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This webinar, made available by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), discusses Mozilla's Open Badge system. Badges are defined as "digital representations of a skill or achievement" and can be used in a variety of environments from education and social media to the workplace. Some...

This brief interactive activity, by the Electromechanical Digital Library and Wisconsin Technical College System faculty, introduces digital circuit devices, their applications as decision or memory devices, and asks three review questions. This is an excellent resource, as are the others in the...

This open source book on WikiBooks provides an introduction to Digital Circuits. This book focuses heavily on the concepts of discrete math but previous knowledge of the subject is not required; all necessary concepts are covered in the text. Knowledge of basic electrical principles such as current,...

This 5-page guide, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is intended to help users become familiar with the hardware interface of Spartan 3E FPGA board. The Spartan-3E Starter Kit board is more advanced and complex compared to other Spartan development boards. This guide...

Description: The materials for this FPGA Beer Module lab activity are provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC). The goal of this lab is to '"earn the use of Spartan 3E FPGA development board from Xilinx and how to create the hardware connections between the development board...

This 24-page resource, made available by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is the instructor guide for a  laboratory activity from the Digital Fundamentals course designed to "introduce the student to Xilinx software, Spartan 3E FPGA board, how to program in VHDL and create the...

The National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) has made digital home technology integration curriculum available online. The site includes a syllabus, learning activities and PowerPoint presentations related to the topic. Sample resources are available to anyone.

This lesson, from the Technological Education Pathways Partnership (TEPP), uses a bathroom scale to explore the load cell technology used in weigh stations on interstate highways. A Word document explains the concept of the Wheatstone bridge measure of electrical resistance, and two PowerPoint...

This scenario-based instructional activity card, from the ATE 2.0: Preparing Technicians for the Future of Work project, was created to support the implementation of the Cross-Disciplinary STEM CORE Framework. This framework has the following three skill areas: Data Knowledge and Analysis, Advanced...

This website offers interactive tutorials, videos and instructional activities designed to help students explore how researchers use bioinformatic tools and biological data to make new discoveries. Tutorials include DNA Barcoding, Exploring how plants respond to drought using Microarrays, an...