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?

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.




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