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Year 7 ICT

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www.MythBusters.com is a website about unexplained myths, legends and unexplained phenomena such as UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, telekinesis and the paranormal. You are going to use the internet to research and produce a suitably mysterious topic of your own choice and then use the information to produce a podcast and hand out - which can be downloaded by visitors to the Myth Busters website.

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Understand that information on the internet could be inaccurate, biased, or untrustworthy Understand the methods used to judge whether a website is reliable For some students: Be able to check and comment on the accuracy of the information found on the internet

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Watch the video clip. What do you think of the clip? Where is it from? Do you think this is a reliable source of information?

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The video was produced by the BBC It looks genuine but was actually an April Fools joke from 2008 The programme was also reported by the Daily Telegraph!

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Are the Daily Telegraph and the BBC website usually reliable sources of information? How do you know? What does this tell us?

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How can we tell whether a website is likely to give us information that we can trust? This partly depends on what the website is for The domain name suffix at the end of the web address can give us a clue as to the likely purpose of the website Turn to Activity 1 and see if you can work out what the different domain names actually mean

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Which domain names might mean that a website is more likely to be reliable? Which domain names might mean that a website is less likely to be reliable? Why?

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As well as looking at the domain name, ask: How recently was the site updated? Does the site link to/from other reliable or unreliable websites? Do you know anything about the person who wrote the information? What type of language is used? (maybe.. apparently could have may do)

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Complete Activity 2 the Robin Hood web search task The idea of this activity is to be able to compare and evaluate sources of information (in this case, websites)

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Is it always possible to know for sure whether information we find on a website is accurate? Are there ways we can try and find out? Why is it important to use accurate information?

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Complete Homework 1 You will need to choose something like a football match, gig, album or film You will need to find two different websites that review or describe it You will need to look at the differences between the information you find on both sites

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Times Online, 25/8/09 What do these examples of fake Wikipedia stories tell us?