CSD U01L08 Propose An App With Warm Up

Of the apps, Clever: Code.org: Lessons 5 - 7, you've seen in this unit, what was your favorite? What problem did it solve?

Question of the Day

How can the (Input, Output, Storage, Process) IOSP model help us to design an app that solves a problem?

Project Overview

You will…

• Work with a partner or yourself for this lesson

• Define a real world problem

• Brainstorm ways an app could help solve that problem

• Identify the inputs/outputs/storage/processing your app uses

• Share your ideas with another group for peer feedback

• Incorporate feedback to create a final version of the app

• Create a Google Drawing of your app to share with the class

• Explain the Project Overview:

Brainstorm Problems

You might think about...

• Things you’d like to improve in your school, neighborhood, or community

• A task in your everyday life that you wish could be completed more easily

• A cause that you feel strongly about

• Something that is currently inconvenient or annoying to do

Choose Your Problem

Your problem should be...

• Interesting: Both group members are interested in the problem

• Well-Defined: You can explain who specifically the problem affects, what needs to change, and how you’ll be able to tell that the problem had been solved 

• Computing is Relevant: The problem is an “information problem” that can be solved with “thinking work.”

Define

• What is the problem?

• Who does the problem affect?

• How will you be able to know that a solution has worked?

Prepare

• What will your app do?

• What will it look like?

• What inputs and outputs will it use?

• What processing will it use?

• What types of information will it store?

Peer Review

• Fill out the top part of the peer review guide, then swap project and peer review guides with another group.

• Read over the other group’s ideas and give them feedback in the peer review guide.

• Trade back and look at the feedback you got on your app.

• Reflect on the feedback and decide what changes you will make based on the other group’s ideas.

• What is a Peer Review? Explain

Try

• Finalize your app .

• Create a Google Drawing based on your app.

• Get ready to present your ideas to the class.

Explain your app with a drawing and text.