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Individual RAT

Take the individual and group readiness assessment tests, discuss computing concepts, and revisit definitions in Chapter 1. Engage in a collaborative learning environment. Review answers, analogies, definitions, and examples of computing concepts.

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Individual RAT

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  1. Big IdeasIS 101Y/CMSC 101September 3, 2013Carolyn SeamanSusan Martin University of Maryland Baltimore County

  2. Individual RAT • Take the individual Readiness Assessment Test for today’s class. • You can use your book, but you only have 10 minutes! • For each question, choose the best answer. • Scoring: each right answer = 4 pts.

  3. Time out • Announcements • Names

  4. Group RAT • Move to sit with your group. • Collaboratively take the group Readiness Assessment Test. • Discuss each question and compare answers. Come to a consensus on each question. • For each question, choose the best answer. • Scoring: each right answer = 4 pts.

  5. Review Answers • What answer did your group get? • Why did you choose that answer?

  6. Other questions from reading?

  7. St. Amant, Chapter 1 • Stories and analogies • St. Amant uses stories, mostly about people (or aliens) and everyday activities, to help explain computing concepts • Does this help? When doesn’t it work? • Are computers really like people? in what ways? in what ways are they not?

  8. Big Idea: Indirection • What’s indirection? • Can you think of some other non-computing examples of indirection? • Each team come up with one example to share

  9. Revisiting Definitions • What is computing? How does St. Amant define it? What other definitions does he refer to? • <note: as discussion prompts, I’d like to put here some ideas from the definitions offered by students in the first class>

  10. “Big Chunks” of the Computing Discipline • Software • How to get machines to do things • Majors: primarily Computer Science • Careers: Software Engineer, Software Architect, Programmer • Hardware • How to build machines that do things • Majors: primarily Computer Engineering • Careers: Electrical Engineer, Technician, Hardware Designer • Networks • How to enable people to communicate, tasks to be coordinated, and information to be shared • Majors: Computer science and Information systems • Careers: Network administrator, Network designer • Systems Analysis • How people and organizations can best use IT to get stuff done • Majors: Information systems and Business Technology Administration • Careers: Systems Analyst, Business Analyst, IT consultant, IT manager, CIO • Quality Assurance • Make sure a new system works and is useful • Majors: Information systems and Business Technology Adminstration • Careers: QA Manager, Tester, IT manager • Data • How to organize and manage data in the most efficient and useful way possible • Majors: Information Systems and Computer Science • Careers: Database Administrator, Database Designer • Applications • All of the above applied to specific areas of society • Security, intelligence, health care, games, graphics, business, etc.

  11. Blown to Bits, Chapter 1

  12. Blown to Bits, Chapter 1 • Is the author exaggerating? • What are some “bits stories” in recent news or in your life? • Each team come up with one to share

  13. Coding.org • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc

  14. Final Thoughts • If you were not here last Thursday • Assessment survey (link through email) • Student background questionnaire (link on online schedule) • Consent form (see me) • For Thursday, read • Computational Thinking • 60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked • links in the online schedule

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