LESSON PLAN

Date: 9/2/02

Subject: Computer & Computing Literacy

GOAL/OBJECTIVES

Help the students:

• understand and appreciate the role of computer at home, school, and in the world at large
• To recognize the external and internal components of a computer
• To understand how to use computer to aid them in learning and for making future career choices

MOTIVATION/FOCUS

• To help the students develop computer skills that will make them marketability when they leave school

EXPLANATION

• Use related textbook and samples to give background knowledge
• Create and use computer vocabulary preview to develop proficiency
• Create and use manuals for each level

GUIDED PRACTICE/UNDERSTANDING EVALUATION

• Use structure reading for re-enforcement, in class activities, internet search, and home assignment

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE

• Have each student draw, writes, or do a show-and-tell about computer
• Have students work on team projects (eg book report, newsletter, presentation, database, financial report.
• Have students work on computer work book activities

ASSESSMENT

• In class test
• Vocabulary Check Test
• Observation Assessment/Homework

RE-TEACHING

• Review Topics discussed about computer technology

EXTENSION

• Encourage outside school computer project or activities
• Lesson Enhancement through real life connection: Field trips to major corporations
• Send progress letter home to each parent

CLOSURE/EXPECTED OUTCOME:

End of semester all students should:

• Be able to explain what is a computers and what role they play in our daily lives
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the different features of a desktop PC.
• Be able to demonstrate the ability to operate a computer and use certain features of MS Window independently to use computer aided learning lessons or interactive software.
• Be able to create documents, spreadsheet, database, multimedia presentation using Microsoft Office(WORD, EXCEL, ACCESS, POWERPOINT)
• Be able to save their work and save, open, edit, and print their work

The goal of this manual is to introduce all children (big and small) to Personal Computers and Computing Literacy. The primary focus; however, is to ensure that children learn the fundamental of Computing on the Personal Computer so that they will be have good workplace readiness skills.

What is Computer Literacy? It is the ability to understand how a computer works (that is: the functions of the internal electrical functions and program (operations that direct a computer in the information age).

What is Computing Literacy? It is the ability to use the personal computer as a tool to enrich ones personal and professional life.

Overall, after going through the different topics and course work discussed in this manual, students will have learned:

· About the basic parts that make up the personal computer system and about the operations and concepts related to the various parts
(like: the Computer Tower, Monitor, Mouse, Keyboard, Speakers, Headphones, Microphone, CPU, Memory, and Storage)

· About the Ethical (software piracy), Safety-computer care, computer virus, hacker, cracker, pedophilia, frauds, Human issues (Posture and Disability Access Options)
that are pertinent to the computing

· About using productivity Tools/Computing Software (i.e Microsoft Office)- How to access and use such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, MS Project to compile data and print out information

· About the Internet (The mother of all Network) and Internet Search Engines

• How to use different types of search techniques to gather and extract data.
• How to download documents, pictures, music.
• Also, about E-mail (setting up a free accounts-Parental Consent required)

EXPLORING THE COMPUTER

WHAT IS A COMPUTER?

The brain of the computer is in this tower

A computer is an electronic machine that is programmable (machine that relies on predetermined instructions or commands). A computer is capable of manipulating (moving, arranging, processing, analyzing, or controlling) numbers and data to produce information that human can use.

A Personal Computer (PC) is one type of computer that is designed specifically for a person to use at home, at school, and at work. The computer is multipurpose (has various uses). For instance, people use the PC for various activities.

Example of Some of the Ways in Which People Use the computer

• Typing: letter, poems, books
• Inputting numbers, statistic, and personnel data, business information, accounting /information into databases (eg the library uses the internet to catalog books)
• Sending and receiving email, chatting on the internet, searching websites for information
• Downloading files from the internet, browsing different websites
• Designing building, models, and websites
• Playing music and educational games
• Shopping, banking, buying stocks, etc
  
  

The major parts of a computer are:

· Input equipment (e.g Keybord)

· Output equipment(the Monitor or Video screen)

· Storage (e.g Hardrive, floppy disk, CD-R, Zip Drive)

· Memory: RAM-random access memory the main memory and ROM-Read Only Memory-the information stored on the ROM chips cannot be changed

· CPU (Central Processing Unit), which is considered as the Brain of the computer-The ALU (Arithmethic Logic Unit) and Control Unit

Just like human, Personal Computer is equipped with a brain. However, the computer brain is made up of electronic parts such as transistors and resistors. The human brain on the other hand is made up of gray matter, cell, neuron, etc.

Computer Brain

Human brain

In a way, computers are like babies, they have to be instructed. However, never make the mistake to think hat computers are more intelligent than human, for they are not. When you close off a computer it is nothing more that metals and hard plastic.

THE INTERNAL VIEW

• POWER SOURCE
• BRAIN (Man set up a brain for the computer. The computer would not work if is does have a brain (Central Processing Unit) to tell it want work it wants it to do. Okay, now that we agree that it needs a "brain" or "calculator" to get busy, we can show you what a computer brain looks like. These two are made CPU manufacturer AMD and INTEL respectively.

F AMD 2600+
(actual clock speed 2.13GHz Intel 2.53GHz P4

WHAT IS THE JOB OF THE CPU?

Sure the CPU (the computer’s brain) is not here for its good looks!

So what type of work does the computer’s brain do? It is the:

1. Central or main or place for processing data (Data is raw or unedited facts and figures) and turn it into information (documents that is edited, summarized, easy to read, and usable).
2. Process or work data by calculating, analyzing, manipulating, and moving around data. Also it instructs the other components to do their own work
3. Unit-unites or house hundreds of the baby transistors (like bundles nerve cells) that make up it brain. These are all neatly package in the CPU case (like a little black box)

Oops! I forget to tell you that not all CPU are equal, just like human some are fast some slow, some new some old, some just ancient?

Well, ever so often as computer scientists/engineers working for companies like Intel, IBM, Cyrix, AMD figure out how to make a better or more competitive CPU, they give their brand of CPU a new name, like Pentium I, Pentium, II Pentium III, AMD, K7 Athlon, AMD K6-3 before marketing or selling it.

SOCIAL, ETHICAL, and PERSONAL ISSUES

COMMON SENSE SAFETY TIPS FOR SMALL and BIG KIDS TOO

• WHAT ABOUT COMPUTER SECURITY (DOCUMENTS and PERSONAL INFORMATION PRIVACY) (HOW SAFE ARE WE ON LINE? WHAT ARE COOKIES ?
• COMPUTER PRIVACY AND (CRACKERS, HACKERS, PEDOPHILES, VIRUS)
• COMPUTER SAFETY FOR KIDS (CYBER COPS)

QUESTIONS

If are allowed to go online and you happen to be in a chat-room, and some stranger who seems nice as you for your name and address should you give out that information?

Absolutely not! What Can Happen: Computer Crooks can:

· Steal Your Online Banking information, your credit card and personal Information

· Get into your E-Mail!

· Destroy your information with computer Virus or Worm (Deleting files and/or computer memory)

What about sending your picture to someone you met online?

Absolutely not!

What about this, you on a company’s website, they say that you’ve won a contest, so they need your name, social security number, birth date, and address, would you give out such info?

Absolutely not!

If you are in a chatroom and someone say something mean or nasty, should you respond.

No, you should never respond to any messages, comments, jesters that are mean or makes you feel uncomfortable or upset. Remember, it is not your fault if you some demon possessed individual send across a message like that.  The best thing to do is to tell an adult right away.

Kids, iIf your parents and you established certain rules about going on the internet (let’s say you must only use the internet when there is an adult to supervise you.

Children, listen up, if a legitimate company wants to collect information from you, whether you won a contest yes or no, that company must first get your parents permission to get all the personal information they are asking you for. Do not fill out any forms, do not answer any question. As a matter of fact, stay away from online contest because it is one way for companies or individual (cracker, hackers) to put cookies (secret information collectors) to steal off your computer information. So while you are fooling around with their contest nonsense, they are ripping you and your parent off.

Do the right thing close out of that window (screen). Doing so would protects your safety, and also your privacy too.   If you still don’t get it kid, go ask your parents about the importance of protecting your privacy and theirs also.

WHAT ABOUT USER’S PERSONAL HEALTH?

· POSTURE (MONITOR SHOULD BE POSITIONED 2-3 FT AWAY FROM USER)

· CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME (INFLAMED LIGAMENTS THAT PRESS ON A NERVE IN THE WRIST WHERE THE CARPAL BONES ARE)

· COMPUTER ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE HANDICAPPED

Copy and Paste information to WordPad or Notepad

How to Copy Information

After your have found the information your want on the internet, you to must select it so that you can put it in the document you are about to create.

How To Select the Information You Want from the Web Page

1. On the web page, go to the first letter of the content of the information you want and click

2. Next, hold down your shift-key and scroll down to the end of the information-Click on your mouse once.
Note: What you just did is you have taken a copy of the document and it is store in the computer RAM in an area referred to as the Clipboard

How to Paste Information

Now Go to Your Word Processor or the APPLICATION (End User Software or Program) you are using.

In this case, we will use WORDPAD

To open Notepad or WordPad:

1. Click Start, then All Programs (for XP) or Program, point to Accessories-look at the submenu under accessories, find Wordpad, click it to open a blank page

2. Click on the blank page to setup or position your cursor to insert your information.

3. Now go to the Menu Option Tool Bar and click on FILE, then select Edit-then select Paste

How To Print Your Document

On the File menu, click Print. Make sure that the correct printer you are going to send the information to for printing is highlighted, it is not under Select Printer.

To print a test page from Notepad or WordPad

To open Notepad, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Notepad.

–or–
To open WordPad, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click WordPad.

Type a few lines of text.

On the File menu, click Print. Make sure that the correct printer is highlighted under Select Printer.

How To protect your files by using a Screen Saver password

1. Open Display in Control Panel.

2. On the Screen Saver tab under Screen saver, click a screen saver.

3. Select the On resume, password protect check box.

If Fast User Switching is turned on, select the On resume, display Welcome screen check box.

• To open Display, click Start, click Control Panel, click Appearance and Themes, and then click Display.
• Selecting the On Resume, password protect check box will lock your computer when the screen saver is activated. When you begin working again you will be prompted to type your password to unlock it.
• Your screen saver password is the same as your logon password. If you do not use a password to log on, you cannot set a screen saver password.