General Knowledge student must know on Information Communication Technology (ICT)

 


    







  Due to the globalization of the world, ICT has being introduced in Ghanaian syllabus in all school. The study of ICT started from Primary 1 to Junior High School. It continue to Senior High as a core (compulsory) course. In all tertiary institution in Ghana, it is treated as one of the compulsory courses. 


Therefore, it become very paramount for all student to have a feel of little ICT at school. In brief computer is define as general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. Since a sequence of operations can be readily changed, the computer can solve more than one kind of problem.

Conventionally, a computer consists of at least one processing element, typically a central processing unit (CPU), and some form of memory. The processing element carries out arithmetic and logic operations, and a sequencing and control unit can change the order of operations in response to stored information. Peripheral devices allow information to be retrieved from an external source, and the result of operations saved and retrieved.

A child at the Lower Primary level is expected to have little knowledge on the peripheral devices. The are therefore tested duely. Comparatively, an upper class student is expected to know little about clicking, working on some default computer programme such as; paint, notepad,  Microsoft  word, Mavis Beacon, etc.  as prescribe by Ghana Education Service.