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INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
Module 1: Quarter 1

Computer Concepts and

Fundamentals
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OVERVIEW
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This lesson provides an overview of computers history: The ancient devices, the
inventors and the mathematician who greatly contributed in the development of the
computer through century’s time which was now the world most used product in
everyday work.

OBJECTIVES

At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

1. To learn about history of the computer
2. To learn a digital education learning system.

VOCABULARY

- is an HTML object that allows you to jump to a new

Link
location when you click or tap it
- Uniform Resource Locator
URL - is an address that shows where a particular page can be
found on the World Wide Web.
- When data is processed, organized, structured or
presented in a given context so as to make it useful, it is
Information
called information.

- the application of scientific knowledge for practical

Technology
purposes, especially in industry.
- an electronic device for storing and processing data,
typically in binary form, according to instructions given to
it in a variable program.
Computer
- is a machine or device that performs processes,
calculations and operations based on instructions
provided by a software or hardware program
- a program that searches for and identifies items in a
database that correspond to keywords or characters
Search Engine
specified by the user, used especially for finding
particular sites on the World Wide Web.
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Task 1.1

In this activity you are given a guide questions to answer. You will be using
internet for online learning. You can use Google Search or other search engine or you
can just follow the given links which contain related information about the history of
computer. See the links on lesson information.

WAYS TO PREPARE AN ACTIVITY SHEET OR TASK SHEET

a. A PDF file of Task Sheet or Activity Sheet will be available and

downloadable on your virtual classroom posts.
b. You can download and print.
c. Or you can use any clean sheets of paper available at your home.

ANSWER THESE
GUIDE QUESTIONS

Directions: Read and study the guide questions below. Use the task sheet or
separate sheet of paper to write your answer.

1. What is Abacus?
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2. Who invented the Abacus and from what country it was originated?
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3. Describe the appearance of Abacus how it looks?
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4. Who is John Napier? What are his contributions?
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5. What is the contribution of inventor Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ?
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7. Who is Herman Hollerith?
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8. What do you mean by ENIAC and what are its capabilities?

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9. Who is Ada Lovelace? What is her contribution?
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10. Give names of earliest popular brand of computer.
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Lesson Information
1.1
In this activity the lesson information is not given instead through the URL’s or links
the learners where task to go online to find the information to answer the guide
questions.

Go to links below

PDF files are available downloadable in this links.

http://egov.uok.edu.in/elearningug/tutorials/5786_2_2016_161115130838.pdf
https://ftms.edu.my/v2/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/csca0101_ch01.pdf
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Task 1.2

Self-Check 1.1 Matching Type

Direction: Match Column A with Column B. Write the letter of your answer on the space
provided before each number.

Column A Column B
______ 1. Was invented in Babylonia in 2400 B.C. A. Augusta Ada Bayron
______ 2. Invent a machine that can add, subtract, B. Herman Hollerith
multiply and divide automatically.

______ 3. Inventor and statistician who developed an C. Abacus

electromechanically tabulating machine for
punched cards that summarize information and
later used in accounting.

______ 4. The First computer programmer D. Transistor

______ 5. A component which replaced a vacuum tube E. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
that causes less power and smaller size
computer.
F. Charles Babbage

What’s more to do?

Direction. Write down of at least 5 features of the modern computer. Use separate
sheets for your answer.

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