OBJECTIVES:

I will be able to make a well crafted, reasonable argument in support of the claim that the internet has substantially damaged society during today's class.

I will be able to make a well crafted, reasonable argument in support of the claim that the internet has substantially improved society during today's class.

CALENDAR:

TEST ON FRIDAY - November 8th.

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
• Redundancy (Backups and Many Paths)
• Fault Tolerance - "a system's ability to continue even when one or more of its components fail"
• Digital Divide - refers to the gap between individuals or communities who have access to and can effectively use digital technologies, such as computers and the internet, and those who do not
• Crowd Sourcing - "the practice of obtaining input or information from a large number of people via the Internet."
• Citizen Science - Providing the public the opportunity to take part in data collection and/or analysis
• Distributed Computing (Connect multiple computers together to use to process complex data sets)
• Sequential Computing (instructions are processed one at a time, in order. The next instruction is not started until the current process is completed)
• Parallel Computing (split and run instructions between multiple CPUs on the SAME computer)

WORK O' THE DAY: 

One of our AP Learning Targets states that we must be able to :

"Explain how a computing innovation can have an impact beyond its intended purpose."

 

The AP goes on to say that:

"The World Wide Web was originally intended only for rapid and easy exchange of information within the scientific community"

 

It surprises me that they write that since that statement is inaccurate. It is inaccurate in a technical way but is inaccurate nonetheless. Oddly enough it is inaccurate in a way that they will likely be testing you on.

Please discuss...

Please review our words o' the day (above) -- especially the last few since I have elaborated on those definition.

Take what you feel are your top two arguments for how the internet has had a beneficial impact on society and write them down on strips and place them in the middle of your table (please use a colored pen that matches your color dot!)

Work with your group to sort those by the strength of the argument. Please keep in mind you can (AND SHOULD) be able to agree that an argument is a powerful argument even if you disagree with it.

We are NOT debating the arguments... yet.

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Oh by the by, did you stop to consider what we mean by 'society'? That is kind of a loaded term don't you think?

Why is that?

Why is it important to clarify that term?