COMPUTER SYSTEM
Introduction
Take a very close and detailed look at our school, Kennedy secondary school, The
teachers, the learners, the administrators, the parents, the teaching and learning
process, the neighbors and every element in school. All these elements work
together to achieve a specific goal and that goal is to conduct a proper teaching and
learning process. Therefore, these elements connected and working together form a
school system Local
community
Influence
Supervise
Teachers Administrators
Teach
Local
community inspection Interact Local
Learners (Fees payment, community
Influence
Feedback etc.) Influence
Take care
inspection
Education
Parents
Officials Report
Local
community
Influence
In the same line, when we look at how computers work, a number of
interconnected components like system unit, keyboard, mouse, monitor, printers,
software, data, users etc. all work together to achieve a specific goal and that is
processing data into information.
Therefore, by definition:
A computer system refers to a set of interconnected components working together
to process data into information.
In Comparison of the above systems,
Comparison Computer System School System
Purpose Or To process information, To educate individuals, impart
Specific goal to perform calculations, and knowledge, foster critical
achieve automate tasks. thinking, and prepare students
for future roles in society.
Components Hardware, Software, user, Teachers, Learners, Parents,
Data etc. Administrators etc.
Receives data input, Facilitates learning through
process data, and produces instruction, assessment, and
information as output interaction.