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CSTA
The Infosys Foundation USA/ACM/CSTA Awards for Teaching Excellence in Computer Science are now open! Up to ten teachers will receive the $10,000 prize. Click here for more information about the awards and to submit an application. The deadline to submit an application is Nov. 1.
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Education Week
Lack of access to computers and computer science classes contribute to the continuing racial and gender gaps in K-12 computer science education, according to the results of a nationwide survey conducted by the Gallup organization for Google. "Diversity Gaps in Computer Science Education: Exploring the Underrepresentation of Girls, Blacks, and Hispanics" examines, "the structural and social barriers underrepresented groups face at home, in schools, and in society that could influence their likelihood to enter the computer science field."
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U.S. News & World Report
The gender gap in computing jobs has gotten worse in the last 30 years, even as computer science job opportunities expand rapidly, according to new research from Accenture and Girls Who Code. In 1984, 37 percent of computer science majors were women, but by 2014 that number had dropped to 18 percent, according to the study. The computing industry's rate of U.S. job creation is three times the national average, but if trends continue, the study estimates that women will hold only 20 percent of computing jobs by 2025. The study offers insight into factors that create either positive and negative associations with computer science for girls at the middle school, high school and college levels, as well as strategies for educators to make computer science more appealing to girls.
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The Atlantic
More and more jobs are requiring some knowledge about how computers work. Not just how to start one up and surf the web, but how they actually run, how — at the simplest level—a series of inputs leads to a series of particular outputs. Yet, across the United States, few children are being taught even the basics of computer science. It's a discipline left largely to the self-motivated YouTube watchers and the kids lucky enough to be born into tech-minded families with resources.
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Fortune
Girls Who Code. Women Who Code. Black Girls Code. With the recent proliferation of organizations aiming to attract and educate female developers, you would think that the gender gap in computer science is on its way to closing — slowly, perhaps, but still moving in the right direction. In fact, just the opposite is true, according to a new study by Accenture and Girls Who Code.
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New York Post
Neurotic New York parents are insisting that tots as young as 2 learn the basics of coding — the instructions used to create Web sites, software and apps. They're snapping up tech-teaching toys and paying hundreds of dollars for computer programming classes for the pre-K set.
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eSchool News
Cork The Volcano — Puzzlets is a hands-on programming game that works with your phone or tablet. One of Puzzlet's mantras is "plan, program, play." Elementary students make a plan to help Rus the Dinosaur and his friends stop an erupting volcano from destroying Pear Island. They build a program out of real Puzzlet pieces in the Play Tray and then play, or run the program, to see what happens on their device.
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Tech Crunch
A startup called Wonder Workshop is teaching kids how to code using Swift. Founded in 2012, Wonder Workshop makes toy robots, called Dash and Dot, that kids can control with programs they create using Wonder Workshop apps, which feel more like casual games than desktop scripting tools. The apps connect to Dash and Dot via bluetooth, and automatically determine what coding language a user will need to write in order to control the robot's movement, sensors and other capabilities. Now, through its work with Apple Education, Wonder Workshop's robots can also connect to and be programmed through Apple Swift Playgrounds.
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FIU News
As part of a grant from the National Science Foundation, FIU and two other Florida universities will receive $1 million each in student scholarships to remove financial barriers to student success and increase the number of graduates in computer and information technology. The scholarships are part of a $5 million, five-year grant awarded to FIU and its partners, the University of South Florida and the University of Central Florida, in support of the collaborative Florida IT Pathways to Success project.
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