Level 3 Extended Certificate IT - Cronton

Welcome to the resources to help prepare you for your further study of Level 3 Extended Certificate IT at Cronton Sixth Form College. We are very much looking forward to seeing you at enrolment and for you to start the course with us in September.

The Year 1 units include:

• Information Technology Systems • Creating Systems to Manage Information

In these preparation resources, you will be completing some tasks to provide you with a wider understanding of the topics that you will study with us.

TRIPS – In your first terms we will be going on two trips (with many more to follow) including Bury Arcade Club, where you can experience different retro and modern games, and Liverpool John Moores Open Day. These trips are a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and make many new ones. Letters will be given out at enrolment.

If you have any questions about enrolment then please speak to the school liaison team by emailing [email protected] If you have any questions about studying IT then please contact Ryan Turner at [email protected]

Unit 1 – Technology Systems

IT systems have a significant role in the world around us and play a part in almost everything we do. Having a sound understanding of how to effectively select and use appropriate IT systems will benefit you personally and professionally. In this unit you will explore the relationships between the hardware and software that form an IT system, and the way that systems work individually and together, as well as the relationship between the user and the system.

Unit 1 requires you to have a general interest in how IT is used in industry. Some of the topics include: Learning Aim A – Digital Devices, File Formats, Emerging Technologies, Operating systems Learning Aim B - Transmitting Data, Networks Learning Aim C – Transmission of Data Learning Aim D – Cloud computing, Online communities, Virtual Private Networks, Social Media Learning Aim E – Threats to data, Protecting data, Biometrics Learning Aim F – Online services, Using and manipulating data, Human Computer Interface Learning Aim G – Social, Moral and Legal Issues, Health and Safety

You will learn the theory, taking notes and practise answering exam style questions. You will use these skills by reading questions carefully and learn to understand what the question is asking you. Using this scenario, you will then answer the question using the relevant technical language.

Lessons are split into sections, working through Power Points, taking notes, using interactive resources, working independently, working in pairs, working in small groups, self-assessment and peer assessment.

Unit 1 Task – Robotics in Businesses The moral and social factors of the use of IT systems has many implications for all businesses. These implications can be positive or negative.

Moral – what is deemed to be right or wrong Social – what is socially acceptable in the workplace

Video Case Studies Increasing Efficiency of a Business - https://youtu.be/sG1u9TJrxi8 Robotics & Ethics - https://youtu.be/aeMmriLNHgA

What are the moral and social impacts for a business and its staff if they were going to introduce robotics into their workflow? Can you discuss 6 different impacts?

Remember to discuss both positive and negatives impacts in your answer splitting these between what is a moral and what is a social impact

Unit 2 – Creating Systems to Manage Information

Tesco Clubcards Clubcard (commonly referred and branded as Clubcard) is the loyalty card of British chain Tesco. The Clubcard scheme operates in the , Ireland, , , , Poland and several other countries, and as of 2017 it has over 17 million users in the United Kingdom.

In 1993, asked the Tesco marketing team to investigate the potential of loyalty cards. In the past Tesco had run as a promotional tool which rewarded people for visits and spend but gained no customer information. The initial team, led by Grant Harrison, researched programmes across the world and developed a proposal which showed that a loyalty card could be very effective. The key change since the days of Green Shield Stamps was the ability to track individual customer behaviour cost-effectively using a magnetic stripe card.

In 1994, Harrison attended a conference where Clive Humby from marketing firm was speaking. Dunnhumby was already working with clients such as Cable & Wireless and BMW, and Harrison approached them to help with the loyalty card project. Successful trials throughout 1994 led to the Tesco board asking Harrison and Humby to present to the annual Board strategy session. The first response from the board came from Tesco's then chairman Lord MacLaurin, who said, "What scares me about this is that you know more about my customers after three months than I know after 30 years."

1)What data/information do you think is stored about Tesco customers that could be used to improve the way they operate their business?

2)How do you think Tesco store the data they collect via the Clubcards?

3)What is the difference between data and information?

4)How do you think Tesco process that collected data and turn it into meaningful information?

5)How do you think databases/websites have helped Tesco support customers during the Covid-19 lockdown?