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=**Overarching Essential Questions** that motivate all our computing education:=
 * What is a good definition of technology?
 * What are the aspects of technological change through history, and how are the changes related?
 * How do computers work?
 * What is digital information, and how does it relate to computing?
 * How are computers and digital information changing our lives and the way we see the world?
 * What advantages and disadvantages are there to connecting computers in a network?
 * What is software for, and how is it made?
 * How can I use software to solve a problem?
 * What role does creativity play in computing?
 * There are different ways to solve problems; do some work better than others?
 * Once a problem has been solved, how can we communicate the solution, and how can we apply the solution?
 * A hammer and a computer could both be considered technologies. What makes programming a computer different than using a hammer?
 * How does computer programming relate to the evolution of technology?
 * How do the design and structure of a computer program affect the way it works and the way that it can be understood and used?

8th grade - Owen's class
 * http://8thcomputing.wiki.lovett.org/