Unit 2 · Information & Communication Technology

Software Presentation

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Unit 2 · Information and Communication Technology

Software

Science & Technology · Grade 7

Learning Objectives

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Say what software is, and how it differs from hardware

🧱

Name the three kinds and see why they are layers

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Sort any real software using one question

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Explain what free and open really mean

Hardware and Software

🖥️ Hardware
The part you could drop on your foot
Screen, keyboard, the box, a pen drive
Supplies the ABILITY to do things
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💿 Software
Has no weight, because it is not a thing
Written instructions, stored as data
Supplies the INSTRUCTIONS

Note the sign between them. Not versus. Plus.

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Presenter notes: Open with a question that sounds silly and is not. Point at the computer, or draw one on the board, and ask what would happen if you switched on a brand new one with nothing installed. Most will say it would work normally. Let that answer stand, then say that every part would light up and it would be able to do absolutely nothing. Their faces change. That gap is the lesson.