Week of September 30th - October 4th, 2019

Monday:
No school

Tuesday:

Test on analog/digital, internet technology, and computer security.

Work on informatics presentations when finished.

Wednesday:
Current events group 4:
per 1: Brianna, Kathy, Christianna, Trishna
per 2: John, Isabella, Harrison, Lily
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Everyone working on informatics presentations.

Thursday:
Everyone working on informatics presentations.  
Note: this will be the last full day of class time to work on these.  There may be some time on Tuesday, Oct 8th, and Thursday, Oct 10th.  The actual presentations will begin on Tuesday, Oct 15th.

Friday:
Pioneers project due in room 111 before we go to the hospital - on paper and via turnitin.
First JSUMC rotation

Computer Pioneer oral presentations will be on Monday, October 7th.

Week of September 23rd - 27th, 2019

Monday:
Homework for today is to read the following:

• How Phishing Works (from HowStuffWorks)
• Creepster of the Week: Webcam Hijacker Gets Six Year Sentence (2011)
• What is a keylogger?
• Health Insurer Anthem is Hacked, Exposing Millions of Patients' Data (2015)
• Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret (2018)

Videos (in class):

• Your TV is spying on everything you watch
• Hacking Your Phone (60 Minutes) (13:00) sensationalized, but has some good information
• Medical Identity Theft
• Business Casual G-Men (link not usable from school. . . )

Tuesday:
Homework for today is to read the following:

• How Zombie Networks Fuel Cybercrime (2004)
• The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History (2018 - long but worthwhile) (This one has a really bad word, repeated three times. I wish people wouldn't do that, because outside of that it tells an important story really well.)
• Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet (2016) . (try this link if the other isn't working. . . )
• DDOS attack that disrupted internet was largest of its kind in history, experts say (2016) (Pay attention -- what business is Dyn in?)

There may be a surprise quiz about these articles, you really should read them.

If wired.com says that you have read all your articles for this month, try again with your browser in incognito mode, or try a different browser.

(optional) Here is an fascinating description of the Stuxnet worm: What is the most sophisticated piece of software code ever written?

Videos (in class):

• Stuxnet: Computer worm opens new era of warfare (2012) (14:54)
• Ukraine blames cyberattack for Christmas power outage (2016) (5:48)
• Cyberwar Threat from NOVA (netflix link here) (2015) (53:10) (link not working as of 9/25/19)

Wednesday:

Group 3 current events due today:
P1: Sehar, Justin, Mackenzie, Olivia, Adarsh
P2: Krishi, Sarah, Sofia, Eric
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Wrap up any remaining issues on computer security.

Give out review sheet for test next Tuesday on analog/digital, internet technology, and computer security.

Begin Unit 5: 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.

Thursday:
JSUMC orientation

Friday:

Review for test next Tuesday

Everyone working on informatics projects

Week of September 16th - 20th, 2019

Monday:
Homework due today: Read Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web and turn in this worksheet.  (Also, here's an example of how big a deal a compromised DNS can be: Hackers Hijacked Bank's Entire Online Operation. At least read the first paragraph or two and see if you're interested.)

Introduce "Computer Pioneer" project

Wrap up discussion of Internet technology:
DNS Explained video
News report from 1981

Review: HTTP and HTML
Demonstrate HTTP with Firefox developer tools

Tuesday:
Homework due today: Read How Target Figured Out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

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)

Wednesday:

Group 2 current events due today:
P1: Josh, Elsa, Ange, Kami, Jackie
P2: Ari, Caroline, Matt, Yana, Steve
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.
Homework due today: Read Cookie Monsters.

Complete discussion of cookies and dynamic web pages.
Video:
What They Know - Advertising Cookies and You (7:15)
If time remains, students can work on Computer Pioneers project.

Thursday:
Homework for today is to read the following:

• New Fast-Spreading Virus takes Internet by Storm(1999)
• Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes (2003)
• The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe (2008)
• What is a Drive-By Download? (2013)
• Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2017)

Begin unit 4: Basic principles of computer security, malware, privacy, and cyberwar.  Essential Questions:

• How does the pervasiveness of networked computers affect our personal safety and privacy?
• How does the pervasiveness of networked computers affect our national security?

Videos:

• 5 of the Worst Computer Viruses Ever
• Security Dangers of Public WiFi

Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.

Friday:

Personal day for Mr. Judkis

Students will work on Computer Pioneers paper

Week of September 9th - 13th, 2019

Monday:
Homework for the beginning of class today: "Good Questions", binary/hex worksheet due.  
If you haven't already registered with turnitin, taken the survey, and and returned your parent/guardian information form, be sure to have it done by today at lunchtime.

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

Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Give out internet vocabulary sheet - due Wednesday

Tuesday:

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

A little bit about pixels from code.org
(optional) Pixel widgets from code.org 
Aloe Blacc talking about compression from code.org 
(optional) Text compression widget 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.

Wednesday:

Group 1 current events due today:
P1: Nafisa, Alia, Medha, Lara, Amanda
P2: Fatima, Ruth, Julianna, Riley, Elvis
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Homework due today: Internet vocabulary

Wrap up digital representation of images and sounds, CAT scan

Discuss internet try-at-home, due Friday

Begin Unit 2: Basic Principles of the Internet

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
Videos:
The Lighting of the Beacons
Pneumatic Tubes

Thursday:

Quiz on binary and hex numbers, digital representation of information

Continue with discussion of Internet technology.

Videos:
What is the Internet?
Wires, Cables, and Wifi

Friday:

Homework due today: Do TCP/IP try-at-home for Windows 7, and Mac OS/X. Windows 10 users, this page may be helpful if you can't figure out how to get telnet to work.
Continue with Internet technology unit.
Videos: 
IP addresses and DNS
Packets, Routing, and Reliability

Week of September 2nd - 6th, 2019

Welcome to Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2019!

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

Friday:
Homework for the beginning of class today:

• register for turnitin
• bring back parent/guardian contact information sheet
• take this survey to help me know a little about you

Mr J's homeroom, also please bring back the yellow 'Student Handbook Acknowledgement Form", and any other beginning-of-year forms that you need - emergency information, transportation, and military recruiting info.

Begin unit 1: Digital Representation of Real World Information 
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?

Ones and zeroes: introduce binary/hex numbers
Give out binary/hex worksheet for Monday.

The Typhoon, used by technicians in RCA Laboratories, is typical of the huge computers in the 1950s. The panels in the background house thousands of electron tubes and miles of intricate wiring. (https://gizmodo.com/5944572/25-supercomputers-that-fill-entire-rooms)