The CSTA Equity Fellowship is a selective, year-long program designed to develop leadership in equitable teaching practices and advocacy. The program will both provide leadership development opportunities to the fellows and identify opportunities for the group to develop ongoing, peer-to-peer professional learning experiences focused on addressing issues of equity in the computer science classrooms for all CSTA members. Apply today!
WOW! What a conference! Kudos to the CSTA 2020 Conference Committee – Chair Jennifer Smith and her able committee. Their ability to shift from a face to face conference to a virtual one was just amazing!
Coding is more fun when it flies! Learn how to program in Blockly and Python with CoDrone Mini, Robolink's newest drone. Go at your own pace with virtual 1:1 classes, or join one of our virtual group classes. CoDrone Mini also comes with standards-aligned curriculum for use in classrooms!
Microsoft: Education Edition is coming to the Chromebook, and the Microsoft division is seeking beta testers. Up until now, people had to run hacks if they wanted to play the game on their Chromebook computers. The company said Minecraft was now available in the Google Play Store as an Android app for Chromebook. There's a catch: Only users with an Office 365 Education account can participate at this point. Most educators and students running Chromebooks are also running the competitor to Office 365: G Suite for Education. The beta won't run on Android phones at this time.
Education technology company CoderZ has added a new programming course to its suite of coding and robotics products. Python Gym is intended to help students in grades 7-12 gain a basic understanding of object-oriented programming by working on Python programs.
So many adults, including teachers, joke about not being able to do simple math or not being a "science person" that many students enter STEM classrooms with negative views. This creates a fixed mindset as students believe they need certain natural abilities to be successful in math and science. As educators, we need to create opportunities for students to overcome these deeply planted negative views.
Revenue for game-based learning and education is projected to reach more than $24 billion by 2024, according to a new market forecast. Metaari's 2019-2024 Global Game-based Learning Market study, released by Serious Play Conference, notes that growth in AI game-based learning also is expected to skyrocket, analysts say.
IBM's increase in internships comes at a time when internship hiring has decreased amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Three-quarters of respondents in a College Reaction survey of 822 students April 10 to April 12 said the internships or post-graduate jobs they secured had been canceled, moved remote or delayed. The survey also found that the majority (71%) said they were concerned about job and internship opportunities, and almost all of the respondents (90%) were at least moderately concerned about the pandemic's impact on the U.S. economy and employment opportunities.
Few schools in the United States will get through the 2020-2021 academic year without some form of remote learning, for some portion of the student body, for some period of time. Until an effective vaccine for COVID-19 is widely available and distributed, the possibility of viral spread will pose an obstacle to many forms of in-person interaction, particularly in indoor spaces such as school buildings.
There's nothing quite like the very first moment of the first day of school. You stand at the front of the classroom or webcam, looking at all those expectant faces for the very first time. Now's your chance to introduce yourself to your students, to let them know who you are and what they can expect over the year to come. How can you make it special?
If social media posts are any indication, Bitmoji classrooms are becoming a teacher obsession. Since so many teachers are planning to "return" only to online classrooms in the fall, they're building these colorful virtual environments for their students featuring avatar versions of themselves.
The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked substantial educational changes, among them the migration to virtual learning ecosystems. Teachers must confront the task of attending a wide variety of needs to ensure that students' education continues. Artificial intelligence can be ideal pedagogical support to facilitate attention to our students at any time. Imagine how it can help you respond to each student's questions in real-time while being confident that the student is being oriented correctly.
A Farmington-based technology skills and engineering management platform is teaming up with the Utah State Board of Education to support innovation in K-12 computer science education across the state. As Pluralsight's chief impact officer and executive director, Lindsey Kneuven oversees the integration of people, products, technology and financial resources to democratize technology skills, or make access to technology and computer science resources more accessible.
In case you hadn’t noticed, our nation is divided, and I’m not talking about politics here. I am talking about one of the most fundamental ideals that our country was founded on: That all were created equal. As debates surge around the nation on how we as a society can finally put an end to racism, we need to be mindful that many of our children are set to return to their schools this fall and need our guidance as adults to help them make sense of this very important issue that we are all facing.
