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Education Week
Education companies can partner with educational entities to apply for new federal funds aimed at STEM learning and computer science education in K-12 schools. Two U.S. Department of Education programs are open for applications for fiscal 2018, with deadlines fast approaching. Each program has a focus on expanding access and effectiveness of K-12 instruction in science, technology, engineering and math, as well as computer science.
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eSchool News
A few years ago, computer programming for kids was a niche subject that only children of select parents were exposed to. Fast-forward to today, where coding for kids has embedded itself into many mainstream education curriculums around the world. Even though the popularity of teaching kids to code has increased, there are still concerns with screen time for young children. But what if there were a way to teach kids to code without screens? In fact, there are several ways to teach children the concept of computer programming that do not involve a computer, an iPad or even a smartphone.
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WSCH-FM
A bill that will require Indiana schools to offer a computer science class has been signed into law. Gov. Eric Holcomb signed Senate Bill 172. Bill author and state senator Jeff Raatz, R-Centerville, and Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg, a co-author of the bill, were among those in attendance for the signing ceremony. "I look at this as a preparation for workforce development across the State of Indiana," Raatz remarked at the bill signing.
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Education Week
Beginning next school year, students in New Mexico will be able to count computer science courses toward math and science graduation requirements. With this new policy, which the Public Education Department announced late last month, New Mexico joins a growing group: Currently, 36 states allow computer science to count as a graduation requirement, according to Code.org, a nonprofit organization that has advocated for the integration of computer science into the K-12 curriculum.
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BusinessCloud
Organizations are being invited to run the first ever National Center of Computing Science Education. School Standards Minister Nick Gibb announced that the national center, along with 40 leading schools across the country, will help improve teaching of the computing curriculum. It is supported by a new program which will train up to 8,000 computing teachers on the latest digital skills — enough to ensure every secondary school in England has a teacher who can support pupils to succeed.
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EdTech Magazine: Focus on Higher Education
Less than two years ago, a Danish research team released the data of nearly 70,000 people who used a popular dating site so that it would be available for public study. More recently, we've learned how Facebook uses our data, Twitter bots share links and a popular education company collected student test data for a research project. In all of these cases, personal data is accumulated — and manipulated — without individuals' expressed consent. And while some may argue that using these applications implies consent, others counter that society has reached a critical juncture, and we must consider the moral and ethical questions generated by the growth of technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and Big Data.
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eSchool News
Science, technology, engineering, and math are not just important topics for school children — they are essential to our culture. These fields help the environment, revolutionize healthcare, innovate our country's security, and ensure our global economic competitiveness. According to the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the U.S. is not producing enough STEM undergraduate degrees to match the forecasted demand, creating a national workforce crisis. Fewer people pursuing STEM degrees means fewer scientists finding clever solutions to antibiotics resistance, fewer technophiles turning data into targeted healthcare, fewer engineers designing homes and buildings to withstand rising seas and powerful storms.
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St. George Daily Spectrum
Inspiring high-school girls to consider a career in technology was the focus of a daylong program at Southern Utah University. The Southern Utah Girls in Technology event drew about 190 young women from seven Utah counties, according to Shalini Kesar, who added that approximately 110 of them were from Iron County. The teens gathered at the Sharwan Smith Student Center to learn the basics of cybersecurity and coding. How to use social media for positive change, programming tiny robots, and unraveling the intricacies of how hardware and software interact were also part of the lesson plan.
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