Week of February 10th - February 14th, 2025

 Monday:

Quiz on binary and hex numbers, digital representation of information

 Begin Unit 2: Basic Principles of the Internet (8.2.12.B.4, 8.1.12.F.1, 8.2.12.A.1, 8.2.12.A.2, 8.2.12.C.1, 8.2.12.C.4, 8.2.12.E.4)

Essential Questions:

What is the Internet? Where did it come from, and how did it evolve?
How does it function?
What is a protocol? What is an open system?
What characteristics of the Internet have allowed it to become so pervasive?
How does the ability of computers to communicate with one another affect our lives?
Begin internet discussion of internet history and technology

INTERNET SLIDES

Tuesday:

Continue with the Internet technology unit.
Videos: 

What is the Internet?
Wires, Cables, and Wifi
IP addresses and DNS
Packets, Routing, and Reliability

What is the Internet?

Wires, Cables, and Wifi
IP addresses and DNS
Packets, Routing, and Reliability

Wednesday:

Group 2 must turn in current events on February 12th and March 12th:

P1: Catherine, Jay, Charles, Jennifer, Asher

P2: Denis, Navya, Emily, Aiden, Hannah

Thursday:

Introduce "Computer Pioneer" project
Wrap up discussion of Internet technology:

Friday:

School closed

Week of February 3rd - February 7th, 2025

 Monday:

Begin unit 1: Digital Representation of Real World Information (8.2.12.E.2)

Essential Questions:

• How can a computer work with so many kinds of information if all it can do is process ones and zeroes?

• How can a computer turn physical phenomena like sound and pictures into ones and zeroes?

• How can a computer turn ones and zeroes into physical phenomena like pictures and sounds?

• Google slides - Binary numbers

Homework for the beginning of class today: "Good Questions",  register for turnitin, bring back parent/guardian contact information sheet, complete

Ones and zeroes: introduce binary/hex numbers

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

Tuesday: (Continue Unit 1: Digital Representation of Real World Information)

A little bit about pixels from code.org

Pixel widgets from code.org 
Aloe Blacc talking about compression from code.org 
Text compression widget from code.org 

Wednesday:

Group 1  must turn in current events on February 5th and March 5th:

P1:  Sandra, Ruth, Aradhana, Demetri, Brandon

P2:  Saanvi, Hridaya, Alliyah, Katelyn, Abby

Wrap up digital representation of images and sounds, CAT scan

Thursday:

Mr. Parsells - Day off

Friday:

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.