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Foundations of Technology
The Designed World: Information and Communication Technologies
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Introduction:

We communicate daily. Often we use a technological device to help us deliver our message. Examples of communication systems include: the Internet, telephones, televisions, radios, computers, and fax machines.  In this lesson you will learn the overall usefulness of communication to transmit data and information.
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Outcomes: Develop an understanding of and be able to select and use information and communication technologies. (ITEA 17)
  • Information and communication technologies include the inputs, processes, and outputs associated with sending and receiving information (ITEA 17-L)
  • Information and communication systems allow information to be transferred from human to human, human to machine, and machine to machine (ITEA 17-M)
  • Information and communication systems can be used to inform, persuade, entertain, control, manage, and educate (ITEA 17-N)
  • Communication systems are made up of source, encoder, transmitter, receiver, deconder, storage, retrieval, and destination (ITEA 17-O)
  • There are many ways to communicate information, such as graphic and electronic means (ITEA 17-P)
  • Technological knowledge and processes are communicated using symbols, measurement, conventions, icons, graphic images, and languages that incorporate a variety of visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli. (ITEA 17-Q)

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