ICT worksheets on Input Devices

What are Input devices?

An input device is any peripheral (piece of computer hardware equipment) used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system (such as a computer).
Here you can see a keyboard, which is a type of input device.
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Curriculum Content (IGCSE ICT)

The curriculum content is set out in eight interrelated sections. These sections should be read as an integrated whole and not as a progression. The sections are as follows:

1. Components of a Computer System
2. Input and Output Devices
3. Storage Devices and Media
4. Computer Networks
5. Data Types
6. The Effects of Using IT
7. The ways in which IT is used
8. Systems Analysis and Design

Candidates should be familiar not only with the types of software available and the range of

Information and Communication Technology knowledge and skills detailed below, but also with their uses in practical contexts. Examples of such uses are given in each section of the subject content as a teaching guide.

No marks will be awarded for using brand names of software packages or hardware.

Assessment Objectives (IGCSE ICT)

The two assessment objectives in Information and Communication Technology are:
A Practical Skills
B Knowledge and understanding

A description of each assessment objective follows.

A - PRACTICAL SKILLS

Students should be able to:

1. use e-mail and the Internet to gather and communicate information;
2. use word processing facilities to prepare documents;
3. use database facilities to manipulate data to solve problems and represent data graphically;
4. integrate data from different sources into a single document or report;
5. produce output in a specified format;
6. use a spreadsheet to create and test a data model, extracting and summarising data;
7. represent data as information in a variety of chart formats;
8. create a structured website with style sheets, tables and hyperlinks;
9. create and control an interactive presentation.

B-KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

Students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in relation to:

1. the functions of the main hardware and software components of computer systems;
2. the networking of information-processing systems;
3. the ways in which information and communication technology is used and the effects of its use;
4. the stages and methods of system analysis and design;
5. computing terminology.