What is a Computer?

​What is a Computer?

By Maria Benites

We will not use Chromebooks for today's lesson

Respond to the question's 1 and 2 on your paper. Be ready to share with 3 people in the class.

Responde las preguntas 1 y 2 en tu hoja. Prepárate para compartirlas con tres personas de la clase.

Open Ended

This picture shows one of the world's first computers, and two of the world's first computer programmers.

-What are 3 ways this computer is different from computers that we use today?
-What are 2 ways that it is the same?
-What is 1 thing you think is true of ALL computers?

Is it a Computer?

With the students sitting around you, you will work together to categorize the items given to you by determining if they are a "Computer" or "Not a Computer".

Draw a line down the middle of your poster, label one side "Computer" and the other "Not a Computer".

Once your group is in agreement, tape your objects to the appropriate side.

Develop a list of characteristics your groups use to determine whether an object is a computer.

Open Ended

1) What rules or definition did you use to categorize items?

2) Which item was most difficult for you to categorize? How did you eventually make the decision of where to place it?

After watching the video, is there something that you and your group would like to change on your poster?