Module Basict IT/ ITES Literacy : Session A : Basic Computer, Software, Hardware and Networking Trainer Notes

Session A : Basic Computer, Software, Hardware and Networking Trainer Notes

1 Session Plan

Time (min)	Content	Method- ology	Trainer Approach	Learner Activity	Learning Outcome (Bloom’s)	Learning Outcome (Gardner’s)
5	Computer literacy	Slides	Facilitate, elicit responses	Discussion	Remember, Understand	visual, intrapersonal
10	Basics of Computers	Reference to Reading Material and Slides	Elicit Responses, facilitate, discuss	Think, recap, respond	Remember, Understand	visual, intrapersonal
15	Hardware and Software	Reference to Reading Material and Slides	Facilitate, encourage peer participation	Peer participation, understanding of concepts fun way	Remember, Understand	visual, intrapersonal
10	Data Storage Memory	Reference to Reading Material and Slides	Facilitate, encourage peer participation	Peer participation, understanding of concepts fun way	Remember, Understand	visual, intrapersonal
25	Operating System	Reference to Reading Material and Slides	Facilitate, elicit responses	Discussion	Remember, Understand	visual, intrapersonal
15	Networking	Reference to Reading Material and Slides	elicit, Discuss	Recall, Discussion	Remember, Understand	visual, intrapersonal
25	Network Topologies	Reference to Reading Material and Slides	Elicit, Peer participation	Recall, Discussion	Remember, Understand	visual, intrapersonal
15	Network Model	Reference to Reading Material and Slides	faciliate, Discuss	Discussion	Remember, Understand	visual, intrapersonal
10	Summary	Discussion	Facilitate, elicit responses	Recollect concepts	remember	musical

2  Objective

•    explain basic organization of a computer system

•    explain different types of input and output devices

•    define software and its classification

•    distinguish between system software and application software

3  Materials Needed

•    Slides

4  Presentation Description

The Facilitator is expected to follow the Presentation Slides as a guideline for the flow of the session. The description of each slide is as follows.

4.1  Slide 2

Set the right objectives to the participants. Explain to them the use of gaining computer knowledge to use them in their day-to-day activities.

4.2  Slides 3 and 4

Ask the participants to share what they know about computers. Allow a few students to respond.

explain to them the advantage of having computer knowledge. Make them understand how computers changed the way the people live in society.

4.3  Slide 5

Ask the participants to define what a computer is. Make them understand the need to store data and focus on undertanding the terms store, retrieve and process.

4.4  Slide 6

Ask a few questions to the participants like:

1. What is the cost of a pen?

2. Price and number of pages of a specific book? Accept few responses, and derive the definition of “data” from the responses given by participants and form a meaningful statement like, “The cost of The Fundamentals of Computers is Rs 60 and it contains 50 pages,” which defines an information.

Now allow one of the participants to read the definition from the slide.

4.5  Slide 7

Ask the participants to list the places where computers are used and for what purpose.

Expected Responses:

1. People use computers in banks to store data about account holders.

2. People use computers to communicate with friends. Try to derive all the advantages of computers from the responses.

5 Practice Exercises Review 1- Answer Key

1 -  Elecrtonic Machine

2 -  Information

3 -  CPU

4 -  Central Processing Unit

5 -  Accuracy, Storage, Diligence

6  Slide 9

Explain what is Hardware and Software and ask participants to list a few hardware devices.

6.1  Slide 10, 11 and 12

Present the slides and ask participants to identify the different types of devices.

6.2  Slide 13

Ask participants to think how a computer works. Give them a minute and allow them to respond.

Expected Responses: with power, operating system, control unit, software. Define the term software, and allow participants to list few software they know. Then different type of software (System Software and Application Software).

6.3  Slides 14 and 15

Ask one participant to read the slide.

6.4  Slide 16

Ask participants questions like:

1. What is their Class 12 percentage? Elicit responses. Now ask how they were able to remember their marks/percentage.

Expected Responses:

1. I know

2. I remember

3. I recollect

Prompt and throw questions to the participants until they answer “Memory”.

Now ask one participant to read the slide and explain the terms “Data to be processed” and “Instructions required for processing” are stored.

6.5  Slide 17

Expain the terms “Volatile” and “Non-Volatile”.

6.6  Slide 18

Make participants understand primary memory units store data until the “process is done”. The data stored is not permanent. Like: The text written on paper with a pencil (where the data is not stored parmanently).

6.7  Slide 19

Make participants understand, data stored in secondary memory devices is permanent. Like: The text written on a paper with a pen (where the data is stored parmanently).

6.8  Slide 20

Make participants understand, data stored in cache memory is temporary. Cache memory holds data and instructions that are most frequently accessed by an executing program. Like: The text written on paper, just for quick reference.

7 Practice Exercises Review 2 - Answer Key

1 -  C

2 -  A

3 -  D

4 -  Digital Versatile Disk

5 -  Laser Printer, Dot Matrix Printer

6 -  Bar Code Reader

8  Slide 22, Operating System

Review question. Ask what is software, and make them understand the uses of operating system.

8.1  Slide 23

Display the slide and explain each service with an example.

8.2  Slide 24

Show participants the slide and explain the different layers involved in an operating system and their functions.

8.3  Slide 25

Display the slide and use it as a recap for the previous slide.

8.4  Slides 26 and 27

Discuss the different types of operating systems. List few devices where RTOS is used.

8.5  Slide 28

Ask a question to the participants:

1. Think about the scenario where you peform only one action/task at once,

allow few participants to answer, and finally conclude human body is designed in such a way where we perform multiple action/task at once. Make participants understand the term “Single user”, “Single tasking” means what. Before moving to next slide talk about multitasking

8.6  Slide 29, Single user/Multitasking OS

Ask one participant to read the slide and explain. Ask the participants to list few actions which we perform at same time which helps the participants to understand what multitasking means.

8.7  Slide 30, Multi user/Multitasking OS

Make sure what “multi user” means, and how multiple users can acces one system.

If Ubuntu system is available, show them by login with different users into same system.

9 Practice Exercises Review 3 - Answer Key

1 -  Operating System

2 -  System

3 -  A

4 -  B

5 -  D

6 -  D

7 -  B

8 -  C

10  Slides 31-40

Ask participants a question:

1. How people in olden days used to communicate with each other who are staying away.

Expected Responses:

1. Letters, telephones

With that references ask participants to list the drawbacks in that system and how reliable they are.

talk about how the networking system and the advantages.

Explain about the different type of computer networks avaiable like PAN, LAN, WAN, MAN.

10.1  Slides 41-56

Just discuss about, have they heard about network/chain business.

Allow few participants to explain how those business works.

Very important in the process make them understand how the people are linked with each other at different levels. Now make them understand the different type of topologies and the difference between them.

10.2  Slides 57-59

Explain the different OSI Network Model Layers.

Key Points to discuss:

1. How the data flows from one system to another system

2. Advantages and disadvantages of network models

3. Functionalities at different levels

10.3  Slides 60-62

Explain about different Internet Models. How it is different from OSI model.

Functionalities performed at different layers.

11  Practice Exercises Review 4 - Answer Key

1 -  Local Area Network

2 -  Network

3 -  WAN (Wide Area Network)

4 -  Transport Layer

5 -  Internet Protocal

6 -  B

7 -  D