Computing Classroom Resources

This collection of lessons and web resources is aimed at classroom teachers, their students, and students' families. Most of these resources come from the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). NSDL is the National Science Foundation's online library of resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. See www.nsdl.org

Girls Are I.T.
www.girlsareit.org
Think a career in information technology is all math and machines? Then you'll be surprised to learn that this field will let you be creative, help other people, improve our environment and change the future of our planet. The Web site appeals to girls aged 11 to 14.

Children's Digital Media Canter / UCLA
http://www.cdmc.ucla.edu/
The "Children's Digital Media Center" at UCLA, one of five locations that comprise the NSF-funded center whose mission is to study the interaction between children and teens and the newer forms of interactive, digital media, and to see how these interactions both affect and reflect upon their lives and long term development.

CITIDEL
http://www.citidel.org/
CITIDEL serves the computing education community in all its diversity and at all levels, including computer science, information systems, information science, software engineering, computer engineering, and related fields.

Fractals and Scale
http://mathforum.org/library/view/4590.html
How long is the coastline of Great Britain? At first sight this question may seem trivial. Given a map one can sit down with a ruler and soon come up with a value for the length.

The Most Complex Machine: A Survey of Computers and Computing
http://math.hws.edu/TMCM.html
An introductory computer science textbook for anyone who wants to understand how computers work and what computer science is about.

Computer Science student resource site by William Stallings
http://williamstallings.com/StudentSupport.html
This diverse collection of refreshers, how-tos, and research guides, while geared for computer science (CS) students, also has a few resources that are useful for anyone. A quick review of mathematical concepts and advice.

Little girls, microcomputers, and computer literate women
http://www.duke.edu/eng169s2/group4/tricia/sect1.htm
Though it is generally assumed that most people interested in computers are men, the predominance of men in computer science has only truly developed in the last two decades as microcomputers have been introduced into the home.

DIMACS
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/good-bye?http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/
The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, an NSF Science and Technology Center.

Computing Research Overview