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CSTA 2020 virtual registration is now open! Join us for the same high-quality education experience you've come to love on from CSTA Conferences from your home on July 13-14. Registration includes access to 100 breakout sessions, networking opportunities, keynote addresses, the exhibit hall, and more! Register today!
If you're looking to apply for a scholarship to CSTA 2020, the deadline this Sunday, May 17! Complete the application form by midnight to be considered.
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As schools across the country cease providing in-person instruction, teachers are moving their classes and resources online. Applying proactive universal design practices in this transition can make your teaching and learning activities more welcoming and accessible to all students, including those who have disabilities related to vision, hearing, mobility, learning, attention, communication, and mental health. Some considerations for students with disabilities are different in an online classroom than in an in-person classroom.
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The pandemic has exposed the digital divide, not only in America but worldwide. With this, computer science inequity has come up to the surface.
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CSTA Equity Fellow Jacqueline Corricelli outlines seven challenges she's faced since she's shifted to remote teaching in Connecticut — and outlines potential solutions to these challenges.
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Edutopia
Instructional technology and the arts can be difficult to integrate authentically. Despite the progress of our STEM-accredited school with an evolving STEAM program, these two fields rarely overlapped in our classrooms. By focusing on a final product and promoting integration in the Hour of Code, we merged resources to create, communicate, and collaborate across grades and subject areas. Here are some tips for integrating code in arts-based settings for younger students.
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Learn how to teach Coding and Computational Thinking online and at your own pace using LEGO, VEX, and Arduino robots from researchers at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy. The certification you earn serves as evidence for up to 36 Continuing Education Credits. Click here to learn more and enroll.
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KOLN-TV
It's been about a month and a half of online learning for Lincoln Public School's students. Every subject from English to Physical Education has been transferred to computers. Computer science courses made the switch too, but one Lincoln elementary teacher is getting creative with his content.
Normally, Matt Rinne would be spending the last part of his year here at Pyrtle Elementary teaching elements of computer science like algorithms or debugging.
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EdTech Magazine
Hamilton County (Tenn.) Schools has put their 3D printers to work in recent weeks in support of frontline COVID-19 responders. At the outset of the crisis, the district rounded up its digital fabrication resources in a single lab and has since digitally printed nearly 4,500 headbands to secure face shields for healthcare workers. "We want to educate future leaders who can be thoughtful and can work together to solve real-world problems. This is a great example of that," says Jill Levine, the district's chief of innovation and choice.
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Portland Business Journals
Who would have imagined, even three months ago, that education in Oregon would move to 100% distance learning in the blink of an eye? And yet here we are.
More than 550,000 Oregon students and their teachers now find themselves in uncharted territory, with varying levels of accessibility for remote learning.
Students are suddenly spending an exponential amount of learning time in front of screens, using new applications to engage with their teachers and shifting from teacher-led activities to independent learning.
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Introducing Everything You Need to Ace Computer Science and Coding in One Big Fat Notebook, a brand-new addition to the middle-grade series that has millions of copies in print. To learn more about this invaluable resource, click here for a sample chapter, standards alignment, 50% off your order, and more!
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By Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The COVID-19 pandemic meant that schools in the U.S. and all around the world had to switch to digital learning. As schools, teachers, and students rapidly acclimatized themselves to this new version of school, a new threat emerged: cybersecurity breaches. Two school districts in the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland and Berkeley, suffered recent cybersecurity breaches, and student privacy was severely compromised. Reports of such breaches of student privacy and digital security are surfacing across the country.
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Penn Today
While gaming thrives as a $120 billion industry built around entertainment, its application has charted new and exciting territory in recent years. Militaries use them for training exercises, smartphones apply their principles to track fitness, and, in classrooms, they are wielded as a tool for teaching. And they're not entirely a new phenomenon in schools, either.
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Inside INdiana Business
An Indiana University Northwest initiative aims to accelerate and expand K-12 computer science education capacity in the Hoosier state. IndianaComputes! has been awarded a state contract of over $600,000 to accelerate and deepen computer science capacity in Indiana.
The university says the contract will fund IndianaComputes! services such as workshops, coursework, and resource development.
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By Brian Stack (commentary)
 Remote learning is not a new concept in education. For many years, it went by the terms "distance" or "correspondence" learning. With the increase of online technology options at the turn of the millennium, the terms "virtual" and "online" learning became more prevalent. Over the years, some students have thrived in these environments while others have not. My own 14-year-old son Brady is a great example. This past summer, he opted to take an online class at VLACS, an online school in New Hampshire.
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EdSurge
As university professors and researchers who work closely with K-12 online teachers and learners, we've heard from many newly remote educators who are struggling. Recent class discussions have focused on the difficulties of getting through to students without in-person contact, especially during a time of enormous stress. Some teachers report that their students lack interest and in the worst cases, that students are dropping from classes entirely.
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Our online MS in Applied Computer Science program provides individuals with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue software development. Students taking two courses per semester, 6 credit hours per semester (including summer semesters), may complete the program in two years.
Learn more at westga.edu/cs
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Apple’s App Development with Swift Level 1 certification prepares students to succeed in the booming app economy. Students will stand out to prospective employers and teachers will be recognized for helping students obtain high-paying jobs.
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EdTech Magazine
Immersive technologies such as AR and VR have the potential to transform student learning in the K-12 classroom. They can help educators provide a hands-on approach to learning, accommodate students' diverse needs and promote a sense of curiosity and wonder.
"In an ongoing quest to maintain students' attention, new visualization and interaction tools are a natural fit," says Eric Abbruzzese, principal analyst at ABI Research, in a press release for their "Augmented and Virtual Reality in Education" report.
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EdSurge
Each week, Ann Vinson ticks off the items one-by-one on the voluminous remote learning checklist her school requires. First, she schedules two class meetings for social interaction, where her 22 second graders read aloud and play games. Next, she plans small-group reading and math sessions. Then she sits on standby for regular office hours before teaching a full two hours synchronously — that is, streaming live to her students — over several sessions on Zoom.
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Education Week
Officials in New York state announced agreements with the videoconference platform Zoom designed to address privacy and security vulnerabilities that had affected schools in New York City and nationwide. First, New York City's Department of Education publicized an agreement with Zoom that will allow educators there to resume using Zoom as a virtual classroom tool, one month after the department had imposed a Zoom ban. School employees and students will have access to a version of Zoom that complies with an agreement specific to New York City's education department.
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ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. CSTA appreciates ACM's ongoing support!
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