Half-term Revision Slides

INPUT AND OUTPUT

DEVICES
Input devices
• These are devices that help in giving the instructions to the computer.
They are controlled by the person using the computer.
• Examples of Input Devices are:
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• Microphone
• Scanner
• Joystick
 Keyboard

• Keyboard is an input device that has

all alphabets, numbers and special
characters that we need to type text.
We use a keyboard to enter the
required information in the text
form.
 Mouse 

• The mouse is the other commonly

used input device. It is used to
scroll through the monitor. It is the
cursor on the monitor. The mouse
has two buttons: the right click left-
click and a wheel in the center for
scrolling.
Microphone
This device helps us input sound
into our computer
 Scanner 
This device helps us
scan things that are
on paper to our
computer.
Output devices
• The devices that help in getting  and viewing the desired results  are
called output devices. They are controlled by the computer.
• Examples of output devices are:
• Monitor
• Printer
• Speaker/headphones
• Projector
 Monitor
• Every computer will have a
monitor that displays the screen
of the computer. It looks like a
television screen. The monitor is
a basic  example of an output
device
 Printer
• This is a device that helps us
print information from our
computers to paper. We have
both black and white printers
and colour printers. To make it
more familiar, our textbooks are
printed using printers.
 Speaker/headphones

• This device helps us play

music out from our system. We
can either use the speaker to
play out loud or use the
headphones to play for just
ourselves
 Projector
• This device helps us
to show the
computer screen on
a big white screen
for a large audience
Input and output devices