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Associations Now
In an effort to give students a future leg up in an industry that's increasingly important, the Computer Science Teachers Association is boosting its certification offerings. The initiative came about after the group's members expressed interest in such a program. Based on a just-launched initiative, it's clear a leading association for computer science educators listens to its members. The Computer Science Teachers Association, a group focused on middle school and high school educators, recently announced a plan to boost its cybersecurity education efforts. The plan came about after CSTA collaborated with the National Security Agency on a cybersecurity program for students.
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THE Journal
The annual H-1B visa lottery for high-skilled non-immigrant foreign workers opened April 1, and within five business days, the number of applications eclipsed the 85,000 visas available for fiscal 2017. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced April 12 that it had received more than 236,000 applications for those temporary work visas, most of them for computer-related occupations. (Those who receive them will be determined by lottery.) The disparity between supply and demand for the visas serves to underscore and perhaps to exacerbate the shortage of domestic specialists in the burgeoning field of data and network security.
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PRNewswire
Girls Who Code, the national nonprofit working to close the gender gap in technology, released a series of videos satirizing stereotypes about why women are underrepresented in computer science. The videos present absurd theories for why girls "can't" code, pointing to ridiculous reasons such as "they have boobs," "they menstruate," and "they're beautiful." With their funny and provocative tone, the videos are designed to spark conversation about unconscious bias and reclaim stereotypes related to gender and appearance that have been used to exclude women from traditionally male-dominated fields like technology.
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WCVE-TV
Virginia’s Board of Education is set to adopt new computer science criteria into the statewide Standards of Learning requirements. The revision comes from a bill from the 2016 General Assembly session. HB831 is a bipartisan measure. It directs the board to revise K-12 public education standards by adding computer science, computational thinking and computer coding to the state SOL guidelines. During the bill’s ceremonial signing at Richmond City’s Franklin Military Academy, Governor Terry McAuliffe received the legislation from a talking robot operated by 8th grader, Stacia Brown.
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eSchool News
Thanks to recent strides in robotics and mobile devices, telepresence technology has opened up numerous possibilities at both the K-12 and higher-ed levels, where remote observation and communication can come in handy. Educators and students are exploring a new way to remotely observe and interact with colleagues and peers with a telepresence robot that enables face-to-face communication.
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Brookings
Education in science, technology, engineering and math is a priority for policymakers that want the United States to remain competitive in these fields. While this discussion has gone on for some time, the rapid pace of technological advancement makes STEM education an increasingly urgent topic. Preparing a workforce that can adapt to rapid technology change remains a critical policy challenge.
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EdSurge
Even if you didn't grow up watching the resourceful adventures of Secret Agent MacGyver — who usually sported a Swiss Army knife and a roll of duct tape, the Maker Movement is an exciting space in which to problem solve. In his book, the Maker Movement Manifesto, Mark Hatch describes making physical things that "embody portions of our souls." I believe there's no reason we can’t add a digital layer to our students' Makerspaces.
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Argus Leader
Students in Jason Whiting's class don't always realize they're learning. His sixth-grade students play a game in which they code in computer programming languages to complete simple objectives. Sometimes kids will get to the test before they realize they can write lines of code with no errors, Whiting said. Coding is new to the Sioux Falls curriculum this year, and one game developer says the district is ahead of the curve in many ways by giving students a chance to learn this new type of language. Nick Winter is the CEO and co-founder of a coding game called CodeCombat, which is one of the resources used in Sioux Falls classrooms. In CodeCombat, students have to manually type in lines of code to direct their character through different challenges.
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Billings Gazette
Gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte and Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Elsie Arntzen unveiled a four-pronged education initiative on Tuesday that centered on expanding computer science classes to every Montana high school. After touring Missoula classrooms that incorporate technology, the Republicans headed to Kalispell to announce their joint proposal at Depot Park. They suggested that computer science should qualify as a core science course toward meeting graduation requirements, that coding classes likewise should fulfill foreign language requirements and that state colleges should offer a computer science teaching certificate so that more instructors can be trained. They also suggested leveraging the existing Montana Digital Academy to bring courses to more schools.
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