner. Even though some people don’t feel that piracy is a crime that affects anybody, it really does. The growth of piracy is actually dangerous that can cause great harm to people. It was also said that piracy is actually killing the film industry. It has been very common everywhere in the world and has always been affecting the film industry in such a negative way.  Pirating is stealing, making money off others products, and financially harming not just the actors, producers, and directors, but all of the professions involved in the making of a movie, from your musical score composer to the make-up artists and film crew are being devalued. Music and films are meant to be bought to be enjoyed by the general public, not to be stolen and used for a profit illegally.

People pirate movies, music and so on and give it out to the public to use. And yes, it is cheaper to get than the regular prices of the product, and people do get really tempted to fall for it, that is how it affects the business of music and film. Instead of watching or listening it in the legal and safe way, many people really prefer the free and cheap ones regardless if it is from a legal or illegal sources. Many people also don’t like the thought of spending too much on films, music and many more that’s why sometimes piracy makes so much profit than the original source. According to Atty. Alonso, “Times bring in change, both bad and good. Technology is now the poster child of change. Even with technology changing the industry, it’s important to recognise the hard work and depth of creativity poured into each film. It is not only the actors producers involved. A lot of unseen individuals, without whom, the work cannot be completed, are being affected too. We should protect all of them”. Pirates should respect all the people behind it, enough to realize how much effort they put into making music and films.

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The Nature of Digital Divide

In this modern world technologies and internet is already applicable in any kinds of works or many people are using this. But we can't control if there are still people who can't afford to buy technologies or even smart phones, they struggle everyday because they can't communicate to other people from a far. Digital divide was already a nature to us because lot of filipino can't buy gadgets because of poverty. Specially now that we are having a pandemic, a lot of students are struggling to their modules because they can't join a online class because they haven't enough gadget to used. Digital divide mostly experience at school.Yet the filipino people still strive for the better education for their children they tend to sacrifice themselfes in order for them to get the quality education they need and that is why how filipino people are brave enough to withstood such problems in life and they give it with a humble smile in life.

Digital divide here in our country is evident since we are a third world country and still developing. Digital divide is a factor that can hinder our advancement towards development. Filipinos have obstacles in digital divide that they need to overcome and they cannot do this alone without the help of the government. If some of us continue to struggle it would result to being left behind in this modern age of ours today. If we Filipinos, our country are unable to address this and time does not stop for no one this digital gap would only get wider and would be a vital issue for our country.Even some parts of the Philippines could not manage the technology right now in this era but it is introduced in some ways that could help educate the unfortunate,like the people on rural areas or far away from the city proper.

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Digital Divide: The Gap Between People In This Digital Age

As we live in this world we cannot avoid innovations which aims to aid us and make our lives much easier. One of these said innovations is our technology. Which is created to support, develop, and mainly make things easier for us especially when it comes to communication and information. An example of such technology is our computers that are often dubbed as the key and guide into a more high-tech future. Although some people say that, we cannot ignore the fact that not all people are capable of using these computers and other digital devices that are popular among privileged people. And these said underprivileged people may not be capable of competing with others who are able to utilize both technology and information to their desire. This is what we call as digital divide, which basically means a ‘gap’ in individuals or a large group of people for this matter as they have different social classes, business, countries, economy statuses, culture, and social upbringings. These which are highly influencing their capability to use or access both information and its sources, communication devices, and other technologies. 

Digital divide are commonly noticeable among students and people who doesn’t have the chance to acquire the set of skills in utilizing technology. In schools and universities, it may not be prevalent but a number of students often lack the knowledge and skills to properly engage technology as part of their learning. It might be because they do not have the upbringing to be used to utilizing these devices or they did not the have the luxury to do so. Which is kind of saddening especially that our era today often focuses on using these digital devices as means of communicating and info gathering. If these will continue, the gap of these individuals will further widen that we may not be able to give solution to anymore. Not to mention that these individuals, specially students, will have a shortage of their  knowledge that might hinder their productivity in studies and negatively impact their motivation, goals, and capacity of learning in their time as a student. Which greatly impact and mold their future. As a student we can take simple steps in order to bridge the gap even in a small manner. We can choose to help our fellow students who do not know how to efficiently use computers or digital devices as part of their learning means until they can fully use it by themselves. Of course not only to our fellow students but even elders that often find using high-techs difficult. We can also create on and off school campaigns or even giving info graphics to the people as part of our advocacy to lessen the knowledge gap and be able to give awareness to others. By doing these, we an lessen the gap between people and spread the learning of these technology we often find difficulties with.

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“Digital Divide: Bridging the Gap as a Student”

Technology nowadays has made our world smaller, connecting people from opposite sides of the world in a single tap of a finger. However, it cannot be denied that not everyone is as technologically up to date as the others as not everyone can afford it. An example that shows a digital divide is the online class, because of the situation of the world right now the only way to resume the classes is through online class, but a lot of students can't afford online class because they don't have the right devices to do so. They don't have phones, laptops and any devices that will allow them to effectively join the online class and that left them with no other choice but to go with the module and learn by themselves. While there are students who are lucky enough to have the devices and a stable internet connection to join the online class and learn.

 The Internet became a necessity to our education, it also creates a gap in the ability of access and use between the students with high-income families and students with low-income families; the gap between these groups is called digital divide. As a student, we can help in bridging the gap of digital divide by giving digital support to students with low-income families, and direct information about school works that requires less or no usage of internet connection and technology to them. Giving digital support to students with low-income families can be done by donating equipment necessary for online class or selling the equipment at a lower price that can be affordable for the students with low-income families. Directing information about school works that require less or no usage of internet connection and technology can be a great help in bridging the gap of digital divide since it can still make students with low-income families to acquire information that does not cost a lot of money.

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Digital Divide and Its Benefits To Students

Technology has been the reliable source of Information Technology nowadays. Schools and Universities are now using modern technology as their way of accessing Textbooks and Other Academic purposes. Some students also dosent have modern gadgets to be able to access from the internet to browse for academic related on it. Nowadays, modern technology were the ones we can rely on because of the pandemic that has been happening right now. In our school we have been using gadgets and internet connection as our tool to continue our school year. Students are behind and some are finding their way to learn through first hand books in the library.  Digital divide as the disparities in access to telephones, personal computers, and the internet across certain demographic groups. Different segments have varying levels of access to digital developments due to a number of factors. This can include but are not limited to, race, gender, age, employment, income, location, and religion.Digital divide is where some people can access to internet and computers where they belong in developed world while some people are in underdeveloped world while they don't have access to internet and other information and this is the time where people in developed world started to bully those people who don't have a access on what they have especially in schools.  Social media sometimes leads us to toxicity wherein we encounter the negativity of a social online community ,which we can read inappropriate posts such as cyberbullying, trolling and many more.

Bridging the gap , this prevents the student s from getting an education, because they don't have access to the right technology .it also gives unfair competitive edges .as a student to bridge the gap of digital divide in simple steps is to find a another resources for scholarly purpose. Having a bad connection  where digital divide  exist to form that all the educational material is feasible to download especially today we're in the middle of pandemic. having a good connection is advantage in digital divide because you don't need to find another way to do your scholarly activities having a good connection is just like one snap of your fingers and then your done. bridging the gap is very active in academic progress.  As a student I've seen that many learners are discovering that advances in technology have helped higher education do a better job of personalizing learning to individual students.   In order for us to bridge the digital divide, we must improve/increase our digital literacy by emphasizing the importance of critical thinking and the used of social media for learning and collaborating in an educational context. Addition to that, an individuals is easier to learn in putting them in place concepts that they can relate with. Social media is the most addictive thing to entertain yourself, it builds opportunities and influences for those people who need attention online to express their feelings.

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“Give concrete situations that you have observed digital divide, and as a student, what simple steps can you do to bridge the gap of this digital divide?”

We are living in this what we called " Modernized World", we are living in a community wherein new technologies and methods are being used as a tool for our daily lives. This new generation brought big changes to each of our communities including economic and methods and because this new methods of life in this generation not all individuals are capable of coping up with it specially our elders wherein they are born way back before that has no new technologies to aid the methods of their lives so it is expected that they will have difficulties on using this new technologies, another reason is they are old enough on engaging this kind of trends wherein they don't really know how these works but for us new Generation of human we are obviously tasked to help our elders on coping up with the new world we are building. Digital Divide doesn't generally mean that one can't use certain technology but it means that the there is a difference between the technology they are using.

There are many situation wherein we experienced Digital Divide but the most common reason I observed is when I am using  my mobile phone my grandmother is always confused of how it works so as a new generation of Individual it is a task to help her cope up of how it works. Another situation is whenever my grandmother wanted to listen some music and because our elders was born way earlier than us it is expected that they are using the old technology that was new to them back then so in order for us to close the gap we should introduce them to the new technologies which performs the same task which is way more better than their old technology.

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Greater Path Towards Inclusivity and Embracing Diversity in Digital Era.

In the late 1990s, the term had become widely known by many interested parties, along with scholars, policymakers as well as advocacy organizations. The notion of a "digital divide" relates to the increasing disparity between economically disadvantaged people in society, specifically the impoverished, suburbs, empowerment of persons with disabilities, who may not provide exposure to networked computers. In the Modern era, there are gaps between people who use computers and the internet, and for those who do not because this is due to those years when people in the late centuries that modern technology was not invented and those years that nowadays people experience digital devices which make their lives easier. The existence of the “Digital Divide” affects society in which not all people have access to the internet, there is also a lack of skills in terms of computer literacy and lack of knowledge about the internet. Digital Divide, in this era where people must learn to adapt the internet in their lives whether they like it or not.

In this internet age, accessibility to the internet and technology is more possible, but certain ages or generations of consumers have only limited knowledge of these things. Some don't know that there are better versions than the gadget they had right now and instead they stick to their old devices. Thus this creates a digital divide as some are outdated with the current trend of technology. Another one is when a certain institution is mostly outdated to their devices, that they are finding it difficult to produce their product resulting in it to look cheap and classic. This scenario creates a digital divide with other fellow producers. We can also make the Philippines as an example, Philippines is rich in nature but is quite outdated with the current technology, our government officials are still having difficulty in manipulating the internet that they are too slow to track down some criminals through it, our film productions are also not good with animations, international animators are still better than our animators, and it was because the lack of knowledge and technologies for animating. There are still many factors that are evident for us to say that our country is digitally divided with other certain countries.

As a student, teaching them won't be enough as according to Alvseike and Brønnick (2012) that cognitive deficits and low self-efficacy associated with older age significantly reduced participants' ability to use technology. Teaching them is a difficult idea , so as the future workers of our generation, we are being encouraged to learn and adapt technology and internet, studying them will be a better idea in bridging the gap of the digital divide of our country. With the help of the government's better budget of finances and a group of technology inclined people, bridging the digital divide is possible. If we have the opportunity to help people that are affected by digital divide. We will create a Students group page created to spread information related to the areas or people who have been affected by the digital divide. We will gather information and search, find the certain areas. Once we have our research we will post it to the page and boost it to quickly spread and reach many people especially people working in the government.

As a result of these actions, digital divide will slowly contract, having people unite and bridge the gap between them. Digital native people and digital immigrant people will work together teaching each other creating unity and it will no longer be a problem to them. No one will feel left out or feel outdated.

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Crossing the Bridge of the Digital Divide

The digital divide or the digital split is a social issue referring to the different amount of information between those people who can access the internet and those people who cannot access. Simple it is described as a gap found between individual people like their social classes, businesses, and even countries with different socioeconomic backgrounds. Usually, the digital divide is being observed nowadays generation to online learning due to the pandemic. The digital divide arises today because many students cannot access online learning due to the lack of technology, that’s why they only using modular second learning. With the rise of new technology like high tech gadgets and mobile smartphones worldwide, this inequality has now become about having more or less cannot access the internet like our grandmother and grandfather. They become part of the digital divide because they don’t have the internet technology skill to know how to utilize it.

As a student that knows the digital divide, the simple steps that we can do to bridge the gap of this digital divide are to give a hand to the needy. By this, we can help awareness to those students or even our classmates that didn’t know how to use technology or they don’t have the technology to use in online learning. There are many ways to help a person and the one thing that we can do is to be generous to the emptiness of the other. Even just a simple guide on how to use technology is a very great help to close the gap of the digital divide. Helping a friend or your classmate can make the world a better place. Then, it will become suitable for everyone the usage of the internet. It is an idea of being no one left behind in digital literacy and to the future generation.