Is there a difference between "general technology" and "information technology" in middle school curriculum?

General technology: refers to the technology that is broader than information technology, embodies the foundation and universality and is different from professional technology.

Information technology: it is the general name of various technologies mainly used for managing and processing information.

Second, the scope of application is different

General technology: applied to all aspects of life.

Information technology: computer software and hardware, network and communication technology, application software development tools, etc.

Third, the curriculum value is different.

General technology: provide the necessary foundation for high school graduates and set the minimum level of technical literacy.

Information technology: Wide application makes information, an important factor of production and strategic resource, play a role, enabling people to optimize resource allocation more efficiently, thus promoting the continuous upgrading of traditional industries and improving social labor productivity and social operation efficiency.

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Employment prospect of information technology

Talent demand: With the development of Internet. The shortage of IT talents will become more and more serious. According to conservative estimates, the China market needs more than 200,000 IT talents every year. However, domestic IT education is mainly the academic education of computer, electronics, telecommunications, information technology and other related majors in colleges and universities, and the number of college graduates trained every year is about 50 thousand, which is far from meeting the market demand.

Job Requirements: Good employment prospects and salary in IT industry attract a large number of non-computer majors, mostly young people. They urgently need to rely on learning and training to gain the technical ability to enter the IT industry. On the other hand, career changes and replacement in IT industry are also the most frequent, which requires practitioners to keep learning to keep this continuous working state.

reference data

Baidu Encyclopedia-General Technology

Baidu encyclopedia-information technology