OCR Nationals in ICT
Unit 8: Technological innovation and e-commerce
Task 1 (AO1): Identify the effects of ICT on the individual
Task 2 (AO2): Describe an innovation in ICT
Task 3 (AO3): Investigate how e-commerce has affected the way people buy goods and services
Task 4 (AO4): Investigate one e-commerce website
Task 5 (AO5): Understand legal and moral issues in the digital age
Scenario
Digi-Teen Magazine
Digi-Teen Magazine is celebrating its fifth year of publication. Founded by two university students, it aims to bring technology to the masses. Complicated ideas and new developments in ICT are explained in simple language so that they are accessible to as many people as possible.
The main target audience for the magazine is teenagers, although many adults also read it due to its excellent reports into everyday ICT equipment. The magazine is made up of reviews, competitions, ’Best Buys’ and articles looking at life in the 21
st Century. The magazine regularly has pull-out sections focusing on one specific area – previous pull-outs have covered digital photography, the Internet, what the future holds for ICT and a comparison between life in 1906 and 2006.As one of the journalists working for Digi-Teen Magazine, you have been asked to investigate and research hardware, software and concepts that some people find difficult to understand. You will then present them for this target audience.
The magazine recently won an industry award for helping teenagers better understand the digital world in which they live.
You can view the full OCR Model Assignment for Unit 8 here
Page 9-15 is the full assignment; page 16-19 is a useful checklist that you may wish to use to track your own progress.