SciGirls | Game Changers: Identify and Define
The SciGirls sit with a professional game designer and discuss all the components, or mechanics, that factor into a fun game.
Middle School Computational Thinking
SciGirls | Code Concert: Identify and Define
Before entering their code in Processing, the SciGirls write out their code in plain English, a process known as Pseudocode.
SciGirls | Baile Digital 01: Planear (Plan)
The SciGirls learn that they are going to create some technology to go with a dance created by a school club, so they must decide what technology to create, how to tell their story, and how to break up the work.
How Computers Compute | MIT's Science Out Loud
Even though we think of computers as super high-tech machines with tiny parts, they can also be huge, wooden, and mechanical. It's what they have in common that makes them computers - switches!
How to Make a Video Game | MIT's Science Out Loud
Carmelo, a grad student in the MIT Media Lab, shows how anyone can start learning how to create video games by talking to machines through programming languages.
Humanoid Robot Brains | MIT's Science Out Loud
Students relate the quality of an image to the amount of information in the image and use mathematical representations to make predictions about photos.
Crash Course Computer Science Collection
In this series, trace the origins of our modern computers, and gain a better understanding of how far computers have taken us.
Cybersecurity Lab | NOVA Lab
Take cybersecurity into your own hands. In this Lab, you'll defend a company that is the target of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks.
Teaching Machines to See | NOVA Wonders
Examine some of the challenges involved in training machines to identify objects, and discover how neural networks (or deep learning) can be used to help a computer teach itself how to recognize objects in photo images.
5 Reasons to Get Coding
In this PBS TeachersLounge article, discover ways you can engage students with coding.
NOVA Cybersecurity Lab Lesson Plan
In this media-rich lesson plan, students explore how to keep their digital lives safe, spot cyber scams, and learn the basics of coding from NOVA Labs.
Plug In to Digital Tech | PBS LearningMedia
Find out which digital resources can help you to maximize the potential of these devices with top picks and recommendations from PBS LearningMedia