Welcome to AS ICTMr Caine

What topics have you studied in ICT before?

What would you like to learn in your ICT lessons?

Lesson ObjectivesTo know what is expected from you during

the AS ICT course.

To understand what topics are covered in AS ICT, how you will be assessed and when you will be assessed.

To be able to define ICT, a system and an ICT System.

Perceptions of ICThttp://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rksCTVFtjM4

You can be the people who change this perception.

The CourseAQA AS ICT

Unit 1 (INFO 1) – Practical Problem Solving in the Digital World Mr Baldeson Sample Work/Exam 50% of AS Level/25% of A Level

Unit 2 (INFO 2) – Living in the Digital World Mr Caine Exam 50% of AS Level/25% of A Level

Unit 2 (INFO 2) – Living in the Digital WorldICT systems and their componentsData and informationPeople and ICT systemsTransfer of data in ICT systemsSafety and security of ICT systemsProcedures for back up and recoveryUses of ICT systemsFactors and consequences of ICT

Unit 2 ExamDuration of paper – 1 ½ hours

Section A – Short answer questions

Section B – Three or more structured questions which require discursive answers. These answers will require argument/reason.

IDEAIdentify

Describe

Evaluate

Analyse

What is ICT?In pairs discuss what you think ICT?

Information and Communication Technology is the use of technology for the input, processing, storage and transfer of data and the output of information.

ICT SystemsFind/Create a definition for a ‘System’ and an

‘ICT System’

System – “A set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole” – Input, Process, Output

ICT System – The same as a System but it uses technology and the output goes directly to a human or another ICT system.

System – Input, Process, Output

Input Process OutputData

Information

Take Food Order

Add up the

Separate Items

Produce the Bill

ICT System – Input, Process, Output

Input Process OutputData

Information

Photos from

Digital Camera

Crop and Airbrush

in Graphics Software

Improved Photos

Displayed

ICT System – Input, Storage, Process, Output

Input Storage Process

Data

Information

Data

Output

NewsRead Technology News and relate it to the

work we are doing.

If you want some help you can follow @MrCaineICT on Twitter.

Task-Find a news story that can be related to

something we have talked about in today’s lesson.

PrepComplete the ICT System exam question.

Try to do it without the aid of books and the internet.

Bring it to next lesson.