01.+Introduction


 * What is ICT?**

Information and communications technology or information and communication technology**,** usually called //**ICT**//, is often used as a synonym for [|information technology] (IT) but is usually a more general term that stresses the role of communications (telephone lines and wireless signals) in modern information technology. ICT consists of all technical means used to handle information and aid communication, including both computer and network hardware as well as necessary software. In other words, ICT consists of IT as well as telephony, broadcast media, and all types of audio and video processing and transmission. The expression was first used in 1997 in a report by Dennis Stevenson to the UK government and promoted by the new National Curriculum documents for the UK in 2000. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communication_technologies)


 * How Sunday Schools started?**

During the late 18th century, Sunday Schools made their debut in America. According to Ann M. Boylan, the original Sunday Schools were of British decent and for the purpose of educating the poor. Inspired by British examples, most [Sunday schools] were designed to provide rudimentary instruction to poor working children on their only free day of the week. Robert Raikes and other British evangelicals had pioneered this model during the 1780s by collecting children off city streets, cleaning them up, and keeping them in school for two long Sunday sessions (Boylan 1988, 6). (http://www.fbc-springfield.org/clientimages/36689/historyofthesundayschool.pdf)


 * What is learning Community?**

A learning community addresses the learning needs of its locality through partnership. It uses the strengths of social and institutional relationships to bring about cultural shifts in perceptions of the value of learning. Learning communities explicitly use learning as a way of promoting social cohesion, regeneration and economic development which involves all parts of the community. (Yarnit, 2000, p. 11)

//Since, Philippines is not well developed in terms of advanced technologies,we formulated a Learning community called ICT Sunday school for out of school youth, late aged students and computer illiterates. This Sunday school will make those students more knowledgeable and globally competitive. It will help them cope-up with the rapid diversity of technologies.//