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USA Today
Female, black and Latino students took Advanced Placement computer science courses in record numbers, and rural student participation surged this year, as the College Board attracted more students to an introductory course designed to expand who has access to sought-after tech skills. This year, 135,992 students took advanced placement computer science exams, a 31 percent increase from last year, according to data from the College Board, the organization that administers standardized tests that help determine college entrances as well as AP courses.
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The Advocate (commentary)
Amy Fox, a contriubotr for The Advocate, writes: "When I think of computer science educators, computer science education, and computer science curricula, I think about all the people needed to make it a successful endeavor in a school district and in a larger community as well. Who are the they? How do you leverage their roles to help further computer science education? Three years ago, my district, Valhalla UFSD, embarked on a journey to bring computer science to ALL of our students, K-12."
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Education DIVE
Mariah Maryman, a 10th-grader at Kennedale High School, southeast of Fort Worth, Texas, has never let her visual impairment get in the way of speaking up for herself and her needs in the classroom. But with coding and other STEM skills now playing a more predominant role in the curriculum, blind and visually impaired students, such as Maryman, require a range of accommodations to be able to keep up with their peers and imagine themselves pursuing careers as computer scientists or engineers — support that might not be available during the summer months when school is out.
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The Providence Journal
Gov. Gina Raimondo's campaign is filling another tall glass in a television advertisement — this time with milk instead of beer — to tout her education policy. "In the last four years, real change in Rhode Island," a narrator tells viewers, as white liquid fills the bottom of the glass. "All-day kindergarten in every public elementary school for the first time. And computer science taught in every public school." The ad, which began airing Thursday, was made by leading Democratic ad-maker Mark Putnam's firm, which has made all of Raimondo's TV spots this election cycle, including a similar ad with beer filling a glass meant to illustrate job growth. The campaign has spent $267,000 with Putnam Partners since the start of the year, according to campaign finance filings.
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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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Chicago Tribune
You're never too young to be a teacher. That's true for a group of students at Deerfield High School who are passing down robotics knowledge to elementary pupils at tech sessions like one that was recently held at Deerfield Public Library. The Aug. 16 library program drew about 20 children from age 10 up to high school seniors. Deerfield High School Robotics Club members Carson Sklare, Owen Billings, Kyla Guru, Annika Sornson, Brandon Kluge, Justin Medich and others gave grade schoolers an overview of robotic applications in areas like medicine, agriculture, search and rescue, education and the military.
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Study International News
The global tech sector is thriving, of this there is no doubt. From the home to the workplace and beyond, mankind's insatiable need to stay connected is what drives this thirst for more advancements in the field. As TechHQ highlights, "On the way to work and in the office, people are glued to their phones, constantly consuming content on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other apps — or listening to the radio."
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The Recorder
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have received a four-year, $2 million grant to carry out research that will help Springfield's 33 elementary schools prepare students to understand and apply computer science and computational thinking. Springfield is the second largest public school district in Massachusetts with almost 12,000 students, taught by more than 750 teachers, in grades K-5. They represent a diverse population including English learners, students with disabilities, underserved races and ethnicities and students experiencing poverty.
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University of Plymouth via Science Daily
Robots can play an important role in the education of young people but will never fully replace teachers, a new study suggests. Writing in Science Robotics, scientists say social robots are proving effective in the teaching of certain narrow subjects, such as vocabulary or prime numbers. But current technical limitations — particularly around speech recognition and the ability for social interaction — mean their role will largely be confined to that of teaching assistants or tutors, at least for the foreseeable future.
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eSchool News
Computational thinking has been trending, but what is it, really? Simply put, computational thinking is a method of reasoning that teaches students how to solve real-world, complex problems with strategies that computers use. Computational thinking and the design thinking process are frameworks for problem-solving to help address the need for 21st-century skills across our nation’s K-12 school system. While computation governs the world around us, computational thinking as a teaching and learning framework is a new concept for many.
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University of Kent via Science Daily
The use of Internet of Things devices in the classroom can have major educational benefits and appeal to both genders if designed and used in the right way, according to new research.
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