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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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According to the 2017 National Board of Certified Teachers Study, Investing in what it Takes to Move PD is critical in helping teachers perfect their skills and impact student achievement in their classrooms. CSTA's new Continuing Professional Development Pipeline, powered by Degreed and funded by grant from Infosys Foundation USA, is launching in Fall 2017 and will bring 5+ turn-key resources for K-12 CS teachers including self-selected pathways, community, badging, and amazing PD programs for novice, career stage, and teacher leaders! Follow us here for more details soon!
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TECH CORPS
TECH CORPS is gearing up for a summer of fun with technology! Almost 2,000 students will build robots, design video games, create mobile apps and much more across four states. Summer is coming fast, but don't worry… We still have applications open for both our sponsored experiences, offered at no cost to students, and our open enrollment programs, available at a low cost. We are offering summer experiences for rising third-fifth, sixth-eighth, and nineth-12th grade students.
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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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A digital textbook to teach computer programming with a unique story-based game. It covers introductory Python programming, and is suitable for beginners. The learner unlocks story chapters by answering a programming question at the end of each chapter. The textbook is designed for accessibility so it is suitable for learners with blindness, visual impairments and autism.
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THE Journal
Several states today unveiled 17 additional "STEM learning ecosystems," or regions that provide pre-K–16 students with science, technology, engineering and math resources and tools as part of the STEM Learning Ecosystems initiative. Each ecosystem is led by the STEM Funders Network, which comprises dozens of education-focused foundations such as the Samueli Foundation and the Simons Foundation.
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The New York Times
For a simple assignment, writing code that would allow one computer to visit web pages located on another, two students in H. E. Dunsmore's class at Purdue University turned in nearly 100 identical lines of code. Was it a fluke? Or had they cheated?
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Lose the boring coding platforms—bring coding to life with Vidcode. Vidcode teaches students how to code through their favorite hobby: video making. Get free resources today!
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SDPB Radio
The International Coding Competition in Rapid City and recent international hacking events have prompt people to consider coding. It provides the scaffold for computers and smartphones and apps. Educators must decide how kids can learn code, what they should understand, and when they should start. Take a peek inside this coding classroom. The room is warm. It's afternoon. The school year draws to a close, and sixth-grader Adysen Moet plays a video game.
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Los Angeles Times
Charter school backers put a lot of money behind candidates in Los Angeles school board elections. Now the seven-member board is about to have its first pro-charter majority. Charter schools are publicly funded, privately run schools that are exempt from some of the rules that govern traditional public schools. In Los Angeles, they are mostly run by nonprofits, with a staff that is not unionized. Los Angeles already has more charters than any other school district in the nation. We asked charter supporters to tell us why they pushed so hard for a school board power shift and what they hope will come of it.
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SPEL Technologies, Inc.
Teach your students computer programming using an accessible digital textbook called Merscythe: Adventures with the Codue. The textbook contains a story-based game in which users unlock chapters by answering programming questions, and it is loaded with many features including tutorials, instructor resources, and a learning management system. The tutorials contain practice exercises and animation games to make learning easy and engaging. The learning management system facilitates creation, grading and testing of assignments, online video classes and class discussions. The instructor resources contain a webinar that is approximately two hours long, homework problems with solutions, and projects.
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KARK
Students take on a wild task of a different sort after they were assigned to building animals out of cardboard and make them move via computer code. The AP Computer Science Principles Class is a first of its kind in Cabot and one of a handful across the country. Chris Westendorf says he thought it would be difficult since it's a course for college credit but it wasn't all that difficult. "That's exactly what coding is, trial and error. You keep doing it and doing it until it works," said student, Chris Westendorf.
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New York Daily News
A new Queens College graduate degree program will give teachers tech skills to prepare kids for white-hot jobs in computer science. The Master of Science in Education major, which starts in September, was designed in collaboration with the city Education Department in part to train teachers for Mayor de Blasio's Computer Science for All, a 10-year plan to offer computer science classes for all 1.1 million public school kids.
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