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CSTA
The CSTA Annual Conference is one month away, and we are excited about all of the professional development, networking and education that we have in store for our attendees. Register now to join CSTA in Baltimore this July. Click here to find out more about our program, pricing, hotel details and to register.
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CSTA Executive Director Mark Nelson will be serving as a panelist with five others as part of a session on AI and Education at the United Nations Artificial Intelligence for Good Global Summit June 7-9. The session will be available via LiveStream, or accessed via WebCast the day after each session. The AI for Good Global Summit aims to accelerate and advance the development and democratization of AI solutions that can address specific global challenges related to poverty, hunger, health, education, the environment and others.
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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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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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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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Harvard Business Review
Most of us regard self-driving cars, voice assistants, and other artificially intelligent technologies as revolutionary. For the next generation, however, these wonders will have always existed. AI for them will be more than a tool; in many cases, AI will be their co-worker and a ubiquitous part of their lives.
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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
A Microsoft project will teach blind students from seven to 11 years-old how to program and apply design thinking to projects. "Project Torino," as it's called, uses a "physical programming language," pods that are connected by the students to build programs. Learners string the pods together to create code that plays music, stories and poetry. The idea is to allow kids with visual impairment to participate in coding exercises in their classes right alongside seeing students — or to allow all students to learn the basics of coding in a tactile way.
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The New York Times
Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in Maryland. She was 89. She lived in a retirement community in Silver Spring and died at a nearby hospital after a brief illness, said Elizabeth Conlisk, a spokeswoman for Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where Sammet had earned her undergraduate degree and later endowed a professorship in computer science.
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Government Technology
Women make up less than a quarter of game developers, and girls are less likely than boys to pursue coding as a career. Google is working to change that — and Wonder Woman is on board. Made with Code, the company's initiative to get teenage girls inspired about coding and ready to become the next-generation tech workforce, has released an interactive coding project with Warner Bros. in conjunction with the premiere of Wonder Woman's first feature film. The program takes girls through three scenes from the movie, dragging and dropping items, actions and other variables to create a unique sequence of events they can see play out when they're done.
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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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Mashable
After an exciting build up, Warner Brothers' new Wonder Woman movie finally debuted in theaters. But Wonder Woman isn't only taking over the big screen. In anticipation of the new film, Google Play and Made with Code teamed up with Warner Brothers to create a new Wonder Woman themed-coding tutorial to give young women everywhere the superpower of coding. With the interactive project, programmers use introductory programming principles to help Wonder Woman combat obstacles in three unique scenes from the Wonder Woman film. Each of the three levels teach different concepts like variables, basic logic and sequences.
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Fast Company
At last year's Apple WWDC conference, the company's "one more thing" kicker at its keynote wasn't a headline-grabber–but it was nonetheless intriguing. The company introduced Swift Playgrounds, an iPad app that let kids (and other coding newbies) write their own iOS programs using its Swift language. The goal was to teach coding in a playful, interactive, distinctly Apple-esque way.
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Utah Business
Phenomenal growth in Utah's tech industry continues to garner national attention. But even with great benefits and opportunities, and some serious geek cred, companies in Utah are having a hard time filling thousands of vacancies. "We have great universities and fantastic technology roots, but if we want to accommodate all the growth, we're not keeping up," says Sara Jones, co-founder of Women Technology Council (WTC). "Utah is really struggling to find technology talent."
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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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Arkansas News
Gov. Asa Hutchinson honored schools in Greenwood, Forrest City and Bryant for winning a competition to enroll the most students in computer science courses. In a ceremony at the state Capitol, Hutchinson said Greenwood Freshman Academy had both the highest number and the highest percentage of students enrolled in computer science courses among schools with fewer than 1,000 students; Forrest City High School had the highest percentage enrolled among schools with 1,000 or more students; and Bryant High School had the highest number enrolled among schools with 1,000 or more students.
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MIT Technology Review
Basic economics suggests that if college students see booming demand for specific skills, a stampede to major in such lucrative fields should ensue. For years, tech companies, banks and even traditional industrial companies have been hiring programmers, software developers and computer scientists as fast as they can find them. Since 2010, there has been a 59 percent leap in jobs for software application developers — and a 15 percent jump in pay, to an average $102,300 last year — according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Accounts of tech engineers earning more than pro athletes keep making headlines.
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District Administration Magazine
A large gap between the number of computer science graduates and available jobs has led an increasing number of districts to boost instruction in computational thinking. The concept refers to the thought process of expressing a solution to a problem with a series of sequenced steps, like in a recipe. It's a critical part of computer programming and it can assist learning in all disciplines. In 2015, 60,000 college graduates earned a bachelor's degree in computer science, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. And according to the most recent numbers, 523,000 computer science job openings remain. The biggest source of all new jobs in the U.S. is in computer science.
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The Verge
It feels like robotics kits are everywhere these days, as companies compete to figure out the best way to turn basic robotics, electronics and coding concepts into a toy or game to get kids to learn STEM skills under the guise of having fun. Boson, from DRFRobot, is the latest of these, and it has all the trappings of a STEM learning toy: colorful plastic, simple design, and powerful possibilities for those willing to learn the system. At its core, Boson is a block coding tool similar to Tynker or Blockly, but built in the real world with various physically connected blocks instead of virtual representations.
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Co.Design
In an era of STEM "toys" that forget toys are supposed to be fun, the weird side of Sony has showed up to save the day. Toio is a new game console by Sony, but it's not for your typical video games like the PlayStation 4. Instead, the cartridges are AI programs. The controllers are motion control rings. And the thing you play is really a pair of tiny robotic cubes on wheels–which you can dress up in papercraft, or even snap on Lego.
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School Library Journal
Today's students have an online playground in addition to the physical one at their schools. But unlike school playgrounds, digital spaces are rarely monitored or supervised. As students connect, communicate and collaborate digitally, they need to learn web literacy, source evaluation, information filtering, and self-monitoring skills. Merely teaching digital citizenship skills is not enough. Responsible online behavior needs to become part of the district or campus climate.
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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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