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“Tablets of Stone”

Topic: This workshop looks at the various means of communication used everyday such as the Mobile Phone, Email and Royal Mail. Pupils will consider the various methods and rules that are in place to ensure this communication is reliable. Working in a group, pupils analyse a communications problem description and develop their own communications protocol to ensure reliability. Through a role-play activity pupils will test their protocols in an unreliable environment and then identify problems and improvements to their solutions. Pupils will then discover the relevance of their solutions by comparing them against a related communications environment: packet switching in the Internet. A document outlining the learning aims of this workshop can be downloaded using the link at the right hand side of this page. Educators can register with the website in order to download workshop packs.

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