What will the computers of the future be like?

How will computers develop in the future?  
What will they be like?
What will they do for us?
What will we use them for?
Will they replace human beings in some jobs?

These are the sorts of questions I'd like you to try and find answers to.  Search for "What is the future for computers".  

Look at the information available and choose an area you are interested in, eg computers in science, in multimedia, in business, at home, supercomputers, etc.

Create a slideshow with information and images about your chosen area. I know nothing about this so I'd like to be informed.  Try and answer at least 4 of the questions at the top of this post.

As well as this, try and answer all questions, plus check spellings and animate your slideshow.

Do all of the above, but try and include answers to questions I haven't asked and add slide transitions.  Include more than one area of interest if you have time.

Don't forget to share your slideshow correctly - Share - Advanced - change from Private to Anyone with the link.  Copy/paste the link to a new blog post titeld the same as this one.

Publish!!!

History of Computers - Lesson 3 - Alan Turing

Your tasks for this lesson:

1.  Go to Learning Computing website - Year 7 - History of Computers - Lesson 3.  Click on Activity 2 Prezi link to see info on Alan Turing.

2.  Open a new Google slide presentation and create a slideshow about Alan Turing.  I need the following information:
a) His dates of birth and death
b) What was the problem that needed solving?
c) What did he do and why?
d) How did what he did help to speed up the end of the war?

3.  Add images and animations & slide transitions to your presentation.

4.  Share your presentation - click Advanced - Change from Private to Anyone with the link & copy/paste link to a new blog post called Alan Turing.

Publish!!

Modelling- Lesson 5 onwards

Modelling - Lesson 5 onwards

Your tasks!

1.  Open the presentation on Modelling - Lesson 5.

2.  Do Task 1 directly on a new blog post titled the same as this one.

3.  For Task 2, input the data into a Google sheet and use formula to calculate the profit for each month. HINT: profit = money made - money spent.

4.  Share the spreadsheet to Anyone with the Link and copy/paste the link to your post under your Task 1 notes.

5.  Add conditional formatting to your spreadsheet according to Task 3.

6.  Task 4 work is done on your spreadsheet.

7.  Task 5 work is to be written on your post under the spreadsheet link.

Check slide 7 to see where the marks are given for this work.
Publish this work at the end of your last lesson!

Modelling Lesson 4 - Spreadsheets

Modelling Lesson 4 - spreadsheets

Your tasks for this lesson!

Watch the video on how to use Google sheets in the Starter on this lesson.

Click on this link to open a Google sheet with 7 tasks.

You must make a copy before you can use it!

You may need to keep going back to the video to remind yourself how to do some of the tasks

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D7Ul2qStsJgZbxk8CJwwQA9hgRzJ1o4-1rioIm8WoIk/edit?usp=sharing

When you have completed the tasks on the spreadsheet, share it correctly and copy/paste the link to your Blog post for this lesson, titled the same as this post.

Publish!

Modelling - Lesson 3

Modelling - lesson 3

Your tasks for this lesson!

1.  Go to Learning Computing - Modelling - Lesson 3 and run the lemonade Business Game from the link in Activity 1.

2.  Note the weather before you start to buy your stock and then run your simulation.

3.  Print screen your report and paste it to a Google doc.  Write a sentence about your business that day, relating it to the weather and amount of stock you bought.

4.  When I tell you, you will need to either write a definition of the 2 new words: variable and rule on the Google doc or on your Blog post direct.

5.  Share your Google doc correctly (Anyone with the Link) and paste the link to your Blog post for today. 

6.  Title your Blog post the same as this one and click Publish!

Modelling - lesson 2

Modelling - Lesson 2

Your tasks for this lesson:

1.  Follow the instructions for the Starter activity and write your list on a new Blog post for this lesson, titled the same as this one.  

2.  Complete Activity 1 - using Prezi. You will need to create a free public account first - make sure you use your school email! 
At least one group of people who use computer models
At least 2 groups of people who use computer models

At least 3 groups of people who use computer models

3.  Share your Prezi by getting the relevant link and copy/pasting it onto your Blog post.

4.  Publish!

Modelling - lesson 1

Modelling - lesson 1

Your tasks for the lesson!

1.  Work through Activity 1 and Activity 2 tasks. Use Google drawing for Activity 1 as it's quicker!

2.  On a new Blog post for today, titled the same as this, write the following (or put it on a correctly shared and linked Google doc):

Explain what a computer model is.

Give some examples of where they are used.

Add in a screenshot of your Popplet or share and link your Google drawing mind map.

Add in a screenshot of your work using the flight simulation (either directly on your blog post or on a shared & linked Google doc).

Evaluate the flight simulation (good and bad features, how realistic it was, how easy to fly, etc) and say whether you think it has prepared you for flying a real plane.

I have made these tasks coloured so that they link in with gold, silver and bronze so you can see which are the most challenging tasks.  Challenge yourself!

Publish your post when you have finished!

Problem Solving and computers

Your Blog work for this lesson

Computers were invented when there was a problem that humans needed to solve - think about why Stonehenge was built, why Charles Babbage built his Difference engine, why Alan Turing built his 'Colossus' computer.

1.  On a new Blog post, titled the same as this post, explain, in your own words why computers are invented and give details of one of the examples I've given above.

2.  Go to the website below and then follow the instructions on this post, written under the link

http://www.brainboxx.co.uk/A4_RESOURCE/pages/PUZZLEBOXX/Puzzles/MENU.htm

Here is the list of problems from this webpage that I want you to work through. 

Read through these problems in turn. Choose one from the list below, write the title of it on your blog post for today's lesson and, underneath the title, describe how you would sort out/solve the problem.  You can draw the answer in Google Drawing if it's easy but remember to share correctly and paste the link to your post.

When you've done one, choose another from the list and repeat the process. Make sure you do one of each type; visual, lateral and logical

I am happy for you to share ideas with the person next to you but you must each write up your own Blog post

List of problems to work out (you may not get through all of them in the lesson)

Visual - On the lawn

Lateral - Lift off

Logical - Car wash

Lateral - Half full or half empty

Visual - Pig pen

Logical - Socks

Lateral - A moment in time

Visual - Upside down

Logical - Paper thin

I shall be interested in your answers as I haven't worked out some of them for myself yet!

Remember to make sure it's detailed enough for me to understand! And don't forget to Publish your post before the lesson ends!

Building a computer - lesson 5 parts of a computer written tasks

Here is the link to the Google doc which had all the written work for you to do on your blog for this lesson...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xlhW0lugSbGNnJ0TK7bHviyMc744rOoAtk8JcAtOCl4/edit?usp=sharing

Don't forget to revise for the test on this unit next lesson!