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Education Week (commentary)
Douglas Kiang, a contributor for Education Week, writes: "When I started teaching computer science at Punahou School, there were two computer science classes: an Intro and an AP course, mostly attended by boys. Occasionally, a girl would enroll in the course, and then more often than not, she would drop the course a few weeks in. 'I'm not like them,' one of them told me. 'I don't fit in here.' Over the years, we have managed to increase the percentage of girls enrolled in our courses from near zero to about 35 percent and trending upward."
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Chicago Sun-Times
Facebook wants Chicago students to keep up with the Joneses by giving them the tools to succeed in a changing job market. The social media giant was in Chicago to announce two new collaborations with the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership and the City Colleges of Chicago. Earlier this month, Facebook announced an initiative to train 1 million people and business owners in digital skills such as coding and online e-Learning by 2020.
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Getting Smart (commentary)
Nick Provenzano, a contributor for Getting Smart, writes: "Over the years, I've had the chance to see the freedom that the creative process allows. Boosting student confidence through creative opportunities has become my secret weapon in encouraging student engagement and skill building. As a makerspace director and advocate for the maker movement, I'm passionate about the range of opportunity that a creative space gives students. An effective makerspace is more than fancy gadgets and a focus on STEM."
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Inside Higher Ed
A year ago, Google fired an engineer who had circulated a memo questioning the company's efforts to recruit more women, suggesting that the efforts wouldn't work and that there was no large-scale problem in the tech industry with regard to its treatment of women. Many in academe were among those who condemned the memo and said that higher education could play a key role in attracting more female tech talent.
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Big Island Now
Hawaii Gov. David Ige signed three bills at a bill signing ceremony at the Office of the Governor. The bills include: HB 2607 (Act 51) Computer Science – Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a statewide computer science curricula plan for public school students in K-12, and ensures each public high school offers at least one computer science course each year.
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Engineering.com
Christian Guder, Leonhard Oschutz, and Matthias Burger founded Kinematics in 2013 with the goal of bringing robotics and coding education to the world. Instead of just consuming technology, they want children to be able to create the tools to make that technology useful. The group first developed a set of educational robots named Tinkerbots and are back with LOMO, a toy that they hope will teach kids about physical programming, construction and robotics.
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EdSurge
What better way to prepare students for coding careers and computer science-related fields than introducing them to the tools that professionals use? That's the pitch behind GitHub's announcement that, starting today, educational institutions will now be able to access — for free — its enterprise and business-level offerings as part of a new GitHub Education package. The company says it's making these available to any "teaching-focused institution that grants degrees or certificates," including non-traditional bootcamp-style coding programs.
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