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CSTA
Scarcely a day goes by without the mention of cybersecurity in the news — from Edward Snowden breaching security at NSA (and now following NSA on Twitter), to customers of Target and Home Depot having their data compromised, to Hillary Clinton's private email server and private email account while she was Secretary of State, to hacking of sensitive government data by foreign citizens, cybersecurity is in the news and is newsworthy. One of the more common themes in cybersecurity is the dearth of qualified cybersecurity professionals and how the United States might address that lack in the education system.
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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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CSTA
The review period for next summer’s annual conference just ended, and we will have an amazing program for you! For this conference we will have workshops, one hour sessions, 20 minute short talks and birds of a feather networking opportunities. Almost one hundred professionals in the field of computer science education reviewed the submissions. Every continent was represented as well as every level and type of education.
The next step is arguably the toughest. The planning team met in late-October to determine the actual program. We want this conference to be the best professional development and conference for K-12 computing educators, so we put a lot of effort into balancing all of the offerings.
I look forward to seeing you in San Diego in July of 2016!
Tammy Pirmann
Review Chair, CSTA 2016
CSTA Board Member, District Representative
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Education DIVE
Not too long ago, ACM and CSTA released a study that found computer science education was on the decline. Published in 2010, the report, titled "Running on Empty: The Failure to Teach K-12 Computer Science in the Digital Age," found that the number of high schools offering introductory computer science courses had declined 17 percent between 2005 and 2009. Universities and tech companies had begun to worry publicly about a growing gap between the number of jobs available and the number of people who might be ready to fill them.
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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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Quartz
Pretty much as with any other language, learning to code seems to get increasingly difficult the older you are — for every app or startup idea that you've had over the years that went unrealized, you may consider starting your children on coding earlier. A new game sets out to do just that: Two little robots called Dash and Dot, from toymaker Wonder Workshop, are designed to teach kids the fundamentals of coding, through play. Just in time for the holidays.
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Daily Herald
Utah STEM Action Center and the Utah State Office of Education announced a partnership with Code.org that will increase participation in computer science courses by women and underrepresented students of color. Code.org is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding computer science education by making it available in more schools and increasing participation by women and minorities. Their vision is every student in every school should have the opportunity to have access to computer science education. Code.org believes computer science should be part of the core curriculum in education, alongside other courses, such as biology, physics, chemistry and algebra.
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CIO
Coding bootcamps are becoming a popular way for anyone interested in learning technical skills to dive into a rigorous course. Whether you want to become a Web developer, software programmer or learn a new coding language, you'll find a bootcamp that suits your needs. And these highly focused and fast-paced courses are changing the way we view accessible education, and giving students a resource outside of the typical four year college.
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WCPO-TV
Seven-year-old Eric Kennedy's face is buried in an iPad, playing what looks like a modern version of Pac-Man. But when technology teacher Cheryl Losey walks by, she doesn't tell him to put it away. In fact, Kennedy is surrounded by 16 other first-grade students at Stephens Elementary School doing the same thing: working on iPad minis to help animated characters navigate from one side of the screen to the other. It's exactly what Losey and first-grade teacher Kari Mathews want them to be doing. The kids are playing a game, shouting out gleefully when they've cleared a screen and get to move on to the next level. But they're also learning the basics of computer coding.
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Herald Net
They're in the classroom to show students that computer science isn't just for geeks. Four volunteers from the technology industry are sharing their skills as part of a new course at Monroe High School this fall. They're working with students through Technology Education and Literacy in Schools, or TEALS, a program that helps educators teach computer sciences by bringing professionals into the classroom. Eric Battalio, a Microsoft programming manager, said he wanted to get involved to show kids that people from different backgrounds can find successful careers in the tech industry.
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Inside Philanthropy
Demand for computer science courses has been surging on campuses across the U.S., with more students interested in enlisting in the latest tech boom. Unfortunately, though, schools often can't keep up. As Geek Wire reported last year, "College students want to become computer scientists, but in many cases there isn't enough room or faculty to meet the demand." In turn, this bottleneck means that companies raveneous for young techies aren't getting the human capital they need to grow as fast as they might.
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