CRITICAL BOOK REVIEW

“ICT STUDENT TEXTBOOK”

CRITISIZED BY :

GROUP 3

CLASS : DIK A 2020

THE MEMBERS OF GROUP

ANGGI PUTRI SEPTIA 2203121074

DESI ROMAULI SIMANJUNTAK 2203321007
ISMI LAILAN NAZMI 2202121001
NAJWA RAMADHANI PANE 2203121072
RACHEL AMANDA JULIANA 2203121068
RIVALDO MANGIRING TUA SIREGAR 2201121011

ENGLISH EDUCATION
ARTS AND LANGUAGES FACULTY
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
2020
 PREFACE

First of all, Thank to Almighty God who has given his bless and mercy to me for
Finishing Our task entitled “Critical Book Review”,We also say thank you for our Lecturer
Sir Bahagia Saragih,S.Pd.,M.Hum as our Information Communication and Tecnology’s
lecturer who gave the task to us,so we can try to create this.

we hope this task will be usefull,accepted and give more knowledge for the readers.
And we hope some criticisms and suggestions, so we can make a better one day, we want to
apologize if there is something wrong with this tasks and Thank you.

Medan , Desember 2020

Authors

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE.......................................................................................................i

TABLE OF CONTENTS...............................................................................ii

CHAPTER I : INTRODUCTION

A. THE BACKGROUND OF CBR..........................................................1

B. THE PURPOSE OF CBR.....................................................................1
C. THE ADVANTAGE OF CBR.............................................................1
D. IDENTITY OF THE BOOKS..............................................................2

CHAPTER II : SUMMARY OF THE BOOK.................................................3

CHAPTER III: CRITICIZE THE BOOK

A. THE STRENGTHNESS OF THE BOOK............................................10

B. THE WEAKNESS OF THE BOOK.....................................................10

CHAPTER IV : CONCLUSION

A. CONCLUSION.....................................................................................11
B. SUGGESTION.....................................................................................11

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 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. THE BACKGROUND OF CBR

Critical Book Review is a report of a book that has a purpose to know about the
contents of a book , but it is just focus on our evaluation of the book about the srengthen and
the weaknesses of the book, also we have to give suggestion for the book. In this CBR, we
will tell about information communication and technology.

B. THE PURPOSE OF CBR

1. To fulfill the tasks assigned in information communication and technology subject

2. To know more about the meanings of information,communication and technology
3. Able to think systematically and critically in book assessments
4. Able to analyzed the strengthen and the weaknesses of the book

C. THE ADVANTAGES OF CBR

1. Can adding our insight and skills in analyzing book

2. Can training our knowladge about the way to critical and systematic thingking in
analyzing book
3. make students to get used to reading and have to comment about something that will
facilitate students in the preparation of thesis as a material for graduation.

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 D. IDENTITY OF THE BOOK

The Title of Book : ICT Student Textbook

The author : Anonymous

City of published :-

Year of published : 2016

Pages : 57

Version : Print version

ISBN ` :-

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 CHAPTER II

SUMMARY OF THE BOOK

A. Introduction

What is ICT Have you ever seen anyone in your school or community or home use a
phone? Have you ever withdrawn money from an ATM (Automated Teller Machines, also
known as 'Any time money'), or seen someone get money from an ATM? You may have seen
or helped someone book a gas cylinder refill through a phone. You may perhaps have booked
a train ticket or booked Tirumala darshan on-line. You may have seen a movie on your
computer or chatted with a friend or recorded a video with your phone. Have you ever
wondered how these things are done? There is one thing that is common across all these
things - the use of Information Communication Technologies, ICT. Before we understand
what are ICT, look at the list below and identify all the words that you have heard of: (If you
are using the printed book, please open the file "Have_you_heard_of_ICT_terms.mm" using
Freeplane). As students, you may have been introduced to some or many of these terms in
your school, in your family or in your neighbourhood. The cell phone tower, your nearest
ATM, your mother's mobile phone, games, whatsapp chats, email, the selfie, internet, videos
and songs on your computer - all these are examples of a new kind of ICT. These
technologies are called digital technologies [2] and they are changing the way we talk to each
other, work with each other, and the way we do things. The computer is becoming like a
television, the phone is becoming like a computer, you can use the computer to make voice
calls, you can record a video with your phone, you can read your newspaper on the phone,
and you can even paint with your computer! The technologies that make all these possible are
collectively called ICT. ICT refers to those set of technologies that help us create
information, access information, analyze information and communicate with each other.
Human beings have always accessed information and communicated, but what makes these
present technologies special is their digital nature. You can read more about how ICT
developed in the chapter on Science, Technology and Society.

What can you expect to learn

ICT can help you create music, write poetry, learn mathematics or make videos. ICT
can also help you in communicating with each other and learning together. This textbook has
been developed to introduce you to all these possibilities. In this new subject called ICT, we

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can expect to learn about ICT and how to work with ICT; this will be covered over a 3 year
period.

What is the nature of ICT

What is this unit about We saw in the previous chapter about how ICT are part of
many things we do; and how they have changed the way we are working, learning and even
playing. What is it about ICT that allow such changes to happen?

Look at these pictures and make a list of words that come into your mind when you see the
pictures. Also describe what you see in the setting. What did you come up with? Discuss
these with your friends and teachers. ICT can help you: 1. Create your own drawings 2. Talk
to people - through audio or video 3. Make videos 4. Access information in different ways 5.
Is there any more you can think of? To do these things, you use ICT devices including a
mobile phone, a computer, camera and many more. Ask your teacher or parent or other older
members in your neighbourhood when was the first time they saw a computer or a phone or
TV. People may tell you about how they communicated or did things in the days before the
phone. It may be very hard for you to imagine but ICT (and all other technologies) were not
always there - they got developed over time.

As you studied ICT, you may also have guessed one more thing - they need to be
connected. Internet is a set of computers connected with one another. How these help in
doing the various things we will see later on in this unit. In this unit, you will learn about
what is ICT, how ICT developed and how we need to work with ICT for all of us to benefit.
You can read more about how ICT developed in the chapter on Science, Technology and
Society.

Science, Technology and Society

Science and technology

Many times you hear the word science and technology together. What is the
connection between the two? Do you know? Study of science includes a method of observing
things around us, thinking about why those events happen, explaining why the events happen,
recording information about the events and also predicting what might happen. Often,
scientists imagine what might be the solution and what might be the answer to the puzzles

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around us. The understanding of phenomena can lead to the development of tools – this is
what we call technology. The technology

Information and communication technologies (ICTs)

Information is not new for human beings; communication has been known since the
time human beings lived in caves. Thus ICT are as old as human beings themselves; human
beings needed to communicate with one another, beginning with symbolic (non verbal) ways,
before language was invented. The language we speak could be seen as first 'ICT', it enabled
(oral) communication amongst human beings. Writing and script was the next technological
advancement - around 5000 years ago - which enabled information could be created and
communicated at different times and in a different place. Oral communication does not have
this benefit, Writing also enabled easier recording of human history and thus the invention of
script was a landmark in the history of ICTs. Next came printing which made it possible
replicate writing. The invention of radio and television was the next advancement in ICT as it
became possible for more and more people to access information.

Telephone Before the cell phone came, most of the long distance voice
communication was through the regular telephone. This was based on the idea of travelling
sound waves. They cause the mouthpiece to vibrate and this vibration is carried to the
receiver at the other end. When a call came from one number, there will be an operator who
sits at an office who will connect the call to another receiving number. Now this is different
with automatic switches which connect the calls. The transmission of the signals has also
become different now with voice being converted into electrical signals. All these
transmissions used to happen through physical cables. These cables were either made of
copper or optical fibres. When you make a phone call, the voice signals from your phone get
transmitted through these fibres to the nearest telephone exchange and through a series of
switches sent to the receiver. Usually the first few numbers in our telephone number indicates
the exchange information. In the earlier days, long distance calls (outside of the local
exchange) could only be made by booking a trunk call. The users had to 'book' or rent the line
through which the call can be made and this used to be done manually by the telephone
operators in the exchange. Now-a-days, with automatic switches, long distance calls can be
made directly to any number, even outside the country. The cell phone The telephone and the
radio came together - And we call that the cell phone! We saw how a telephone works. We
also saw what radio waves are and we have some idea of what frequencies mean. There are

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many frequencies available for the users to talk on. Any geographic area is divided into small
plots, and in each area a fixed number of frequencies is used. Each of these areas are called
cells. The cell phone is called a cell phone because it functions by dividing a geographical
area into small plots or cells through which the transmission takes place. It is possible to
make and receive calls when there is a cell phone tower near your area for receiving and
sending that frequency. Now do you understand what we mean when we say 'my cell phone
has no coverage here'? It is because of this also that cell phones sometimes do not work
inside buildings when the radio signals are disturbed. Just like an exchange for regular
telephone calls, there is a mobile switching that allows you to make calls even when you
move from one cell to another!

What can ICT do

ICT have changed the society

Look around you - can you make a list of things that have digital technologies
involved in them? Yes, that is right. Starting from the computer in your school, television,
movies, videos and other materials for subject learning mobile communication, Aadhar card,
land records, bank accounts, pension accounts and so many more things, ICT have become
integrated into society in many ways. ICT can create information in so many different ways -
maps, audio, video, text, numeric data. How we are able to generate information means more
and more possibilities of knowledge creation and sharing. ICT have brought together people,
made it possible to learn in different ways. How we learn and what is needed to be learnt
have become different. For example, we no longer need to learn about a withdrawal slip, we
need to know how to use the ATM. Your teacher can now take a video of a class in your
school and share it. There is a great convergence of many technologies that is happening, a
mobile is approaching the computer, the internet taking over. If so many things are impacted
by ICT, it is important to understand how these work, and how they should be used ethically
and safely. Technology should be treated like a common resource where everyone can access
it, interact with it, benefit from it and contribute to it. It should be used such that more and
more people can get access in society should be treated like a public information good

How is this unit organized

As in the previous unit, there are three levels of activities, to match roughly to classes 6-8.
This is the first unit in which you will be interacting with different ICT applications and will

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be getting introduced to basic digital literacy. An important skill you will be introduced to in
this unit is local language typing.

1. At the first level, the focus will be on reading data in different formats, organizing data,
analysing and making meaning. You will be introduced to concept mapping and text editing
as a method of documenting your analysis.

2. At the second level, you will learn to use spreadsheet for data collection, organizing and
analysis.

3. At the third level, which will be in the third year, you will be introduced to making multi-
page communication documents.

At each level you will be exploring new things about ICT; you will also be creating
your outputs and building your digital portfolio. This portfolio will include your outputs; they
will be such that you will know what you have learnt and you will also know the method of
learning. At the end of the year, your teacher will assess your portfolio. The examples will be
drawn from your textbook and will be related to different topics you have studied.

Student activities Data collection and organzing Now you will create your own data
sets based on things around you. You will work in groups with your friends. In this section
we will focus on creating data sets in the class. The following activities can be take up by
different sets of students. For all these data sets, make pictographs when possible and also
represent in a table form.

1. Data is about us: Data is of us, around us. To see how, collect the following information
about your class:

1. Make a list of the kinds of foods eaten in the class over a week - these should be in some
categories like sambar, rice, baingan etc. And tabulate this as pictograph and with numbers.
Also list the food groups covered in the diet in each day.

2. Find out the facorite movie song of all students in the class and tabulate. Think about how
you will ask the collection, how you will collect it and how you will organize it.

3. Find out the favorite subject of the class and favorite teacher in the school

2. Know your neighbourhood: Go around your school or home neighbourhood for a survey.
Find out the following: the types of houses, the number of household members, the number

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of houses with school going students, the number of houses with students in college, the
number of houses with cooking gas connection.

3. Material around us: You collect data on what fabrics things around us are made of. You
can also classify and tabulate fabrics by properties. Classifying different kinds of fabrics
based on properties.

1. Organizing our ICT resources: Revisit the data sets created in the school lab computers for
the activity What all can a computer do. Organize the resources in terms of features like size
of the file, type of the file, application needed to open it and how this file could be used.

2. Studying the flags of the world: #With a collection of flags of various countries, try to
organize them based on various parameters like colour, shapes contained, symbols contained
and so on. This data can be tabulated for analysis.

3. Analyse kitchen ingredients as acid or base (your teacher will help you with identifying an
acid or base) 4. Profile of the newspaper : Pick 3-4 newspapers from your library. Collect the
following data for each newspaper. 1. Date of the newspaper. 2. Day 3. Total number of
pages in it. 4. Price of the newspaper. 5. Name of the editor. 6. Number of comic strips/
games/ puzzles/ crossword. 7. Number of Letters to editor. 8. Number of advertisements.
Making an infographic 1. Draw a route map from school to your house 2. In groups, make a
infographc (sketch) of the following - your school, the local park or playground, your
community 3. In groups talk about how symbols for infographics get developed.

Communication with graphics

A digital art creation using Tux Paint What is this unit about?

A picture tells a thousand stories, they say! Have you ever wondered about how a
picture can tell a story? When we hear a story, when we read a story, our mind forms an
image of what is being described. They make us connect to the story. Similarly, when we see
a picture, our mind tries to build the story from the picture. No wonder that picture story
books have been favourite reading books for children and adults. In this unit, we will learn
how we can use pictures as a method of story telling. Story telling is a traditional method of
transmitting information from one person to another; one generation to another. Story telling
can also be used to create awareness about social issues and challenges - talk to your teacher
about how Burra Katha emerged as an art form in Telangana. Drawing pictures is also not

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new - human beings have been using pictures to tell stories, describe things throughout our
history - from cave paintings to Deccani paintings to the comic strip or to the movie poster.
Can you guess what is new about this unit? Yes, it is the use of new, digital methods to create
pictures and combining them with text. This field of ICT involves the creation of visual
(pictures and text) stories is called graphics and is developing fast as a method of developing
communication. In the earlier unit on data processing, you saw how data is represented in
multiple formats - through text, numbers, and maps, photos and pictures. In this unit, we will
focus on how we can use digital methods to create such graphic representations. You will be
creating with ICT, interacting with various ICT applications and devices and developing
messages for communication.

We hope you have found this journey with technology enjoyable. As you would have
experienced, this is an area of knowledge, where rapid changes are taking place. Not only are
ICT changing how we learning, they are also defining what learning is to be had.
Occupations and vocations are no longer limited to the traditional ones of teaching,
engineering or medicine. ICT also have an enormous potential for allowing greater access
and opportunities for more people to express and create knowledge, in multiple ways. When
the possibilities for knowledge creation change, more knowledge will be produced from areas
which would have earlier been left unexplored. However, for this vision to be realised, we
need to approach ICT as if it is a public resource - of all, by all and for all. The power of ICT
must be guided by the spirit of participation and democracy. We will explore more areas of
technology learning in Book 2 of this subject, in classes 9 and 10. We hope you have enjoyed
this journey and do share your feedback below.

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 CHAPTER III

CRITICIZE THE BOOK

A. THE STRENGTHNESS OF THE BOOK

There are many strengthness in this book that can the authors found in it. In this book,
there are some illustration images that can help the reader to understand about the explanation
in every topic of this book. The readers will not feel bored when read this book because of
the pictures. The material framework in this book is arranged in an orderly manner and the
discussion is not messy. It make the readers will not feel confused when they are reading this
book. In this book, the information that submitted in this book is also accurate and it has clear
source of information. This book also explain about ICT tools that can be used in learning
and tell the readers how to use the tools clearly.

B. THE WEAKNESS OF THE BOOK

Although in this book there are many strengthness, but in it there are also some weakness
that the authors can found in it. The identity of this book is very incomplete, it will make the
reader become difficult to look for about the information of this book. The image
arrangement in this book is also not neatly arranged, it make the book looks messy. In every
small point of this book is not be explain anymore, so the readers will feel lack of
information from this book.

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 CHAPTER IV

CONCLUSION

A. CONCLUSION

After see the strengthness and the weakness from this chapter, I can get the conclusion
that in this chapter has more strengthness than the weakness. This chapter has some
strengthness that maybe can cover the weakness in this chapter. The informatons in this
chapter are also realy useful for the readers. Although this chapter has some weakness, but it
still can cover by the strengthness in this chapter.

B. SUGGESTION

The suggestion is for the next publication, the author of this book have to arrange the
pictures in this book is neater than before. The author also have to add more explanation in
every small point in this book, so that the reader can get more information of every point in
this book and can be more understands about the topics in this book. And also the author have
to add more information about the identity in this book.

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