A Young Person's Guide To Information Technology: Working With Information (ePub)

This is the seventh book in a series of ten electronic books designed to educate young children and school-age students about information technologies and the digital world they live in.Who will benefit from this book? This book is most suitable for students in their sixth, seventh or eighth grade level. For students with little or no prior knowledge of ICT and computing, it is effective when used in conjunction with Books Five, Six and Eight. It may also be helpful for teachers introducing ICT or integrating it into the curriculum.Contents:Book Seven comprises six modules:Module One: Exploring Information Technologies. This module enables the student to explore the nature of information technology in terms of history and human needs, which often lead to the development of new technologies. The module also introduces the student to the concept of systematic problem solving processes and their relation to information technologies. Unit One: What is Technology?, Unit Two: People's Technological Needs, Unit Three: Problem- Solving Technologies, Unit Four: Information TechnologiesModule Two: Scratch and Visual Basic. Scratch and Visual Basic are important programming languages used and taught today. The purpose of this module is to introduce the student to programming in these languages, with particular focus on the creation of practical objects and processes. Unit One: Programming Animation with Scratch, Unit Two: What is Visual Basic?, Unit Three: Controls and Properties, Unit Four: Exploring Visual Basic Data, Unit Five: Adding Lists to an ApplicationModule Three: Programming With Alice. Unit One: Animating ObjectsModule Four: Creating Web Pages. This module focuses on helping the student to create web pages in two ways with the HTML programming language. Unit One: Creating Web PagesModule Five: Examining Information Technologies. This module explores several of the most common and popular information technologies: how they evolved, how to use some of them, and what they do. The primary focus of the module is on photography. Unit One: Amazing Photography, Unit Two: 35mm Photography, Unit Three: Digital Photography, Unit Four: Photographic Technologies That Go Beyond Us, Unit Five: Radio, Unit Six: The TelephoneModule Six: Supercomputers And The Human Brain. This module explores the relationship between human intelligence and computer-based technologies. Artificial intelligence is examined and questions raised about the future evolution of technology. Unit One: The Amazing Human Brain, Unit Two: Artificial IntelligenceThe book is colorful, creative and contains many challenges and activities designed to help young students understand how digital technologies work and how they may efficiently use them to learn and communicate. The book also contains an integrated Continuous Assessment process which may be of value in some educational environments. Modules at each level are divided into skills and knowledge-focused units. At the end of each unit students may describe what they have learned and their parent or teacher may award points for each item covered. Marks may be accumulated throughout the school year. A grade based upon the total points accumulated may be awarded at any time during the year. There are no tests or examinations in this program.What are the intended uses of this book? 1. This book is designed to support both teachers and students in existing ICT curricula and may be useful in areas such as Science, Language Arts, Mathematics and the Arts. 2. The book supports public and private education systems' instruction and skills training programs to ensure that...