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What is Computing?

Students explore a history of computing, learn about the various parts that make up modern computers, learn about the impact computing has had on today's world, and learn about the impacts computing could potentially have in the future.

Lessons

7.1 History of Computers

  • History of Computers
  • Video Quiz
  • Mission: Who invented the computer?
  • Evidence Collection
  • Exhibit A: Charles Babbage
  • +8 more

7.2 Computer Organization

  • Computer Organization
  • Computer Organization
  • Draw a Computer
  • What Kind of Device?

7.3 Software

  • Software
  • Software Quiz
  • Software Explained
  • Computer Applications You Use
  • Operating Systems
  • +1 more

7.4 Hardware

  • Hardware
  • Hardware Quiz
  • Pick the Label
  • Label Your Computer
  • Computer Analogy
  • +2 more

7.5 Internet Hardware and Sending Information

  • Internet Hardware
  • Internet Hardware
  • Sending Information
  • Sending Information
  • The Internet is in the Ocean
  • +1 more

7.6 Clients and Servers

  • Clients and Servers
  • Clients and Servers
  • Inside a Google Data Center
  • Inside a Google Data Center
  • Cloud Vulnerabilities
  • +5 more

7.7 Personal Servers vs. Web Server Providers

  • Personal Servers vs. Web Server Providers
  • Personal Servers vs. Web Server Providers
  • Hosting a Website from Your Own Home
  • Self-Hosted or Web Server Provider?

7.8 Future of Computing

  • Future of Computing
  • Video Quiz
  • Using DNA for Storage
  • Class Activity: Advancing Technology
  • Pros and Cons of AI
  • +1 more

7.9 What is Computing? Quiz

  • What is Computing? Quiz

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