First Quarter Look Back

What is your impression of the first 9-weeks of high school?  
That high school is easier than I thought and that studying is a major key to success.
What has been difficult about the transition from middle school?
Middle school is not much different from high school but my biggest problem is how spread out the school is I still don't know where a lot of things are.
What has been easy about the transition?
Classes are about the same in level of difficulty.
What have you learned about yourself?
That I don't study enough and I could do better than I do.

ID Theft Face Off

1. If someone has stolen your financial information, it's best to immediately contact your credit card companies and close your accounts
2. If someone has stolen your social security number you can place it on the initial fraud alert by calling consumer reporting companies.
3. Three nationwide consumer reporting companies are Equinox, Experian, and Transunion
4. Don't use personal information for passwords like your mother's maiden name or social security number
5. The Fair credit Reporting Act allows you to ask and receive one credit report from each of the three nationwide credit reporting companies every year.
6. If bills stop coming it may be a sign someone is still stealing your identity.

Trends and Factors

• What 3 trends do you see in computer evolution? AND Why? Computers will become smarter than humans because they already have all the info they just need something to speak the info. Computers will be 3D because they already have 3D TV and soon computers will be too. Computers will be more affordable because they will find cheaper materials to make the computers with.
• Name 3 factors that drive technological innovation? Money, Information, Resources available

True or False

• The first computer programmer was a woman. True, Ada Lovelace was her name
• First computer was built in 1975. False, it was 1910
• Apple made the world first user friendly PC. True
• Binary are counted by twos. False, 0 and 1 are Bianry
• Notebook computer is the same as a laptop. True
• Computers come in three sizes: Desktop, Notebook, Tablet. False, mobile and super computers
• All PCs use windows operating system. False, there are many other like Linux
• People with a lot of data often own their own main frame computer. False
• Most modern super computers are made up of clusters of computers. True

Anticipation Guide

Agree/Disagree

Question: As long as I can check my email and surf the web I am computer literate.

Disagree
Question: All computer Systems are basically alike on the inside.                                    

Disagree
Question: Peer to peer networks are a great way to share files.                                          

Agree
Question: Open source software is the wave of the future. Soon it wont matter what kind of machine a person has because everything will be open source and easily translatable from one operating system to a another.                                                                                     

Disagree
Question: Although computer programmers should focus on learning the latest programming languages older program languages like C are still important to learn.        

Agree
Question: Unrestricted access to technology is a fundamental human right.                     

Disagree
Question: If I get a job in the computer industry I'll never have to worry about unemployment. 
Disagree