Informatics 9. Билингвальный учебник | страница 4

In recent years, the Internet has become the most popular source of information. This is quite natural since the search for data on the Web is comfortable, easy and quick.

Can I trust the information that is published on the Internet?

Trusting everything that is written on the Web would be too stupid and naive, because the Internet is an area of free access, and absolutely everyone can take part in its filing. So what should you do?

- Search for a fact! What is the source of this information? Is it from authoritative sources?

- Search the same information on the other sites. If the information is published in several independent websites it is correct. Be careful and also look for their original sources. Often several websites can take wrong information from one source.

- Check for rating and authority of a website. You can also simply enter the name of the resource in any search engine and read reviews about it.

- Search for information about the status and competence of its author, with his other works, comments and feedback from readers.

Fact

Data and Information

Data is raw facts which do not have any meaning. Data can be something simple and useless until it is processed.

When data is processed, organized, structured or presented in a given context so as to make it useful, it is called information.

Activity 1

“Broken phone”

1. Divide into groups. Members of each group must stay behind each other.

2. Teacher whispers a phrase to group leaders so that other members could not hear it.

3. Players keep whispering quietly to one another till the last member hears the phrase.

4. Finally, the last player shouts loudly about what he has heard.

5. The winner is a team whose final phrase is mostly similar to the given word.

Activity 2

“Crocodile” game

1. The student explains the word to the class using only gestures, while others try to guess the word.

2. If anyone finds the word, he/she will replace the current student and explains the next word.

3. Discuss the property of information such as availability.

Practice

Найдите информацию про искусственный интеллект и сделайте небольшую презентацию. Затем оцените свою информацию в соответствии со следующими рубриками:

Literacy

1. Осмотритесь вокруг и дайте примеры для данных. Как вы можете преобразовать их в информацию?

2. Обсудите, какое свойство информации является для вас наиболее важным. Почему?

3. Как неправильная информация может повлиять на вашу жизнь?