INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

This course provides learners with the ability to understand the rapid change of ICT in a technology-based world and the impact ICT has on the world.
Learners in a modern ICT based world need to have the ability to gather, process and manipulate data; this course helps learners to fulfil this.
The approach of Cambridge IGCSE Information and Communication Technology encourages learners to be:

confident, in applying knowledge and understanding of ICT technologies and using skills to solve ICT
problems, both as individuals and working with others,

responsible, for themselves, responsive to and respectful of others with particular consideration to physical safety and eSafety,

reflective, in their ability to learn and develop ICT skills,

innovative, in the way that they use ICT-based solutions to solve problems and identify alternative solutions to solve problems,

engaged, socially, in the work that they undertake and to interrogate unfamiliar situations to provide ICT-based solutions.

Content overview

1 Types and components of computer systems
2 Input and output devices
3 Storage devices and media
4 Networks and the effects of using them
5 The effects of using IT
6 ICT applications
7 The systems life cycle
8 Safety and security
9 Audience
10 Communication
11 File management
12 Images
13 Layout
14 Styles
15 Proofing
16 Graphs and charts
17 Document production
18 Databases
19 Presentations
20 Spreadsheets
21 Website authoring

Textbook

The recommended textbook for this course is ICT for Cambridge IGCSE: Coursebook by Davil Waller, Victoria Wright & Denise Taylor (Third Edition). The ISBN number is: 978-1-108-90109-3

All page references in this course will refer to the above source.