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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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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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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 New York Times
At a White House gathering of tech titans, Timothy D. Cook, the chief executive of Apple, delivered a blunt message to President Trump on how public schools could better serve the nation's needs. To help solve a "huge deficit in the skills that we need today," Cook said, the government should do its part to make sure students learn computer programming. "Coding," Cook told the president, "should be a requirement in every public school." The Apple chief's education mandate was just the latest tech company push for coding courses in schools. But even without Trump's support, Silicon Valley is already advancing that agenda — thanks largely to the marketing prowess of Code.org, an industry-backed nonprofit group.
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East Idaho News
Instructors in Idaho who are pushing the importance of computer science courses are training to bring new skills to local high schoolers. The University of Idaho is now offering a dual-credit computer science course called CS-112, Computational Thinking and Problem Solving, for high school students. Five Idaho teachers from areas like Shelley, Challis and Sun Valley are being trained to bring that course option to their high schools. From June 19 to the 23 teachers were instructed for six hours a day on entry-level computer science courses at the University of Idaho extension in Idaho Falls. Training was funded by the Idaho STEM Action Center.
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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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UCLA Newsroom
Close your eyes and picture a computer science college student. In all likelihood, you imagined a male. Sadly, statistics about who decides to major in computer science in college back you up. In 2015, women earned only 18 percent of all computer science degrees in the nation; that percentage dips even lower for women of color, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
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EdSurge
Coding curricula is sweeping into classrooms across the country, thanks to programs such as Code.org. According to the Education Commission of States, about 20 states now require that districts allow students to apply specified computer science courses toward completion of mathematics, science or, as a foreign language. But is coding preoccupying the hearts and minds of students after school hours? This is the question that researchers at the MIT Media Lab are asking.
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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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The Seattle Times
Seattle nonprofit Code.org is bringing computer science education to 800 more classrooms — and this time, it's geared toward middle schoolers. The Seattle organization, founded in 2012 by entrepreneurs Ali and Hadi Partovi, trains teachers to teach computer science courses, and provides the lesson plans and software free of charge. Code.org is best known for its "Hour of Code" campaign, which encourages kids to spend one hour learning to code with online tutorials featuring popular characters such as those from Frozen and Star Wars. Tens of millions of people have participated in the Hour of Code, according to the nonprofit.
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Wired
Forget everything you think you know about programming: the long hours behind a screen, the lines of code stacking up, all that time spent debugging someone else's mess. Koov makes learning to code — the basics, at least — as easy as playing with building blocks. The candy-colored blocks snap together like Legos to create interactive robot penguins, trucks, and other cool things. Blueprints guide kids through the process, but as with all the best toys, the real learning comes when the imagination runs wild. "These robot recipes are something we see as more of an inspiration," says Tim McGregor, a senior marketing manager at Sony Global Education.
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Frontiers via Science Daily
Study investigates the impact of stereotypes and the role of family, school and society on the self-concept of females already studying these scientific subjects and found that these stereotypes do impact the self-concept of females already studying these scientific subjects.
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The Seattle Times
"Alexa, call me an Uber." "Alexa, set a timer for 15 minutes." "Alexa, what's the weather like?" Amazon's artificial-intelligence assistant Alexa can already perform more than 13,000 skills, or programmed commands and responses created either within Amazon or by outside developers. Now Amazon has joined with a local coding school to encourage developers to build more commands for its voice-powered technology. Amazon and Bellevue-based Coding Dojo created curriculum to teach software developers how to work with its system. Coding Dojo will hold more than 30 free workshops this year at its six campuses from Seattle to Washington D.C.
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eSchool News
President Donald Trump's recent education budget proposal has received a great deal of attention for cutting education by $9.2 billion or 13.6 percent. The administration is proposing an additional $400 million for vouchers and $1 billion more in Title 1 funds to support school choice. While details of the budget will evolve as it moves through the congressional approval process, it is likely that we will see an increase in funding that expands school choice. School choice is a controversial topic with advocates believing it will drive innovation in education and civil rights advocates and education reform leaders raising concerns about the unintended consequences to public schools, especially those serving the most vulnerable population, low-income families.
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THE Journal
Google is gaining a stronghold in United States classrooms, with Chrome OS expanding its presence on school computers, while Apple's iOS has been on the decline since the first quarter of 2015 among students and teachers. These are some of the findings in Kahoot!'s first-ever EdTrends Report, released today, which seeks to address the latest education technology trends in the American K–12 market. The new quarterly report, published by the popular game-based learning platform, aims to help educators and administrators stay better informed about trends in education technology, state-specific challenges and best practices.
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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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