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The Advocate (commentary)
Anthony Owen J.D., M.S.E., a contributor for CSTA's The Advocate, writes: "'Don't tell me what things look like. Tell me what things are.' Yes, I know I just mixed quotes, but let's get to the point, and it is not to discuss The Child (AKA Baby Yoda). This blog was supposed to come out around the first of December, but I requested that I be able to delay it until after Computer Science Education Week, because I knew that I would want to highlight our announcements during that week and also speak to the state's 5-year report on the #ARKidsCanCode / #CSforAR Initiative that was just released in early January."
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THE Journal
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine are launching a program to develop computational curriculum that focuses on the needs of English language learners. School of Education Professor Mark Warschauer has won a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, to study how to improve the teaching of computational thinking to culturally and linguistically diverse students in U.S. public schools. The grant lasts for five years. Warschauer is a professor of education and informatics who runs the university's Digital Learning Lab.
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eSchool News
Students exposed to coding and programming at an early age are well equipped to take on higher-level computer science courses in high school — and they also build essential skills for future opportunities in the technology world.
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The Advocate (commentary)
Hai Hong, a contributor for CSTA's The Advocate, writes: "At last summer's CSTA Annual Conference, Executive Director Jake Baskin announced the launch of a nationwide Computer Science Honor Society, building off of the success of CodeVA's work in Virginia. The response from schools has been strong: to date, 128 schools across the United States have already set up a CS honor society."
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
There was little to no representation in science and math for Jena Olson as a young girl, and that mattered. She loved both subjects and thought about becoming a doctor, but couldn't really see herself as a "science person" back then. As an adult, she's been working to change that for other children.
"Looking back on it now, I realize that it probably had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't have many female role models in those areas", she says.
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Government Technology
Community leaders are investing in Rockford's future engineers and scientists by helping start the passion for math and science at a young age. Collins Aerospace and Discovery Center Museum have partnered to create an outreach program that will offer hands-on, interactive STEM activities to students in Rockford schools.
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Chain Store Age
An e-tail giant is donating a seven-figure sum to make science education more accessible in Washington State. Amazon has made a $2 million total donation to two Washington nonprofit organizations working increase exposure of STEM and computer science education to hundreds of thousands of Washington state students, especially those from underserved and underrepresented communities. The donation includes $1 million to Washington STEM, a statewide nonprofit organization that advances excellence, innovation and equity in STEM for all Washington students, and $1 million to the Pacific Science Center, a nonprofit focused on creating curiosity about and enabling access to science education.
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York Dispatch
When it comes to applying learned skills in the real world, everything is connected, said Rob Freil, director of curriculum and instruction for South Western School District. "As adults, we don't say, 'I'm going to do math now for 45 minutes,'" but rather, Freil said, people see math throughout the day, in every part of their lives. The same is true for computer science — a growing need in the workforce today that the state has recently supported with an increased focus on technical education and endorsement of K-12 Computer Science Teacher Association standards last year.
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eSchool News
Creativity and play are children's work. They build confidence, encourage risk taking, and ultimately shape the soft skills young people need to negotiate school and careers. But, as children get older, their playfulness and creative spirit wane. They aren't so keen on trying new things and are often afraid of failing when they do.
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The Hechinger Report
For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. The evidence that students learn better this way has not been strong and, instead, we're reading reports that technology use at school sometimes hurts student achievement.
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The Hill
Fikir Teklemedhin, like most middle schoolers, didn't know what she wanted to do for a career. One day in seventh grade, she found herself sitting in a Java programming class, unsure of what to expect. The experience delighted her. No longer a passive user of technology, she was thrilled with the opportunity to manipulate everything on the screen in front of her. "It was such a novelty," Teklemedhin says. Before, "I would stream, I would browse the internet, but that wasn't the same as actually making the computer do what I wanted it to. [Also,] it was interesting to see the background behind what actually goes on instead of just using it with a layer of abstraction."
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The Philomath Gazette-Times
Gathering earlier this month over two days in Philomath, hundreds of students and their adult mentors took over the local high school's gymnasiums as they tried to reach for the sky. This wasn't high-flying basketball players in a slam-dunk competition or cheer squads executing complex pyramid formations.
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