S4-6 ICT Curriculum

Framework of ICT Curriculum

Framework of the New Senior Secondary ICT Curriculum

ICT Curriculum (S4 – S6)
The Compulsory Part	The Elective Part (choose one only)
Information Processing Internet and its Application Social Implications Computer System Fundamentals Basic Programming Concepts	A. Databases	B. Data Communications and Networking	C. Multimedia Production and Web Site Development	D. Software Development

Delivery Schedule

	S4	S5	S6
1st term	Information Processing -  The history and the future of ICT -  I-P-O model and its significance -  Data Organization and  Control: Validation and Verification techniques -  Binary and Hexadecimal number system, 2’s complement and sign-and-magnitude -  Overflow and Underflow -  Text encoding Ø   Office Automation Software -  Word Processing -  Spreadsheets -  Presentation design with multimedia elements.	Computer Systems -  Installing and comparing different operating systems. -  Specification and development trends of peripheral devices. Office Automation Software -  Introduction to Databases -  Using SQL to generate reports. Internet and Its Applications -  Fundamental computer network theory, from LAN to WAN. -  Network equipment. -  The development of the Internet and WWW. -  Internet protocols, applications and emerging technologies.	SBA: Final Review Basic HTML and web authoring (for students not taking Elective module D.) Software Development (for students not taking Elective module C) -  Software Development Social Implication -  Copyright, privacy and health issues related to ICT. Revision: Spreadsheets and Programming
2nd term	Computer Systems -  Machine operation, the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle. -  Peripheral Devices and Secondary Storage -  System software -  Memory and CPU architecture.	Social Implication -  Information security. The Elective Part (A/B/C/D) SBA -  Requirement analysis, research; -  Design and Implement a prototype using the knowledge learned in the Elective Part.