Grade 8 Computers & Technology

Grade 8 Computer Science contains advanced programming projects, cybersecurity principles, machine learning basics, and technology innovation.

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4 lessons

Grade 8 Computers & Technology topics

  • Binary, Bits and Bytes

    The learner explains why computers use binary, converts between binary and denary up to 8 bits, adds simple binary numbers and uses units of data.

  • Digital Footprint and Citizenship

    The learner manages their digital footprint and privacy settings, understands their data rights, and handles online conflict, misinformation and screen time.

  • How AI Works

    The learner explains how machine-learning systems learn patterns from examples, why training data matters, where bias comes from, and how to use generative AI critically.

  • User Experience Design

    The learner gathers user needs as user stories and requirements, generates ideas, designs the user experience with wireframes and storyboards, builds a clickable prototype with a low-code tool, and evaluates it against…

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