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CSTA
Early bird pricing for the CSTA Conference has been extended until April 1. Register now to attend the 2017 Annual Conference in Baltimore this July. Click here to find out more about our program, pricing, hotel details and to register.
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Zulama and the Computer Science Teachers Association are pleased to offer a Computer Science and Game Design 30-hour professional development program designed for K-12 Teachers. Through this fun and highly interactive, self-paced, online course, you will learn and apply game design principles and programming skills.
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Office of Innovation and Improvement
The U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the launch of the FY 2017 Teacher and School Leader (TSL) Incentive Program competition. TSL funding will provide grantees with the opportunity to promote effective teaching through the development of human capital management systems and the use of performance-based compensation. For more information about how to apply for a TSL grant, click here to visit the application info and eligibility page.
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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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The Atlantic
The Finns are pretty bemused by Americans' preoccupation with whether to put iPads in every classroom. If a tablet would enhance learning, great. If it wouldn't, skip it. Move on. The whole thing is a little tilting-at-windmills, anyway. That was the gist of the conversation one recent morning at the Finnish Embassy in Washington, D.C., where diplomats and experts gathered to celebrate the country's education accomplishments as Finland turns 100. And Americans could stand to take notes. (Yes, from Finland — again.)
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EdSurge
Last year, the College Board piloted a new Advanced Placement course in computer science: AP Computer Science Principles, a program that the organization hoped would engage more females and students of color in computer science. Today, the nonprofit is releasing data from the pilot, in addition to other results from a slew of other AP courses that more than 2.6 million students completed in the 2015-2016 school year.
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Voice of America
Women are under-represented in the technology industry around the world. At colleges and universities in the United States, women represent only one in six students of computer science. That number is changing at some schools, like Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. The school is a leader in getting women interested in technological professions. At its robotics laboratory, a small robot performs the movements of tai chi, an ancient Chinese meditation exercise.
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Tribune-Review
They look like anything but computer whizzes, but the kindergarten students at Newlonsburg Elementary School might just surprise you. These tots are learning the fundamentals of computer programming as they work in groups to come up with instructions to move a "BeeBot" around the classroom. The yellow and black bee-like robots were designed to expose youngsters to computer coding when they're just beginning to learn to read. Franklin Regional sent the district's kindergarten teachers to workshops last year to introduce them to BeeBots.
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The Stanford Daily
Efforts to use computer science to solve societal problems have proliferated in recent years, but not all agree that CS is the best avenue to affect change. Noah Arthurs '18, Sawyer Birnbaum '18, Nick Pether '18 and Sonja Johnson-Yu '18 are questioning whether CS should be used at all in creating social change through their new group, EthiCS.
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Government Technology
Data breaches frequently make front-page news — highlighting the growing demand for expertise in cybersecurity and the shortage of skilled professionals in the field. At Waipahu High School some teens are getting a head start on the job market by taking coding classes for credit, including a pioneering course on cybersecurity that starts this fall. Already, four of them are on track to work part time at the National Security Agency's Hawaii office while they are seniors.
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Education Dive
The challenge of schools without instructors and self-paced assignments is that much of the same material received from paying for an academy can be researched online. And ironically enough, this is the way that students are encouraged to learn principles and mastery of coding.
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Cronkite News
Recognize this language? ¿Cual es su nombre? How about this one? { console.log("Name: " + myString); } The first one is Spanish. The next, although those are English words, is JavaScript, a computer language. Computers are everywhere, from microwaves to phones, from cars to the international space station. They may have different functions, but they run on the same thing: a coding language.
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Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Students will soon learn coding in kindergarten. School board members Monday will consider a $1.26 million contract between the Sioux Falls School District and Code to the Future to create a computer science immersion program in three elementary schools. It's a high ticket price, but Superintendent Brian Maher said the extensive professional development support will make the contract worthwhile. "That's a reasonable cost for a program of this magnitude," Maher said.
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