OBJECTIVES: I will work with my team to evaluate the current prevailance of the 'Digital Divide' in the State of Washington.

CALENDAR:

WORDS FOR TODAY:

I STRONGLY URGE YOU TO START A DECK OF FLASH CARDS HERE

• abstraction (a layer between hardware/software hidden to the user)
• innovation: "A new or improved idea, device, product, etc
• prototype: "A proof of concept"
• bandwidth: Transmission capacity measure by bit rate
• latency: Time it takes for a bit to travel from its sender to its receiver.
• protocol: A set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices
• router: "Traffic Cop"
• packets: Discreet blocks of internet traffic sent between computers & servers as directed by routers.
• Port - one of 64,000 'doors' available to access your computer from the outside world
• Server - A computer designed to process specific data requests from users
• TCP - Transfer Control Protocol - Provides connection information to a specific port on a specific server on the interweb
• IP - Internet Protocol - Provides Name/Address information to a specific server on the interweb
• HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
• Root Servers (Manage the DNS system)
• DNS - Domain Name System -- The service that translates URLs to IP addresses
• REDUNDUNCY (Backups and Many Paths)
• Redunduncy (Backups and Many Paths)
• Fault Tolerance

WORK O' THE DAY: 

Doing research online can be a bit 'hit or miss' at times if we simply go to Google and type a word or phrase.

Similarly, going to chatGPT and typing in a question can (and DOES!) result in a very convincing argument which may or may not be accurate or most likely have aspects of accuracy sprinkled among inaccuracies-- which don't help so much.

Let's have the folks designated by the color ORANGE lead a conversation on how to use "Google Advanced".

In this exercise, only the pdbtc ORANGE can initiate conversation.

That person can make a statement, have the group go to a specific site online or ask a specific person in the group for their thoughts.

The pdbtc ORANGE may NOT simply ask the group "So, What do you think?"

With those guidelines in place, please do an initial round of research using Google Advanced to explore the prevailance of the Digital Divide in Washington State at the current time.

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How might you go about finding research to see how severe that problem is in our State?

→all of these words: "state of Washington"

this exact word or phrase: "digital dive"

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Please take a gander at THIS. There is a graphic there but I have issues with it, what are my issues? Please discuss.

 

 

I did a search on the author/title of that graphic and I found the updated version (below). Does it matter?

Take notes and be prepared to share your understanding of the Digital Divide