Changes

Ask your teacher or parent or other older members in your neighbourhood when was the first time they saw a computer or a phone or TV.  People may tell you about how they communicated or did things in the days before the phone.  It may be very hard for you to imagine but ICT (and all other technologies) were not always there - they got developed over time.   

Ask your teacher or parent or other older members in your neighbourhood when was the first time they saw a computer or a phone or TV.  People may tell you about how they communicated or did things in the days before the phone.  It may be very hard for you to imagine but ICT (and all other technologies) were not always there - they got developed over time.   

In this unit, you will learn about what is the nature of ICT, how ICT developed and how we need to work with ICT for all of us to benefit.  You can read more about how ICT developed in the chapter on [[ICT student textbook/Science Technology and Society|Science, Technology and Society]].

In this unit, you will learn about what is ICT, how ICT developed and how we need to work with ICT for all of us to benefit.  You can read more about how ICT developed in the chapter on [[ICT student textbook/Science Technology and Society|Science, Technology and Society]].

===Objectives===

===Objectives===

===How is the unit organized===

===How is the unit organized===

In this unit, there are three levels of activities, to match roughly to classes 6-8. The activities will increase in difficulty - based on the ICT skills needed as well as subject knowledge that you will be building.  As you work on the various activities for the different ICT areas in the each level, you will also get experienced with more ICT skills and this would help you with the subsequent level.

In this unit, there are three levels of activities. The activities will increase in difficulty - based on the ICT skills needed as well as subject knowledge that you will be building.  As you work on the various activities for the different ICT areas in the each level, you will also get experienced with more ICT skills and this would help you with the subsequent level.

You can imagine this somewhat like a spiral staircase where you learn some topic at a basic level, you move along to the next class and you can come back to discuss the same topic at a more advanced level.   

You can imagine this somewhat like a spiral staircase where you learn some topic at a basic level, you move along to the next class and you can come back to discuss the same topic at a more advanced level.