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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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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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Arizona Daily Star
One hour of coding instruction is not going to teach anyone to create the next generation of the "Minecraft" video game. But Sen. John Kavanagh figures that if students are exposed to understanding what computer coding can do, it will encourage at least a handful to want to know more about what makes computers, cellphones and video games work. So the Scottsdale Republican persuaded the House Education Committee to vote 7-4 to require students to be exposed to just one hour of coding sometime between the 4th and 12th grades. SB 1136, which already has cleared the Senate 17-13, now needs approval of the full House.
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Silicon Angle
To understand what type of woman chooses computing as a career, theCUBE spoke to Cornelia Davis, senior director of technology at Pivotal Software Inc. during the Women Transforming Technology Conference in Palo Alto, CA. Davis said her first reaction to computer science was essentially: Yuck. Davis told Rebecca Knight, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's mobile live streaming studio, a story about returning to high school one year and looking up her classes.
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EdSurge
Walking up to the Young Women's Leadership School in the Bronx, there is a barbershop and a few run down bodegas. A group of young men in front of a residential building exchange what appears to be marijuana joints. It's not the first place you expect to find a pioneer education program, but the Young Women's Leadership School is one of the city's first public schools to have a full computer science course.
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Education Week
Can an after-school program change the way a student perceives science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, fields? That's one of the key questions for researchers working on a new study set to be released later this month about the impact of after-school programs with a STEM focus. So far, no official release date for the study entitled, "Afterschool & STEM System Building Evaluation 2016," has been set, but researchers did provide an 11-page overview of their findings today.
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The Associated Press via The News
Half a dozen bills before the state Legislature address the growing concern that California students don't have the computer science skills necessary to thrive in the modern workforce. Educators and tech industry leaders would like high schools to teach students more than just how to use a computer — the goal now is for students to be able to program one. Computer science shouldn't be a niche field for the highly educated any longer, advocates say.
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Engadget
Thanks to a bigger push toward computer science education, there's been an influx of coding toys for kids in recent years. Even tech companies like Apple and Google have joined in with tools to get younger minds to embrace code. Now littleBits, the toy company behind magnetic build-your-own circuits, is getting in on the fun with a new product called littleBits Code Kit. The premise: build games, have fun and, hopefully, learn to code in the process. It will retail for $300 and hit store shelves by June.
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Argus Leader
The school board voted. The contract was approved. And now, the Sioux Falls School District is charging ahead with plans to add computer science immersion programs to three elementary schools this fall. Lowell Elementary, Anne Sullivan Elementary and Hayward Elementary are the three schools that will host the new program, district spokesman Ben Schumacher told Argus Leader Media.
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