5/12 - 5-20 Robot Project

Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and capture it in citelighter, then paraphrase it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: Dirty, Dull, and Dangerous

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• Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words. 
• Use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.   
• Copy and paste the link to the specific Question of the Day? 
  
• Include an Inline Link to Websites.

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(Project is worth 50% of the marking period grade)
Project Due: Friday May 20, 2016

Exemplary Project
Read:Project Directions

Question of the Day:  

1. What will we do if Robots do everything? Write your Introduction.
2. Can Robots improve your life?  List 3 positives.
1. They will do the dirty, dull and dangerous jobs.
2. They will help us make a safer world.
3. They will give us more time to do what we want.
3. Will Robots replace humans?  List 3 negatives.
1. They will take our jobs.
2. They will take away our privacy.
3. We will become dependent on them.
4. How will robots effect our future?  Write your conclusion.

Include your resources.

1. Complete the Comic Life Tutorial.  
2. Download and Start your Project.
3. Make a list of 3 negative of Robots.  Cite your sources.
4. Include images and also post to your Blog.
5. Upload Project to your Blog
1. Export your Comic Life
1. File / Export / Export to Images
2. Format PNG / Resolution 72dpi
2. Sign into Kidblog / New Post
1. Upload / My Computer (Drag or Choose Image files 1 at a time)
2. Insert each Image (make sure the order is correct)
3. Title and publish your post 

• Name:
  Robot Rubric	Possible Points	Earned Points
  Included 4 Images, Your Image, and an Internet Image	6
  Included Balloons, Captions, and Lettering	6
  Modify Images	6
  Images enhance the project	6
  Develop a clear topic or central idea	6
  Support ideas with details, explanations, and examples	6
  Put your ideas in the order that best communicates what you are trying to say	10
  Clearly describes 3 positive effect and benefits on society	10
  Clearly describes 3 negative effect and fears on society	10
  Clearly identifies a possible solution	10
  Includes research and sites from least 2 sources	6
  Export Comic Life to Images	6
  Upload to your blog	6
  Turn in your (.pdf) in Engrade	6

Daily Objectives:  Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.

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Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and capture it in citelighter, then paraphrase it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: Karel

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• Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words. 
• Use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.   
• Copy and paste the link to the specific Question of the Day? 
  
• Include an Inline Link to Websites.

Click here to join CodeHS:  codehs.com/go/21DC

Question of the Day: 
Sign up for CodeHS
Click on Introduction to Programming
Start with Lesson 1 Introduction to Programming with Karel
Watch the CodeHS Video then complete the lessons. 

Next time click Introduction to Programming and Resume 
Complete all 16 lessons

Code Combat PDF http://files.codecombat.com/teacherguides/CodeCombat_TeacherGuide_intro_python.pdf
Daily Objectives:  Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.

What Role Will Robots Play in Our Future?

Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and capture it in citelighter, then paraphrase it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: therapeutic robot

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• Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words. 
• Use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.   
• Copy and paste the link to the specific Question of the Day? 
  
• Include an Inline Link to Websites.

Watch: Robot and Frank

View my Flipboard Magazine.

Read: "What Role Will Robots Play in Our Future?"
“Disruptions: Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care for the Aging,”

"Robot helpers are on the rise"

Write 3 paragraphs(200 Words or More) and include an image

Question of the Day: Do you imagine a future where robots are ubiquitous, the way TVs and computers are now? Will robots work in our factories, fight in our wars, teach our children and care for our elderly? Or is that just science fiction?

What role will robots play in the future?

• What role will robots play in our future? Will robots be in every home, the way we now have TVs and computers? Will they work in our factories, fight in our wars, teach our children and care for our elderly?
• Do you interact with any robots in your life already?
• Do you think robots will bring more benefits or downsides? Why?
• Will robots of the future have human qualities, like a sense of touch, the ability to learn, feelings and emotions?
• Are there certain tasks or roles that we should not let robots do — that would be unethical or irresponsible on our part?
• Do you think robots should be designed to care for the elderly, as described in the article?
• Include the Biblography: 

GONCHAR, MICHAEL. "What Role Will Robots Play in Our Future?." Student Opinion | What Role Will Robots Play in Our Future? - NYTimes.com. n.p., n.d. Web. 12 March 2014. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/what-role-will-robots-play-in-our-future/?_php=tru….

 
Use citelighter to include your sources.
  More Resources: Robotics Online 
Setting the Safety Standard for Cage-Free Robots
The Effect of Presence on Human-Robot ... - Wilma Bainbridge
Robots to Create More Than a Million Jobs by 2016
The influence of robots on the human society - RUDAR
Effects And Impact Of Military Robots
Will robots ever be just like people? 
Robot's Effect on Society
A Study of Human–Robot Interaction in a Collaborative Task
Impacts of human robots for the current and future generations
effects and impact Of human service robots
Robots Are Not Killing Jobs, Says a Roboticist

Daily Objectives: 

• Using the World Wide Web and a blog, students will describe similarities and differences, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 80% on writing rubric.
• Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.
• Given a variety of multimedia texts and videos, students will analyze online issues and tecnological effects, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 80% on writing rubric.
• Students will watch videos and complete an assessment with 80% or better.

Daily Objectives:  Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.

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Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and capture it in citelighter, then paraphrase it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: Karel

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• Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words. 
• Use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.   
• Copy and paste the link to the specific Question of the Day? 
  
• Include an Inline Link to Websites.

Click here to join CodeHS:  codehs.com/go/21DC

Question of the Day: 
Sign up for CodeHS
Click on Introduction to Programming
Start with Lesson 1 Introduction to Programming with Karel
Watch the CodeHS Video then complete the lessons. 

Next time click Introduction to Programming and Resume 
Complete all 16 lessons

Daily Objectives:  Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.

5/5 4 Do Machines Represent a Threat to Humans?

Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and capture it in citelighter, then paraphrase it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: Artificial intelligence

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• Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words. 
• Use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.   
• Copy and paste the link to the specific Question of the Day? 
  
• Include an Inline Link to Websites.

Read: Do Machines Represent a Threat to Humans?   

“The Machines Are Coming”

Question of the Day: After reading the entire article, write a paragraph on your blog in which you answer the question.  

• Ms. Tufekci writes: “It’s easy to imagine an alternate future where advanced machine capabilities are used to empower more of us, rather than control most of us. There will potentially be more time, resources and freedom to share, but only if we change how we do things. We don’t need to reject or blame technology. This problem is not us versus the machines, but between us, as humans, and how we value one another.” 
• Do you agree with her assessment? Is the problem not us versus machines, but rather how people value one another? Why?  

Support your position with evidence from the text and videos.

View my Flipboard Magazine.

Robots Take Jobs 

Robot Threats

Robots vs. Humans

Daily Objectives:  Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.

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Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and capture it in citelighter, then paraphrase it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: Karel

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• Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words. 
• Use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.   
• Copy and paste the link to the specific Question of the Day? 
  
• Include an Inline Link to Websites.

Click here to join CodeHS:  codehs.com/go/21DC

Question of the Day: 
Sign up for CodeHS
Click on Introduction to Programming
Start with Lesson 1 Introduction to Programming with Karel
Watch the CodeHS Video then complete the lessons. 

Next time click Introduction to Programming and Resume 
Complete all 16 lessons

Daily Objectives:  Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.

5/4 3 Threat to Humans?

Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and capture it in citelighter, then paraphrase it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: Algorithmic competency

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• Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words. 
• Use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.   
• Copy and paste the link to the specific Question of the Day? 
  
• Include an Inline Link to Websites.

Take the survey http://dl.njtrax.org/131210

Survey Code: Mockingbird518 

Read: Do Machines Represent a Threat to Humans?

“The Machines Are Coming”

Question of the Day: After reading the entire article, write a paragraph on your blog in which you answer the question.  

• Are you more concerned with the threat that computers present as competitors for jobs? Or with the threat that Ms. Tufekci describes, that machines more and more shift the balance of power away from workers and in favor of employers? 
  

Support your position with evidence from the text and videos.
View my Flipboard Magazine.

Daily Objectives:  Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.

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Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and capture it in citelighter, then paraphrase it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: Karel

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• Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words. 
• Use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.   
• Copy and paste the link to the specific Question of the Day? 
  
• Include an Inline Link to Websites.

Click here to join CodeHS:  codehs.com/go/21DC

Question of the Day: 
Sign up for CodeHS
Click on Introduction to Programming
Start with Lesson 1 Introduction to Programming with Karel
Watch the CodeHS Video then complete the lessons. 

Next time click Introduction to Programming and Resume 
Complete all 16 lessons

Daily Objectives:  Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.

5/3 2 Threat to Humans?

Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and capture it in citelighter, then paraphrase it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: Automated

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• Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words.
• Use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.   
• Copy and paste the link to the specific Question of the Day? 
  
• Include an Inline Link to Websites. 

Read: Do Machines Represent a Threat to Humans?

“The Machines Are Coming”

Question of the Day: After reading the entire article, write a paragraph on your blog in which you answer the question.

• Do you agree with Dr. Hawking that artificial intelligence may one day equip computers with the tools to outsmart humans? And that this possibility presents a grave danger to humankind? 

Support your position with evidence from the text and videos.

View my Flipboard Magazine.

Robots Take Jobs 

Robot Threats

Robots vs. Humans

Daily Objectives:  Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.

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Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and capture it in citelighter, then paraphrase it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: Karel

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• Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words. 
• Use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.   
• Copy and paste the link to the specific Question of the Day? 
  
• Include an Inline Link to Websites.

Click here to join CodeHS:  codehs.com/go/21DC

Question of the Day: 
Sign up for CodeHS
Click on Introduction to Programming
Start with Lesson 1 Introduction to Programming with Karel
Watch the CodeHS Video then complete the lessons. 

Next time click Introduction to Programming and Resume 
Complete all 16 lessons

Daily Objectives:  Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.