Apple vs. FBI

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Tim Cook, the head of the company, recently criticized a court order seeking a special version of iOS that would help the Federal Bureau of Investigation access data stored on a terrorist’s iPhone. Apple has refused to comply with the order.

Read the article: Apple vs. the FBI – what you need to know or watch the video below:

Do a Google News Search and find two recent articles with conflicting opinions. Evaluate each and decide which side you are for.

Write a blog post regarding your decision. Be sure to include the links to the articles you have read.

Vote on the poll on the right of this page!

Who are you related to?

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Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of “a friend of a friend” statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps.

A recent theory puts the actor Kevin Bacon within six steps (or fewer) to another actor or actress. Don’t believe me? Try this link – http://oracleofbacon.org/

Facebook has found that we are actually closer to three steps to other people (Read this Newsweek article).

Write a blog post who you think your closest degree of separation is and to what famous person. Make it Good — Call it “My Brush with Greatness”

Code Girl – Movie

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We will watch part of this documentary. This is a free early screening of a movie that will be released next week. You can watch this week for free at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enZ82xleZfs

Join high school-aged girls from around the world as they try to better their community through technology and collaboration in this thrilling, heartfelt documentary.

By 2017, the app market will be valued at $77 Billion. Over 80% of these developers are male. The Technovation Challenge aims to change that by empowering girls worldwide to develop apps for an international competition. From rural Moldova to urban Brazil to suburban Massachusetts, CODEGIRL follows teams who dream of holding their own in the world’s fastest-growing industry. The winning team gets $10K to complete and release their app, but every girl discovers something valuable along the way.

Pick two questions from the list below and answer them on your weebly blog:

  • What did you learn from CodeGirl? What insights did it provide?
  • If you could ask anyone in the film a single question, who would it be and what would you ask?
  • Describe a moment or scene in the film that you found particularly moving. What about that scene was especially compelling for you?
  • What are some of the problems the teams around the world identified? How did their apps help address those issues?
  • What were some of the obstacles that the teams faced and how did they handle these?