Video summary
The term 'Search Engine' is explained through everyday activities/events.
Computer Head is trying to find a single item in a pile of hay and is doing this by going through all the individual strands of hay.
His friend, Ada, suggests that a search engine would be the best way to search through lots of items to find the item for which he is looking.
She then teaches her friend about Boolean Operators and shows how they help to make searches effective.
This clip is from the series How to Think Like a Computer.
Teacher Notes
This clip could be used to discuss AND, OR, NOT in relation to Logic Gates and Circuits, then relate to programming.
You could use it to discuss Truth tables, conditional operators and George Boole and his connection with Boolean operators.
You could also discuss the contributions of women in IT, such as Ada Lovelace, as the main character is called Ada.
This clip will be relevant for teaching Computer Science at KS3 and KS4 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and National 4 and 5 in Scotland.
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