Welcome to Computers and Cognition, Spring 2014!
1. WHY?: The ability to anticipate change in an increasingly volatile world.
Why take this program? Credits? Interest? Something Important?
Bet future on job prospects: How many people does it take to …… ?
What can and cannot be automated? People vs Computers
How will technology affect our society? rich vs poor, stimulation, communication…
2. WHO? Introductions:
a. Me:
Work: HS, Pierce, Saint Martin’s, TESC
Education: Math/Sci, Counseling Psy, Comp Sci
Personal: Family, Travel, Hiking, Outdoors
That stupid camel..
Questions
b. You:
Roll, Personal, Computer background, Future Job
c. Wait list, adding students
3. WHAT? Overview of program
a. Website: blogs.evergreen.edu/candc14
b. Syllabus and Covenant:
*How will I get my credits and good Evaluation?
c. Communications
-email, chat, forums, other
d. To Do list
4. HOW? Class Specifics: Pedagogy
a. Front Loaded: Why?? Don’t get behind!
b. Circular: Know over time. Tests/Credit Competencies
-Why? Lasting change of state, Accountability
c. GOAL: Change
What you know, what you can do, what you believe
Convergent AND Divergent justification
Ability to discuss intelligently with both facts and reason
d. Easier to do what you should when you should: TO DO
e. Books vs Lecture
f. Seminar preparation and Presentation preparation
g. Extend reason to other topics: Chunks and computers +-7
h. Class time: Lecture/Participation vs Lab
i. Why?? Ask
j. Your ideas: Twitter? Facebook? etc..
6. Why is this class important, part 2.
a. Computer Literacy: For all? History
b. About Computers? Cars
c. Using Computers? Phone
d. Practical Reason? Philosophical Reason?
Magic(art) vs magic(science)
e. JOBS: Roseburg Lumber
-what jobs will be more/less in demand in 5/10 years? Brain vs Computer
f. Singularity: Meaning of life and God
7. GROUPS: What do you currently believe about what computers can and cannot do? Discussion Questions
8. What is a Computer? What can it DO?
a. Point: Very simple, very fast, very powerful
-Euclid and Geometry
b. Define Computer: Simple Model: Diagram and Label Paper shredder
Better model: http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/fofc/chr/html/models.html
What is missing??
c. What can it DO? List 6 things
d. What can it understand?? Why Program??
e Programming vs People Languages Line
f. How have (and will) computers change??
g. JOBS??
9. Seminars and Kurzweil Intro/Movie The Singularity
10. The Internet, Part 1: HTML, HTTP, Browser, JavaScript, Server, Internet, WWW, URL, Chrome, IE, ISP, Client, Network
Definition, Cognitive Map, Sentence
11. Running HTML. Personal Website
a. getting your personal webspace
b. GOAL: Personal Website from ‘scratch’ in HTML
http://academic.evergreen.edu/v/vanetta/PersonalWebsite
c. Notepad
d. Copy, Save, Run HTML code
e. Practice
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp
f. Text Website: balance3e.com
12. HTML practice
13. How are computers used?
a. Tools: old tools, new ones
How can tools hinder progress
Why do we avoid using the best tool?
b. Tutor: Will computers revolutionize education?
c. Tutee: Why learn programming?
What can I teach the computer?
Programming Process Model
Are me more than we can say? Poetry?
Evolve programs No IDE
d. Telecommunication:
Between people
Between computers
e. Thinking Machines: Beyond Tools
f. Entertainment: Virtual Reality Concerns??
14. Hardware Vs Software: Limits?
Jordan and Ballerina
Which is the bigger problem?
15. Intro to JavaScript
Javascript examples. jsfiddle.net|
Javascript and notepad
16. Form Letter
17. Input and Output
18. To Do List
19. Work Time