🌸Motherboard- The main circuit board that connects everything and lets the parts communicate.
🌸CPU (Central Processing Unit)- The “brain” that runs instructions and handles most of the actual processing.
🌸RAM (Random Access Memory)- Short-term memory your computer uses to keep active tasks fast and accessible.
🌸Storage (Hard Drive or SSD)- Long-term memory where your files, programs, and operating system are saved.
🌸Power Supply- Converts electricity from the wall into usable power for the computer.
🌸Folders are the backpack where you can store the files/information.
🌸Zip files are very fun, it's like a very compressed file that weighs less.
It's a lot, so brace yourself...
🌸What are the 7 Competencies of Digital Literacy?
Identity and Wellbeing, Discovery, Evaluation, Ethics, Creativity and Scholarship, Communication and Collaboration, Curation.
When you look for the information.
It is a full question instead of keywords. It is how we interact with computers.
🌸Spider (as related to the World Wide Web)
The web is what you use on top of the internet. Websites, links, images, videos, apps. It’s the stuff on the roads.
A digital footprint is the often permanent trail of data you leave online—including social media posts, website visits, and search history.
🌸What are the 5 basic computer components?
1. Motherboard: The main circuit board that connects everything and lets the parts communicate.
2. CPU (Central Processing Unit) The “brain” that runs instructions and handles most of the actual processing.
3. RAM (Random Access Memory) Short-term memory your computer uses to keep active tasks fast and accessible.
4. Storage (Hard Drive or SSD) Long-term memory where your files, programs, and operating system are saved.
5. Power Supply Converts electricity from the wall into usable power for the computer.
🌸What is a file as it relates to computers?
The file is where we store information.
Files are identified by a short extension following a period at the end of their name.
For example:
abc.jpg → photogragh
abc.docx → Word doc
abc.exe → program
abc.mp3 → audio file
abc.png → image
abc.csv → comma-separated text file
ZIP is a compressed file format allowing you to group files and reduce their size to share and transport them more easily. Zip Files are like Mary Poppins' Magic bag!
🌸Saas
Software as a Service. Software is the programs and applications you run on the physical device, like the OS (Windows) or a program like Microsoft Word.
Evaluation of information is crucial. Can you critically analyze information/media/data to determine its relevance, accuracy, and purpose? Can you recognize how algorithms and personalization influence online information exposure (digital bubbles)?
Why it matters: Not everything online is accurate, safe, or unbiased. Evaluating sources critically helps avoid misinformation, make informed decisions, and build credible work.
Example: Checking publication date, author credentials, and site reliability before citing information in an assignment.
Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content (text, images, code, music, etc.) rather than just analyzing or predicting from existing data.
A prompt is the instruction you give to an AI.
🌸What is the difference between the Internet and the WWW?
The Internet is the infrastructure. Think: cables, routers, servers, data moving around the world. It’s the roads.
The World Wide Web (WWW) is what you use on top of the Internet. Websites, links, images, videos, apps. It’s the stuff on the roads.
The app you use to access the web (Chrome, Safari, Edge).
🌸URL
A URL is just an address for a specific resource on the web.