ICT student textbook/The human story behind the computer

Title of Activity

Objectives

1. To understand the role ICT play in society - the potential and the problem

What prior skills are assumed

1. Familiarity with the ICT environment
2. Familiarity with multiple ICT applications

Resources needed

1. Computer with projection equipment
2. Access to the internet
3. Pictures and slide show
4. Handout for Firefox

Digital skills

1. Understanding of how computers have impacted the society

Description of activity with detailed steps

Teacher led activity

How the computer looked during the World War II

Alan Turing in College

Your teacher will play this Slide show of The story of Enigma. She will discuss with you how this machine was developed during the secod world war to decode the German messages. Alan Turing was called the code breaker. Though Britain and its allies broke the German code, they could not openly declare this because they did not want Germany to know. This meant that the team doing the computing had to take decisions on when to allow an attack to happen without defence. Can you imagine taking such decisions?

Student activities

1. Discuss with your friends and in small groups identify and one technology that you are aware of (ICT related technology)
2. With illustrations and text, develop a story of how the technology began, what need of society it addressed, what is available now, how the technology has changed the way we do things and what is the future of the technology
3. Are you aware of any technology that has disappeared?

Portfolio

1. Your picture story discussing the human being - technology connection