Digital Technology is the use of computers, software and electronic devices to create, store, process and communicate information.
A digital technology system has five interrelated components: Hardware, Software, Data, People and Procedures.
Digital Technology / ICT
Digital Technologies
Practical ICT skills for the modern Nigerian classroom
- Author
- Zionlite Curriculum Team
- Publisher
- Zionlite Networks
- Class / Level
- JSS1 – SS3
- Edition
- 2026 Edition
- Price
- Naira 5,000 each
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1.1 What is Digital Technology?
Question 1
Which of the following best defines Digital Technology?
Question 2
How many interrelated components make up a digital technology system?
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1.2 Data vs Information
Data is raw, unprocessed facts and figures with no meaning on their own. Information is data that has been processed, organised and given meaning.
The data processing cycle has four stages: Input, Processing, Output, Storage.
Question 1
Data and information mean exactly the same thing.
Question 2
The data processing cycle stages are Input, Processing, Output and __________.
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1.3 Hardware & Software
Hardware is the physical, touchable parts of a computer (e.g. keyboard, monitor, CPU). Software is the set of instructions that direct hardware operations (e.g. an operating system or an antivirus program).
Question 1
Which of these is an example of software?