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CSTA
Earlier this week, all CSTA members received an email from ElectionBuddy.com with a personalized link to the ballot for the 2019 elections. If you haven't received this email, contact customerservice@csteachers.org.
Two-thirds of the CSTA Board of Directors is elected by CSTA and CSTA+ members worldwide. The candidates for the 2019 elections are:
- K-8 Teacher Representative: Alana Robinson, Vicky Sedgwick
- 9-12 Teacher Representative: Doug Bergman, Art Lopez
- School District Representative: Dan Blier, Bryan Twarek
- At-Large Representative: Lien Diaz, Michelle Friend
Full details about the election, including statements by the candidates, can be found on CSTA's website. Vote today!
The Advocate
According to the World Economic Forum's highly recommended meta-study "21st Century Skills", schools need to prepare students to have a "future-based mindset" with skills such as collaboration, creativity, and adaptability. Their answer: project-based learning. While PBL is gaining much speed in schools, how to manage projects can be a challenge: who is doing most of the work? who isn't participating fully? how do you assess who has done what?
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INFORUM
Parents have been asking schools to teach younger North Dakota students more computer and cyber science including coding and even cybersecurity. After all, the jobs are certainly there with more than 350,000 openings nationwide in cybersecurity, for example, and only a handful going into the field, according to statistics provided to the state.
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The Daily
Computer science is well known as one of the most — if not the most — commercially viable majors. But clocking in with six-figure salaries and endless job opportunities comes at a cost: cutthroat admissions and an extremely competitive environment. College is a time of new changes as well as adjustments to a new environment. Pair that with an interest in computer science and the average student will usually find themselves in a very stressful situation, most notably at large public institutions like the UW and its peers.
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eSchool News
Apps are often a great way for educators to leverage classroom mobile devices and engage students in different concepts. And by now, "there's an app for that" certainly rings true in most situations. But educators don't necessarily have time to sift through lists of apps and vet their functionality and content to ensure the apps will actually benefit students.
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Forbes
Small children's eyes light up as they watch the magical machine making their ornament or mini-turtle in front of their very eyes, layer by layer. They seem mesmerized by the machine as it creates their own individually-designed thing. A computer teacher in a private school in Maryland has told reporters that the most common request she hears from students as young as kindergarten is to use her 3-D printer.
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PC Magazine
Don't have a computer science course at your high school? Amazon may be able to help you out with that. The online retail giant announced plans to fund computer science courses in more than 1,000 high schools across the US through its Future Engineer program. Of those schools, more than 700 are classified as Title 1, meaning a high percentage of their students come from low-income families. "We want to ensure that every child, especially those from underprivileged communities, has an opportunity to study computer science," Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO Jeff Wilke said in a statement.
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KSNT-TV
High school students could soon have another option to choose from when picking their math or science class. Making computer science more prevalent in the classroom, that was the idea behind a bill introduced. Kansas House Education Committee members discussed the bill as a new way to better prepare students for a 21st century economy.
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[Brilliant]
 Whether you’re an educator, a researcher, or an engineer, your work is all about solving problems. You understand that knowing the answer is not the same as knowing how to get the answer. You know that there are always new problems to solve, and having the critical reasoning skills to tackle them is of utmost importance. With Brilliant, you can develop the skills you need to approach challenges with confidence.
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District Administration Magazine
Today’s student must learn to code. But districts struggle to implement comprehensive programs that keep up with advancing technology in various schools and grades. Educators also realize that coding prepares students for highly computerized careers, and boosts critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
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ABC News
When Reshma Saujani brought her idea for Girls Who Code, an organization she founded to close the gender gap in technology, to a trusted business associate, he told her "this is not going to work." "He said, 'Girls' and boys' brains are different, you know, girls don't have the same aptitude for computer science; it's never going to work,'" Saujani told ABC News’ Chief Business, Technology and Economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis.
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KMAland
A work group made up of educators and parents is creating computer science standards for Missouri's K-12 public schools. The new measures are a result of the 2018 passage of House Bill 3. The legislation, passed during last September's special session of the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Mike Parson, teaches career awareness to middle schoolers about STEM — science, technology, engineering and math. It also lets high schoolers swap a math class with a computer science class for graduation.
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Eighth-grade students Estella Fenter and Braeden Stutes talk like video gamers with nuanced discussions that touch on coding, graphic design and how watching ants can help with software development. Estella and Braeden have long been comfortable with computers, iPads and popular video games such as Fortnite. "I got my first laptop when I was 9 and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I can do so much with this thing,'" said Braeden, who is now 13. Later, when he got a computer at 11, he said things just sparked.
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eSchool News
Social and emotional learning and coding are among the top classroom trends that teachers needed help funding last year, according to an analysis of 2018 project requests from the DonorsChoose platform. Teachers dip into their own pockets to fund classroom projects and buy supplies, and as it turns out, others are happy to donate, too — to the tune of more than $170 million last year. Since its creation in 2000, more than 3.5 million people and partners have donated an astounding $780 million through DonorsChoose.org to help teachers pay for the projects and experiences they want to give their students.
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EdScoop
While this generation of students is growing up using technology, they often lack the complete host of digital literacy skills needed for success by the time they enter high school, said Jeff Meyer, director of education at Learning.com during a recent webinar hosted by edWeb.net. The technology and core standards of organizations such as ISTE, CSTA and Common Core State Initiative stipulate that students need foundational digital literacy skills to demonstrate writing, reading and mathematical achievement.
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ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. CSTA appreciates ACM's ongoing support!
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