Unit 1·Part 1·Information and Communication Technology — Baccalaureate Year 1

2 lessonsTextbook pages pp. 4–11

The first unit of the first year sets the vocabulary the rest of the course runs on: what data, information and knowledge actually are, how information behaves once it exists — it persists, it copies, it spreads — and what it means to act appropriately in a society built on it. It ends with the habits and harms that follow from those same properties: rumours, privacy, geotags, and the phone that never goes down.

• Distinguish data, information and knowledge, and give an example of each from an ordinary day.
• Name the three characteristics of information and recognise them in a real situation.
• Tell primary information from secondary, and cross-check what reaches you through a third party.
• Classify media as expression, transmission or recording media, and define media literacy.
• Define information ethics and apply them to privacy, copyright, rumours and online bullying.