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CSTA
Laura Blankenship, a contributor for CSTA's The Advocate, writes: "On Friday, I'm giving a TED-style talk for our regional school association on what I call the 'girl problem' in Computer Science, and how we might fix it. I've been preparing for this talk for months, reviewing research about best practices for engaging girls in Computer Science and generally examining the landscape. I work at an all-girls' school, so you'd think this wouldn't be an issue for me, but I still have to fight against stereotypes that Computer Science is geeky or boring, and girls' lack of confidence in their ability to do the work."
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eSchool News
Microsoft will invest $75 million over the next three years in initiatives to increase access to computer science education for youth. Microsoft's Satya Nadella made the announcement during his keynote speech at Dreamforce, Salesforce's annual gathering in San Francisco for its customers and partners. This marks a major expansion of Microsoft's YouthSpark program, the company's effort to get young people hooked on computer science and build a larger, more diverse talent pool for the technology industry.
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Calling all hackers, coders, and technical high school women and the educators who support them! Applications for the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Award for Aspirations in Computing and the NCWIT Educator Award are now open!
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eSchool News
How do students and teachers learn math and computer science, and how can we ease the coming shortage of computer science teachers? Worcester Polytechnic Institute will partner with Brown University and Bootstrap to examine those questions. A team of computing education experts will study how students — and teachers — learn mathematics and computer science, and how those ways of learning can influence each other. The study, funded by a National Science Foundation grant of nearly $1.5 million, is of critical importance as middle schools and high schools across the country look to integrate computer science into their curricula, while at the same time grappling with a projected shortage of computer science teachers.
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Mashable
The book was born out of a gift-searching trip that left Amie Pascal and her wife, Heather O. Petrocelli, empty-handed. They were invited to a baby shower for a friend who was a developer and thought a kid's book about code would be the perfect present. After searching online and in bookstores, they found nothing. Instead, they wrote their own book in PDF form with colored words on a black background. Everyone who saw the book encouraged them to take the idea further, and The Wonderful World of Creatures & Code was the result. They knew they didn't have to dumb things down; they just had to make it accessible and incorporate play, what they felt was one of the most important things in a child's development.
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IEEE TryComputing.org offers free educator resources to help students build computing skills and explore computing careers. Find a wide range of interactive computing lesson plans for students ages 8-18. Lessons topics include programming, concurrency, networking, encryption, artificial intelligence, and more! All lesson plans are aligned to national education standards.
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Samsung for Education
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As schools adopt mobile technology at an unprecedented pace, the need for best-in-class mobile devices, support and services is growing rapidly. Samsung Mobile is committed to supporting mobile-first initiatives, offering a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise solutions.
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The New York Times
Coding boot camps have exploded in popularity in the last year or so. In addition to testing new types of educational programs that emerge from outside the traditional arena of colleges and universities, government officials said they are also exploring new methods to evaluate quality.
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The Street
Computer science careers are among today's more lucrative job paths, from their high starting salaries to their healthy mid-level salaries. Having a college degree is key to a lift-off in this career space because the jobs require a substantial amount of knowledge. But when it comes to where you get that degree, some schools fare better than others in terms of eventual salaries their students land.
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Wired
When Raul Gutierrez's son was younger, he came up with a great name for his father's smartphone. "He'd call it the everything machine," says Gutierrez, founder of childrens' app company Tinybop. "Because to him it could do everything." The kid was onto something. A smartphone really is an everything machine. It's a phone, a camera, a movie screen, and so much more, stuffed into a glassy rectangle that fits in your pocket.
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The San Diego Unjion-Tribune (commentary)
Julie Flapan, a contributor for The San Diego Unjion-Tribune, writes: "I learned an unexpected lesson about education reform while watching my kids compete to build the tallest LEGO tower. My youngest stacks one LEGO on top of the next, making it the tallest — for a split second — before it tumbles to the ground. My older child, having experienced this loss several times, crafts a sturdy base to sustain the tower above, making it the tallest and most long-lasting. This 'scaffolding' provides a strong base of support, so that no matter how high the tower grows, it has a solid foundation from which to build."
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Bowling Green Daily News
The Bowling Green Independent Schools District is hoping to incorporate computer coding into its curriculum, even in classes not normally considered especially technical. Over the past three years, coding has become more prominent in the district, said Allen Martin, district technology resource teacher. In that time, the number of district teachers who know how to code has risen from one to 22. "It's starting to grow exponentially," he said. At a recent seminar participating teachers came from every school in the district and were not limited to teachers with a more technical focus, Martin said. "They come from all over the spectrum of subjects and grades," he said.
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