LEARNING NO.1: WHAT IS ICT?

LEARNINGS NO. 1
COMPUTER SCIENCE LEARNINGS:

ICT / INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY - IT IS USED TO STORE AND CREATE INFORMATIONS AND ALSO COMPOSED OF TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS, HARDWARE, DATA, SOFTWARE, AND THE PEOPLE USING THEM.
EXAMPLES OF THIS ARE TELEVISION SET AND THE INTERNET.

ICT CAN BE USED AT HOME, SCHOOL AND AT WORK.

In Home:

• ICT can be used as entertainment; playing games, watching videos, listening to music, for research and others.
• ICT can also be used in making projects.
• ICT provides wider learnings and more flexible range of learning materials.

In School:

• it can be used in more fascinating and entertainable teaching skills.
• it can be used in submitting subjects and fill out forms through internet.
• it can be used in finding resources around the world.
• lessons and resources can be found on internet connected devices.

In Work:

• ICT can make the works that you want to finish.
• communication.
• financial transaction.
• reprographics.

ICT SOFTWARES

Software, as taught to us when we were Grade 1, is not a physical thing. Softwares is a collection of running programs in a computer and instructions that can be run on a computer.

     Software are instructions that tell the hardware (computers, iPhone, iPad, etc.) to do something instructed.
Examples of Ict softwares are:

• File organization
•  the way records are physically arranged.
• Office Applications
• software used in business such as word processing, email, and spreadsheet.
• . Web Services
• method of communication  between two electronic devices over a network. It is a software function provided at a network address over the web with the service always on as in the concept of utility computing.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service
               www.yourdictionary.com/office-application
               https://software.intel.com/.../GUID-7238288C-05B1-4220-85BD-D5A17.