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EdSurge
Code/Interactive, a New York City-based nonprofit known for their work training coders and teacher professional development, announced its merger with another New York City nonprofit, Mouse, a youth technology and engineering organization, popular for its middle school makerspaces. Code/Interactive, valued at approximately $1.5 million, offers Mouse, currently valued at about $2.5 million, a financially viable and operationally sound partnership, says Daniel Rabuzzi, Mouse's executive director.
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Wonder Workshop’s K-5 Learn to Code Curriculum includes an educator guide, 30 lesson plans, dozens of in-app puzzles, and 72 student-facing Challenge Cards. The scope and sequence is designed to meet CSTA and ISTE standards and is aligned with Code.org’s Computer Science Fundamentals series. Bring coding to life with Dash & Dot!
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Inside Higher Ed
Colleges can't seem to keep up with computers. The growing number of jobs in the computing field far outpaces how many students are earning bachelor's degrees in computer science and similar fields, according to a lengthy new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. The continued demand for computer science programs at colleges and universities has strained faculty workloads, especially as more and more students enroll. Of those students, few are women or from underrepresented minority groups, and that's not likely to change unless academe begins targeting those populations.
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Herald-Whig
Quincy University's Computer Science Department, in collaboration with QAVTC, recently awarded mini-grants to promote computer science education among local and regional schools. Grants were awarded to participants of the 2017 QU Computer Science 4High School summer workshop so participants could continue practicing what they explored in the workshop. The workshops and grants are funded by a Google CS4HS grant.
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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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TechRepublic
The majority of employed data scientists gained their skills through self-learning or a Massive Open Online Course rather than a traditional computer science degree, according to a survey from data scientist community Kaggle, which was acquired by Google Cloud earlier this year. Some 32 percent of full-time data scientists started learning machine learning or data science through a MOOC, while 27 percent said that they began picking up the needed skills on their own, the 2017 State of Data Science & Machine Learning Survey report found. Some 30 percent got their start in data science at a university, according to the survey of more than 16,000 people in the field.
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EdTech Magazine
As K-12 schools attempt to close the science, technology, engineering and math skills gap, federal support for such programs is key. Under President Obama, there was Computer Science for All, an initiative designed to give schools support and funding to provide opportunities for underrepresented students. While President Donald Trump's 2018 budget proposed some cuts to educational services that help these students, a recent memo indicates the president may be embracing STEM in schools like his predecessor.
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EdSurge
What role does data play in developing solutions to complex challenges in education? And how do we know which approaches in what context are effective in the classroom? As technology use has increased in schools, so has the breadth of innovations aimed at improving learning — for example, by personalizing to the needs of each student. But how are these innovations building on what we know about how people learn? Clearly, innovation without research taps creative energies but misses critical guidance for our best shot at improvement. In order to fully leverage research to improve learning outcomes for all students, we must fundamentally shift the relationship between learning research and educational practice.
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