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Is It Fake?: Lesson 1
Is It Fake?: Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Learn
Key Information
What is bias?
These phrases:
“I believe” “In my opinion”
Text 1
Text 2
The hurricane hit Florida at 5pm and The hurricane hit Florida at 5pm and
caused significant damage to the area. It caused significant damage to the area. I
has been recorded as a Category 3 believe it is the worst hurricane that’s
Hurricane. happened for a long time.
Quick Reflection:
Is a biased opinion reliable?
Key Information
domain
keywords
URL
author
date
appearance
Key Information
Is it a reliable website?
Quick Reflection:
Consider the websites you use and
see on social media. Are they
reliable? How do you know?
Checks for Understanding
Q1 Q2
A1 A2
bias reliable
The opinion of one applied to Trustworthy; information
the text to show an unbalanced that can be used as a basis
opinion to sway others. for research.
unreliable fact
Untrustworthy; information that A key piece of data that has
should not be used within been corroborated as true.
research.
Code a program that keeps
count and alerts when
unreliable aspects are found
Do
Blocks
1
Click ‘ADD DEVICE’
Select device(s) from list
2
Turn on the Buzzer
Connect the micro:bit battery
3 Click ‘CONNECT’
‘count’
1 2 3 4 5 6 Let’s Build
From
‘General’
From
‘Math’
From
‘Variables’
1 2 3 4 5 6 Let’s Build
From
‘Functions’
1 2 3 4 5 6 Let’s Build
From
‘General’
From ‘Buzzer’
‘Actions’
1 2 3 4 5 6 Let’s Build
From
‘Variables’
From
‘micro:bit’
‘Actions’
From
‘Buzzer’
‘Actions’
1 2 3 4 5 6 Let’s Build
From
‘micro:bit’
‘Events’
From
‘Variables’
From
‘Functions’
Let’s Build
This is the
function.
This ensures that when the ‘A’
button is pressed, the function is
activated and the variable increases
by ‘1’.
Quick Reflection:
What happens if you remove the
‘change [count] by (1)’ block?
Mission Control have sent me links to websites to
check for reliability.
I need a system that alerts me and stops when
there are three unreliable aspects on a site.
Plan out the steps for my program in your Mission
Journal for the program to work.
Code a program that will count the number of
unreliable aspects found and output an alert to
stop Sam exploring further
Challenge
Challenge
micro:bit Test
From
‘General’
From
‘micro:bit’
‘Actions’
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Challenge
From
‘Logic’
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Challenge
From ‘Logic’:
From ‘Math’
From
‘Variables’
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Challenge
Transfer to ‘do’
section
a
Drag out the blocks below
the ‘startAlert’ block.
From
‘Functions’
Challenge: Test your program
Quick Reflection:
Does your program look the same as mine? Follow the
flowchart on the next slide!
Completed Challenge
YES
Did your NO
program
look the
same?
YES Did it NO
work?
Great!
Could it have been
done another way?
From ‘General’.
Q1 Q2
A1 A2
How many separate parts Which would you not look
of the program are there? at to check the reliability
of a website?
c. 6
Extend: Chili Challenges