Week of November 20th - 24th, 2023

 Monday:

Python Slides

Tuesday:

Continue discussing with Python

• Python video - Think Python

Unit 2

Python Turtle Graphics

Wednesday:

Group 1  must turn in current events on November 22th and December 20th:

            P1:  Nashita, Kennedy, Jonah, Charlotte, Ananya

            P2:  Peter, Alexandra, Brody, Bridget, Carleigh

Thursday:

Friday:

Week of October 16th - 20th, 2023

  Monday:

Security/Malware/Privacy slides

Tuesday:

Continue discussing Security

Wednesday:

Group 2 must turn in current events on September 20th and October 18th:

P1: Laith, Niki, Ethan, Erin

P2: Sophia, Iris, Isabella, Rushyukta

Thursday:

Friday:

Week of October 9th - 13th, 2023

 Monday:

No school

Tuesday:

Continue discussing Internet

Internet slides

Lecture, exercise, and videos

AI 60 minutes video and assignment

Cloud computing Slides

Wednesday:

Group 4 must turn in current events on October 4th and November 1st:

P1: Saj, Salma, Ava, Meenakshi, Brendan

P2:  Amelie, Andrea, Chloe, Ryan W., Skyla

Thursday:

Continue Cloud slides 

Client/Server

HTTP Cookies

Friday:

1st hospital rotations

Week of October 2nd - 6th, 2023

  Monday:

Google Search and how it works

Tuesday:

Continue discussing Internet

Internet slides

Lecture, exercise, and videos

Wednesday:

Group 4 must turn in current events on October 4th and November 1st:

P1: Saj, Salma, Ava, Meenakshi, Brendan

P2:  Amelie, Andrea, Chloe, Ryan W., Skyla

Thursday:

Continue Internet slides 

Google Ads

Friday:

Cloud computing

Week of September 25th - 29th, 2023

  Monday:

No school - holiday

Tuesday:

Begin discussing Internet

Internet slides

Lecture, exercise, and videos

Wednesday:

Group 3 must turn in current events on September 27th and October 25th:

P1: Moira, Alexa, Mehraal, Gargi, Tarang

P2: Heather, Bavitha, Abhisikha, Amitay, Ryan T.

Thursday:

Continue Internet slides and have sudents make up missed presentatios

Friday:

 

Week of September 18th - 22nd, 2023

 Monday:

Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Autotune

Audacity - free audio software

Give out Ones and Zeroes vocabulary sheet

• 
  
• Google slides - Binary numbers

Tuesday:

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

Compression videos

Wednesday:

Group 2 must turn in current events on September 20th and October 18th:

P1: Laith, Niki, Ethan, Erin

P2: Sophia, Iris, Isabella, Rushyukta

Thursday:

Finish Binary slides

Review for Quiz

Friday:

 

Quiz

Week of September 11th - 15th, 2023

Monday:

Please sign the course syllabus and have your parent/guardian sign it as well. Then bring it back to me Tuesday

Good Questions homework due

• Begin Ones and zeros - Binary numbers
• take this survey to help me know a little about you
• Google slides - Binary numbers
• Kahn Academy
• Do first two units from Khan Academy CS Principles, 'Bits and Bytes' and 'Binary Numbers', and take Quiz #1 before class on Wednesday

Tuesday:

Continue Binary/Hex discussion

What is Unicode?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Autotune

Audacity - free audio software

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

Wednesday:

Group 1  must turn in current events on September 13th and October 11th:

            P1:  Nashita, Kennedy, Jonah, Charlotte, Ananya

            P2:  Peter, Alexandra, Brody, Bridget, Carleigh

Finished Ones and Zeros Kahn assignments and Kahn 1st quiz

Thursday:

Continue Binary slides

Friday:

 

Good Questions

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

Week of September 7th - 8th, 2023

Welcome to Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2023!

Thursday:

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) 

Friday:

• 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

• Finally, remember that group 1 will do current events next Wednesday.

Week of May 8th to May 12th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2023

Monday:

Video: Data and Medicine

• AI vs AI, Two Chatbos Talking to Each Other (1:24)
• A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors (1:43)

Begin AI/Robotics videos, as time allows:

• "Smartest Machine on Earth" (NOVA episode) (52:14)
• 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:

• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Crash Course (11:50) Great approachable but not dumbed-down introduction to some aspects of machine learning.
• 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)
• "The Future of Robotics an

Tuesday:

• 
  d Artificial Intelligence" (Andrew Ng, a machine learning expert fromStanford) (16:26)

•  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)RoboBees - Design Poses Intriguing Engineering Challenge (2:20)

Wednesday:

• Group 4 must turn in current events on May 10th and June 7th:

  P1: Ujala, Adam, Sophia S., Julia, Rachael

  P2: Sahana, Shifa, Steven, Ryan S., John

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

Thursday:

Robotics and AI paper/Presentation project

Video: Data and Medicine

Friday:

Great Adventure

Week of May 1st to May 5th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2023

Monday:

Medical Informatics

Essential Questions:

• How is computer technology used in medical research and the practice of medicine today?
• How is the use of computer technology going to change medicine in the future?

Video: Data and Medicine

Presentations begin for Medical Informatics

• Tuesday:

•  Continue presentations

Wednesday:

• Group 3 must turn in current events on May 3rd and May 31st:

  P1: Sophia O., Jada, Viraj, Karen

  P2: Eve, Keira, Stella, Carolina, Rachel

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

Thursday:

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

Friday:

Reflection paper due

Week of April 17th to April 21st

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2023

Monday:

Begin: Medical Informatics

Essential Questions:

• How is computer technology used in medical research and the practice of medicine today?
• How is the use of computer technology going to change medicine in the future?

Video: Data and Medicine
Begin Medical Informatics project. Each team must create a Google Slides presentation and share it with me before the end of the period.

• Tuesday:

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

Wednesday:

• Group 1  must turn in current events on April 19th and May 17th:
  P1:  Aroush, Madeline, Gwendolyn, Nathan, Raaneya-Zarah
  P2:  Oscar, Mason, Roberto, Padraic, Nidhi

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

Thursday:

• Work in your teams on the Medical Informatics project.

Friday:

Sophomore rotations at hospital

Week of April 3rd to April 7th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2023!

Monday:

• Python Turtle graphics

Tuesday:

• Review and continue Python slides.

Wednesday:

• Midterm Exam for period 1

   

Thursday:

• Midterm Exam for period 2

Friday:

Spring Break

Week of March 27th to March 31st

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2023!

Monday:

• Intro to Python Slides

Tuesday:

• Review and continue Python slides.

Wednesday:

• Group 4 must turn in current events on March 1st and March 29th:

  P1: Ujala, Adam, Sphia S., Julia, Rachael

  P2: Sahana, Shifa, Steven, Ryan S., John

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

Thursday:

• Python video - Think Python
• Team work on the project.

Unit 2

Python Turtle Graphics

Friday:

Sophomore rotation at hospital

Week of March 13th to March 17th

 

Monday:

Slideshow for topic

Continue

Computer Security, Malware, Privacy, and Cyberwar

Cyberwar

SolarWinds video

5 other viruses video

Vocabulary terms - review

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

• Group 2 must turn in current events on February 15th and March 15th:

  P1: Vas, Meher, Krish, Ella

  P2: Bryan, Jennifer, Ryan M., Abigail

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

Thursday:

Friday:

Sophomore rotation at hospital

Week of March 6th to March 10th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2023

Monday:

Continue unit 3: Google, cloud computing, dynamic web pages

Slideshow for topic

Is Wifi safe

Phishing

Phishing Quiz

Spyware and Keylogging

Location Tracking

Privacy - TV

• Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2017)

Identity theft

Scareware

Catfishing

Cyberwar

Tuesday:

Zombies and botnets

• 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.)
  • New Jersey hospital chain pays attackers to thwart ransomware incident (2019)

Wednesday:

• Group 1  must turn in current events on February 8th and March 8th:
  P1:  Aroush, Madeline, Gwendolyn, Nathan, Raaneya-Zarah
  P2:  Oscar, Mason, Roberto, Padraic, Nidhi

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

Thursday:

Stuxnet

Attacking the powr grid

Friday:

Sophomore rotation at hospital

Week of February 27th to March 3rd

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2023

Monday:

Secret Geek Read this article and complete this Worksheet

History of the internet - Part 1

History of the internet - part 2

History of the internet? Part 3

Tuesday:

Introduce "Computer Pioneer" project

Wrap up discussion of Internet technology:

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

• 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)

Good question slide work (print)

Wednesday:

• Group 4 must turn in current events on March 1st and March 29th:

  P1: Ujala, Adam, Sphia S., Julia, Rachael

  P2: Sahana, Shifa, Steven, Ryan S., John

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

Thursday:

Cloud

Friday:

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)