4. Lesson Objectives
To 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.
5. Perceptions of ICT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rksCTVFtjM4
You can be the people who change this perception.
6. The Course
AQA 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
7. Unit 2 (INFO 2) – Living in the
Digital World
ICT systems and their components
Data and information
People and ICT systems
Transfer of data in ICT systems
Safety and security of ICT systems
Procedures for back up and recovery
Uses of ICT systems
Factors and consequences of ICT
8. Unit 2 Exam
Duration 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.
10. 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.
11. ICT Systems
Find/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.
12. System – Input, Process, Output
Data Information
Input Process Output
Take Food Add up the Produce the
Order Separate Bill
Items
13. ICT System –
Input, Process, Output
Data Information
Input Process Output
Photos from Crop and Improved
Digital Airbrush in Photos
Camera Graphics Displayed
Software
14. ICT System –
Input, Storage, Process, Output
Data Data Information
Input Storage Process Output
15. News
Read 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.
16. Prep
Complete the ICT System exam question.
Try to do it without the aid of books and the internet.
Bring it to next lesson.