Aside from Bee-Bots, there has not been much on the market to help children in Early Years (3 years and older) to develop their computational thinking skills. When I discovered Cubetto therefore, I was keen to purchase one and trial…
In modern personal computers, most offline-storage is also used as secondary storage. The main difference between the two terms is in how these storage devices are used. Whereas secondary storage is fixed into the computer for long term use (e.g.…
Explain Everything is an iPad app for making teaching videos quickly and easily. The interface consists of a blank canvas, annotation tools and a record/pause/play button. As soon as you hit the record button, the application screencasts the notes and…
Quizlet is a web application that enables users to easily make digital flashcards. Although it was originally conceived to help with memorisation, the application helps students learn any subject and can be used as part of the teacher’s toolkit for…
Secondary storage can refer to Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and Sold-State Drives (SSD). Hard disk drives (HDD) are the most common method used to store data on a computer. Data is stored in a digital format on magnetic surfaces of…
There are two types of primary memory: Random Access Memory (RAM) and Read Only Memory (ROM). The features of Random Access Memory (RAM) are: – It is volatile (the contents of the memory are lost when the power to the…
An input device is any device that allows data to be entered into a computer, e.g. keyboards, mice, scanners, etc. An output device on the other hand, is any device that allows information from a computer to be transferred to…
An interrupt is a signal sent from a device attached to the computer or from a software that the computer is running, which causes the operating system to temporarily stop what it is doing and service the interrupt. Interrupts can…
What is an operating system? The operating system is a fundamental piece of software that runs in the background of a computer system to manage many of its basic functions. Without the operating system, most computers would be very user-unfriendly…
The futurist and former executive editor at Wired, Kevin Kelly, provides stellar insight into the future of our digital world in his book, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future . In order to help with…
