Basic ICT Knowledge
This term describes the physical, tangible parts of technology that you can see and touch, often compared to the "body" of ICT.
What is Hardware?
Used by the Babylonians around 2400 B.C., this bead-frame tool is recognized as an early calculation aid and is still in use today.
What is the Abacus?
This core Microsoft Office application is primarily designed to create, edit, and format text documents
What is Microsoft Word?
This large classroom hardware touchscreen allows educators to display slides, write digital notes, and interact with software usin
What is an Interactive Smartboard?
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
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Keyboards, mice, and gamepads fall under this category of hardware used to enter data and instructions into a computer.
What are Input Devices?
Stiff paper cards with holes punched into them, originally used in weaving looms and later used to feed data into early computers.
What are Punched Cards?
Software such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, designed to manage, tabulate, and calculate numerical data organized in rows and columns
What is Spreadsheet Software?
Built in the 1980s to operate on top of the underlying Internet infrastructure, this system transformed how people interact with and browse linked multimedia pages.
What is the World Wide Web (WWW)?
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
'Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game
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Often referred to as the CPU, this electronic component interprets and executes the basic instructions that operate a computer.
What is the Processor (Central Processing Unit)?
Developed in 1969 by the U.S. Department of Defense (DARPA), this early computer network became the foundational predecessor to the modern Internet.
What is ARPANET?
Programs such as WinZip, 7-Zip, and WinRAR belong to this utility software group, which reduces file sizes to save storage space.
What are File Compression Tools?
Digital systems like Google Classroom or Canvas used by institutions to post lecture notes, track materials, and collect assignments.
What are Learning Portals?
My shades, Dior, my pants, velour
Create, explore, expand, conquer
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This main printed circuit board (PCB) acts as a computer's central communications backbone, allowing all internal and external components to connect
What is the Motherboard?
This type of system software allows hardware peripherals like printers and graphics cards to communicate properly with the operating system.
What is a Device Driver?
In 1953, this institution made educational broadcasting history by offering the first live televised college credit courses
What is the University of Houston?
You told me think about it, well I did
Now I don't wanna feel a thing anymore
I'm tired of begging for the things that I want
I'm over sleeping like a dog on the floor
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The Information Processing Cycle describes how raw data becomes meaningful information through these four sequential stages.
What are Input, Process, Output, and Storage?
Before referring to an electronic machine, this was an official job title for human workers (predominantly women) who performed repetitive mathematical calculations.
What is a Computer?
This concept defines the overall knowledge and ability to use computers and digital technology efficiently, ranging from basic use to advanced problem-solving.
What is Computer Literacy (Digital Literacy)?
A recognized mental health drawback associated with heavy digital and social media communication, represented by a four-letter acronym meaning "Fear Of Missing Out"
What is FOMO?
I wanna be your vacuum cleaner
Breathin' in your dust
I wanna be your Ford Cortina
I will never rust
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