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.CSTA NEWS
Meet the 2022 CSEdWeek CS Heroes
CSTA
Each year, CSTA creates a set of CS Hero posters and corresponding lessons for you to use in your classroom. This year's posters and lessons are now available on the CSEdWeek website. You'll even meet some of these heroes during the CSEdWeek 2022 Kick-Off Panel.
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Get Your CSEdWeek Gear
CSTA
Hosting a CSEdWeek event? We've got you covered. The 2022 CSEdWeek kit includes everything you need to host an amazing event. This kit includes a CSEdWeek banner, stickers, and two sets of CS Hero posters! You can also pick up your very own CS Hero sweatshirt.
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Borrow a Finch Robot 2.0 from BirdBrain Technologies for 60 days, and learn how it can be used to facilitate deep and joyful learning in your Computer Science classroom. Finches can be programmed in Python & Java, as well as several block- and icon-based environments. Try one today!
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This Saturday: Code Black Hackathon
CSTA
Join us for our first annual Code Black Hackathon. This event is open to all teachers that are members of the CSTA Black Affinity group. This Hackathon includes teacher-led workshop sessions for Hackathon Ideas, open rooms to collaborate, and sharing of projects at the end of the event.
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.CSTA EVENT CALENDAR
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Code Black Hackathon hosted by the CSTA Black Affinity Group |
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CSEdWeek 2022 Kick-Off Panel |
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Getting Started with Real-Time 3D |
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Examining K-12 CS Education from the Teacher's Lens: Results of a Recent National Study |
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December 2022 New Member Orientation |
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Explore Engineering and Computer Science Essentials™ — a novel approach to teaching and learning engineering with computer science and computational thinking as a scaffolded, rigorous, standards-aligned, curriculum for Grades 1-5. Essentials units empower children to become lifelong STEM learners and passionate problem solvers.
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.HEADLINES FROM THE FIELD
How to lead through digital communication
Tech and Learning
The challenge of leadership has always existed, but it seems more critical now. In an always-on world, with misinformation swirling around, leading for the benefit of students in schools has become more complicated. For school community leaders, ensuring that we embody what helps move student success and achievement in the right direction warrants commitment, and a sensible dose of social media awareness.
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Improve K-12 literacy with next-gen reading tools
EdTech
Learning to read and improving literacy once hinged on traditional hard-copy books, but in 21st-century learning, there are far more tools at educators' disposal. From audiobooks to augmented reality, next-generation reading tools help student readers and writers maximize their literacy education, with guidance from innovative K–12 leaders.
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Promoted by AIClub
 Want to get started building AI apps? At AIClub we have helped thousands of kids who have gone on to build many thousands of apps with AI, Python, and more. In this blog, we show you a simple beginner app that can get you started with AI and Python - a sentiment detector.
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The benefits of early STEM education
Tech and Learning
Providing an early STEM education for a child can help establish a lifelong connection between the student and scientific understanding and exploration that is at the heart of STEM, say advocates and a growing body of research.
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How will technology impact K-12 education?
DataDrivenInvestor
Technology planning can be complex even in the most favorable conditions and stable environments. And with the constantly changing circumstances of the pandemic, it may seem impossible.
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Ready for take-off?! Go on a behind-the-scenes virtual tour from NASA’s Johnson Space Center and explore Callisto – a technology experiment created by Amazon’s Alexa, Lockheed Martin, and Cisco that’s heading to the moon during the Artemis I mission! Grades 4+ can take the free, interactive tour now on Kahoot!
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3 ways educators can embrace and enable inclusive programming
eSchool News
While the effects of COVID-19 may have diminished for many thanks to widespread vaccine- and infection-induced immunity, the pandemic continues to have a significant systemwide impact and exacerbate social gaps. Students still experience elevated levels of pandemic-prompted emotional trauma, anxiety, isolation, and psychological distress due to schedule interruptions, remote learning, the deaths of family and friends, inequitable access to health care, and job insecurity.
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How 3D printing can boost learning
Edutopia
"Creation is an act of sheer will." This quote from Jurassic Park could never be more true than in today's age of technology. Computer-aided design (CAD) and 3D printing allow students to create like never before in the classroom. 3D printing is an emerging industry, and it shows potential with "printing" houses, cars, household items, and much more.
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Engage students with 3D games/animations/arts, AR experiences, AI applications, Youtube remixes, etc. Coding is simplified with Scratch-like interface and blocks, with many new tools for debugging, brainstorming, diagrams, remote collaboration, class management, etc. Tutorials, lessons and PD also provided for teachers. Contact us for 1-year free pilot program at info@creaticode.com
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7 edtech tools to connect students to a global community
KQED
There are many ways we can harness educational technology to build community within our classrooms and to bring students into the global community. ISTE Student Standard 1.7 Global Collaborator offers a framework for how to approach this: "Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally."
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CodeLab is a web-based learning tool providing hundreds of interactive programming exercises for introductory classes. It supports multiple languages and integrates with environments like Canvas and Moodle. Over 300,000 students at more than 400 schools in 20+ countries have used CodeLab to gain mastery over the syntax, semantics, and common usage patterns of the language elements.
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How digital equity enhances cybersecurity in schools
eSchool News
Digital equity in the classroom goes far beyond the need to deliver internet connectivity and devices. All students need and deserve a safe, reliable, and adaptable edtech ecosystem to support and nurture their learning experience.
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Code for Fun is offering professional development Zoom mini-sessions throughout Fall 2022. These sessions focus on the different pillars of CS educational material for grade K to 5. Check-out our calendar and sign up to the sessions of the grade you teach or all of them.
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How edtech is embedded in Society 5.0
eSchool News
The pandemic saw countless education institutes scramble in a bid to offer remote learning, which just highlighted how ill-prepared they were for future learning.
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