Technology:The Key to the Future

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Technology The Key to the Future

• Seeing the forest through the trees
• Applications/Literacy
• Computer Science
• ECS/Tech Prep
• The Web/Internet

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Technology The Key to the Future

• Primary Objective
• To develop concepts related to the subject area.
• Secondary Objective
• To develop learning activities that gravitate
  toward the center of the model.

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Technology The Key to the Future

• Perceptions

Computer Science
Applications
ECS/Tech Prep
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Technology Applications/Literacy

• Word Processing/Publishing/HTML
• Text Processing
• Page Layout Design
• HTML
• Formatting
• PDF
• Print

WebCentric
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Technology Applications/Literacy

• Spreadsheets
• Cell Formula Programming
• Problem Solving Skills
• Cross Curriculum Applications

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Technology Applications/Literacy

• Databases
• Design/Construction
• Questions Query
• AppleWorks
• Relational Databases
• Microsoft Access
• FileMaker
• Oracle
• MySQL
• etc.
• The database lies at the core of all business
  information technology processes.
• Database managers hold the key to eCommerce and
  eBusiness.

WebCentric
SQL CGI Suite
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Technology Applications/Literacy

• Presentation
• AppleWorks Slide Show
• PowerPoint
• Hypermedia
• Flash
• Balthaser
• HRD
• Animation

WebCentric
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Technology Applications/Literacy

• Graphics
• Basic Tools for Drawing Paint
• Use Clip Art, theres plenty of it out there!
• Graphic arts and Commercial Design can be viewed
  as a fourth sphere in a 3-dimensional rendition
  of our model.

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Technology Computer Science

• Visual Basic Track
• Visual Basic Entry-level Computer Science
• Environment Windows applications
• Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
• Environment Office 2000 Applications
• Active Server Pages (ASP)/VBScript
• Environment Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
• example microsoft site page
• Lingo, Macromedia Director
• Environment Platform independent, interactive
  multimedia applications
• Shockwave
• Environment Web-based interactive multimedia
  applications
• Instructors of Computer Science should begin to
  focus not so much on language, but environment
• Syntax Operators
• Types Control Structures
• Variables/Constants Functions
• Expressions Classes/Objects

WebCentric
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Technology Computer Science

• Object-Oriented Track (C Family)
• C (meets AP requirements)
• environment nothing practical!
• JavaScript (client side)
• environment browser
• Java
• environment platform independent applications
• Perl
• environment Common Gateway Interface (CGI),
  Unix/Linux
• The sequence of languages can begin or end with
  C, but JavaScript should be first in the
  WebCentric languages.
• The computer scientist holds the key to
  customizing the web through interactive web
  sites.

WebCentric
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Technology Computer Science

• Database Track (SQL Family)
• Structured Query Language (SQL, underlies all
  languages)
• Allaire Cold Fusion
• PHP4 HR eRecruiting
• PostGRE
• ASP/VBScript (repeated)
• If the language track does not pull toward the
  center of the model, computer science becomes an
  impractical theoretical framework.

WebCentric
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Technology ECS/Tech Prep

• Web/DB Servers (administrative functions)
• Netscape Enterprise
• Microsoft Internet Information Server (MIIS)
• Apache MySQL...
• WebStar
• OS Layer (administrative functions)
• Server
• Novell
• NT
• Unix/Linux/Solaris...
• Desktop
• Win/NT
• Mac
• Physical Layer (management functions)
• LAN/WAN/HW
• Hubs/switches/NICs
• Desktops
• Peripherals
• HW maintenance

WebCentric
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Technology ECS/Tech Prep

• Applications Computer Science
• Visual Basic for Applications (Access
  programming)
• Interactive Multimedia Applications (Director)
• Shockwave-based applications
• Applications ECS/Tech Prep
• Database sharing through the network
• Spreadsheet sharing through the network
• Computer Science ECS/Tech Prep
• OS Programming (Solaris, e.g.)
• Novell/NT Login scripting
• Networking theory (router configs, network
  design, etc.)
• The ECS holds the key to the infrastructure.

WebCentric
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Technology Questions

• Can any one person teach the web?
• What is a webmaster?
• How does one define what technologies are
  important for a tech-prep program?
• Should Computer Science be strictly
  college-bound?
• How do standards fit into all this?
• Whats coming in the near future?

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Technology Recommendations

• General
• Teach fundamental language concepts, then shift
  to various environments
• Applications
• Focus on the mindtools
• Rekindle the fire for databases
• Computer Science
• Teach fundamental language concepts, then shift
  to various environments
• Provide a variety of tracks for those not
  interested in AP credit
• ECS/Tech Prep
• Provide opportunities for more technologies
• Dont get trapped in the physical layer