"Investigate how ICT affects my life in a school, home, work and personal situation."

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ICT in Society

"Investigate how ICT affects my life in a school, home, work and personal situation."

ICT is used in many different ways in day to day life and everyone uses it in some form. In my report I will talk about how people use them and how some of them work. Also I will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of using ICT.

Home

School

Personal

Social

Personal

Social

Telephone-directory enquiry

Internet-Email/MSN

Internet-research individually

Internet-research/Spanish work in pairs

DVD-Watch Films

Digital camera-take pictures of family and friends

Mobile Phone-play games at break

T.V-videos in class

Internet-Play Games

PS2-Play games with my brother

Scientific Calculator-in maths

Mobile Phone to contact parents in an emergency

CD Player-listen to music

MP3-listen to music with my friends when they come around

DVD Player - To watch DVD's in class

PC-homework e.g. research

Minidisk player-play music at a party

Digital Camcorder - to record us doing talks in English

TV-Watching it on my own

Mobile-texting and calling mates

MP3-listen to music when travelling or when out

Web cam-to chat to mates over the internet

Scanner-scan in pictures

Sky digital-internet TV-to play games on Playjam

Home

I usually use the telephone at home to ring up my friends. Social reasons for ringing up my friends are that we may want to go out together at the weekend and the only way of contacting each other is by telephone. The advantages of this are that I don't have to write out a letter and then receive a reply after the weekend, which is when I would want to go out with them. Also it is one-to-one direct contact, which means there is no waiting around, unless of course they are unavailable to take the call. Disadvantages are that you don't always get through to the person you want to talk to and when you ring a mobile or ring long-distance it is very expensive.

Personally I would use the telephone to ring the directory enquiry number. Also I would use it to ring up the cinema so I can find out the times that films are on and then again socially I could ring my friends to tell them when we could meet depending on the time for the film. Another personal use for the telephone would be to make an appointment, either for the doctors or the hairdresser.

I use the internet a lot at home, mainly as it is very cheap. The internet has many uses. I use it personally to go on chat rooms and chat to other people that I don't know. A disadvantage of this is that people aren't always who they say they are and they might be someone trying to find out your address and any other personal details about you such as details about your bank account and credit card. Advantages of this are that there is no need to leave the house to socialise with people.
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Personally I would also use it to download music from the internet. Advantages for this are that it is free and you don't have to travel all the way to the shop to buy the music. The worst thing about this though is that if you are not protected with a firewall then it is very difficult to download music without receiving viruses along the way. I would also play games on the internet for my own personal pleasure.

Socially I use the internet to email my friends from school and other people that live further ...

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