Unit 4. Data Acquisition
Revision Date: Jan 04, 2020 (Version 3.0)This is the third of three lessons where students will research a computing innovation.
This lesson will focus on:
Identification of the data used by a computing innovation
Explain how the data is consumed, produced, or transformed.
Students must understand how to identify data used in a computing innovation and explain how the data is consumed, produced, or transformed.
Today students will select and research a computing innovation in preparation for a written report about the innovation.
This lesson will focus on:
Identify the data used in a computing innovation
Explain how the data is consumed, produced, or transformed.
Say: To complete this project students will have to find a somewhat detailed explanation of how the innovation works or more specifically how it consumes, produces or transforms the data it uses. In this activity, students are to iterative select and research computing innovations until they identify one that is of interest to them and that they can obtain a description of the data it uses and the way in which the data is consumed, produced, or transformed.
When students have identified a topic with adequate references available they are to identify the topic for you, describe the data the computing innovation uses and provide at least one reference for how the data is used.
Working in pairs, students are to propose and do preliminary research for a report:
Students are to
Describe the computing innovation they are researching
Describe the data the computing innovation uses both in the sense of the information the innovation needs and the data the comprises that information.
Prepare an outline of their report.
When students finish their descriptions and their outline - and submit them for initial review - they should continue their research and begin individually writing their reports.
Reports should be returned to students in pairs.
Teacher feedback is focused on the computing innovation and data the computing innovation is using.
Students read and assess the feedback, and as needed ask questions about the responses.
Activity 2
Before resuming their reports ask students to share any resources they found useful in identifying how their innovation uses data.
Students resume researching and writing their reports.
Wrap up
When the report is finished it should individually be submitted for assessment.
Think-pair-share:
Ask students to respond to these two questions.
Do you think the use of the computing innovation you researched differs from the way its developers originally intended?
Is it possible for the developers of a computing innovation to think of every possible future use of the innovation they created?
How can the rapid sharing of a program or running a program with a large number of users result in significant impacts beyond the intended purpose of the programmer?
Written projects in preliminary form. Verify that students are describing the innovatinand have identified the nformation the innovation is using.
Written projects in final form. Check that students have explained how the data the information is processed. They should explain what te computer in the computing innovation is doing with the data they identified.