Week of December 16th - December 20th, 2024

   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?
  
  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)

Tuesday:

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Wednesday:

Group 2 must turn in current events on November 20th and December 18th:

P1: Anthony, Ryleigh, Vishwa, Jamie, Isabelle

P2: Ariel, Noah, Emily, Asrith, Justin

Thursday:

Friday:

Week of December 9th - December 13th, 2024

  Monday:

• Intro to Python slides
• Python Turtle slides
• Python Unit 3

Tuesday:

Continue with Python

• Review and continue Python slides.
• Python video - Think Python

Wednesday:

Group 1  must turn in current events on November 13th and December 11th:

P1:  Lillian, Sarah, Heather, Dana

P2:  Rokaya, Christian, Martha, Emma

Thursday:

Friday:

Quiz on Python

Week of October 28th - November 1st, 2024

 Monday:

• Security and malware slides

Tuesday:

Continue with Security unit

Wednesday:

Group 4 must turn in current events on October 2nd and October 30th:

P1: Riya, Angel, Amelia, Yuqing, Steven

P2:  Eugenia, Surya, Maya, Kayla, Jonathan

Thursday:

Quiz on internet and security

Friday:

Hospital Rotations

Week of October 14th - October 18th, 2024

 Monday:

• School closed

Tuesday:

PSAT testing

Wednesday:

Group 2 must turn in current events on September 18th and October 16th:

P1: Anthony, Ryleigh, Vishwa, Jamie, Isabelle

P2: Ariel, Noah, Emily, Asrith, Justin

Thursday:

Continue with Web and Cloud

Cookies

Login to Mac and explore cookies

Target article

Review

Friday:

Hospital Rotations

Week of October 7th - October 11th, 2024

 Monday:

• Begin Web and Cloud Unit

Cloud Slides

• 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'?

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Tuesday:

Continue with Cloud unit

• HTML and HTTP

• Google Search - how it works

• What Google knows about you

• Ads

• What is Cloud Computing

Wednesday:

Essay on career video

Thursday:

Group 1  must turn in current events on September 11th and October 9th:

P1:  Lillian, Sarah, Heather, Dana

P2:  Rokaya, Christian, Martha, Emma

New project "pioneer paper/presentation"

Friday:

Continue with Cloud unit

In class time for project

Week of September 23rd - September 27th, 2024

 Monday:

• Begin Internet Unit

Internet Slides

• What is the Internet? Where did it come from, and how did it evolve?

• What characteristics of the Internet have allowed it to grow so big, and be so reliable?

• How does the Internet affect our lives?

Tuesday:

Continue with internet unit

• TCP/IP address discussion (homework)

• Continue with Internet technology unit.
  Videos: 

• What is the Internet?

• Wires, Cables, and Wifi

• IP addresses and DNS

• Packets, Routing, and Reliability

Wednesday:

Group 3 must turn in current events on September 25th and October 23th:

P1:  Rianna, Kaitlyn, Tilak, Ethan

P2: Kaya, Mariam, Vinaya, Veda, Melissa

Thursday:

Friday:

 

Week of September 9th - September 13th, 2024

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

• Continue Ones and zeros - Binary numbers
• Google slides - Binary numbers
• Kahn Academy
• Homework: Do first two units from Khan Academy CS Principles, 'Bits and Bytes' and 'Binary Numbers', and take Quiz #1 before class on Wednesday

Tuesday:

Review Rubric for current events and tips for public speaking

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 11th and October 9th:

P1:  Lillian, Sarah, Heather, Dana

P2:  Rokaya, Christian, Martha, Emma

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 5th - September 6th, 2024

 Welcome to Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2024!

Thursday:

Attendance

Assemly in Cafeteria 7:45 to 8:30

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 6th - May 10th, 2024

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2024

Monday:

Introduce Medical informatics projecy

Review for quiz tomorrow

 

Tuesday:

Python quiz

Wednesday: 

Group 4 must turn in current events on May 8th and June 5th:

P1: Ethan, Brett, Nikhilesh, Emily, Xiwen

P2:  Sanvi, Sneha, Julia, Greta, Daniel

Thursday: 

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Friday: 

Week of April 29th - May 3rd, 2024

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2024

Monday:

Turtle Graphics Slides

 

Tuesday:

Continue Turtle Graphics

Wednesday: 

Group 3 must turn in current events on May 1st and May 29th:

P1: Dhwen, Aashi, Shravani, Rithvik

P2: Caitlin, Tanvi, Akshaya, Zaina, Zara

Thursday: 

• Review and continue Python slides.
• Python structure and control slides

Friday: 

Week of April 22nd - April 26th, 2024

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2024

Monday:

Video essay

 

Tuesday:

Holiday - No school

Wednesday: 

Group 2 must turn in current events on April 24th and May 22nd:

P1: Ashton, Carissa, Jaegyeong, Ricky, Ella

P2: Abigail, Sahana, Pranav, Keira, Margaret

Thursday: 

• Review and continue Intro Python slides.
• Python video - Think Python

Friday: 

Week of March 25th - March 29th, 2024

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2024

Monday:

Continue with Computer Security Unit

 

Tuesday:

Anatomy midterm

Wednesday:

Guest speaker 9:30 - 10:30

Group 4 must turn in current events on February 28th and March 27th:

P1: Ethan, Brett, Nikhilesh, Emily, Xiwen

P2:  Sanvi, Sneha, Julia, Greta, Daniel

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

Thursday:

Continue security unit

Friday:

Spring break

Week of March 18th - March 22nd, 2024

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2024

Monday:

Continue with Web/Cloud Unit

 

Tuesday:

Introduce Computer Security Unit

Wednesday:

Group 3 must turn in current events on February 21st & March 20th:

P1: Dhwen, Aashi, Shravani, Rithvik

P2: Caitlin, Tanvi, Akshaya, Zaina, Zara

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

Thursday:

Continue security unit

Friday:

Hospital Rotations

Week of March 4th - March 8th, 2024

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2024

Monday:

Continue with Internet Unit

Review for Quiz

 

Tuesday:

Quiz on Internet Unit

Wednesday:

Group 1  must turn in current events on February 7th and March 6th:

P1:  Anjali, Christina, Melanie, Sadie, Brooke

P2:  Carol, Robert, Wren, Amy, Sahej

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

Thursday:

The eb and the Cloud

Pioneer project work

Friday:

Hospital Rotations

Week of Febuary 26th - March 1st, 2024

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2024

Monday:

Continue with Internet Unit

TCP/IP address discussion (homework)

Videos: 

IP addresses and DNS

Packets, Routing, and Reliability

 

Tuesday:

What is a router

What is a LAN

DNS

How Hackers Hijacked a Bank’s Entire Online Operation

DDoS attack that disrupted internet was largest of its kind in history, experts say

Proxies and firewalls

What is a VPN

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X84muuaySVQ

Wednesday:

Group 4 must turn in current events on February 28th and March 27th:

P1: Ethan, Brett, Nikhilesh, Emily, Xiwen

P2:  Sanvi, Sneha, Julia, Greta, Daniel

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

Thursday:

Review

Friday:

Hospital Rotations