Seven Core Competencies for Third Graders

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Class Questions
What is the Internet?
Who uses Google?
Who sends emails?
Does anyone know what a blog site is?
Has anyone heard of a Wiki?
What is a programming language?
What about Virtual Words?

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The Internet by the numbers
How many people live in Atlanta
How many people live in the United States
How many people live in the world
How many people use the Internet

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The Internet by the numbers
How many people live in Atlanta
5 million (5,000,000)
How many people live in the United States
300 million (300,000,000)
How many people live in the world
Around 6 billion (6,000,000,000)
How many people use the Internet
Around 1 billion (1,000,000,000)

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What do people do on the internet?
Search
Email
Plan things
Buy things
Play games

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What else do people do on the internet?
Write Stuff
Collaborate

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What do they write?
Newspapers
Magazines
Blogs
Wiki’s
Computer programs
Games

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Atlanta Newspaper?

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What is a blog?

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Top 100 Blogs

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My blog is 37,356 out of 5 million blogs

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Who knows what the word analytics means?

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Who else blogs?
Celebrities
Doctors
Lawyers
Cooks
Moms

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Even dogs blog

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What is a Wiki?
A Wiki is an easy way for anyway to create information on the internet.
Wikipedia is the most famous Wiki.

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A fun contest
Encyclopedia Britannica versus Wikipedia

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Collaboration
Remember I said earlier that there were about 6 billion people in the world and 1 billion of them are using the internet
What fraction is 1 out of 6?
By the time you start high school, there will be around 3 billion people using the internet
What fraction is 3 billion out of 6 billion?

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Collaboration
Remember I said earlier that there were about 6 billion people in the world and 1 billion of them are using the internet
What fraction is 1 out of 6?
1/6 or 16.6%
By the time you start high school, there will be around 3 billion people using the internet
What fraction is 3 billion out of 6 billion?
3/6 or ½ or 50%

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What are inventions?

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Who makes all this stuff?

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Before the Internet
If you wanted to be a scientist who invents things:
You would study real hard in school
Do really good at math and science
Go to college
Go to work for a big company who has 1000’s of scientists.

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Now with the Internet
If you want to be a scientist who invents things:
You would study real hard in school
Do really good at math and science
Go to college
Work independently with millions of scientists.

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Proctor and Gamble Company now uses millions of people from all around the world

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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

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Computer Programming
William’s demonstration of Alice

Seven Core Competencies for Third Graders

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