Data and Information, as the CSP framework suggests, “is part of the foundation of our information society and economy”. How we gather, store, manage and display this data raises serious concerns and issues, as well as enable us to have vast new insights on our physical and social world. As students work on assignments, lessons and activities linked to this Big Idea, they will gain understanding and practice on how different types of data are gathered and represented, encoded and stored, and what kinds of implications, manipulations and trade-offs are associated with this.
Essential Questions:
1. How can computation be employed to help people process data and information to gain insight and knowledge?
2. How can computation be employed to facilitate exploration and discovery when working with data?
3. What considerations and trade-offs arise in the computational manipulation of data?
4. What opportunities do large data sets provide for solving problems and creating knowledge?
AGENDA
4:30-4:40
Welcome and agenda overview
4:35-4:55
Midterm check-in
What lesson are you using for Part 2?
What is the status of your midterm assignment?
When will you be able to complete it? or if completed: What did you gain from it?
Spend some time finishing your midterm and/or planning Final Lesson.
Get food and chat: Topic of discussion: Data and information Talk to your neighbors about a time or times when you made the conscious choice to relinquish your privacy online in exchange for a needed or desired service, like location tracking or contacts sharing.
Chinese Food!
5:25-6:00
Data and Information Assignment
Activity (5 min)
Debrief Big Idea 3: Data and Information (5 min)
CSP assignment (25 min)
Explore APCSP course offerings and look for lessons that can be used to teach Data & Information Big Idea, as well as identify courses that might be used at your school.
Homework and Next steps 1. Complete Midterm Assignment ( includes lesson plan write-up and short answer quiz) 2. Build your first ( or next) App Inventor App
a. Remix a couple of tutorials, if you'd like, or extend an existing project from the gallery. b. Package and send us APK for next session. An APK file is an actual Android packaged app. Here is how to package your completed app. You can also save an .aia file instead.
