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CSTA
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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CSTA
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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THE Journal
Girls Who Code, a national nonprofit that teaches young women computer science skills, is bringing its flagship CS summer program to 11 cities in the United States. The Summer Immersion Program is a free, seven-week summer course for current high school juniors and seniors. Participants learn the fundamentals of computer science, while getting exposure to the tech industry through the corporate partnerships. They gain first-hand experience coding and applying their skills to solve real-world problems. Projects have culminated in artwork, storytelling, robotics, video games, websites, apps and more, according to the program site.
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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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MindShift
Earth's molten core and the lost city of Atlantis are not traditional summer destinations for kids, but intrepid young campers can now contend with lava or rebuild the underwater metropolis as they learn, play and socialize in the digital realms of virtual camps. California-based Connected Camps is part of a growing offering of online camps that fill a unique niche to complement their traditional pine-and-mortar counterparts.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
In a June 1998 commencement speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President Bill Clinton called for computer literacy to be a high school graduation requirement and declared that training should begin in middle school to ensure students had early exposure to invaluable tech job skills. Clinton made a powerful case that mandatory computer training was not only crucial to the American economy but a potent tool to address inequality by giving impoverished minority children a path to lucrative and satisfying careers and lives.
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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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Voice of America
A common assumption is that writing computer code is a highly technical skill for people who are good at math and logic, but software engineers say another quality is just as important: creativity. A group of software developers in Palo Alto, California, has created a game called Osmo Coding Jam to unlock the creative side of children as they learn to code. Nine-year-old Dylan Dodge and his 11-year-old sister, Meghan, look as though they are playing a game on a digital tablet, but they're actually making music by creating simple computer code as they manipulate physical tiles with symbols. The tablet reads the tile symbols as commands it can execute.
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The Killeen Daily Herald
Learning to speak a new language is challenging. The same is true when learning how to talk to a computer. That was the challenge for 10 children attending the Programming for Teens class this week at Central Texas College's College for Kids summer program. "Programming is a superpower," said instructor Anderson Fernandes, who has taught the class since 2014. "It's about solving problems, so learn to use this new power to do good things." Using the programming language Java, the four-day class delved into every aspect of programming fundamentals but with fun, problem-solving exercises and game playing. Each student had a PC equipped with the software programs and started with variables, data types and flow charts as Fernandes taught topics equal to a semester of college classes.
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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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MarketWatch
For some tech job seekers, skipping college and learning to code might get them into a position a lot faster at Google, Amazon, Spotify, Venmo or any of a number of firms, including startups, that are demanding more coders. This assumes these students have their sights on a software engineering job but want a relatively quick exit from academia. They believe they can live without the social perks or the well-rounded liberal arts learning that typical college life offers — maybe they're a nontraditional student, meaning a little older or perhaps dorm life just sounds like hell. For mid-career hoppers, a complete return to school might not fit family life or may feel like an expensive gamble. For many, four-year degree costs, which have surged, or a return for traditional graduate work on their own dime, is a nonstarter.
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Press Herald
Jobs in almost all fields will require proficiency by the time today's youths enter the workforce. Not too long in the future, almost all jobs will require some fundamental skill with computing, and many of the best new jobs will require a mastery of it. Yet computer science remains a subject on the periphery — if it is covered at all — in most Maine high schools, where students should be getting their first taste of this high-opportunity field.
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Omaha World-Herald
Katie Sotelo showed an instinct for science that teachers in her junior high school embraced. The teachers, one a woman of Vietnamese descent and another a Mexican-American, helped affirm that Sotelo had what it took to go into science. Now Sotelo, of Goodyear, Arizona, is a Creighton University junior working in a cancer research lab with a goal to become a scientist.
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LA School Report
A state legislator is eyeing downtown Los Angeles as home to the first state public school focused on teaching students from low-income and ethnically diverse areas science, technology, engineering and math. State Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra, D-San Fernando, has introduced legislation that would establish the school that would serve 800 students in grades 6 through 12. The bill (AB 1217) will be heard by the Senate Education Committee.
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The Huffington Post
Summer vacation is underway across the United States, but there is no doubt many students are already eager to get back into the classroom — not because they are tired of the heat or days at the pool, but because their classrooms have become laboratories where they solve meaningful problems in their communities. That is exactly what happened this year in the Pattonville Independent School District in Missouri. When the district leaders couldn’t find an app that would suit the district's needs and fit within the budget, they turned to Project Lead The Way students in the PLTW Computer Science program.
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The Washington Post
Got your own laptop or tablet? Bring it to class, many schools now say. Policies known as BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) or BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) initially raised eyebrows among parents and teachers, who feared they would open the door to addictive video games and social media in class. But many of those skeptics are being won over, saying BYOD expands educational opportunities, saves money and reduces technical headaches.
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