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• Navigating the Course
  
  

  Navigating the Course

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  • READ: How to Navigate the Course URL
  • READ: How to Track Your Progress URL
  • READ: How to Take a Screenshot URL
• Lesson 1.1
  
  

  Lesson 1.1

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    Lesson 1.1 Computers and Computing

    Learning Objective:  

    • Define the terms computer and computing
      

  • LESSON: Introduction to Unit 1 Computing Technology Page
  • LESSON: What are Computers and Computing?
  • ASSIGNMENT: Create Your Exploring Computer Science Portfolio
• Lesson 1.2
  
  

  Lesson 1.2

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    Lesson 1.2 Computer Buying Project

    Learning Objective:  

    • Complete a project related to choosing appropriate components for a personal computer.
      

  • LESSON: Hardware and Software
  • ASSESSMENT: Computer Buying Project Part 1 Assignment
  • ASSESSMENT: Computer Buying Project Part 2 Assignment
  • ASSESSMENT: Computer Buying Project Part 3 Assignment
• Lesson 1.3
  
  

  Lesson 1.3

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    Lesson 1.3 Search Engines, Web 2.0 Applications and Internet Evaluations

    Learning Objectives: 
    

    • Perform searches and explain how to refine searches to retrieve better information.
      
    • Identify resources for finding information in addition to ranking based search engines.
      
    • Use a variety of Web 2.0 applications.
      
    • Develop and use a rubric to evaluate websites.

    
    

  • Internet Searches Lesson
  • LESSON: What is Web 2.0? Page
  • LESSON: Website Evaluation
  • ASSESSMENT: Explore Web 2.0 Education Applications Assignment
  • STUDENT PREP: Technology and Communications Prep Page
• Lesson 1.4
  
  

  Lesson 1.4

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    Lesson 1.4 Computer Based Communication

    Learning objectives:

    • Explain how computers are used for communications.
    • Recognize various forms of communication as data exchange.
    • Describe the implications of data exchange on social interactions.
    • Consider privacy of data that they create.

  • DISCUSSION: How Do You Communicate Forum
  • LESSON: Internet Based Communication
  • PROJECT: Privacy Activity Assignment
• Lesson 1.5
  
  

  Lesson 1.5

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    Lesson 1.5 Telling a Story with Data

    Learning objectives:

    • Explain how different views of data can tell a different story.
      
    • Recognize that data is an incomplete record of reality.

  • LESSON: All About Data
  • ACTIVITY: Communication Methods and Data Chart Assignment
  • ACTIVITY: Data Journal Assignment
• Lesson 1.6
  
  

  Lesson 1.6

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    Lesson 1.6 Visualizing Data

    Learning Objectives: 

    • Explain how computers can be used as tools for visualizing data, modeling and design, and art.
    • Identify mathematical connections in the output of the tools.

  • ASSIGNMENT: Representing Data
  • PROJECT: Math, Art, and Computers Assignment
• Lesson 1.7
  
  

  Lesson 1.7

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    Lesson 1.7 Computer Programming and Instructions

    Learning Objective: 

    • Explain the concept of a computer program
      

  • LESSON: Computer Programming and Instructions
• Lesson 1.8
  
  

  Lesson 1.8

  • Lesson 1.8 Intelligence

    Learning Objectives: 

    • Explain the idea of intelligence especially as it relates to computers.
    • Explain what it means for a machine to "learn".
    • Discuss whether computers are intelligent or whether they only behave intelligently.

  • LESSON: What is Intelligence?
  • PROJECT: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Assignment