Welcome to
AP Computer Science Principles
This week we are going to be working on the following:
AP
Computer Science Class – Unit 2 – Digital Information
To Think; To Develop Problem-Solving Skills; To Discover; and To
Create;
Learning
to Compute and Computing to Learn
Classroom
Protocol:
This is where you will come
every day to find out what we are going to do in class for that day. Every day
you are to come to your Quia class web page upon arriving to class, go to your
class web page, and follow the directions for today.
Homework
Policy:
All assignments will be due on
the deadline date given. It is the responsibility for all students to complete
their assignments on time. Any assignments received late will not be accepted
and a grade will not be given for that assignment.
Accessing
your Class Weekly Agenda:
Each
week’s agenda and assignments will be updated and posted on your Quia class
web page on a weekly basis. Previous
weeks Assignments/Agendas will be provided with a link at the end of the current
week’s Class Web Page in case you need to revisit due to an absence, or
you’re required to make up, or catch up on your course assignments.
Homework Assignment: Daily homework assignments may be found at the end of
each day’s agenda.
F
Day – Lunch 11:35 – 11:59
IMPORTANT DATES:
Saturday December 10 (8 –
12) Grafton - AP Study Session
Saturday March 4 (8 – 12) Millbury - AP Study Session
This
Week’s Agenda:
Introduction to UNIT 2: Digital
Information:
This
unit further explores the ways that digital information is encoded, represented
and manipulated. Being able to digitally manipulate data, visualize it, and
identify patterns, trends and possible meanings are important practical skills
that computer scientists do every day. Understanding where data comes from,
having intuitions about what could be learned or extracted from it, and being
able to use computational tools to manipulate data and communicate about it are
the primary skills addressed in the unit.
Chapter
1: Encoding and Compressing Complex Information
Big Questions
·
Are the ways in which digital information
is encoded more laws of nature or man made?
·
What kinds of limitations does the binary
encoding of information impose on what can be represented inside a computer?
·
How accurately can human experience and
perception be captured or reflected in digital information?
Enduring Understandings
·
1.1 Creative development can be an
essential process for creating computational artifacts.
·
1.3 Computing can extend traditional forms
of human expression and experience.
·
2.1 A variety of abstractions built upon
binary sequences can be used to represent all digital data.
·
3.3 There are trade offs when representing
information as digital data.
AND
Programming
and Cell Phone Apps
Continued
Monday 11-7-16 – Day D
Standard:
Demonstrate
proficiency in the use of computers and applications, as well as an
understanding of the concepts underlying hardware, software, and connectivity.
Objective:
Introduction
to computers and technology in relation to the 21st Century Skills
and Financial and Technology literacy necessary to be successful in today’s
technology oriented society.
Activator:
Open
up your Engineering Journal and review what you entered last class
Direct Instruction and Guided Practice
Students will present their Explore Performance Task and will
discuss as a class (collaboration) to determine how we can improve in moving
forward.
Summarizer:
Mr. PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of tomorrow.
Assessment for/of
learning:
Students are to be assessed on
their Explore Performance Task presentation and group discussion.
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
Due next class!
1)
Create
a personal 16x16 favicon and encode it using the Pixelation Widget on the final
level of this lesson in Code Studio.
2)
The image you make should represent your personality in some
distinctive way. You will be using this favicon in future lessons and web sites
that you make, so be creative and thoughtful.
3)
After you have finished your favicon, share it with others in the
class by sending them the bits with the Internet Simulator Widget!
Requirements:
Things
to think about
Tuesday
11-8-2016– No School – Teacher Professional Development
NOTE:
Don’t
forget the Student/Faculty Basketball Game Tonight!
CT - Computational Thinking
2.1 - A variety of abstractions built upon binary sequences can be
used to represent all digital data.
2.1.1 -
Describe the variety of abstractions used to represent data. [P3]
2.1.2 -
Explain how binary sequences are used to represent digital data. [P5]
3.3 - There are trade offs when representing information as digital
data.
Activator: Open up your Engineering Journal and review what you
entered last class. Review the Standards, Objectives, above, for today’s
lesson. Click on https://studio.code.org/
and log in. Locate the Unit 2: The Internet tile and click ‘View course’.
Direct Instruction and
Guided Instruction: No School
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
Due Tomorrow!
1)
Create
a personal 16x16 favicon and encode it using the Pixelation Widget on the final
level of this lesson in Code Studio.
2)
The image you make should represent your personality in some
distinctive way. You will be using this favicon in future lessons and web sites
that you make, so be creative and thoughtful.
3)
After you have finished your favicon, share it with others in the
class by sending them the bits with the Internet Simulator Widget!
Requirements:
Things
to think about
Wednesday 11-9-2016 –
Day E
Lesson
7: Introduction to Data
In this kickoff to the Data Unit, you will
begin thinking about how data is collected and what can be learned from it. You
will be introduced to the Class Data Tracker project that will run through the
first half of this unit, and be asked to make predictions of what you will find
when all the data has been collected in a couple weeks.
NOTE: Quarter 1 Grades Close
You have all done a Great Job this Quarter!
CL –
Collaboration
CPP -
Computing Practice & Programming
CT -
Computational Thinking
3.1 - People use computer programs to process information to gain
insight and knowledge.
3.2 - Computing facilitates exploration and the discovery of
connections in information.
7.3 - Computing has a global affect -- both beneficial and harmful --
on people and society.
Objectives
Activator:
Open
up your Engineering Journal and review what you entered last class. Review the
Standards, Objectives, above, for today’s lesson. Click on https://studio.code.org/
and log in. Locate the Unit 2: and click ‘View course’.
Direct Instruction:
You are going to complete this survey every
day in class for the next several weeks. By the end, we should have a hundred
entries. You’ve seen the questions and have taken a quick glimpse at the
results. What do you think we might be able to find out in a few weeks?
Prompt:
“Write
down one or two hypotheses (predictions) about what we might be able
to find out about our class, assuming that everyone fills out this survey every
day for a few weeks.”
Guided Instruction:
Click on the following
link and take the following quiz:
How
Much of a Left and Right-Brained Person Are You? - Link
When
you are done I want you to share the results of the quiz with the rest of the
class.
Personal Favicon:
Assessment
for/of learning: Daily survey and results of the quiz in guided
instruction.
Summarizer:
Mr.
PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of
tomorrow.
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
Every day for the next couple of weeks please do the following as
part of our chapter on Data Collection:
Fill
out this form EVERY DAY, or as frequently as possible over the next few weeks.
We will look at the results more fully in Lesson 7 of this unit.
Thursday 11-10-2016 –
Day F
Standard:
Demonstrate
the ability to use technology for research, critical thinking, problem solving,
decision-making, communication, collaboration, creativity and innovation.
Topic:
Research, Problem-Solving, and Communications Research
3.1 Devise and demonstrate strategies for
efficiently collecting and organizing information from electronic sources.
Problem
Solving
3.5 Explain and demonstrate how specialized
technology tools can be used for problem solving, decision making, and
creativity.
Objective:
Evaluate
the importance of learning about computer systems in terms of relevant
professions
Identify
general computer systems/programming terms
Deduce
the skills and knowledge about computer systems needed to be successful in an
authentic project
Demonstrate
the ability to enter and modify source code statements using editing
capabilities
Develop a simple
graphics program
Demonstrate
the ability to debug statements, distinguishing between syntax and semantic
errors
Identify
input, process, and output in a program
Activator:
Open
up your Engineering Journal and review what you entered last class. Review the
Standards, Objectives, above, for today’s lesson.
Direct Instruction and Guided Practice:
Click Here to
Access Your Development Environment
1)
Click on the Tutorial below
and follow the directions to create the NoText While Driving App.
Directions
for the No Text While Driving App
This app is a must to
ensure your safety when you, a family member, or a friend is driving.
Summarizer:
Mr. PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of tomorrow.
Assessment for/of
learning:
Students are to be assessed on
the design of the No
Text While Driving App and installing it on their phone. It
is strongly recommended that this App
is used whenever they are driving to ensure their safety and the safety of
others.
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
Due
Today! Personalized Favicon!
Every day for the next couple of weeks please do the following as
part of our chapter on Data Collection:
Fill
out this form EVERY DAY, or as frequently as possible over the next few weeks.
We will look at the results more fully in Lesson 7 of this unit.
Friday
11-11-16 – No School – Veteran’s Day – Thank a Veteran for their service
today!
CL – Collaboration
CPP - Computing Practice & Programming
CT - Computational Thinking
Activator:
Open
up your Engineering Journal and review what you entered last class. Review the
Standards, Objectives, above, for today’s lesson. Click on https://studio.code.org/
and log in. Locate the Unit 1: The Internet tile and click ‘View course’.
Direct Instruction and
Guided Instruction: No Class
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
Every day for the next couple of weeks please do the following as
part of our chapter on Data Collection:
Fill
out this form EVERY DAY, or as frequently as possible over the next few weeks.
We will look at the results more fully in Lesson 7 of this unit.
Thanks for a great
week!
Mr. PC
Every day for the next
couple of weeks please do the following as part of our chapter on Data
Collection:
Fill
out this form EVERY DAY, or as frequently as possible over the next few weeks.
We will look at the results more fully in Lesson 7 of this unit.
Explore Performance Task Rubric
More Resources for
finding computing innovations:
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
Tools
for building computing artifacts:
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
To Due: Create Digital
Portfolios for Performance Tasks Submissions. Our goal is to complete our
Explore Performance Task before the end of 2016.
·
Begin
preparing for the May 5th Exam with practice exam questions from AP training
google drive and the career board. Use online student response system for class
review and discussion.
Unit
1 Vocabulary
Setting up the APP
Inventor and Emulator for Testing
You can set up App Inventor and start building apps in minutes.
The Designer and Blocks Editor now run completely in the browser (aka
the cloud). To see your app on a device while you build it (also called
"Live Testing"), you'll need to follow the steps below.
If you are using an Android device and you have
a wireless internet connection, you can
start building apps without downloading any software to your computer. You will
need to install the App Inventor Companion App for your device. Choose Option
One below. This
option is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED
For Class Use this Option: If you do not have an Android
device,
you'll need to install software on your computer so that you can use the
on-screen Android emulator. Choose Option Two below.
If you do not have a wireless internet
connection, you'll need to install software on your computer so that you
can connect to your Android device over USB. Choose Option
Three below. The
USB Connection option can be tricky, especially on Windows. Use this as a last
resort.
If you have
a computer, an Android device, and a WiFi connection, this is the easiest way to
test your apps.
If you don’t have an Android phone or tablet handy, you can
still use App Inventor. Have a class of 30 students? Have them work primarily on
emulators and share a few devices.
Some
firewalls within schools and organizations disallow the type of WiFi connection
required. If WiFi doesn’t work for you, try USB.
Note: Internet Explorer is not supported. We recommend Chrome or Firefox.
2)Check out the Designer and Blocks Editor Overview
3)
Setup Review the
following Beginner Tutorials
Click Here to
Access Your Development Environment