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Information
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Free Information study notes for Senior High School students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Information I
Information I (1): Problem Solving in the Information Society
Characteristics of information and media
Discovering and solving problems with information technology
Laws and systems concerning information
Importance of information security
Information morals and individual responsibility
Role and impact of information technology on people and society
Information II
Information I (2): Communication and Information Design
Media characteristics and means of communication
Selecting media and means of communication
The role information design plays in society
Concepts and methods of information design
Expressing, evaluating and improving a design
Design usable regardless of age, disability or language
Information I (3): Computers and Programming
Structure of computers and peripheral devices
Internal representation of information and limits of computation
Ways of expressing algorithms
Programming to use computers and networks
Functions and improving program performance
Modelling phenomena in society and nature
Simulation and evaluating and improving models
Information I (4): Networks and Use of Data
Network structure, components and protocols
Methods and technologies for securing information
Designing a small-scale network
Storing, managing and providing data
Information systems and the services they provide
Representing and storing data
Collecting, organising and analysing data
Information II (1): Progress of the Information Society and IT
History of IT development and the information society
Diversification of communication
Impact on human intellectual activity
The future of information technology and society
Significance of creating and using content
Significance of creating information systems and using data
Information II (2): Communication and Content
Forms of communication and media characteristics
Organising requirements for content
Producing content combining text, audio, images and video
Evaluating and improving content through information design
Publishing content to society
Effects and impact of publishing, and improvement
Information II (3): Information and Data Science
Usefulness of data and the role of data science
Collecting, organising and shaping data for a purpose
Modelling phenomena from data
Processing data and interpreting and presenting results
Prediction and relations between phenomena
Evaluating models and improving methods
Information II (4): Information Systems and Programming
Flow of information and processing in information systems
Securing information in information systems
Notation for information system design
Software development process and project management
Producing the programs of an information system
Splitting into functional units and integrating
Role and impact of information systems and services
Information II (5): Inquiry into Problem Solving with IT
Setting a task and identifying the problem
Basic workings and use of computers and information systems
Using information technology for communication
Using information technology to make use of data
The information society and information technology
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