Information

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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 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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