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[[File:Bangladeshi girls taking Selfie at Pohela Falgun.jpg|thumb|200x200px|Girls taking a selfie]]Have you even seen something like this?  Can you tell what the girls are doing?  

[[File:Bangladeshi girls taking Selfie at Pohela Falgun.jpg|thumb|200x200px|Girls taking a selfie]]Have you even seen something like this?  Can you tell what the girls are doing?  

They are using a mobile phone to take a photo of themselves.  Have you ever seen anyone in your school or community or home use a phone?  Can you describe the things you have seen then do with a phone?   

They are using a mobile phone to take a photo of themselves.  Is there anything different about how they are doing this? Have you ever seen anyone in your school or community or home use a phone?  Can you describe the things you have seen then do with a phone?   

[[File:49024-SOS-ATM.JPG|left|thumb|200x200px|Any Time Money!]]Look at this machine here - please think whether you have seen something like this anywhere in your neighbourhood?  Have you seen anyone use a machine like this?  This is an ATM machine from which you can get cash.  Usually it will have the name of some bank written on the sign, example State Bank ATM.

[[File:49024-SOS-ATM.JPG|left|thumb|200x200px|Any Time Money!]]Look at this machine here - have you have seen something like this anywhere in your neighbourhood?  Have you seen anyone use a machine like this?  This is an ATM machine from which you can get cash.  Usually it will have the name of some bank written on the sign, example State Bank ATM.

Now, you may be wondering what is common between these two pictures. Before we find that out, look at the list below and make a note if you have done or seen or heard of these things.  Also, make a list of all the equipment used in doing these things:

Now, you may be wondering what is common between these two pictures.  

 

Before we find that out, look at the list below and make a note if you have done or seen or heard of these things.   

 

You should also make a list of all the equipment used in doing these things:

* You have seen someone booking a gas cylinder refill through a phone.

* You have seen someone booking a gas cylinder refill through a phone.

* You have or someone you know has taken a photo of themselves taken and that has been printed on the Tirumala darshan ticket which is printed by a computer

* You have or someone you know has taken a photo of themselves taken and that has been printed on the Tirumala darshan ticket  

* You have watched videos on your computer

* You have watched videos on your computer

* You have listened to songs on a phone.

* You have listened to songs on a phone.

Compare the list you have made with your friends. What did you find? You may also now be starting to wonder how these things are done.  There is one thing that is common across all these things - which makes these different things possible - is the use of Information Communication Technologies, ICT.

Compare the list you have made with your friends. What did you find? You may also now be starting to wonder how these things are done.  There is one thing that is common across all these things - which makes these different things possible - the use of Information Communication Technologies, ICT.

Before we understand what are ICT, look at the list below and circle all the words that you have heard of:

Before we understand what are ICT, look at the list below and circle all the words that you have heard of:

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| style="width: 60%;" |[[File:Google self-driving Lexus SUV rear view.jpg|left|thumb|600px|Google self-driving car]]

| style="width: 60%;" |[[File:Google self-driving Lexus SUV rear view.jpg|left|thumb|600px|Google self-driving car]]

| style="width: 40%;" |What is special about this car?  Did you guess?  Yes, it has no driver.   

| style="width: 40%;" |What is special about this car?  Did you guess?  What is the meaning of self-driving car?  Yes, it has no driver.   

<br>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, does it make the car a human being?  What makes a human being special?  

<br>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, does it make the car a human being?  What makes a human being special?  

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Today's society is called the [[wikipedia:Information_society|information society]]. To see why, let us think of a small activity.   

Today's society is called the [[wikipedia:Information_society|information society]]. To see why, let us think of a small activity.   

Let us say you are withdrawing money from a nearby ATM.  Can you make a list of all the things you need to do for that? You need your account number, your PIN and you need to enter the amount of money.  When you put your card in the machine, it verifies your PIN, collects information about your bank account, the bank and the balance amount.  The ATM machine does all of this, connects with yout bank and allows you to withdraw the money.

Let us say you are withdrawing money from a nearby ATM.  Can you make a list of all the things you need to do for that? You need your account number, your Personal Identification Number (PIN) and you need to enter the amount of money.  When you put your card in the machine, it verifies your PIN, collects information about your bank account, the bank and the balance amount.  The ATM machine does all of this, communicates with your bank and allows you to withdraw the money.  

So many things we do now are based on information.  Many devices - mobile phones, television, computers, tablets, cameras, scanners, collectively called ICTs, have made this possible. How we collect information, how we analyze it, how we communicate the information and how we use the information to make decisions are all very important.  ICT and broadly digital technologies are changing the way we do things, thus making today's society an information society. You may be familiar with the computer but now ICT have moved far beyond the computer alone. As students you have to learn ICT to build your skills for functioning in the [[wikipedia:Information_society|information society]].

So many things we do now are based on information.  Many devices - mobile phones, television, computers, tablets, cameras, scanners, collectively called ICTs, have made this possible. How we collect information, how we analyze it, how we communicate the information and how we use the information to make decisions are all very important.  ICT and broadly digital technologies are changing the way we do things, thus making today's society an information society. You may be familiar with the computer but now ICT have moved far beyond the computer alone. As students you have to learn ICT to build your skills for functioning in the [[wikipedia:Information_society|information society]].