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Practice good posture every time you use a digital device.

Early digital systems? The first digital systems only had one or two basic functions. They didn't even save data. A computer by itself has little purpose. The addition of the keyboard and mouse enabled greater use and purpose. These extra connections were called "input" devices as they allowed humans to put data into the computer and to move around easier.
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Teacher Directed Learning.
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Student Assisted/Guided Learning.
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Independent Student Learning.
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Data and information? Humans invented digital systems to be useful and functional. Like any tool, when you or I use a digital system we create data or information. Data and information can take many forms. It might be sound data for enjoying music. It could be video data. It might be image data for photos and so on.
As a class create a list of all the different types of data that we create in our daily lives. Can you match occupations with types of data? For example a film studio uses lots of sound and video data.
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Teacher Directed Learning.
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Student Assisted/Guided Learning.
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Independent Student Learning.
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Creating Digital Solutions. Solving problems can be lots of fun and very rewarding. It gives us a real sense of achievement. Solving problems requires us to think in steps.
Step 1: Ask questions to understand the problem
Step 2: Imagine possible solutions
Step 3: Create or make
Step 4: Improve through testing.
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Teacher Directed Learning.
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Student Assisted/Guided Learning.
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Independent Student Learning
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Problem Solving Skills: Think like an engineer
Video: Think like and Engineer
Play Fuzz Bugs Patterns
By the end of Level C, students explore alternative digital systems to meet a purpose.
- Students collect and sort different data and identify patterns in data through matching. With assistance, they use digital systems to display findings with pictures and symbols.
- Students represent a sequence of steps that could be followed to solve a simple problem.