OVERVIEW

Students will learn about the hardwares of a computer and understand data in computers are represented by binary.

ACADEMIC LITERACY

• Input

• Output

• Hardware

• Software

• Binary

• Data Representation

• Character sets

• ASCII

• UNICODE

• Pixel

• Resolution

CAREERS

Network Engineer, Computer Hardware Engineer, Network Architects, Computer Support Specialists

WIDER READING

• Reading Articles as part of further research for homework. Computer Systems: Facts about Hardware, software and how a computer works.

• https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/computer/352990 

• https://kids.kiddle.co/Computer 

SAFEGUARDING

Understand that technology is always changing, therefore, the need to for updating software especially anti-malware software. Having awareness of what is meant by privacy and know how to prevent identity theft and understand how to report concerns such as cyberbullying.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Students will look at how computer systems have changed over the years and also think about the impact this development has had on the environment.

DIVERSITY

• Explore female pioneers in computer science: Creating the first computer program (Ada Lovelace)

• Inventing computing methods and devices, like the compiler (Grace Hopper)

• Advancing human space exploration (Katherine Johnson)

• Developing programs that influence how today's computers work (Margaret Hamilton)

• Creating programs dedicated to studying technology's impact on social and ethical issues (Stephanie Shirley)

• Promoting diversity throughout IT workplaces (Megan Smith)

CULTURAL CAPITAL

• The student will appreciate that people from the different parts of the world speak different languages. They will learn that for the world to communicate via the internet the programmers needed to come up with a universal code for all the different character sets. Unicode an international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts, by which each letter, digit, or symbol is assigned a unique numeric value that applies across different platforms and programs.

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

• Maths: converting binary, hexadecimal to denary and vice versa and doing additions and subtractions using binary digits.