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CNBC
Former president Barack Obama isn't just spending his post-presidency free time talking to Wall Street or hosting leadership summits. Recently, he hopped on a conference call with hundreds of young people across the country to talk about the importance of coding. Over 1,000 students, educators and advocates were on the line for a call organized by the Computer Science for All Consortium.
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Wonder Workshop invites you to join thousands of teams from around the world to tackle a series of challenges that mirror the real world. Students learn to code and control Dash & Dot robots while accomplishing missions. The Grand Prize in May is a $5,000 STEM grant! Ages 6-8 and 9-12 are invited.
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Quartz
Kimberly Smith was a master's student in the MIT Media Lab's social computing group when she first began dreaming up wooden toys to teach children how to code. At the time, the lab was looking into small-scale solutions in education, agriculture, and transportation "that would make cities stronger and better and more livable," says Smith. "These were things like small-scale parklets or micro permaculture farms." The idea was to “use the small scale model to affect big change."
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The 74
During third period in a North Little Rock classroom, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and a group of high school students fixed their eyes on their computers, trying to make a colorful cartoon bird fly across the screen. Hutchinson, a slender, white-haired man, smiled through his frustration as he struggled with Scratch, a programming language developed by MIT graduates for coding beginners, to get the bird moving in the right direction. In the front of the room was tall, lanky Justin Cobb, a computer science teacher who likened the exercise to plotting numbers on a number line.
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Lose the boring coding platforms—bring coding to life with Vidcode. Vidcode teaches students how to code through their favorite hobby: video making. Get free resources today!
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THE Journal
Carnegie Learning, a research-proven mathematics education company, revealed it has acquired Globaloria, a provider of computer science education. The latter offers a blended learning platform, teacher professional development and other services that aim to empower pre-K–12 students "to become socially-minded, innovative change-makers through computer science learning programs," according to a company statement. Since launching in 2015, more than 17,000 students in the United States have learned these skills by using the Globaloria platform to design and prototype computational apps, games and simulations.
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The Charlotte Observer
Hobart Middle School science teacher Crystal Kistler is teaching her seventh-grade students how to think like a computer scientist. Kistler began teaching "Computer Science for Innovators and Makers" this fall with the implementation of computer science state standards that make sure students at the middle school level learn how to code or program computers. Schools across Northwest Indiana have begun offering computer coding to children as young as the elementary school level.
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THE Journal
If you're trying to hunt down research to justify the use of technology in the classroom or argue against it, a working paper may provide you with information you need. "Education Technology: An Evidence-Based Review," published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, takes a global view in examining how technology can be used to support K–12 and post-secondary education. The goal?
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The teen girls who had crafted the mustard-colored dinosaur head hanging on the wall endearingly referred to their creation as "Fred," according to its current owner. Tom Lauwers proudly displays Fred in his corner of the co-working space StartUptown. When he waves his hand before the prototype, its eyes light up. When he pets the robotic art project, it moves its head approvingly. Fred is a testament to the innumerable possibilities that exist for students who get their hands on Mr. Lauwers's Hummingbird Robotics Kit — a set of tools that help students create and program their own interactive robots in the classroom.
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