Class 9 Employability Skills
Unit 3 ICT Skills
100+ Important Question Answer as Notes / Study Material
1. What is ICT?
Answer: ICT stands for Information and Communication Technology which deals with the use of electronic media like computer, smart phone, iPad, etc. to store process, and retrieve data or information.
2. What is Information Technology?
Answer: Information Technology means creating, managing, storing and exchanging information. It includes all technologies that can be used to deal with information.
3. How people using ICT nowadays?
Answer: Nowadays, ICT is one of the basic requirement of modern society. Even mobile devices, like, iPad, smart phones with Internet connectivity can be used to perform daily life tasks.
4. Name the fields where ICT applications are found?
Answer: ICT applications are found in every field – education, health, business, design, manufacturing, science, environment.
5. Name some daily life Information Technology activities?
Answer: Information Technology has become a part of everyday life. Daily life activities are:-
Creating a project report, do office work, send messages, read books, manage daily planner, play games, listen to music, watch movies, pay bills, book tickets and buy products.
6. How ICT can be used at Home?
Answer: ICT can be used at home to play games, search information, listen to music, watch movies, send or receive email, maintain household accounts, online shopping, pay bills, do e-banking etc.
7. What do you mean by ICT for Education?
Answer : ICT for education refers to the development of information and communication technology specifically for teaching and learning purposes.
ICT has become integral to the teaching-learning process
8. How ICT can be used for education?
Answer: ICT can be used in education – Interactive digital whiteboard, online teaching-learning, online assessment, creating materials for teaching, etc.
9. What is flipped classroom?
Answer: The concept of “flipped classroom” is becoming popular in many countries where students watch lectures at home on the computer and use classroom time for more interactive exercises.
10. What are the benefits of ICT tools?
Answer: Using ICT tools can lead to
- Higher order thinking skills
- Provide creative and individualized options for students to express their understandings
- Students are better prepared to deal with ongoing technological change in society and the workplace.
11. What are the advantages of ICT in Education?
Answer: Some of the advantages of ICT in education are:
- Complex topics can be easily explained to the students with the help of pictures, videos, presentations, etc.
- Images and videos used for teaching improves the retention memory of the students.
- Presentations can make the lessons interesting.
- Practical demonstration can be given to the students.
- If the teaching process in the class is interactive, it will make the lesson more enjoyable.
- An e-learning program allows students to learn at their own pace, at any convenient time, and from any place.
12. How ICT can be used in Healthcare?
Answer: Uses of ICT in health care are:
- Doctor can easily deliver treatment and care to the patient who is located far away.
- Monitor the patient’s history
- Diagnostic report and track the current health condition.
- The Doctor can interact with patient, recommend to take medical examination and prescribe medicine.
- To create awareness among the public about the communicable diseases
- Sharing information about prevention measures and various current diagnostics.
- For healthcare research.
- The traditional healthcare systems can be eliminated and new models can be formed for effective quality care.
- Computer based machines are used for MRI, CT-scan, ultrasound to diagnose the diseases.
- Life support systems are provided to the patients
- You can search information on any disease, medicines, etc. on the internet.
13. What do you mean by ICT in Governance?
Answer: ICT in governance means using Internet, other electronic media by the central and state governments, by local administrative bodies to improve the efficiency, transparency, efficiency of the government.
Many government services are available online. Electronic voting for elections has replaced the traditional voting slip.
14. How ICT can be used in Governance?
Answer: Uses of ICT in Governance are:
- Deliver government services efficiently
- Using of E-governance sites
- Filling a form
- Applying for passport
- Paying bills
- Property tax
15. How ICT can be used in Business?
Answer: Uses of ICT in Business are:
- Keep records of the stock
- Prepare accounts and balance sheets
- Maintain database of staff and customers
- E-commerce enables people to buy and sell products online. This service is available 24 x 7.
- E-banking facility helps to make banking transactions at any time of the day .
16. What do you mean by ICT in Governance?
Answer: ICT in governance means using Internet, other electronic media by the central and state governments, by local administrative bodies to improve the efficiency, transparency, efficiency of the government.
17. In how many groups ICT has divided the society?
Answer: ICT has divided the society in two groups.
18. Write the 2 groups ICT has divided the society.
Answer: ICT has divided the society into two groups:
- Persons who can do their personal and professional work efficiently. They are efficient in using services like, e-banking, e-learning, e-governance sites, etc.
- People who do not have access to a computer and internet. They also do not have knowledge to use facilities available on the internet.
19. What do you mean by the word ‘digital divide’?
Answer: Digital divide refers to the gap between people who have access to latest information technologies, like, computer, smart phones, internet, ipad, etc. and have knowledge to use them and people who do not have access to use these devices.
20. What are the uses of ICT in our daily life?
Answer: Some of the uses of ICT in our daily life are given below:
- We can read newspapers online.
- We can get connected with our friends, relatives or even family members far away from us using email, messenger, video conferencing etc.
- With the introduction of video conferencing, business meetings are now easier.
- Nowadays people use mobile phone apps to meet and connect with new and old friends.
- Social networks like Facebook.com have played a big role in connecting both old and new relationships.
- We can access a full library of educational material via a mobile app or website on any smartphone or iPad.
- Technology has also made the buying and selling of goods and services flexible and a lot safer.
- Most banks now offer online banking facilities. People make use of this service daily to manage their finances.
- Most businesses use online banking facility to pay employees and transfer money.
