More Uses of Computers
Computing: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 1.1.2
More Uses of Computers
Communication
- More than half the population of the world is now connected to the Internet.
- Thousands of millions of people use a mobile phone every day.
- They use their phones to talk, go on social media, send messages, watch videos and share pictures.
- Smartphones are small computers.
Finding information
- People used to go to libraries and use books to find things out.
- Internet browsers have made it much easier to find information by searching the World Wide Web.
- There are billions of searches every day on the World Wide Web.
Test yourself on More Uses of Computers
How much of the world's population is now connected to the internet?
What is the best estimate for the number of searches on the World Wide Web every day?
Internet browsers have made it much easier to find information by searching what?