Transcript Lesson 7 - Life in the Information Age

Life in the Information Age
Unit 1
GCE Applied ICT
Objectives
• To use a wide range of resources to gather
relevant information about how ICT affects
different aspects of people’s lives
• To present a description of how ICT is
affecting different aspects of people’s lives
• To identify the benefits and drawbacks of life
with ICT in the Information Age
Introduction
• ICT has made a huge impact on our personal,
social and professional lives
• ICT impacts almost every aspect of our daily
lives
Working Styles
Legislation
Communication
Civil rights
Education
ICT
Crime and crime
prevention
Entertainment
& leisure
Employment
Opportunities
Banking and
Shopping
Decision making
Working Styles
• With modern PCs and Broadband, it is easier
to work from home
• Video Conferencing
– Reduces expensive and time consuming travel
Communication
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Mobile & video phones
E-mail
SMS, MMS
Instant messaging
Social networking
Wi-Fi
Education
• Talk and chalk...
– A thing of the past?
• Interactive wipe boards, internet
• Multimedia/student interaction
Entertainment & Leisure
Banking and shopping
• ICT has changed our banking and shopping habits
• Internet banking
– Access accounts at any time
– Transfer money easily
– More efficient money management
• Shopping
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Price comparison websites
Prices often discounted
Gives access to disabled
Progressed from books/CDs to weekly groceries
Decision Making
• Processors have decreased in size
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) has improved
• Computers can be ‘trained’ to make choices
depending on the options available to them
• Master David Levy beaten by a computer at
Chess in 1989
• Many medical systems are now controlled by
computers
Employment Opportunities
• As more companies are using ICT, they are
expecting a wider range of skills from their
employees
• There are new roles that require staff trained
with specialist IT skills
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Database administrators
Software engineers
Network administrators
Hardware engineers
Web designers
Crime & Crime Prevention
• ICT has brought with it new forms of crime
• Criminals are becoming more efficient
• There are two forms of cyber crime:
– Modern ‘ICT’ crimes committed against
computers and their networks (viruses, hacking)
– Previously existing crimes that have now been
made easier (ID Theft, exploitation, fraud)
Civil Rights
• A civil right is a privilege that we enjoy as the
result of living within a particular country or
region
• Some argue that these have been invaded
thanks to the widespread use of ICT
– Government/organisations store information
about us
– ID cards – good or bad thing?
Legislation
• Since 1988, all new Public General Acts are
available online
• Computer Misuse Act 1990
• Copyright, Designs & Patents act