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These sites offer additional
information on communications and technology.
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http://www.kids.gov/k_computer.htm
This site has a list of links to
many well-developed sites for children, including
Cyberethics for Kids, Kidz Privacy, an NSA page on
cryptography, Girls Go Tech and many others. You can
also find links to lists of science and math sites
and other recommended resources.
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http://imaginemars.jpl.nasa.gov/index1.html
- Imagine Mars is a
participatory project for teachers to conduct with
students. Provides lesson plans, Mars facts and other
resources to lead student project teams.
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http://teachspacescience.org/cgi-bin/ssrtop.plex
- Space Science Education
Resource Directory. A collection of educational
resources produced by NASA's Space Science
Education and Public Outreach Program.
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http://www.computerhistory.org
- The website of the Computer
History Museum in California. It offers online
exhibits of the history of computing as well as facts
about the development of the Internet.
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http://cnst.rice.edu/ - Rice University's website on
nanotechnology, an important but little-known concept
that will soon be infiltrating our lives. It offers a
fun kids' site that teaches children about
nanotechnology.
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http://www.brainpop.com
- This site is available for
both educators and students through a paid
subscription. It's especially helpful for
teachers, as it offers videos and teaching ideas on
nearly every subject.
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http://www.thegateway.org
- The Gateway to Educational
Materials (GEM) allows teachers to use the web to
research education ideas. There are thousands of
examples of lesson plans, activities, media and
more.
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http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
- This site, linked to the
Discovery Channel's school website, includes
numerous resources from Kathy Schrock, a
Massachusetts educator whose area of expertise lies
in the integration of technology in schools.
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http://www.lib.virginia.edu/education/resources/k-12.htm
- From the University of
Virginia Education Library comes a comprehensive list
of resources on topics such as states' standards
of learning, technology in the classroom, and
more.
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http://www.learnnc.org
- This site is built for North
Carolina teachers, but it is useful for anyone
anywhere. It provides teaching ideas and resources
for all grade levels. It lets the user search for
educational websites in a variety of subjects via the
"Best of the Web" section.
The following books offer
additional information and insights and are well worth
the investment to include them in a classroom or school
library collection. They offer teachers and students
wonderful resources from which to gain more depth on
coursework.
 "Imagining the Internet:
Personalities, Predictions,
Perspective" (2005, Rowman & Littlefield) is a
companion to this database. It looks at the future and
past of pervasive networks of all kinds incorporating
the stories of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, the
Luddites, Socrates' opposition to the
"technology" of writing, the Romantics, the
Utopians, technorealists, and a projected battle
between Cosmists and Terrans over a future in which
artilects may dominate the galaxy. It shares concepts
of such thinkers as Ithiel de Sola Pool, George Orwell,
Marshall McLuhan, Vannevar Bush, Duncan Watts, Fritjof
Capra, and Isaac Asimov while parsing the thoughts of
Bill Gates, Nicholas Negroponte, John Perry Barlow,
Bruce Sterling, Clifford Stoll, Al Gore, and dozens of
other networked communications stakeholders and
skeptics. For information and an excerpt go to:
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/publications.xhtml
"City of
Bits" (1994)
by William J. Mitchell. Written by the dean of the
School of Architecture and Planning at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The traditional
printing of this book was followed in the spring and
summer of 1995 with a companion online issue - what was
labeled as "the first full-text interactive book
on the World Wide Web." It is one of the finest
looks at what may be that was generated in this era. It
is available for free online at: http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-books/City_of_Bits/
"Being
Digital" (1995) by Nicholas Negroponte. One of
the high-visibility ambassadors of the Internet in the
1990s, Negroponte wrote and spoke in glowing terms of
"being digital," seeing a glowing future for
the world. The co-founder of MIT's Media Lab
offered here an introduction to the possibilities of
digital communication for the uninitiated. He had
helped bankroll the start-up of Wired magazine in 1993,
and his monthly column for that publication -
considered the Rolling Stone of the technology age -
forms the basis for this book, considered to be a
classic predictive book about the potential of
networking. Portions of the book are available for free
at the site http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm.
You can also freely access many writings by Negroponte
on the Wired magazine archive site.
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