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As our district has started exploring the role that computer coding should play in our students' educational lives, more than once the following question has come up: What NGSS standards will this cover? This is a critical question. If we are going to take instructional time to work with students to code more, we are going to have to quit doing something else in order to have the time to do it. So, what should we give up? Will coding allow us to cover other standards to ensure that students will be well prepared?
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The New York Times
One sunny summer morning this month, a group of 20 teenage girls gathered in a conference room in the sleek offices of a tech company in Manhattan. It was their fifth week of coding camp, and they were huddled around laptops, brainstorming designs for their final projects. One group was building a computer game that simulates the experience of going through life with depression and anxiety, while others were drafting plans for websites that track diversity at companies and help connect newly arrived immigrants with local community groups.
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Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Mississippi may be more than 2,000 miles from Silicon Valley, but future software developers are honing their skills in the Magnolia State. I had the chance to learn about the value of computer coding during a recent visit to the Base Camp Coding Academy in Water Valley. The 12-month program readies Mississippians in their senior year of high school for well-paying software jobs. Graduates have gone on to receive job offers from CSpire and FedEx.
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Lexington Herald Leader
Using household items such as pipe cleaners, strings and pompoms, Bryan Station High School sophomore Bailey Morgerson and his classmates built models in an advanced placement computer science class to understand more about how the internet works. The class is part of Kentucky's new initiative to offer courses that could produce more information technology professionals. Kentucky Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt announced Aug. 22 that students will have more quality computer science instruction and requirements. This year Fayette County schools will be on the cutting edge of it with classes at the elementary, middle and high school levels.
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The New York Times
Take a look at the Girls Who Code website here, and pay particular attention to the comments from girls involved. What do they say about Girls Who Code, and coding? What is your experience with coding?
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Bowling Green Daily News
When Glasgow High School senior Adam Garrett started studying computer science, he saw it as a way to advance his dream of going to college and becoming an aerospace engineer. "I can use computer science to understand how all these different machines work and all these robotics aspects of it — how I can apply it to my job," Garrett said. Garrett spoke at his high school during an announcement for a new statewide computer science initiative that aims to expand students’ learning opportunities. The initiative is a partnership between the Kentucky Department of Education, AdvanceKentucky, the College Board and Code.org, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science education.
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Mashable
Ever since The Social Network made programming sexy, software developers have been in high demand. (Okay fine, before that, too.) And as more and more Silicon Beach and Valley tech companies strike it rich, the demand for local developers across the country keeps increasing. If you've been on the fence about taking the plunge and learning to code, this is definitely the right place and the right time. You don't have to have programming experience or go into debt earning an expensive computer science degree. You can learn what you need to know to become a well-paid developer and get a kick-ass job with The Complete Computer Science Bundle.
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