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Teachers are an important resource for students when it comes to their college decisions. Indeed, undergraduates students often state that a high school teacher influenced their decision to become a computer science major. This blogpost includes a number of for CS teachers to help their students learn about computing related majors. It might also help teachers recruit students in their computer science courses and highlight the breadth of majors available for students. Along with my colleague Susanne Hambrusch, we have developed the following list of resources for computer science teachers as a part of our NSF-funded PD4CS project.
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Richmond Free Press
The three R's of education are getting a new addition in Virginia — computer science. As part of education reforms approved in the recent session, the General Assembly unanimously passed legislation making the theory and practice of computer operations and the ability to write software code part of a well-rounded education on par with the traditional subjects of reading, writing and arithmetic. If signed by the governor as expected, Virginia would be the first state to require public schools in Richmond and across the state to incorporate computer science and computer coding into K-12 education.
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Crosscut.com
Women's role in the computer revolution is often glazed over. There's Ada Lovelace, the mathematician sometimes called the "world's first computer programmer", who sketched out the possibilities of computers way back in the 1800s. In 1945, one of the world's first electronic general-purpose computers was built, with six female mathematicians creating its programs. By the early '80s, personal digital computers were taking off, and computer science was a major in universities. The number of women earning bachelor's degrees in computing hovered around 40 percent.
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EdScoop
Computer science education is starting to catch on. Nineteen new members recently joined the Computer Science Education Coalition, an expanding organization composed of more than 60 leading tech firms that are pushing Congress to approve $250 million to expand coding programs and courses in K-12 schools across the country. When President Barack Obama announced he would request the funding for the Computer Science for All initiative in his federal budget proposal, tech companies like Google, Salesforce, Amazon and Code.org came on board to offer investments and teacher training for a workforce that may be unfamiliar with computer science education.
Editor's Note: The Computer Science Teachers Association is also a member of the Computer Science Education Coalition (CSEC).
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Education DIVE
Imagine a classroom of wriggly 5-year-olds coaxing lines of code out of 1:1 tech devices as a weekly component of kindergarten instruction. Three self-described STEM advocates, Ayeola Boothe Kinlaw of 100Kin10, Ioannis Miaoulis of Boston's Museum of Science, and Ruthie Chen Ousley of Teach for America, say kindergarten lessons could be going that way. The trio recently published an op-ed in U.S. News and World Report stressing the significance of early learning related to engineering.
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The Huffington Post
Pablo Picasso, in one of his more famous quotes said "Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up." But Picasso did not envision a future where tech and coding would be so prevalent and important. A large number of these types of jobs require computer science skills in equal part to arts. In these jobs you can stay as an artist, using technology as your canvas and Javascript, Python, and other computer languages as your paint. It is a medium that Picasso never envisioned, and it is allowing practical, tech-tistic innovations previously unknown. Without creativity, technology would not be usable.
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THE Journal
Technology teachers face a number of challenges within the STEM fields, like teaching students how to solve problems and providing them with the skills they'll need to succeed at nonscripted jobs or jobs that may not exist yet. "There are a lot of jobs where you have to figure out the answer to a problem on your own. Your boss gives you a task and says, 'go do it.' I think the importance of STEM is teaching kids how to identify a problem and design a solution to that problem on their own," said Chad Allen, STEM coordinator, Fort Mill School District in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
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The Sacramento Bee
California is home to Silicon Valley, a hub of technological innovation. The computer industry boasts hundreds of thousands of well-paying information technology jobs, with more on the way. IT departments are now a staple of corporate America. Yet the large majority of California's public high schools don't offer dedicated computer science or computer programming courses, according to a Sacramento Bee review of teacher assignment data from the California Department of Education.
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