Digital Word Wall
From SCChallenge
- Climate Change Vocabulary
- climate
- precipitation
- weather
- drought
- El Nino
- La Nina
- anomalies
- statistical and dynamical models
- mean
- minimum
- oscillations
- Computer Programming Vocabulary
- Computational Thinking
- The Three A's:
- Abstraction
- Automation
- Analysis
- implicit model/explicit model
- stack
- parameters
- loop
- iterations
- serial
- validation
- verification
- parallel
- debugging
- expression
- wiggle
- iteration
- procedure
- conditional
- variable
- random
- forever
- setup
- boolean
- invocation
- declaration
- definition
- parameter
- call
- environment
- agent
- default
- switch
- case
- recursion
- deconstruction
- stack
- serial
- parallel
- parallelize
- parallelization
- parallelizer
- Domain composition (Breaking the domain or data into smaller chunks for processing by different processors)
- task decomposition (breaking task into separate subtasks that are processed in parallel)
- pipelining (Assembly line)
- scalability
- race condition
- computationally intensive
Ideas on how to use a Word Wall in the secondary classroom.
1) http://www.markville.ss.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/mm/oise2005/bestpractice/wordwall.htm
Background, pertinent points, beginning of the unit activity with word walls, mids unit word wall activity, end of the unit word wall activity
2) http://www.edhelper.com/word_walls.htm How to use your computer to make word walls
3) http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4380 Word Walls that Work: chunking, useful, practical, hands on, space efficient, make them yours!
