Quest 1
Evolving Technologies
They are apart of our everyday lives, from the moment we wake up the alarm that is going off on your phone is run by a computer. While we can't imagine our lives without computers, it wasn't that long ago that computers were not so common.
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What is is a computer?
Quest 1 Activity 1:
After watching the Computer Basics video, start your key word Geek Speak bank (meta language) in your DigiQuest journal. As a team, record each definition and put it in your own words.
Geek Speak
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Computer
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Hardware
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Software
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Server
Quest 1 Activity 2:
Digital technologies in your everyday life.
Computers are part of our everyday lives, however, as identified in the video above, they do not necessarily look like your typical computer.
In your DigiQuest group, discuss the digital technologies that you have already used today which have computers e.g Smart Phone.
ACTIVITY 2 As a group, list as many of these technologies as possible in your DigiQuest Journal.
As you can see from your lists, computers are all around us. Although it might seem impossible to imagine the world without computers, ​
Let's take a step back
So we now know computers are around us everywhere, it's time to think about how these technologies have changed over time.
Quest 1 Activity 3:
Changes in technology
As a class view the below images and discuss how each piece of technology has changed over time.
Now its your turn in your DigiQuest groups to explore how a piece of technology has changed over time.
ACTIVITY 3: Complete the comparison table in your DigiQuest journal and DESCRIBE how phones have changed over time. Use the images below to help with your description.
DESCRIBE: Give a detailed account or picture of a situation, event, pattern or process.
Let's take a step even further back
Who invented the computer?
The invention of the computer that you know today is not creation of a single inventor. Numerous designers over time have contributed to this revolutionary piece of technology.
One of the earliest inventors Charles Babbage is considered by some as the Father of Computers. His concept came after a desire to mechanise calculations so as to remove human error.
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Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines.
He invented computers but failed to build them. The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in 2002, 153 years after it was designed. Difference Engine No. 2, built faithfully to the original drawings, consists of 8,000 parts, weighs five tons, and measures 11 feet long.
Ada Lovelace
Activity: 4
Mini research task
Find out who Ada Lovelace was, and what she was famous for discovering.
Use the links below to help create your response.
Add to your key words to your Geek Speak dictionary in your DigiQuest journal.
Geek Speak
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Algorithm
FUN FACTS
Could an iPhone fly me to the moon?
With the technology available today, Neil Armstrong and co could have had a much easier ride
Tuesday 09 July 2019 15:12
Did you know your iPhone has more power and memory than the computer that helped land man on the moon?