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Page 1: Why Study It

Why study ITGS

Saint Maur International School2009

IT Department

Page 2: Why Study It

IT Systems

have become an integral part of everyday life from: • waking up in the morning• getting to school

to • communicating with family and

friends wherever they may be

Page 3: Why Study It

Society & especially the Saint Maur

community have invested in IT systems

(time, equipment, MONEY, expertise) • To create an environment that uses

human intuition that• Solves problems (work safer, faster

and consistently)

Page 4: Why Study It

Skills to master life are changing,

they are now:• web based inquiry • information analysis• media rich publishing • entrepreneurship and • collaboration (even Virtual Reality) These key abilities are required for thefuture.

Page 5: Why Study It

Modern world inhabitants useand will depend more upon

• High speed communication connections

• Wireless• Broadband (Fiber Optic)

• Converged devices• The Internet

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• The world of cyberspace is transforming the way we work and live

• Citizens are helping to define and shape a new digital age (60% contend that info found on www is more reliable than that found in print)

• The net gives awesome power to individuals especially the ability to be heard across the world

• Individuals will need to exercise greater responsibilities for their own actions and for the world they are creating

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MySpace, YouTube, Wikipedia, Lulu, Flickr, Second Life

• Influencing the way the music, news, andmovie businesses are developing• Allow people to become overnight celebrities.• Contributors become instant

– encyclopedia editors, – writers, – musicians, – journalists and – photographers,

all wanting to show off their work to a responsive audience

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But there are conflicts between :

• personal privacy and societies interest in openness

• security and freedom• community and commerce• government oversight and personal

autonomy • flourishing creativity and the

protection of intellectual property (Blogs, mashups)

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Today's graduates(digital natives) spend

• Less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading• 10,000 hours playing video games• 20,000 hours watching TVOver 50% believe they will work inbusinesses they create themselves80% of jobs that will be available in 2018have not yet been createdBy the age of 35 grade 8 students will havehad been employed at least 18 different ways

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Digital natives prefer:

• Receiving info quickly from multiple multi media sources

• Parallel processing and multitasking• Processing pictures, sounds, videos

before text• Random access to hyperlinked

multimedia info• Interact simultaneously with others

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ICT Syllabus40% Theory 60% PracticalComputer systems Word

processing/DTPHardware SpreadsheetsInput/Output DatabasesNetworks AudioICT effects PresentationsWays to use ICT GraphicsSystem analysis Web authoring

Wikis & Blogs