Personal reflection on C&D thinking and mind mapping

• Hi , my name is Zoe and I'm going to write about an Information classwork. In this classwork we worked with the question:"¿ What is a Computer?" and we had to explain It.

• For doing a mindmap I used an app called Mindomo , wich is very effective for doing this kind of excercises. Also it is very easy to manage you can create mind maps about a specific theme and then select the topics, subtopics and insert a relationship between them.It is easy to create and share mind maps, concept maps, task maps and outlines,mindmapping software for Web, Desktop, iOS and Android.

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• This is my mindmap about "¿ What is a Computer?"

By completing this excercise I could test thinking outside the box by asking me what a computer is.I work with this device every day and I didnt knew lots of information about them. Thinking in this way opens your mind and gives you new opportunities to know more about everything. For example I learned that there is a project about Ecologic Computers that work with Ecological energie and thats awesome!

For today´s people is very normal to know about computers excistence. Basic everyone has used a computer before or at least they know what is It. So in this case by answering the question ¨What is a Computer?¨, our teacher recomended us to think divergently. This means we have to not only search for the basic information like the definition of the word , but to get outside the box and make a brainstorm of ideas. When you only search for the basic information , you are thinking convergently. The best way of thinking is when you begin thinking convergently and then jump to the divergent thinking.

Turing Machine in a V Neumann Architecture (Second chance excercise)

Hi! A few weeks ago, in class, we saw some videos about how do Turing machines and CPUs work. Well let me explain some concepts... A Turing machine is a theoretical computing machine invented by Alan Turing (1937) to serve as an idealized model for mathematical calculation. A Turing machine consists of a line of cells known as a "tape" that can be moved back and forth, an active element known as the "head" that possesses a property known as "state" and that can change the property known as "color" of the active cell underneath it, and a set of instructions for how the head should modify the active cell and move the tape. At each step, the machine may modify the color of the active cell and change the state of the head. After this, it moves the tape one unit to the left or right. A V Neumann architecture is a design architecture for an electronic digital computer with parts consisting of a processing unit containing an arithmetic logic unit and processor registers; a control unit containing an instruction register and program counter; a memory to store both data and instructions; external mass storage; and input and output mechanisms. Now that you have this concepts clear I will put these in a mind map. A mind map is a diagram in which information is represented visually, usually with a central idea placed in the middle and associated ideas arranged around it. A very useful tool for making a mind map is this website: https://www.mindomo.com/es/.

A Turing machine 

A V Neumann architecture scheme

Mindmap:

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C&D thinking

We have to do  mindmap in mindomo with the topic "What is a computer?".When you make a mindmap, you have to think in to differents tipe of question:
Divergent 

Popular in inquiry education, divergent questions allow students to explore different avenues and create many different variations and alternative answers or scenarios. Correctness may be based on logical projections, may be contextual, or arrived at through basic knowledge, conjecture, inference, projection, creation, intuition, or imagination. These types of questions often require students to analyze, synthesize, or evaluate a knowledge base and then project or predict different outcomes.

A simple example of a divergent question is:

Write down as many different uses as you can think of for the following objects: (1) a brick, (2) a blanket.

Convergent 
Is the question that takes you to one answer. A really basic way of thinking. Convergent thinking is a term coined by Joy Paul Guilford as the opposite of divergent thinking. It generally means the ability to give the "correct" answer to standard questions that do not require significant creativity, for instance in most tasks in school and on standardized multiple-choice tests for intelligence.
A good example would be:
What does a horse eat?

turing machine as a concept

Some time ago in Informatics, we saw a video about Turing Machine as a concept and today i'm going to explain the concepts about it.
The Turing Machine was developed by a man called Alan Turing in 1936. It's actually an abstract machine which can manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. The machine is divided in ones and ceros, each cero and one is in a square at the time always. It took orders from the user who says to this machine where to move the ceros or ones and if the machine should just leave it. 
 The creator of this Machine at the time he was developing it, he was working with the Decision Problem.
Alan TuringHow CPU works
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About me

Hello, my name is Agustín and I have 15 years old. I live in Buenos Aires with mi family. I have 3 brothers, 2 sisters and 2 dogs. In total we are 8 people in the family.

Here is a photo of my family and me.

I go to the Goethe Schule. The Goethe Schule is a german school. This school is a trilingual school. I speak german, englisch and spanish. The school is a very big school with three buildings. The are bridges that connect the buildings. Is a very good in the education thing also.

Here is a photo of a part of the school

Well let's talk about what I do.
I play football. I play football in the school or in my house. In my house I play football with my brother in the garden. I play always with my youngest brother because the other two are always busy studing. In the school I do extra football after the school from 4:30 to 6:30 on mondays and fridays and in the weekend I play a tournament, also with the school, that is called FICDA. In this tournament I play with a team that pic the trainer. We play against another schools.  It is not easy to play against another schools because the another schools are very good playing football. My team and I had never won the tournament. 
Besides I play football, I see football. I'm fan from River Plate. River Plate is a football club that play in the Argentina tournament. The club stays in Buenos Aires. I go every weekend to the stadium to see the matches with my family. All my family is from River Plate to. Thats something that my family have in common.

Here is a photo of my team from FICDA

And here is a photo of the shield and the stadium from River Plate

Well, that´s a few things about me. I hope you enjoy it. See you in the next blog.

Personal reflection on C&D thinking and mind mapping

Hi I am Agustin Danguise Zulauf and I am going to explain what we did the first classes of the term of informatics. We have to look for information about "what is a computer" and do a mindmap about it. A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information, in my case it helped me to understand all about that topic.

This is the logo of mindomo:

I am going to create a mindmap with a program named mindomo that we learned how to use it in class.
It is very to create a mindomo account you only have to introduce your mail and a password.

Divergent thinking is the process of generating multiple related ideas for a given topic or solutions to a problem.

Convergent thinking involves finding the one “right” solution to a problem.

Turing machine and V Neumann architecture

Last week we work in class about de Turing Machine and the V Neumann architecture. We saw some videos about how do Turing machines and CPUs work. A Turing machine is a theoretical computing machine invented by Alan Turing (1937) to serve as an idealized model for mathematical calculation. A Turing machine consists of a line of cells known as a "tape" that can be moved back and forth, an active element known as the "head" that possesses a property known as "state" and that can change the property known as "color" of the active cell underneath it, and a set of instructions for how the head should modify the active cell and move the tape . At each step, the machine may modify the color of the active cell and change the state of the head. After this, it moves the tape one unit to the left or right.

Here are some pictures explaining how Turing machines and CPU works:

Here is a Mind map about Turing Machine and V Neumann Architecture:

Here is the link of the Mindmap:

https://www.mindomo.com/mindmap/3e410dadd6d148e1961e871bb1885558

Turing Machine - V Neumann Architecture

The last class we saw 2 videos about Turing Machines and V Neumann Architecture. 

A Turing machine is a theoretical machine that manipulates symbols on a tape strip, based on a table of rules. It can be tailored to replicate the logic associated with any computer algorithm.

 It is also particularly useful for describing the  functions within a computer.

            

 It is intended as a hypothetical machine that represents a computing machine.The Turing machine can help computer scientists comprehend the boundaries of mechanical computation.

                                     

Turing machines mathematically model a device that mechanically runs using a tape. This tape includes symbols, which the machine can write and read, one after the other, with the help of a tape head.

Today I did a Mindmap wich explains :

About me

About me

Hi, my name is Justo Corrente, I am 15 years old and I am from Buenos Aires ( Argentina ). I go to the Goethe Schule, where I can speak German, English, and Spanish. I live with my family ( mom, dad, little sister ) and with my beautiful pets ( cat and dog ).

My parents work in a airplane industrie, that's why I can fly to different Countries much more cheaper.

On this winter holidays, I am going with my cousins and my grandmother for my first time to Japan. It is going to be one of my best experiences of my life!