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    Technology: Cool Women Who Code
    Technology: Cool Women Who Code
    Technology: Cool Women Who Code
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    Technology: Cool Women Who Code

    By Andi Diehn

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    Do you listen to music with an MP3 player or read books on a tablet? Do you play multiplayer video games with people on the other side of the world? Do you have a robot cleaning your kitchen? Maybe not yet, but someday!

    In Technology: Cool Women Who Code, kids in grades four through six learn about the thrilling effort that goes into researching, inventing, programming, and producing the technology we use today, from iPods to mechanical limbs. Young readers discover exactly what technology is, how it evolved, and where the future may lead. They also meet three women who have contributed to the field in critical ways, including Grace Hopper and Shaundra Bryant Daily.

    Technology: Cool Women Who Code combines high-interest content with links to online primary sources and essential questions that further expand kids' knowledge and understanding of a topic they come in contact with every day. Compelling portraits of women who have excelled in meeting the challenges of their field keep kids interested and infused with a sense of possibility and determination.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNomad Press
    Release dateAug 17, 2015
    ISBN9781619303232
    Technology: Cool Women Who Code
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    Andi Diehn

    Andi Diehn has written many books for children, and a few for adults as well. She works as an editor and marketer for Nomad Press and lives with her family in rural New Hampshire.

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      After a brief introduction about the history of technology, this book goes on to discuss three women in particular that have impacted or are impacting technology as we know it. Grace Hopper worked for the Navy in the early days of computers, Shaundra Bryant Daily currently teaches computer programming to students, and Jean Yang is getting her doctorate's degree and planning to be a professor in computer science. This book is interesting and could be appealing to upper elementary students who are interested in technology or computing. I gave it a three star rating because I had trouble with the formatting on the pages. There are visual cues to let you know what chapter you are in and call-outs with additional information, but overall I felt that everything was given equal weight, resulting in a clutter that made it hard for my eyes to rest in any one place. There is minimal white space and it's written almost like a non-fiction chapter book. The call-outs and additional information areas competed for attention with the primary text, without any clear hierarchy.

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    Technology - Andi Diehn

    Nomad Press

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    Copyright © 2015 by Nomad Press. All rights reserved.

    No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review or for limited educational use. The trademark Nomad Press and the Nomad Press logo are trademarks of Nomad Communications, Inc.

    ISBN Softcover: 978-1-61930-325-6

    ISBN Hardcover: 978-1-61930-321-8

    Illustrations by Lena Chandhok

    Educational Consultant, Marla Conn

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    HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

    In this book you’ll find a few different ways to further explore the topic of women in astronomy.

    The essential questions in each Ask & Answer box encourage you to think further. You probably won’t find the answers to these questions in the text, and sometimes there are no right or wrong answers! Instead, these questions are here to help you think more deeply about what you’re reading and how the material connects to your own life.

    There’s a lot of new vocabulary in this book! Can you figure out a word’s meaning from the paragraph? Look in the glossary in the back of the book to find the definitions of words you don’t know.

    Are you interested in what women have to say about astronomy? In the She Says boxes you’ll find quotes from women who are professionals in the astronomy field. You can learn a lot by listening to people who have worked hard to succeed!

    Primary sources come from people who were eyewitnesses to events. They might write about the event, take pictures, or record the event for radio or video. Why are primary sources important?

    CONTENTS

    Introduction:

    Technology is Everywhere

    Chapter 1:

    Technology Past and Present

    Chapter 2:

    Grace Hopper

    Chapter 3:

    Shaundra Bryant Daily

    Chapter 4:

    Jean Yang

      Index

    Introduction

    TECHNOLOGY IS EVERYWHERE

    Technology is all around us. It’s in our cars, our kitchens, and our bedrooms. We use technology when we play and work, at school, and to communicate with people around the world. We use it for entertainment, for education, and to save lives. Computers, smartphones, tablets, MP3 players, cars, artificial limbs, medical equipment, sports equipment—the list of things affected by technology is a very long one!

    Ask & Answer

    How does technology affect your life? What would your life be like without technology?

    In Technology: Cool Women Who Code, you’ll learn about three different women who work, or have worked, in the technology industry. These women faced many challenges as they made their way into the technology field, but they were determined to succeed.

    Grace Hopper had a very long career in computers with the U.S. Navy. Shaundra Bryant Daily combines her passion for dance with teaching computer programming to her students. And Jean Yang is planning to be a professor of computer science.

    These women faced many challenges as they made their way into the technology field, but they were determined to succeed.

    You’ll read about their challenges, their inspirations, and their work. Maybe you’ll be inspired! But first, let’s look closely at some of the ways we use technology and discover the history behind the story of technology.

    Chapter 1

    TECHNOLOGY PAST AND PRESENT

    Do you have a smartphone? An MP3 player for listening to music? Do you do your homework on a laptop? Technology may be all around us, but for many hundreds of years it looked very different. Technology is defined as the use of science to invent useful things or solve problems. When we use this definition, things that we might not think of as high-tech are actually considered technology!

    A BYTE OF HISTORY

    Today, we don’t really think of fire as technology. But imagine living 350,000 years ago, when there were no heaters, fleece sweatshirts, or thermostats. What did people use to solve the challenge of staying warm and cooking food? Fire!

    People didn’t invent fire, they discovered it. But then they experimented with it until they could control it enough to use it to warm their caves and roast their meat. Fire is an early example of technology.

    If you were making a list of technological tools, you might not think to include the wheel. But the wheel is actually one of the most important technological inventions in human history! So is the steam engine.

    Without wheels and steam engines, our cities, roads, and entire civilizations would have never been built. How do we move heavy things over long distances? Wheels and steam engines are examples of humans using science to solve problems such as this.

    Without wheels and steam engines, our cities, roads, and entire civilizations would have never been built.

    In the early 1800s, Charles Babbage wanted

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