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For the second year in a row Oracle Academy is providing first-time CSTA Conference Attendees with the opportunity to receive a $1,000 scholarship to help them attend the conference this July in Baltimore. Thirty-five scholarships will be awarded. The application submission period will be open from April 1 - May 1.
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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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Would you like to borrow a free flock of Finch Robots for your school or library? Apply for BirdBrain Technologies' Finch Robot Loan Program by April 30, to borrow Finches for the 2017-2018 school year. In this school year alone, teachers in 200+ schools across the contiguous Unites States have impacted more than 30,000 students through the Finch Robot Loan Program! Learn more and apply for a loan of free Finch Robots here.
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CSTA
Thanks to Infosys Foundation, NSF, NCWIT and CSTA, CSPdWeek is returning this July 17-21. CSPD Week will be held in four different locations this year: Colorado School of Mines, Golden; College of St. Scholastica, Duluth MN; University of Texas, Dallas, TX; University of California, Berkeley, CA. Information and application materials are available here.
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US-based teachers — 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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Education Week
Personalized learning is a buzzword in education, but teachers' own learning often comes in a one-size-fits-all package via a crowded room or a years-old PowerPoint. Enter microcredentials, a form of professional development in which teachers work to prove mastery of single competencies. They're designed to be tailored to what a teacher needs or wants to know, from classroom management to analyzing student data.
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CBS4
Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill aimed at boosting computer science education in Colorado's public schools. The new law calls for $11,488 to go toward computer science curriculum materials. The bill was sponsored by the Democratic speaker of the House and the Republican president of the Senate. Their goal was to prepare Colorado students for jobs in technology, the fastest growing employment sector in the economy.
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Forbes
Well, what's stopping you? Go program. Stop waiting for someone else to hold your hand and physically press your fingers to the keys. You are learning programming. You're learning the fundamentals. You're learning different ways of storing data. You might end up using those ways directly, or it might just stretch your mind and you'll create your own way of storing data for that program. Either way, storing data is a pretty important part of programming. You've probably also learned basics like for-loops, if-statements, while-loops, functions, and classes. If not, then go through Codecademy and you'll learn that stuff. But I strongly suspect you already know that.
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The Mighty
Across the U.S., more and more companies are looking for web developers as well as people who can code. This field of job growth can provide significant opportunities for autistic individuals, Coding Autism, a new training program for people on the autism spectrum, believes. "Coding is a great career for people with autism because many of the traits associated with people on the spectrum correlate with those of a successful coder," Austen Weinhart, co-founder of Coding Autism, told The Mighty.
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EdTech Magazine
From creating prosthetics to exploring creativity and enhancing understanding of literature, 3-D printing has a lot of potential in the K–12 classroom. But for a teacher who has never used a tech tool like a 3-D printer, it can be a daunting. "For teachers who are inundated with tons of new technology and who have changing standards to adhere to, the intimidation factor of 3-D printing is real," says Drew Lentz, MakerBot's education manager.
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Staten Island Advance
Along with traditional reading, writing and arithmetic, students at Tottenville's PS 1 got a 21st-century lesson in computer coding, thanks to a new program being rolled out by Google. PS 1 is Staten Island's pilot school for Google's "CS First Roadshow," a computer science program that teaches kids about the importance of STEM education through interactive coding presentations.
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The Atlantic
Jane Charlton never intended to skip high school. "I was planning on just skipping ninth grade," says the renowned astrophysicist, who spent her summers taking calculus classes at Carnegie Mellon University. "But when the school year was about to start, the teachers went on strike and my math professor said, 'Why don't you just start here?'" Three years later, Charlton received her bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics. She headed for the University of Chicago, where she earned her master's at 19, and her Ph.D. at 22. By the time Charlton had her first child, in her late 20s, she was a tenured professor at Pennsylvania State University, where she maps the universe and charts the history of evolving galaxies.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 Nearly three years ago, in an article for MultiBriefs Education, I talked about the need to transform libraries for the 21st century. I discussed how schools could reinvent their libraries using a model known as a "learning commons," which integrates the functions of a library, labs, lounges and seminar areas into a single community gathering space. Over the last few years, the concept of a makerspace has also risen in classrooms and schools from coast to coast.
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