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October 27, 2005
In Class This Week
I'm teaching 'How the Internet Works' this week. I explain the TCP/IP - OSI model using two groups of five students. Each student takes the role of a program processing a particular protocol (except for the last student who is represents the wires and hardware on the data link). Anyway, the first student plays a browser and sends a request for a web page. He/she hands it to the next student who plays TCP and breaks it into segments. Student 2 then passes the segments to student 3 who plays IP. That student packages the segments packets and hands them to the fourth student who wraps them into frames, and passes them the student playing the hardware. Then, we pass the frames to some switches (other students in class), and out of the LAN via a router to the Internet (more students in class), finally it reaches the second group of five students who pass it back up the protocol stack.
How well does it work? Well, I think it might help some students get the big picture ... at least in a big picture sort of way.
But thinking about yesterday's class brought to mind Triage in Education ...
Posted by DavidK at October 27, 2005 08:54 AM | Permalink