Week 13: November 23 through 28
- Daisy Ross
- Nov 24, 2020
- 11 min read
Updated: Nov 27, 2020
Do you know who this man is? Today, you are able to use the internet because of his intellect. This week we will discuss Phillip Emeagwali, the internet, and some helpful internet tools. Let’s discover the World Wide Web together.
Monday, November 23, 2020
The Father of Internet Tech
Philip Emeagwali ( (IM AAH GWAH LEE) is like many of your own parents or grandparents. He was born in a small town 5 hours away from the big city. To get there would be like a drive on backroads from Natchez, Mississippi to Corinth, Mississippi. Despite his small town upbringing, (and maybe because of it) Philip Emeagwali grew up to develop the technology that would connect the world.
He went away from his home in Akure, Nigeria to college in London, England after High School. There, he won an academic scholarship to Oregon State University in the United Sates. Within a decade, Philip had earned 3 degrees including two Master’s Degrees from Howard University and University of Maryland. Later he had earned a PhD from the University of Michigan. With knowledge and degrees in Mathematics, Environmental Engineering, and Ocean and Marine Engineering, he was equipped to fulfill one major part of his destiny.
A map showing where Mr. Emeagwali is from compared to Mississippi. Philip Emeagwali is from Akure, Nigeria which is a small town like Natchez Mississipi. Can you find them on a map.
*Parallel processing is a method of simultaneously breaking up and running program tasks on multiple microprocessors, thereby reducing processing time. Parallel processing may be accomplished via a computer with two or more processors or via a computer network.
Parallel processing is also called parallel computing.
Please watch the following video.
Session A students (grades 3 to 5)
What is the internet, exactly? Watch this video to learn more about the internet and how it works.
Session B students (grades 6 to 9+)
Hear about how Philip Emeagwali invented the technology that created the internet from the man himself. >>>>>
We read a bit about Philip Emeagwali's upbringing in a small town called Akure. Do you live in a small rural town, a city, or a major metropolitan city? Did you know that a village and a small rural town is the same. How might someone from a village grow up differently from someone in a metropolitan city? How might they grow up similarly?
Product: Describe how your upbringing will influence you to do do something great when you grow up. Draw a picture of yourself now and after you successfully accomplish your professional goals.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Internet Safety
The internet is an amazing invention! There are people all over the world who have become friends by connecting over the internet. We use the internet to learn our school work and play games. Your parents use the internet to pay bills, work from home, or even catch an Uber from one place to another. We can find information about anything we want to know about or watch movies and TV shows online. The internet is one of the most amazing inventions in human history.
However, like any good thing, there are also some not so good things that can be related to the internet. People we do not know can use the internet to find out private information about you or your family members. Some people can find out where you live or steal money from your family's bank accounts. Others use your IP address to take control of your computer's camera or see your secret passcodes to the websites you visit.
So how do we stay safe? One way we can stay safe on the computer is to use anti-virus software. A computer virus is a computer code that can be sent to your computer's IP address. The code can cause many things to go wrong based on what the people who send it want from you. Sometimes, these viruses makes strange ads or really bad images come up on your computer screen. Other times, viruses can cause your computer to freeze or worse the Blue Screen of Death.
Anti-Virus soft is another series of codes that can be downloaded onto your device to protect your computer and your private information.
However, when we have anti-virus protection, we still have to do certain things to stay safe online. For example, if you go to a website that has viruses, you could be opening up your device for viruses even with the software that should help protect you.
Here is a SMART way to stay safe. Keep safe by never giving out personal information on websites. Every website is hosted or maintained by people you may not know. Just like in real life, most people are nice but some people are not nice. Those people look and act just like the ones who have no bad intentions. Within websites, strangers can try to hurt you or your family by stealing information that you did not want them to have. Remember STRANGER DANGER when using the internet. You would not go into a car with a stranger, so never give a stranger access to your personal information.
Keep online friends online. We don't always know if a person we meet online is who they say they are. If an online friend wants to meet you in real life, you should tell them no. If your online friend really wants to meet you in person, it is important that you still tell them no and then tell your parents about it. They will know what to do.
Accepting emails or DM from people you don't know could be dangerous too. Some bad strangers use these techniques to get more information about you. If someone wants to be your friend online or sends you an email but you don't know them, tell your parents about it.
Did you know that anyone can make a website? The only thing a person needs to create a website is internet and the ability to read. If you are looking for information online, unreliable websites may come up. These sites are often places where many different computer viruses infect people's computer. Unreliable websites are often very cheap or free so they do not have the protections of many reliable websites. However, this is not the only sign of a website being unreliable and sometimes reliable websites may also not be as secure as we'd like them to be. Secure websites have a lock symbol in the upper left side of the website address window.
Below you can see some of the ways we know if a website is considered safe.
If you visit a website or encounter a message that you are not comfortable with it is always best to talk to your parents or guardians about it. Remember to play it SMART when using the internet!
Product: Have a parent download this pdf and complete the learning tasks in the internet traffic light activity.
If the Internet Traffic Light game is a little baby-ish for you, complete the following activities on the pdf's below. Share your responses in the Family World School group or in the comments section below.
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Google It
Sergey Brin and Larry Page were students at Stanford University in 1995. While working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual
pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub.
"Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey's mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
Over the next few years, Google caught the attention of not only the academic community, but Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee #16 and now CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights. (The tradition of keeping things colorful continues to this day." About Google
Google was used by the United States government and got the attention of NASA and other organizations once it was shown to be useful in obtaining and storing so much information about people, businesses, and even places on the globe.
Now we use use Google as the standard for search engines. Some people use the name as a verb when directing someone to use a search engine to find out new information. With your parents guidance, you can google your own name or the name of your favorite food or place. Google has all kind of more focused applications like Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Docs, Google Classroom, and Google Duo. Each has its own special purpose.
Today, we will learn how to use Google to share information with people we know.
Google Docs
Google Docs is a word processor tool that allows people to write and share documents online for free. When someone uses Google Docs, they can share a document that they are working on with someone else to read or edit without taking the extra steps involved in sending an email and attaching the document or printing the document, sending it via postal mail, and waiting on their response. You can share the document with your friends, classmates, and teachers in real time and see how the receiver has made changes.
To use Google Docs, you must first have a Google email account (Gmail). To sign up for Gmail, you go to Google . com and click Gmail in the upper right side of the web page. To sign up, you will need your parents approval to share some personal information. Children should never give out their personal information online.
Once you have a Gmail account, you will notice that nine small squares that make up one bigger square is in the upper right corner of your screen whenever you go to Google . com. If you click on that image, you will see the Google Docs icon. It looks like a blue sheet of paper with white lines. Here you can choose to use an existing Google template or a blank template to start your document. To share your document, give it a name and then select share in a blue rectangle on the upper right side of the document screen. You can share it with others by using their email address. Then you can choose to allow the person to edit your document or just read it.
Product: When you use Google, you can often times save information documents pictures etc. in a database called Google Drive. Below you will see a link for the family world school Google drive. Create a document or a Google sheet with information that you find about an important person from your community on the Internet. You can create your document in Google Docs and share it in the shared FWS drive.
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Scavenger Hunt
Happy Thursday! Today we will explore the internet using internet links. At each link you should find an interesting idea being expressed, an activity to do, or something else.
First, listen to this short recording. It will give you an idea about the subject we will explore.
It is another amazing day to learn. No matter where you are, you can use the internet to learn and explore far away places, people from the past and present, as well as learn about the rich cultures of the world. Today, in many households in the United States, people celebrate Thanksgiving. They celebrate it with a watered down version of American history or by attaching their own religious or purposed ideas to the day. It is a time people come together and eat a big meal, watch a football game, and rush the stores to get the best sales. However, Thanksgiving, in the way most of us know it in the U.S. has a deeper history. It is related to the Harvest Celebrations of Indigenous American people. Each year, during the fall season, people in different areas of the Americas would dig up the fruit and vegetables of the earth that they’d planted months before. When the harvests were bountiful, they would celebrate and give thanks to the Creator for allowing them to have food throughout the winter season.
Indigenous people are actually the people with brown, very brown, and bluish-brown hued skin on the planet. The original human beings are Sub Saharan African and they traveled all over the globe to start new lives where they lived with nature. Indigenous people were and are still colonized, displaced, and often subjugated to live according to someone else’s culture and values. Non-Indigenous people are a mixture of human beings with DNA from evolved Neanderthal. There are various theories on why such a difference exists between non-Indigenous people and Indigenous people, but the facts are that where ever the non-Indigenous people of the world have travelled on a large scale, they have not been able to live with Indigenous people or with nature without causing abuse.
Indigenous people all over the world have faced the same or similar problems due to the invasions of non-Indigenous people.
Anthropologist (AN TH RO PAH LUH JIST)Anthropologists are people who study the early experiences of humans based on fossils and remnants of tools, clothes, buildings etc. that they find.
Indigenous Americans and Indigenous Africans displaced due to enslavement have had a long history together as friends, family, and foes. Growing in the Americas is the idea that Africans crossed the Atlantic as explorers by ship before the TranAtlantic Holocaust. Much evidence was found by anthropologists including a line from Cristobal Columbos’ (Christopher Columbus) diary that stated he saw “Negroes” and “Africans” when he reached the isles of the Caribbean.
Even more so was found images on walls depicting red toned men and black toned men in battle, as families, or even as royalty. Lastly, are the enormous ancient sculptures of the Olmecs.
In the opposite direction, the obvious African features of indigenous people of the Pacific Islands along with their oral histories suggest that they came to the isles of Melanesia and Polynesia by way of ships. Melanesia was named so because the original people who lived there were Black people. Melas means Black in Greek and Asia comes from a word that means to ascend. The meaning of the term Melanesia was Black man ascends. Polynesia has the prefix poly which means many in Greek. Again, as non-Indigenous people saw the people of Polynesia, they saw people of different races living together. The people were “mixed”. So they called the land Many races of men ascend.
The indigenous people of Australia and New Zealand were called Aboriginal. This word originates in Latin and means original inhabitants. All indigenous people have fought to preserve their lives, cultures, languages, and homes. We are United in this fight.
Activists like Nat Turner, Nathan Phillips, Miriam Miranda, Patrice Lumumba, Fannie Lou Hamer, Marcus Garvey, Thomas Sankara, Ngobe Bugle, Jak Beula Dodd, and Eddie Mabo have pushed for indigenous people’s rights and preservation within the rule of non-Indigenous societies. Learn more about Eddie Mabo.
In order from top left to right
Indigenous American girl from Florida, Performer from Papua New Guinea in Melanesia, Girl from Chad in Africa, Kayan woman from Myamar in Asia, Young man from Niger in Africa, Ndebele woman in Africa, Indigenous American chief, Children from Fiji of the Pacific Islands, African Indigenous American woman and daughter enslaved in North Americans, Polynesians men, Polynesian women, Queen Liluokalani the last Queen of Hawaii.
Product: We have learned that there is a connection between the indigenous people of the world as well as some differences. We used the internet to learn more about the thoughts, ideas, and creativity of others. Using the internet find out about how modern indigenous Fijians, Native Americans, indigenous people from Myanmar, indigenous people from Niger, indigenous Rwandans and Hawaiians live and learn in the modern city.
Indigenous People: In the Same Box
Use a shoe box or a cereal box to create a big modern city. Draw and cut out the images of people from Fiji, Native America, Niger, Rwanda, Hawaii, Myanmar and any other place you'd like to learn about. Dress them in their cultural attire and put them in different places in the city you create. 
Examples of Boxed City Designs. What will your indigenous people's city look like?
November 26, 2020
Fun Friday Project
Weather permitting, take your group outside to the park or even in the back yard and create your indigenous cities. Make sure to use the internet to explore what the cities look like throughout the diaspora.
Materials: Shoe Box, Cereal Box, or Trifold, Cardboard, Glue, Tape, Scissors, Photos, Grass, Leaves, Small Tree Sticks, Different Types of Writing Utensils. and more!
Let Your Creativity Flow! Meet us LIVE on Facebook and create with us at 2pm!
Learn By Doing!
Friday Movies
This is a video about how children’s brilliant minds allow them to become scientists and how exposure to knowledge allows them to learn. Parents PLEASE watch with your children or independently. The world is their classroom and life is their teacher.
This is Kelvin Doe! Please watch, listen, and enjoy.
Please watch Regina Agyare speak about how we can create our own opportunities using technology.
Session A & B Students
From the electric light filament to the cell phone, from the first landing on the Moon to internet technology, Black people have used ingenuity and creativity to make our world more connected and move us into the modern world. How do you think future technology will change for all of us? How do you plan to be a part in inventing the tools we will use or need in the future? How will internet be important for these technologies? This is a video about some technology that is in the making right now. Please enjoy!
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