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Arkansas Online
This fall, the Natural State will be the first in which every high school and charter school offers at least one computer science course. But for the inaugural year of Gov. Asa Hutchinson's Computer Science Initiative, much of the instruction about what goes on behind a computer screen will be delivered through one, via digital courses offered by Virtual Arkansas or by the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts in Hot Springs. Virtual Arkansas is an Arkansas-based program that provides digital instruction through a partnership between the state Department of Education and the Arkansas Education Service Cooperatives.
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EdTech Magazine
Teachers are getting more comfortable and more ambitious with devices in the classroom, according to an annual report on technological integration in schools. This year's Software & Information Industry Association Vision K-20 Survey continues that trend, with added emphasis on the growth of student data usage. The majority of respondents say student data collection has grown in the past two years, with data used primarily to track student performance and improve instruction.
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K-12 TechDecisions
The tools educators need to introduce coding to their students are widely available, free and fun. Coding in schools is a hot topic in education tech right now, but teaching students how to code is one aspect of a computer science course. Not all schools are able to offer computer science classes, and not all educators feel confident in being able to teach this important skill. Even if educators have no experience with coding, they can integrate this digital language into their curriculums. Many public schools have subscriptions to the professional development services offered through Atomic Learning.
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Elite Daily
Coding: It's a language few of us are fluent in but all of us interact with daily. Enter Girls Who Code, a company determined to change this ... starting with the ladies! Girls Who Code teaches girls the fundamental skills to code and encourages its students to take on the tech industry. It creates a community of women coders and tech professionals who inspire and mentor young girls as they choose their career paths.
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Education Dive
The statistics on gender disparities in technology are discouraging and it seems that the problem likely starts early. Less than 26 percent of computer and math jobs are held by women. Fewer than one in five computer science degrees are held by women, despite the fact that women make up more than half of all undergraduate students and half of undergraduate science students. One Miami administrator recalled asking winners at a school science fair — largely girls — what careers they intended to purse. Few named tech-related jobs.
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Forbes
By 2020, the U.S. will have 1 million unfilled computing jobs thanks to a shortage of computer science students, reports Code.org. With women receiving just 13 percent of computer science degrees, down from 37 percent in 1985, the need to close the gender gap in this field has never been stronger. To get more girls engaged in computer science, nonprofit Code.org is taking a novel approach — changing the culture of programming.
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The Gainesville Sun
Robots are coming soon to an Alachua County classroom near you. Twenty-five elementary and middle school teachers recently spent time at the Sivia Center, learning how to assemble, troubleshoot and help students learn all about robots built from VEX Robotics kits. Superintendent Owen Roberts announced a five-year science, technology, engineering and math initiative last school year, one that begins in August with robotics. The district linked up with California-based VEX Robotics to put robotics classes in 12 schools this fall, with another seven schools starting after-school robotics programs.
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Las Cruces Sun-News
Elias Borchert, a seventh-grader at Vista Middle School, leaned over his robot as he tried to figure out why the machine was not making a 180-degree turn as he had programmed it to do. Borchert is one of more than 60 middle- and high-school students who attended robotics camps at New Mexico State University this July. During the camps, students learned how to program a robot to follow a specific command: go forward, lower the robot's claw, grab a block, turn around, put the block down and repeat the tasks. The objective of the camp was to introduce students to radio-controlled components and basic programming skills.
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MIT Technology Review
When you give two robots the ability to communicate in real-time, the possibilities for their teamwork are vast. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have done just that: enabled two types of robots with very different capabilities to collaborate in order to fulfill people's requests. Baxter is a stationary robot, equipped with two arms that can delicately manipulate objects, while CoBot has no arms but is adept at navigating indoor spaces and can reliably deliver objects using its front-end basket. The researchers wanted each robot's strengths to make up for the other's shortcomings, so they could work together to relieve humans of menial duties such as fetching and delivering objects throughout a building.
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