Description
In this course, you will learn:
- The fundamentals of technology, as well as the history and prospects for technological advancement.
- Describe how technology is used in the workplace and how it can improve your productivity.
- Give you an overview of coding and important programming languages.
- Help you understand how to collect, interpret, and use data to guide decision-making.
Syllabus:
- Understanding Technology
- Introduction to Understanding Technology and Data
- Welcome to the module
- Digital technologies
- Insight on changing technology
- What is cloud?
- What does cloud do?
- Why does cloud matter?
- How is cloud applied?
- How does cloud combine with other technologies?
- What is Artificial Intelligence?
- What does Artificial Intelligence do?
- How does Artificial Intelligence work?
- Why does Artificial Intelligence matter?
- How does Artificial Intelligence combine with other tech?
- What is blockchain?
- What does blockchain do?
- Why does blockchain matter?
- How is blockchain applied?
- How does blockchain work?
- Technology at Work
- Introduction to digitalization
- Your smart future
- Hardware and software
- Creating an email account
- Sending emails
- Sending attachments
- Securing passwords
- Adding a bookmark
- What is security?
- What does security do?
- Why does security matter?
- How is security applied?
- Exploring Coding
- Discovering Data
- What is data?
- Five scales of measurement
- Impact of data
- What does data do?
- Why does data matter?
- How is data applied?
- How to collect data
- Family and friends research
- Internet research
- Data examples and interpretation
- Data-based reasoning
- Working with Excel