Going digital: what changes and why
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Describe one task in two ways: the paper way and the digital way. Choose borrowing a book.
Answers differ. Paper: write on a card and search a box. Digital: type the book’s name and see at once if it is available.
2
List the eight reasons for digital transformation in your own words.
Efficiency; better services; more sales; innovation; competitiveness; better decisions; fewer resources; new jobs.
3
A shop sold 24 notebooks on Sunday and 36 on Monday. Which day sold more, and how many more? What can the shop decide from this?
Monday, 36 − 24 = 12 more. It can order more notebooks for Mondays.
4
Explain in two sentences why buying devices is not enough for digital transformation.
If the work is still done in the same old way, nothing has changed. The steps of the work must change.
5
Draw the four steps from request to answer for an invented library card.
request → check → approval → answer.