Week of December 5th to December 9th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2022!

Monday:

• Intro to Medical Informatics project

Tuesday:

• Review and continue Python slides.
• Python video - Think Python
• Team work on the project.

Wednesday:

• Group 3 must turn in current events on December 7th and January 11th:
  P1: Gagandeep, Ava, Jia, Siddharth, Gabriella
  P2: Catherine, Hannia, Mridula, Shailin, Suhani

   
  Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Thursday:

Python Turtle Graphics

Homework for today is to read the following:New Fast-Spreading Virus takes Internet by Storm(1999)

Friday:

Sophomore rotation at hospital

Week of November 28th to December 2nd

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2022!

Monday:

• Intro to Python Slides

Tuesday:

• Begin unit on Hardware history: Basic history of computers
  
  
  
• How a hard drive works

Wednesday:

• Group 2 must turn in current events on November 23rd and December 21st:
  P1: Emily, Rianna, Samantha, Mehreen, Varsha
  P2: Yassine, Max, Carina, Ved

   
  Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Thursday:

Python Turtle Graphics

Homework for today is to read the following:New Fast-Spreading Virus takes Internet by Storm(1999)

Friday:

Sophomore rotation at hospital

Week of November 21st to November 25th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2022!

Monday:

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Tuesday:

• Slide show for Python.
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Wednesday:

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Thursday:

Friday:

Week of October 24th to October 28th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2022!

Monday:

• Introduce Pioneer project
• Slide show for security/malware/privacy
• Homework for today is to read the following: (it looks like a lot but these are short):
  • Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes (2003)  (If wired.com says that you have read all your articles for this month, try again with your browser in incognito mode, delete your wired.com cookies, or try a different browser.)
  • Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2017)
  • New Jersey hospital chain pays attackers to thwart ransomware incident (2019)

Tuesday:

• Begin unit 3: Basic principles of computer security, malware, privacy, and cyberwar.
  
  Essential Questions:
  

  • How does the pervasiveness of networked computers affect our personal safety and privacy?
  • How does the pervasiveness of networked computers affect our national security?

  Discussion: how have you been affected by computer security issues?
  Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.
  Ransomeware
  5 bad viruses - video
  WiFi - safe or not
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Wednesday:

• Group 3 must turn in current events on September 28th and October 26th

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  P1: Gagandeep, Ava, Jia, Siddharth, Gabriella
  P2: Catherine, Hannia, Mridula, Shailin, Suhani

   
  Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

• Homework for today is to read the following:
  

  • How Phishing Works (from HowStuffWorks)
  • Creepster of the Week: Webcam Hijacker Gets Six Year Sentence (2011)
  • What is a keylogger?
  • Health Insurer Anthem is Hacked, Exposing Millions of Patients' Data (2015)
  • Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret (2018)

Thursday:

Homework for today is to read the following:New Fast-Spreading Virus takes Internet by Storm(1999)

• • • Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes (2003)
    • The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe (2008)
    • What is a Drive-By Download? (2013)
    • Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2017)

  Review vocab words we have not gotten to

  Scareware/Hoax (Craig Shergold)

  Zombies and botnet

  Cyberwar - NotPetya Video

  Stuxnet: Computer worm

  Power Grid - video

  Solarwinds/Orion

  5 more bad viruses video

Friday:

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Week of October 17th to October 21st

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2022!

Monday:

• Google Auto-complete
• Google Search
• Search Ads
• Client/Server computing
• Cookies

Quiz results

Tuesday:

• Cloud/Web
• Client/Server computing
• Cookies (what they are...)

Wednesday:

• Group 2 must turn in current events on September 21st and October 19th:

  P1: Emily, Rianna, Samantha, Mehreen, Varsha

  P2: Yassine, Eesha, Max, Carina, Ved

   
  Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Thursday:

• Complete discussion of cookies and dynamic web pages.
  Video:  What They Know - Advertising Cookies and You (7:15)

• If time remains, students can introduce Computer Pioneers project.

• Assign Technology personalities for Pioneer project

Friday:

• Homework for today is to read the following:
  

  • New Fast-Spreading Virus takes Internet by Storm(1999)
  • Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes (2003)
  • The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe (2008)
  • What is a Drive-By Download? (2013)
  • Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2017)
  
  

  Allow for some in-class work on pioneer project - organize/research/questions

Week of October 10rd to October 14th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2022!

Monday:

• Internet introduction

Tuesday:

• Internet History/Cloud Slides

Wednesday:

PSATtesting

Thursday:

• Group 1  must turn in current events on September 14th and October 12th:

  P1:  Valentina, Rebecca, Kylie, Jacob, Kathleen

  P2:  Kayla, Akhil, Yuet - Ying, Hanna, Nishant

   
  Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Friday:

• Internet/Cloud computing

Week of September 26th to September 30th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2022!

Monday:

• Holiday - No school

Tuesday:

Give out Ones and Zeroes vocabulary sheet

Review sheet for Quiz Friday

Enhanced images

A crime is committed video - Amped Five

Catscan/MRI

• Google slides - Binary numbers

Wednesday:

NJSLA testing

Thursday:

• Group 3 must turn in current events on September 28th and October 26th:

  P1: Gagandeep, Ava, Jia, Siddharth, Gabriella

  P2: Catherine, Hannia, Mridula, Shailin, Suhani
   
  Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Friday:

• Quiz

Week of September 19th to September 23rd

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2022!

Monday:

• Hexadecimal numbers
• Unicodes
• Binary Search
  What is Unicode?
• Digital representation of sounds and images
• Music industry
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Autotune
  Audacity - free audio software
• Pixels and color
• Google slides - Binary numbers

Tuesday:

Give out internet vocabulary sheet - due Friday

GIF andn JPEG

Compression

Digital cameras, CAT scans

Limitations of Storing Numbers' and 'Storing Text in Binary' from Khan Academy

Wednesday:

Group 2 current events due today:
 

P1: Emily, Rianna, Samantha, Mehreen, Varsha
P2: Yassine, Eesha, Max, Carina, Ved

 

Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Thursday:

• Vocabulary sheet assignment

Friday:

• Watch the video and write a one page essay about how you feel about it.

Week of September 12th to September 16th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2022!

Monday:

• Hexadecimal numbers
• register for turnitin
• Kahn Academy
• Complete binary/hex numbers discussion.
  Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
  What is Unicode?
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Autotune
  Audacity - free audio software
• Google slides - Binary numbers

Tuesday:

Finished Ones and Zeros Kahn assignments and Kahn 1st quiz

Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Give out internet vocabulary sheet - due Friday

Limitations of Storing Numbers' and 'Storing Text in Binary' from Khan Academy

Wednesday:

Group 1 current events due today:
 

P1:  Valentina, Rebecca, Kylie, Jacob, Kathleen

P2:  Kayla, Akhil, Yuet - Ying, Hanna, Nishant

 

Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Character Strong Assembly 8:15 to 9:40

Thursday:

• Finish speeches
• Hexadecimal numbers continued
• Good Questions discussion

Friday:

• Design slides from Good questions assignment for bulletin board
• Kahn Academy
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Week of September 7th to September 9th

 

Welcome to: 

Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2022!

Wednesday:

Welcome!
Discuss rules and expectations,course outline, current events assignment.

"Good Questions" homework for Monday.

• Your 'Introduce Yourself with FlipGrid' assignment is due by Friday evening so that I have a chance to look at them all over the weekend.

Here is the main presentation from today (ctemc.org login required)  

Thursday:

• register for turnitin
• bring back parent/guardian contact information sheet
• Logic Puzzle
• Failure or Success?
• Learn anything
• Begin Ones and zeros - Binary numbers
• Kahn Academy
• Google slides - Binary numbers

Friday:

Please bring back the "Acknowledgement Form".

 

First we will complete whatever is left from Thursday's class up through the slides on binary search.  You have a number of upcoming assignments to work on in any time remaining:

• Do first two units from Khan Academy CS Principles, 'Bits and Bytes' and 'Binary Numbers', and take Quiz #1 before class on Monday.
• 'Ask some good questions' is due Wednesday 9/15.
• 'Limitations of Storing Numbers' and 'Storing Text in Binary' from Khan Academy are also for Tuesday.
• Finally, remember that group 1 will do current events next Wednesday.

Week of June 13th to June 17th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2022!

Monday:

• Hand out review for final Exam, scheduled for Thursday June 16th
  

Tuesday:
Operating System slide

Hardware bus and chips/History

Computer History

Wednesday:

Thursday:

 

Final Exam in Cafeteria from 8:27 to 10:29

Friday: 

Last day of school!

Week of May 30th - June 3rd, 2022

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2022!

Monday:

Memorial Day - No school

Tuesday:

Chips and hardware

Ai/Robotics - extra

Operating System slide

Wednesday:

Group 4 current events due today:
 

P1: Isabel, Nader, Daniel, Rohan, Mila, Yana
P2:  Samantha, Svana, Tanya, Tejaswi, Kira

 
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Thursday:

 

Friday: 

Week of May 23th - May 27th, 2022

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2022!

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Group 3 current events due today:
 

P1: Mia, Isabella, Zaara, Bay, Divyasree
P2: Caeshia, Owen, Tiana, Leena, Rohit

 
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Thursday:

 

Slide show on Operating systems

Friday: 

Debate on Operating System choices (Windows or MAC)

Color Wars

Week of May 16th - May 20th, 2022

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2022!

Monday:

Begin new unit: "Introduction to AI and Robotics"
Essential Questions:

• Can a computer be intelligent?  Have feelings? Be conscious?  Are there limitations on what a computer can do?
• How are 'intelligent' machines changing the world?

Begin AI/Robotics videos, as time allows:

• "Smartest Machine on Earth" (NOVA episode) (52:14)
• Dancing Sony Robots (3:26)
• High Speed Robotic Hand (3:00)
• The Latest Version of the LittleDog Robot (2:17)
• Introducing Spot (2:15)
• Testing Robustness (1:03)
• Atlas, the Next Generation (2:41)
• What's new, Atlas? (0:57)
• Parkour Atlas (0:30)
• Introducing Handle (1:36)
• Sebastian Thrun - Google's Driverless Car (4:14)
• MIT's Nexi MDS Robot - First Test of Expression (1:12)
• How Smart is Today's Artificial Intelligence? (PBS) (9:03)
• Google Duplex - haircut appointment (2:10)
• Google Duplex - restaurant reservation (0:54)
• Humans Need Not Apply (15:00) It's the end of the world. . .
• How Smart is Today's Artificial Intelligence? (Vox) (7:52) or maybe not. . .

some extras:

• A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors (1:43)
• RoboBees - Design Poses Intriguing Engineering Challenge (2:20)
• AI vs AI, Two Chatbots Talking to Each Other (1:24)

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Group 2 current events due today:
 

P1: Varsha, Lawrence, Dominik, Jana, Nanya
P2: Infantina, Rohan, Sara, Julianna, Bram

 
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Thursday:

 

AI/Robotics Rubric

AI videos, discussions, and lecture.

• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Crash Course (11:50) Great approachable but not dumbed-down introduction to some aspects of machine learning.
• "The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence" (Andrew Ng, a machine learning expert fromStanford) (16:26)

Friday: 

Field trip to Great Adventure

Week of May 9th - May 13th, 2022

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2022!

Monday:

Medical Informatics project presentations

Here is the assignment document

Tuesday:

Continue with Medical Informatics project presentations

Wednesday:

Group 1 current events due today:
 

P1: Isabel, Nader, Daniel, Rohan, Mila, Yana
P2:  Samantha, Svana, Tanya, Tejaswi, Kira

 
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Thursday:

Meet with each group to assess progress and give feedback

Friday: 

Week of May 2nd - May 6th, 2022

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2022!

Monday:

Work on Medical Informatics project

Here is the assignment document

Tuesday:

Break into teams to work on project

Wednesday:

Group 1 current events due today:
 

P1: Isabel, Nader, Daniel, Rohan, Mila, Yana
P2:  Samantha, Svana, Tanya, Tejaswi, Kira

 
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Thursday:

Meet with each group to assess progress and give feedback

Friday: