Tecnology 2016

February 2 /2016

Today we did a practice on excel about formulas to find the volume and area of different geometric shapes.

 

Practice

 

February 9/2016

Today we did a practice about the sum.if function in excel.

Practice


FORMULAS FOR GEOMETRIC SHAPES 8A.xlsx (10196)

15/03/2016

BrainsBashers: network

12/04/2015

2nd Term

Problems for the invention of technology devices:

1) Cellphone:

-Created by: Martin Cooper.

-Created to: solve the race to create truly portable telephone devices began after World War II, and the problem of communication in the early 1910 when it was nearly impossible to communicate with someone if that person wasn't at their house.
-Main Problem:The first ones supported few simultaneous calls, they were very expensive and heavy.

-Main Solution: They reduced the size wich was unpracticall and wasn't spreading on a public matter yet. They also made longer lasting batteries and made them more affordable.

2) telephone:

-Created by: Charles Borseul, Antonio Meucci, Johann Phillip Reis, Alexander Grahamm Bell, and Elisha Grey.

-Created to: Shorten distances between people who are far away from each other and making it fast and easy.

-Main Problem: People had to shout to overcome noise and there was a time lapse in the transmission wich resulted in incoherent conversations.

-Main solution: by changing the design multiple times, the problems were resolved. The phone underwent changes like a moveable listening earpiece and a stationary speaking tube wich improved the design  of the original telephone.

3)Computer:

-Created by: Many people were involved in the development of the computer, for example, Charles Babbage, Konrad Zuse and Henry Edward Roberts.

-Created to: solve logicl and mathematical problems instantly.

-Main problems: compared to the computers we have now, the memory of the first computers was very unreliable due to the lack of semiconductors, instead, they used very expensive systems based on the use of magnetic core arrays and telephone exchange, which made the bigger and slower.

-Solution: with the invention of semiconductors, after centuries of investigation, the early computers became smaller, faster and easier to operate.

4) Radio:

-Created by: Many people were involved in its creation, including: Hans Christian Ørsted, André-Marie Ampère, Joseph Henry, Michael Fraday , James Clerk Maxwell,  Guglielmo Marconi and Nikola Tesla.

-Created to: Create a wireless communication system.

-Main Problems: The first Radio had a static problem that couldn't be eliminated. At the time, radio was transmitted via amplitude modulation (AM).

Solution: Edwin Armstrong invented the frequency modulation radio (FM). Due to this, transmissions had great quality and the static disappeared.

 

5) GPS:

-Created by: Roger L.Easton, Ivan A.Getting and Bradford Parkinson

-Created for: Millitary and intelligence applications during the cold war. It was inspired by the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik.

-Main Problems: The US military, fearing that the GPS could be used against them, decided to deliberately decrease the accuracy if the system in 1990.

-Solution: In 2000 and after the gulf war, the US military decided to end the purposeful degradation of GPS. The accuracy improved overnight and all kinds of companies started to use it.

 

6) TV:

-Created by: TV was the result of the work of many people during the 19th and 20th centuries. The most influential were: Paul Nipkow, Charles Jenkins, John Logie Baird, Allan A. Campbell-Swinton and Philo Farnsworth.

-Created to: Make profit and change the world through visual and audio communication technology.

-Main problem: Many people worked on the design of the first TV, but the main problem during its creation was that the image had bad definition and in some early designs, moving image wasn't possible.

-Solution: John Logie Baird used the Nipkow disk in one of his designs and transmitted image and movement through radio waves. This system managed to produce an image of a face and in 1932 the system had reached a peak of 240 lines of resolution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scratch: Videogame

Link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/108045975/
 
 

31/05/2016

How to improve a device used for communication

 

Radio:

One  of the biggest problems of the radio is the interference created by the nearby transmitters and the signal that they produce. This decrease the quaity of theaudio and, sometimes, it completely stops the reception of the radio waves.
To erradicte the interference, the other transmitters must be located between 10 and 15 ft  away from the radio.
another way to avoid interference is by the construction and  design of radios using materials that are more resistant than the ones that are used nowadays, for example, we need to avoid the use of cables that can be easily corroded and damaged.
It's also necessary that every radio is built with the proper protection against interference, something that's not common in the production process that we have now.
Done with: Ana Sofia  Tavera and  Daniela Vargas

Third period

-¿Usa el conocimiento tecnológico para facilitar una actuación efectiva sobre los productos novedosos?
-¿Cómo se solucionan problemas a través de el uso de algoritmos?

Desempeños:

-identifica las instrucciones para el rediseño de un proceso TIC.
-Reconoce la fundamentación teórica parar programar procesps tecnológicos por medio de una aplicación informática,
-Reconoce los principios básicos de la robótica.
-identifica los elementos básicos para elaborar un proyecto de reciclaje.
 

12/07/2016

Chain reaction

Definition: a series of events in which each event causes the next one.
 

Domino effect

Definition: a situation of cumulative effects produced when one event initiates a succession of similar events.
Note1: the speed increases with the advance of events.
 

Butterfly effect

Definition: is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change can have a huge effect.
 
" It has beeen said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world"
-Chaos theory
 
 
 

19/07/2016

Computer programming

 

Definitions:

1) Computer language: a computer language is a language used to give instructions to a computer to create software.

2)Algorithm: an algorithm is a logic sequence of actions to complete a task.

3)Library: is a set of codes and commands to complete certain instructions.

4) Cycle:is a repetition of instructions or actions the computer must do.

5) Loop: is an infinite cycle.

6)Variable: is a different type of data used by the program.

Examples:

1) #include: the library

using namespace std; : cout<<, cin>>

int main ()

{

int num,num2,result;

cout<<"please give me a number:";

cin>>num;

cout<<"please give me the second number:"

cin>>num2;

result=num+num2

cout<

 

 

26/07/2016

First programing activity

cpp.sh/4xz4

 

02/08/2016

Second programing activity

cpp.sh/6k3b4

 

09/08/2016

Third programing activity (estrategias de apoyo)

cpp.sh/7dwf6

20/09/2016

Cuarto periodo

 

Pregunta Problema: 

¿Cómo involucrar las animaciones en el currículo como instrumento de enseñanza-aprendizaje?

¿Cómo aplico las herramientas avanzadas de excel en la sistematización de dependencias?

 

Desempeños:

-Reconoce la interfaz de Powtoon.
-Reconoce la interfaz de Excel.
-Identifica las herramientas para la creación de animaciones.
-Identifica las herrmanientas de Excel para la sistematización de dependencias.