Visualizing a computer and understanding how it works.

A response to the Your Metaphor Activity
created July 20, 2021 by Mamdouh (@Mamdouh Mina)

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Tags: English, Geek, into, Translating

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The best way to explain computers to students new to the field is to simplify it, I call it translating “Geek language” to “English”.

So rather than motherboards, gigs, rams, MHz, Hard drives…etc.

The average user needs to understand when computer techs talk to them so this is the best way to relate it to the average person.

How about a workstation, what do you have in your workspace:

1. Desk.
2. A chair that fits you.
3. Filing cabinet
4. phone
5. “You” is the instrument that makes it all work

so how does that work, will be simple, the desk is the environment you have to work in, the bigger space the more books you can open and maps….etc (which would be the memory).

The Chair has to be suitable you can not use a baby chair for a grown person (that is the motherboard/mainboard).

The filing cabinet is the storage space if it gets too full you need to organize /purge folders as needed the more organized the more efficient it will be.

The phone is for communication to be able to communicate although in today’s compute it is more like a network or wireless option.

You, that is the most important part of the workspace, the more energetic and hardworking you are the more effective the workspace is going to be, that would be the CPU.

 

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