🎯 Learning Objectives
Develop the Data & Data Representation Learning Strands:
- Recall that characters can be represented as sequences of symbols and list examples of character coding schemes
- Measure the length of a representation as the number of symbols that it contains
- Provide examples of how symbols are carried on physical media
💬 Key Vocabulary
- Representations
- coding (encoding/decoding)
- symbols
- coding scheme
- characters
- physical medium
📝 Communication at a distance
Two friends live in huts on opposite sides of a great lake. How can they exchange messages from a distance?
Discuss this with the person next to you.
(The friends can’t use mobile phones).
📝 Lights and Drums
For this activity you will be working in groups.
Your group will be assigned:
- A message to transmit
- A coding scheme
- Communication equipment
Your group will:
- Encode the message
- Use the equipment to transmit it
- Receive messages
- Decode them
Download the worksheet below to see how this will take place.
In this lesson, you…
- Used paper, lights, and drums to send and receive messages.
Next lesson, you will…
Next lesson, we will…
Focus on the symbols used in Computer Science: 0s and 1s.
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- Upload your worksheet from this lesson to Bourne to Learn, depending on the quality, quantity, grammar and spelling of these notes you will be awarded Silver and/or Gold.
🥇 Gold Badge
- Upload your worksheet from this lesson to Bourne to Learn, depending on the quality, quantity, grammar and spelling of these notes you will be awarded Silver and/or Gold.
🥉 Platinum Badge
- Go to this page https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/write-your-name-in-an-ancient-writing-system/
- Choose a different one of the ancient forms of writing that are shown, use the worksheet and the videos here to write your own name in these ancient languages using the skills you have learnt today.
- Then upload your name to Bourne to Learn, you will likely need to use paper to write it so take a photo with your phone and upload it.