Explore Performance Task

CS Principles AP Prep
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Please recommend some websites that students may visit to do research on Explore Performance Task. Thanks

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Have you consulted the Explore PT Survival Guide. That document includes resources that will help your students successfully complete the Performance Task. The guide can be found here.

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We are struggling with finding computational innovations. Would you consider 5G a computational innovation? Does it transform or process data? We worked through the worksheet that code.org provide and we got stuck justifying if 5G really meets the criteria

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The criteria for computing innovation is that it has to contain hardware or software. 5G is a communication standard. Standards like 5G, TCP/IP, Bluetooth are not computational innovations. A device that uses 5G like:

These 5G devices are available to purchase today:

would be computational innovations.

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Does anyone know if students need to cite stock images used in a program like Canva? Or other creation programs for their computational artifact? I know they need to cite images off of google through the website were they are located, but now I have kids using these different types of things where they use clip art. I don’t remember having them cite them before. So thinking about it I was not sure.

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Hi Kimberly,

I believe that they are ok when using open source clip art or icons. If my students were to ask me, however, I would tell them to cite each and every thing that they can. Better to be safe than sorry!

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I would recommend they at least mention where the images came from in 2B.