Framework of the Teaching Package (translated from the Chinese version)

Titled: The Role of Telecommunications Services played in an Information Society

Project led by: Consumer Education Working Group, Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA), Hong Kong Government (http://www.ofta.gov.hk/)

Produced and web hosted by: Breakthrough Ltd (http://www.breakthrough.org.hk/ofta/)
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Distributed (since Sept. 1999) to: 470 secondary schools, 26 public libraries, 60 youth centres, 19 educational bodies and 18 concerned organisations in Hong Kong
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Teaching Package Framework

Module One--Introducing the Hong Kong telecommunications industry and basic information concerning telecommunications services

-Activity One--crosswords

-Topic 1--Telecommunications services in Hong Kong

-Topic 2--The all-embracing Internet

-Topic 3--Electronic Commerce

-Topic 4--Broadband networks building a new information society generation

-Topic 5--Moving toward a new era of external telecommunications services

-Topic 6--Rapid advances in the local telecommunications market

-Topic 7--The future of telecommunications services

-Topic 8--The roles of government and other organisations in telecom. Services
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Module Two--Introducing relevant information concerning telecommunications services and information technology through 'Role Play' approaches
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-Topic 1--A day of a mother

-Topic 2--A day of a marketing executive

-Topic 3--A day of a university student

-Topic 4--A day of a family in the future

-Activity Two--Telecommunications/IT entrepreneurs

Module Three--Introducing the relationships between telecommunications services/ information technology and different aspects of our lives

-Topic 1--Future lives at home

-Topic 2--The critical need for protection of Personal Privacy

-Topic 3--Information overload

-Topic 4--Telecommunications services/ information technology and lives at workplace

-Topic 5--Telecommunications services/ information technology: channel abuses

-Topic 6--Information Technology and the culture of the society

-Topic 7--IT and medical services and our health

-Topic 8--Information Technology and the natural environment

-Topic 9--IT as the foundation for economic growth

-Topic 10--IT and Electronic Commerce

-Topic 11--IT and the financial industry and the related security issues

-Topic 12--Telecommunications and IT policy making in Hong Kong

-Topic 13--Respecting intellectual property rights

-Topic 14--Telecommunications services/ information technology and ethical issues

-Activity Three--Telecommunications services/ information technology News Reporters

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