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Education Week
Parents and teachers are concerned about young kids getting too much screen time. Should they allow any? Will kids fall behind if they aren't allowed much screen time? How and when should youngsters learn how to use computers, learn about computer science, and start developing skills that eventually lead to coding? These are all valuable competencies that will serve them well in the high-tech workplace someday. But do kids really need to start getting prepared for the jobs of the future as early as kindergarten?
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WIRED
If you feel like you keep reading about diversity in tech, well, that's because there is still not enough ... diversity in tech. The juggernauts of the first computing revolution like HP and IBM actually had reasonable gender diversity, and IBM had its first female vice president back in 1943. But fast forward to 2014 and just 31 percent of Facebook's employees are women. Same at Apple. The company has hired a new head of diversity and inclusion and says it's on its way to changing this, and indeed, half of all the company's hires from 2016-2017 were from minority groups.
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U.S. News & World Report
When it came to choosing a graduate program, 36-year-old Babak Keyvani wanted a degree that would lead to a high salary and good career prospects. "I was thinking of obtaining an MBA after my bachelor's, since I was working as a project manager at some point in my life. But I think I've always been more passionate about computers," says Keyvani, who is pursuing an online master's degree in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Wonder Workshop via District Administration Magazine
Wonder Workshop, creator of the popular Dash, Dot and Cue robots now used in over 15,000 elementary and middle schools in the U.S., announced the Teach Wonder initiative, a collaboration with state-based nonprofit partners designed to give every educator the knowledge and skills needed to bring state-of-the-art coding and robotics experiences into the classroom.
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The Boston Globe
Cambridge Analytica built a weapon. They did so understanding what uses its buyers had for it, and it worked exactly as intended. To help clients manipulate voters, the company built psychological profiles from data that it surreptitiously harvested from the accounts of 50 million Facebook users. But what Cambridge Analytica did was hardly unique or unusual in recent years: a week rarely goes by when some part of the Internet, working as intended, doesn't cause appreciable harm.
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WRTV-TV
Starting in 2021 students as young as five years old will be learning more than just reading and writing in school.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a bill into law will require computer science to be offered in public schools beginning in Kindergarten. The new law is part of a bigger workforce development effort spearheaded by the governor and aimed at training young people for skilled jobs in the future. The state is also creating a grant fund to help districts shoulder the cost but there's currently no money in it and it's unclear how much they will have to help. State lawmakers say they will discuss that next year when they craft the new state budget.
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Forbes
"It's not that a white male can't lead. I've done it," says John Hennessy, the 65-year-old president emeritus of Stanford University, long-time Google board member and new non-executive chair of its parent company, Alphabet. "It's that we all benefit by being exposed to a diverse cohort of people, working in a diverse community. Because if you're in a leadership position, you're not leading just people who look like you."
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The Washington Post
Apple's next splashy product announcement won't be from its new campus in Cupertino, California. It will take place at a magnet high school on the North Side of Chicago — a signal that Apple isn't ready to let go of the education market it once dominated. Apple has not said what products will be introduced at its event, but the announcement comes at a crucial time: as many schools are looking to renew or change over the summer their agreements with companies for classroom tech. Tech companies hope that the presence of their products in classrooms will turn students into long-term customers.
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Tech&Learning
Facilitating technology-focused professional development days takes strategic planning, follow-through and skills. Recently, Milford and East Bridgewater School Districts collaborated on district-wide digital learning days that provided successful and impactful learning experiences for staff. Here are some strategies that came out of that experience.
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eSchool News
A federal report on students' home access to digital learning resources is months late, and ed-tech groups say the delay is impeding efforts to close the homework gap. In a letter to the Institute of Education Sciences, a number of ed-tech and advocacy organizations point out that many students lack home access to the internet connectivity they need to complete homework and use online learning resources. The groups also point out that the study, which the Every Student Succeeds Act mandated be sent to Congress by June 2017, "will help policy makers identify the best ways to ensure all students can connect with broadband services and be on a path for success after graduation."
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