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Line 1: − + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − Look at the list below and identify all the words that you have heard of: − [[File:Have_you_heard_of_ICT_terms.mm]] − There is one thing common that is common across all these things - the use of Information Communication Technology, ICT. − Computers, cell phones, tablets - these are all words that are being used everywhere. As students, you have been introduced to some of these terms in your school, in your family or in your neighbourhood. The cell phone tower, your nearest ATM, your mother's mobile phone, games, whatsapp chats, email, the selfie, internet, videos and songs on your computer - all these are examples of a new kind of technology. These technologies are called digital technologies and they are changing the way we talk to each other, work with each other, and even the way we live. − - a technology that has changed the way we are accessing information, the methods we are communicating and the ways we are working. The computer is becoming like a television, the phone is becoming like a computer, you can use the computer to make voice calls, you can speak to your phone- these and many such innovations are taking place rapidly.+ − Today's society is called the information society. It is so called because we are now able to do many things based on information, how we analyze it, how we pAbility to gather information, methods of gathering information, processing it, analyzing it, communicating and making decisions to act on it are very important skills. All these technologies - mobile, television, computers, tablets - are together called Information Communication Technologies (ICT). ICT refers to those set of technologies that help us create information, access information, analyze information and communicate with each other. This current set of technologies are also called Digital Technologies. − [[File:A Bonobo at the San Diego Zoo "fishing" for termites.jpg|left|thumb|A Bonobo fishing for termites ]] − __FORCETOC__ − ===Why ICT=== − {| class="wikitable"+ − |- − | style="width: 25%;" |https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Chimpanzee_and_stick.jpg/250px-Chimpanzee_and_stick.jpg Chimpanzee using a stick to gather food − | style="width: 25%;" |https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Google_driverless_car_at_intersection.gk.jpg/220px-Google_driverless_car_at_intersection.gk.jpg <br>Driver less car − | style="width: 50%;" |When it was first discovered that chimpanzees can make tools, which had been considered an activity restricted to the human species, Dr Louis Leakey, a noted primatologist said " We have to define what is a tool, or we have to define what is a human being or we have to accept that chimpanzees are human beings!". <br> <small>'''''Do you think such a question can be asked about humans and computers? How will you feel about it?'''''</small> − |}
ICT student textbook/Introduction (view source)
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{{Navigate|Prev=Preface|Curr=Introduction|Next=What is the nature of ICT}}Have you ever seen anyone in your school or community or home use a phone? Have you ever withdrawn money from an ATM or seen someone get money from an ATM? You may perhaps have booked a train ticket or Tirumala darshan online. You may have seen a movie on your computer or chatted with a friend or recorded a video with your phone. Have you ever wondered how these things are done?
==What is ICT==
{{Navigate|Prev=Preface|Curr=Introduction|Next=What is the nature of ICT}}Have you ever seen anyone in your school or community or home use a phone? Have you ever withdrawn money from an ATM or seen someone get money from an ATM? You may perhaps have booked a train ticket or Tirumala darshan online. You may have seen a movie on your computer or chatted with a friend or recorded a video with your phone. Have you ever wondered how these things are done? There is one thing common that is common across all these things - the use of Information Communication Technologies ICT.
Before we understand what are ICT, look at the list below and identify all the words that you have heard of:
[[File:Have_you_heard_of_ICT_terms.mm]]
(If you are using the printed book, please open the file "Have_you_heard_of_ICT_terms.mm" using Freeplane).
As students, you have been introduced to some or many of these terms in your school, in your family or in your neighbourhood. The cell phone tower, your nearest ATM, your mother's mobile phone, games, whatsapp chats, email, the selfie, internet, videos and songs on your computer - all these are examples of a new kind of technology. These technologies are called digital technologies and they are changing the way we talk to each other, work with each other, and the way we do things. The computer is becoming like a television, the phone is becoming like a computer, you can use the computer to make voice calls, you can record a video with your phone, you can read your newspaper on the phone, and you can even paint with your computer!
The technologies that make all these possible are collectively called ICT. ICT refers to those set of technologies that help us create information, access information, analyze information and communicate with each other. Human beings have always accessed information and communicated, but what makes these present technologies special is their digital nature. You can read more about how ICT developed in the chapter on [[ICT_student_textbook/Science_Technology_and_Society|Science, Technology and Society]].
==We live in information society==
Look at the pictures below and discuss with your friends and teacher.
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| style="width: 25%;" |[[File:A Bonobo at the San Diego Zoo "fishing" for termites.jpg|left|thumb|A Bonobo fishing for termites ]]
| style="width: 50%;"|What is this bonobo doing: can you guess? You are correct! It is "fishing" for termites from an ant hill. Did you think only human beings can fish? When it was first discovered in the 1920s that chimpanzees can make tools, all over the scientific community, people were amazed. This was because human beings were defined as the species which makes tools for use. Dr Louis Leakey, a famous noted primatologist said " We have to define what is a tool, or we have to define what is a human being or we have to accept that chimpanzees are human beings!".
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| style="width: 25%;" |https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Google_driverless_car_at_intersection.gk.jpg/220px-Google_driverless_car_at_intersection.gk.jpg <br>Driver less car
| style="width: 50%;" |What is special about this car? Did you guess? Yes, it has no driver. When you drive, you gather information about the road, other vehicles, people, animals and weather and you operate the controls. Gathering information, processing, analyzing and acting, has been a defining characteristic of the human species. If a car can now do this, do you feel like asking the same question as about the chimpanzee? What do you feel? </small>
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Today's society is called the information society. It is so called because we are now able to do many things based on information, how we analyze it, how we pAbility to gather information, methods of gathering information, processing it, analyzing it, communicating and making decisions to act on it are very important skills. All these technologies - mobile, television, computers, tablets - are together called Information Communication Technologies (ICT). ICT refers This current set of technologies are also called Digital Technologies.
See this pictute
See this pictute
Computers are no longer mere output devices but rather devices that can help us create, draw, compose music,communicate and do so much more; the idea of ICT has moved far beyond the mere computer. ICT and broadly digital technologies are changing the way we talk, we learn and we work.
Computers are no longer mere output devices but rather devices that can help us create, draw, compose music,communicate and do so much more; the idea of ICT has moved far beyond the mere computer. ICT and broadly digital technologies are changing the way we talk, we learn and we work.