Digital Information: On and Off
Students explore the fundamental concept that computers represent all information using only two states, like 'on' or 'off', or 'light' and 'dark'.
Key Questions
- Explain how a simple switch can represent two different pieces of information.
- Compare how we use numbers in everyday life to how a computer might 'think' about them.
- Construct a simple code using two symbols (e.g., 0 and 1, or black and white) to represent letters.
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