1. Mr Caine

2. What topics have you studied in
ICT before?

3. What would you like to learn in
your ICT lessons?

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.

9. IDEA
 Identify
 Describe
 Evaluate
 Analyse

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.