Friday, September 27, 2019

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.

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Week of September 23rd - 27th, 2019

Monday:
Homework for today is to read the following:
Videos (in class):


Tuesday:
Homework for today is to read the following:
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):

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

Friday, September 13, 2019

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):

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:
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:
Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.

Friday:

Personal day for Mr. Judkis
Students will work on Computer Pioneers paper

Friday, September 6, 2019

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

    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

    Sunday, September 1, 2019

    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)