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CSTA
Every two weeks, the CSTA K-8 task group hosts a twitter chat using the hashtag #CSK8. These twitter chats help teachers like me connect with other computer science education enthusiasts; they offer us a place to share and learn new ideas for our classrooms. Since I am part of the CSTA task force that hosts these chats, I have learned a lot on how to run these twitter events. Picking the right questions for a chat is key to its success. The questions must provide the right amount of structure and be interesting so that all participants contribute to the chat. This is difficult since we do not know who will actually join the chat.
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The Hill
Top executives at dozens of technology companies signed a letter pressing Congress to provide more funds to help teach students computer science. The letter comes along with $48 million in private donations announced Tuesday to help the cause from companies like Google, Microsoft, AT&T and tech leaders such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. "We ask you to provide funding for every student in every school to have an opportunity to learn computer science," states the letter, sent to every member of Congress.
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The Boston Globe
It's no secret that coding is a bankable skill in Massachusetts. The economy here is projected to add more than 1,000 software development jobs annually through 2022, making it the most abundant job category for college graduates behind accountants, auditors, and management analysts. Companies aren't just hiring developers, they're paying them handsomely, too. Software developers' median annual income is $112,780, more than twice the national average according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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The Washington Post
Despite valiant efforts to recruit more women, the gender gap in the fields collectively known as STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — is not getting any better. The gaps in computer science and engineering are the largest of any major STEM discipline. Nationally, less than 20 percent of bachelor's degrees in these fields go to women. Women are missing out on great jobs, and society is missing out on the innovations women could be making in new technology. Good work is being done to solve this problem in college and the workplace.
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Brittany Lopez held the remote with care, keeping her eyes on the small robot in front of her. She moved her fingers gingerly to maneuver the machine — which looked more like a two-wheel, upright tractor than the humanoid version people often think of — over to a blue Lego piece. Soon the robot's mechanical arm had picked up the Lego, which was supposed to represent a miniature solar panel, and placed it on top of a small structure. "When you're a kid and growing up, you play with Legos," said Brittany, a 14-year-old eighth-grader at Vista View Middle School in Fountain Valley. “This is basically like advanced Legos. It's fun to play with the robots."
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Edutopia
President Barack Obama recently called to expand access to computer science education in American schools. As the educational community focuses on this challenge, the relationship between math education and computer science is undoubtedly moving into the spotlight. This relationship can be a controversial subject. Part of this debate springs from differing ideas of what constitutes a "strong background in mathematics." For some, it's getting a PhD in mathematics. For others, it's being able to solve multistep equations mentally.
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Cyber Security Business
Almost all the top American computer science programs fail to prepare their students for a cyber security attack, according to a recent study released by Cloud Passage. The study measured the computer science and engineering programs at 121 American institutions, including all 50 of the top ranked computer science schools in the 2015 edition of The U.S. News and World Report. The results found a lack of student options for training that the authors argue is playing a significant role in the continually increasing cyber security risks nationwide.
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The Seattle Times
Four years after graduating from the University of Washington, Audra Linsenmayer began to realize that the job opportunities were few for someone who had majored in English and psychology, as she had. She was working as a contractor at Amazon.com, editing children’s books and comic books for the company's Kindle, when Web developers there suggested she look into a degree in computer science at Western Washington University. She enrolled there in winter 2015, joining the thousands of Washington students who are seeking — or trying to seek — computer-science degrees.
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