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CSTA 2021 Scholarship Applications are Now Open!
CSTA
CSTA prides itself in promoting equitable access to the CSTA Annual Conference by offering scholarships that subsidize 100% of the program cost. These scholarships are intended to support teachers whose limited financial resources may prevent them from attending. Our goal is to support as many teachers as possible.
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Bring computer science to life with BirdBrain Technologies' brand-new Finch Robot! Great for students from kindergarten to college, the Finch works with a wide range of programming options - from icon-based apps for pre-readers to Python and Java. Try the Finch Robot today and bring engaging physical computing to your classroom!
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Hybrid Learning to Support Children's Positive Technological Development: Choices of Conduct (Part 1)
CSTA
In our first post in the series, Introduction, we shared our background in education, our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a summary of foundational research in creating a learning experience for young children that aligns with Positive Technological Development framework. In this post, we are going to break down the PTD behavior, Choices of Conduct. We have invited our friend and colleague, Dr, Ziva Hassenfeld, to share a research project titled The Development of Virtues in Early Childhood Education Through Robotics.
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Did you know that you can give your programming students an incredible head start on higher education—and their careers? The Unity Certified User Programmer certification focuses on the basics of C# programming within the Unity software.
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.HEADLINES FROM THE FIELD
Best Valentine's Day digital activities
Tech&Learning
Valentine's Day provides an excellent opportunity to incorporate fun and engaging pop culture into your classroom or remote learning instruction. Graphic arts, design, literacy, social-emotional learning and even STEM topics lend themselves nicely to Valentine's Day themes.
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This incredible toy teaches kids coding without the need for screens
Futurism
Educational toys aren't what they used to be. The days of flashcards, building blocks and workbooks are as archaic as the lessons they taught. These days, if you want your child to have a competitive chance at a successful future, you have to prepare them with programs that will enrich the STEM curriculum.
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We are a tech company and social enterprise based in Silicon Valley. Our digital textbook "Merscythe: Adventures with the Codue" is a unique product for teaching the Python programming language.
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5 ways to overcome compassion fatigue in K-12 education
District Administration Magazine
As the world continues to experience rising levels of COVID cases, healthcare workers, teachers, parents, administrators and others are feeling the heavy weight of burnout and compassion fatigue. While we don't normally think of K-12 educators as the most susceptible to compassion fatigue, the demands of the field often lead to similar outcomes as those in healthcare.
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5 most effective ways to get your kid started with coding?
Inventiva
Learning to code has immense benefits. From developing creative and computational thinking to enhancing problem-solving skills, there is a myriad of reasons to learn kids programming. Programming is the way to instruct computers to follow the instructions that humans want them to perform. Coding the problem into a language that is understandable by the computers can not only be fun and engaging but also help in sharpening the brain by applying problem-solving strategies.
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Array's Girls Who Code program aims to close computer science gender gap
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
About half of the people Ana Monzon works with at her software development job are women. "With more women in the room, you get different perspectives on how to solve problems. There's more creativity," said Monzon, who's worked with many women in the field since the 1980s and volunteers to teach coding to teenage girls in Cheyenne through a program called Girls Who Code. "But it's not like that everywhere. I know, I've looked at the numbers."
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4 ways to support students during online learning
eSchool News
Online learning can both hinder and hold back a child. During this past year, educators and students across the country have grappled with how to adapt to online learning challenges.
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Making the most of parent-teacher conferences during distance learning
Edutopia
Partnering with families is one of the most powerful ways to promote a sense of communal ownership in a child's learning experience. How we partner with families has evolved as we experienced remote and/or hybrid instruction. Maybe we've met our students' families through our email inboxes, or maybe there's been the luxury of an in-person meeting at the school yard or in years past.
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Q&A: 'Girls Who Code' founder is on a mission
University of Virginia
During her time on the University of Virginia's Grounds, Mara Hart had joined a couple of student organizations that she really liked, ones in which she had made some great friends. However, Hart knew deep down that she hadn't really found her niche yet. After studying abroad in 2018, Hart realized that if she didn't immerse herself into something that she was truly passionate about, she might run out of time to do so.
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Canadian youth are turning to coding as the new language to gain critical skills
Benzinga
With schools and parents opting for online learning as a safe alternative to in-classroom learning for their child's education, youth are picking up more tech-savvy skills. This includes the valuable skill of coding, with one nonprofit reporting an increase of more than 80 million hours of youth coding since the start of the pandemic in 2020.
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5 ways to create a virtual classroom with Microsoft Teams
EdTech Magazine
Students may now be learning from home, but many teachers still think in terms of the classroom, whether it's a virtual one or in a brick-and-mortar building. That's why collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams have become so valuable during the pandemic. They provide an all-in-one hub that help teachers replicate — with a few modifications for the digital realm — many of the same activities that are part of their classroom routines.
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What have we learned about moving education online?
Schools Week
Twelve months ago, terms such as "online learning" and "virtual schooling" were virtually unheard of and held no importance in school improvement plans. However, with the turn of a new year and a return to remote learning, it's safe to say this is no longer the case and is never likely to be again. For nearly a year, "remote learning" has presented numerous challenges for the profession. Beyond the challenge of access to devices and an internet connection, once students are attending their virtual classes the key challenge is to hold on to them.
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Overcoming the digital divide: School districts create their own wireless networks
Tech&Learning
To close the digital divide school districts across the country have paid for internet for students and provided hotspot-enabled devices to students in need. But a number of school districts — from Rhode Island to California to Texas and in between — have gone a step further and used pandemic-related funding to invest in infrastructure to bypass internet carriers, in some cases becoming their own internet service providers. Some have laid down broadband cables while others are beaming connectivity into student's homes with cutting-edge technology.
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