Monday:
Holiday, no school.
Tuesday:
homework for the beginning of class today: "Good Questions", binary/hex worksheet due
homework for the beginning of class today: "Good Questions", binary/hex worksheet due
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 Thursday
Wednesday:
Group 1 current events due today:
P1: Sriya, Tanvi, Mackenzie, Rachel, Lalain
P2: Elissa, Eman, Zacher, Philip
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.
P1: Sriya, Tanvi, Mackenzie, Rachel, Lalain
P2: Elissa, Eman, Zacher, Philip
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.
Continue discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
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
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.
Fake videos of real people - and how to spot them (TED talk)
How hard is it to make a believeable deepfake? Very interesting article.
Thursday:
Homework due today: Internet vocabulary
Wrap up digital representation of images and sounds, CAT scan
Discuss internet try-at-home, due next Monday
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?
Videos:
Friday:
Quiz on binary and hex numbers, digital representation of information
Continue with discussion of Internet technology.
Videos:
IP addresses and DNS
Packets, Routing, and Reliability
Packets, Routing, and Reliability
For Monday:
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.
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.
