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CSTA
Earn your Cyber Teacher Certificate issued by the Computer Science Teachers Association and delivered by LifeJourney. Includes 8 CEUs. Fully sponsored with no cost to you or your school. Click here to register.
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CSTA
Join CSTA in Baltimore this summer at the 2017 Annual Conference. Click here to find out more about our program, pricing, hotel details and to register.
Education Week
Since it began in 2013, Hour of Code has been promoted as an event that can change a young person's life by exposing him or her to the wonders of computing even if only for 60 minutes. But is Hour of Code really an effective tool with lasting benefits? Code.org has produced a new study that attempts to answer this question. The study entitled, "The Hour of Code: Impact on Attitudes Towards and Self-Efficacy with Computer Science" is based on data collected through a survey of students during Computer Science Education Week last December.
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The Daily Universe
Computer programming schools have gained popularity in the past four years and offer unique advantages to students when it comes to attracting employers. According to a 2016 study by Course Report, coding school graduates have increased from 2,178 students in 2013 to a projected 17,966 students in 2016 across 91 U.S. and Canadian full-time coding bootcamps. Coding schools or bootcamps typically consist of a three-month long curriculum and cost around $11,000. However, a growing trend in the industry is for coding schools to allow students to pay a percentage of their tuition once they get a job post-graduation.
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USA Today
When he was 14 years old, Lawrence Birnbaum taught himself how to program, but he had trouble even finding a computer to work on. Still, he knew computers were going to be the future. That was in the late 1960s. When Birnbaum — today a computer science professor at Northwestern — was in college, there were relatively few computer science majors, and his professors had graduated from schools of math or electrical engineering. The field was still new. Fast forward to now. New computer science graduates often have their pick of opportunities as recruiters struggle to fill positions in the industry.
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CNet
Children of the future will need to know how to code, and Sony knows it. Sony Global Education, the company's education arm, now brings us Koov, a set of Lego-like pieces that teach kids the basics of coding and robot construction, according to Nikkei Tech.The Koov pieces contain sensors and actuators that spring to life when kids use them to build shapes and models. The completed sculptures can be wirelessly connected to a computer, where kids can use basic coding to make the Koov blocks move around and light up, as seen in the video above.
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Green Bay Press Gazette
Tying shoelaces, zipping a jacket and coloring inside the lines can be challenging tasks for many children who are starting school. The students in Jessica Gwidt's kindergarten class at Hillcrest Elementary School, however, are whiz kids when it comes to deciphering symbols, programming robots and carrying out instructions from start to finish. "Parents are blown away, sometimes, at what their kids can do," Gwidt said. Her group of young pupils is among more than 1,500 students who are getting hands-on training in coding at the Pulaski School District's five elementary schools.
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District Administration Magazine
With the U.S. Department of Education doling out billions of dollars to promote diversity and to support low-income schools in 2017, administrators across the country are also working to better serve students of all backgrounds, abilities and interests. Two annual conferences this spring — the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National Science Teachers Association — will feature multiple sessions designed to help educators deliver more equitable curriculums.
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CIO Review
With the rise of the digital era fueling proliferation of apps on diverse platforms such as mobile and web, software programming has become one of the most robust areas of technology development. Today, programmers are in great pressure to stand out in the crowd — both in functionality, design and user experience. The new generation of coders and software developers are avid consumers of media since mobile devices, website, apps, gadgets and electronics, YouTube, Netflix and Facebook are embedded in their daily lives.
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eSchool News
Though makerspaces are becoming more mainstream, creating and maintaining one could overwhelm educators who are starting from scratch. Aside from the technology tools and other resources that make up the space, it's wise to have a plan in terms of when students will use the space, how it will be shared, where funding will come from, and how students will demonstrate what they are learning.
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Day Of Cyber
Tina Williams, President, TCecure LLC., announced that 25 Cyber Teacher Certificate Program Sponsorships are available for Maryland teachers through the CyberPoint International Mentor Protégé Program. The Cyber Teacher Professional Development Certificate Program is an online process that provides teachers, upon completion, with eight hours of continuing education units issued by the Computer Science Teachers Association. The program includes the Fundamentals of Cyber online adaptive learning course and interactive cyber experiences for the student and teacher. Further, students will have the opportunity to run through cyber challenges.
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Google
For Black History Month, the K-12 Education Outreach Team has released a 1 sheet brief that focuses exclusively on the K-12 CS experiences of Black students in the U.S. and provides specific recommendations as informed by our Diversity Gaps in Computer Science report. Our findings highlight that while many Black students show high interest and confidence in learning CS, many lack opportunities to learn CS in school compared to their White and Hispanic peers. Our recommendations highlight the need to advocate for and increase computer and CS access for Black students that leverage both students' and parents' high interest in CS and broaden CS learning opportunities on mobile devices.
This brief is the second in a series of pull out focus briefs we'll be publishing to highlight the K-12 CS experiences of underrepresented groups in the U.S. (g.co/cseduresearch). Feel free to share with your colleagues and contacts, and on social channels with #googlecsedu and URL goo.gl/FIhXKp.
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