Week of February 28th - March 4th, 2022

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2022!

Monday:

Kahn Academy Internet and quiz 1 (internet) homework

Go overr Kahn assignments

Videos and: lecture

History of the internet - Part 1

 

Introduce "Computer Pioneer" project

Tuesday:

Assign Unit Two: Internet Vocabulary Homework

History of the internet - part 2

Review: HTTP and HTML
Demonstrate HTTP with Firefox developer tools

Read How Target Figured Out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

 

Wednesday:

Group 3 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:

Begin unit 3: Google, cloud computing, dynamic web pages
Essential questions:

• Slide show on Google and Cloud Computing
• How does a search engine work?
• What do companies like Google know about us, and what do they do with that information?
• What is 'the cloud'?

Videos (in class):

• What Google Knows About You (2:02)
• Being a Google Autocompleter (2:37)
• How Google Search works (3:15)
• How Search Ads Work (2:38)
• How Google Apps Work (1:51)
• Google Data Center (4:52)

Friday: 

Slide show on Security

Week of February 21st - February 25th, 2022

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2022!

Monday:

Holiday - No school

Tuesday:

Go over Quiz today Binary

Continue Internet Unit 

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:

Continue internet discussion of internet history and technology
Videos and: lecture

History of the internet - Part 1

History of the internet - part 2

Slide show on Internet

Friday: 

Homework

DNS hacking worksheet:

 

Week of February 14th - February 18th, 2022

 

Week of February 14th - 18th, 2022

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2022!

Monday:

Homework due:

Kahn Academy

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

Create slide for Good Questions to go up on bulletin board

Tuesday:

Quiz today Binary

Begin Internet Unit 

What is the Internet?

Where did it come from, and how did it evolve?

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:

Continue internet discussion of internet history and technology
Videos and: lecture
The Lighting of the Beacons

 Wireless Communication history Video

Undersea cables...
Pneumatic Tubes

What is the Internet?

History of the internet - Part 1

History of the internet - part 2

Slide show on Internet

Friday:

 

Continue with discussion of Internet technology.

Videos:

History of the internet? Part 3

Wires, Cables, and Wifi

IP addresses and DNS
Packets, Routing, and Reliability

Week of February 7th - February 11th, 2022

 

Week of February 7th - 12th, 2022

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2022!

Monday:
Finished Ones and Zeros Kahn assignments and Kahn 1st quiz

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

Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans

Tuesday:

Binary, text and Beyond Slides

Homework: Limitations of Storing Numbers' and 'Storing Text in Binary' from Khan Academy due for today.

Continue discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans

A little bit about pixels from code.org

Wednesday:

Homework due: Ask some good questions' is due Today 2/9.

Group 1 current events due today:
P1: Shree, Aneya, Austin, Kyle, John
P2: Matthew, Jake, David, Sahil, Brianna
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Thursday:

Finish Current events

Go over in class the Good Questions assignment (discuss questions)

Friday:

 

 Limitations of Storing Numbers' and 'Storing Text in Binary' from Khan Academy due for Monday.

Pixel widgets from code.org 

Aloe Blacc talking about compression from code.org 

Video compression as fast as possible

Let's enhance. . . 

Amped Software - from the crime scene to the courtroom

Gigapixel images

Jordan Peele uses AI, President Obama in fake news PSA

Fake videos of real people - and how to spot them (TED talk)

How hard is it to make a believeable deepfake? Very interesting article.

On Monday (Review for Quiz on Tuesday)

Week of February 2nd - February 4th, 2022

Welcome to Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2022!

Wednesday:
Welcome!
Discuss rules and expectations,course outline, current events assignment, "Good Questions" homework for Monday.

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
  
• take this survey to help me know a little about you
• Google slides - Binary numbers

Friday:

 

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:

• 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.
• 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 2/9
• '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.