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Microsoft apparently has a long-term commitment to helping provide education to students of all gender and race, having announced a $75 million investment in computer skills training for young people across 55 countries in 2016. The company is now expanding its educational efforts for students of color in Seattle with new partnerships.
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The U.K.'s tech sector is positively booming. Currently contributing around £184 billion towards the British economy,its value has grown by £14 billion this past year alone, developing 2.6 times faster than the average industry rate of advancement, according to the latest Tech Nation report. This is a sector in which demand far outstrips supply. Approximately 50 percent of U.K. businesses recognise a shortfall in qualified IT graduates, with a recent study from Computer Weekly forecasting that 800,000 professional IT roles in the U.K. will remain unfilled by 2020.
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Billings Gazette
There's broad agreement that schools need to offer more computer science classes. But a split between university faculty and K-12 advocates highlights the complexity of getting more teachers trained to teach those classes — and carries echoes of larger debates about teacher shortages. The Montana Board of Public Education in mid-July approved a new subject-area license for coding that would require teachers who already hold a regular license to take 80 hours of training. The license would be different from a subject area computer science license that the state already offers.
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Grok Learnong's Code Quest is a friendly five-week coding competition where thousands of school students come together to learn to code. Teachers can sign up their students, and students competing individually at home are also welcome! Streams available in Blockly, Python and micro:bit.
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EdTech Magazine
Educators are utilizing education technology to repurpose old trailers and buses to create mobile education spaces, classrooms on wheels where students are able to experience what STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) has to offer. With the help of new tools designed for mobility, such as Cradlepoint access points for internet-connected school busses or smaller portable 3D printers, mobile classrooms are becoming a feasible way for passionate educators to expand their reach.
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EdScoop
The University of Pennsylvania will offer a completely online master's degree in computer science, in a bid to make the field more accessible to non-traditional learners. Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science will begin offering an online Master of Computer and Information Technology degree beginning in January 2019, the Ivy League university announced. The degree will be offered exclusively through Coursera, the California-based online learning platform that, as of June, had more than 33 million users. Coursera also offers online degree programs through the University of Illinois, University of Michigan and others.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 Possibilities for using technology in schools are endless — but the conditions that nurture successful educational technology programs boil down to a handful. Institutions that boast excellent outcomes associated with their high-tech capabilities had three common traits; detailed technology visions and plans, teacher and student involvement in technology planning, and formal evaluation of technology effectiveness. These findings were based on a global survey evaluating 22 evidence-based edtech capabilities.
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THE Journal
A new survey published today reveals that classroom teachers, administrators and other professionals in education turn to a wide variety of sources for research into the effectiveness of technology tools but that they don't believe that some of them are particularly "well equipped to conduct reliable ed tech research."
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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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