1. What was unusual about the Peter Norvig’s online class at Stanford?
2. What is the relevance of Dartmouth College professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz to our class?
3. The goal of our class is to cover the ___ and ___ needed for success as a student and after graduation as a citizen and a professional.
4. We will cover concepts in three general areas: Internet applications, ___ and ___.
5. Which of these is not true for our assignments?
a. They must be turned in before class begins on the due date.
b. They should be printed on a computer but may be handwritten if time is tight.
c. You must write your name and the assignment number on each assignment.
d. Two or more people can work together on an assignment.
e. None of the above – they are all true.
6. We heard an excerpt from a talk by Cathy Davidson of Duke University, who said failure in school is getting the wrong answer, but failure at work is ___.
QUIZ 1
ReplyDelete1. What was unusual about the Peter Norvig’s online class at Stanford?
-Class on line was free
-One on one tutoring style (one-on-thousands)
-Short videos (2min to 6 min), interactive, and quiz with open ended questions
2. What is the relevance of Dartmouth College professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz to our class?
-Kemeny and Kurtz taught the first ever “computer literacy “ course at Dartmouth in the 1960s.
-The course was intended to be taken by all students, regardless of their major.
-As technology evolved, the course changed, but the goal has remained the same.
-We are now in the Internet era in which computers are communicate with each other, so we have renamed the class “Internet Literacy.”
3. The goal of our class is to cover the _CONCEPTS__and _SKILLS_needed for success as a student and after graduation as a citizen and a professional.
4. We will cover concepts in three general areas: Internet applications, IMPLICATIONS and TECHNOLOGY.
Concepts
Applications
Implications
Technology
5. Which of these is not true for our assignments?
a. They must be turned in before class begins on the due date.
b. They should be printed on a computer but may be handwritten if time is tight.
c. You must write your name and the assignment number on each assignment.
d. Two or more people can work together on an assignment.
e. None of the above – they are all true.
A: b. They should be printed on a computer but may be handwritten if time is tight.
6. We heard an excerpt from a talk by Cathy Davidson of Duke University, who said failure in school is getting the wrong answer, but failure at work is _not knowing how to get the right answer__.
School failure: getting the wrong answer
Work failure: not knowing how to get the right answer