7-8 Digital Technologies: Hardware for particular tasks
Students learn what the main hardware components do, how to read a spec sheet, and how to choose and justify hardware for a task within a budget.
One content description (VC2TDI8S01) from the full 7-8 Digital Technologies Vic Curric - Digital Systems and Security journey. All 20 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (20)
1
Hardware
2
Input, process, output and storage
3
Central processing unit (CPU)
4
CPU clock speed (GHz)
5
CPU cores
6
Memory (RAM)
7
Does RAM really matter?
8
Storage devices
9
HDD vs SSD performance
10
Storage units: KB, MB, GB, TB
11
Graphics processing unit (GPU)
12
GPU vs CPU - which matters more?
13
Performance bottlenecks
14
Reading a hardware specification sheet
15
Hardware cost vs performance
16
Hardware for everyday school and office tasks
17
Hardware for graphics and video editing
18
Hardware for gaming
19
Justifying a hardware recommendation
20
eWaste from hardware upgrades
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