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Education Week
An elementary education digital curriculum by a European-based company combines social-emotional learning with computer science, and it may be coming to U.S. schools. FUNecole is an online learning platform and curriculum by Digipro Education Limited, based in Cyprus. The company describes its platform as a "digital learning solution" for teaching computer science, digital literacy, social-emotional learning and 21st century skills for students in first through sixth grade.
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Forbes
Education reform continues to be fiercely debated, but one thing is clear: It's imperative that leaders align K-12 classrooms with the growing demands of the future science, technology, engineering and mathematics workforce. What makes this task particularly challenging is that today's youth will likely face challenges that the adults around them can barely imagine.
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THE Journal
For the fiscal year 2018, the United States Department of Education is dedicating $279 million to fund STEM educational efforts within the department. The investments come from the Secretary of Education's STEM discretionary grant funds. "It's important that all students have access to a high-quality STEM education," U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said. "These discretionary grant programs and this Administration's increased focus on STEM will help ensure our nation's students are exposed to STEM early in their lifelong education journeys and will have the tools needed for success in the 21st century economy."
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Technical.ly Delawar
Gov. John Carney announced more than $438,000 in federal grants to expand high school career pathway programs in the state. Pathways, if you're not familiar, are like majors for high school students. Depending on the school, a student can study their basic academics centered around a specific focus area, including engineering, TV and radio, culinary, agriculture, robotics, business, automotive or child care (to name a few). A lot of people don't realize this, but many of Delaware's public schools have facilities like commercial restaurants, professional TV studios and farms.
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KPCW
Instructors in the Park City School District are excited that they are one of the only districts in the country offering a computer "coding" program to elementary grades. Mike Burton teaches coding, K-5 at Trailside Elementary, he told KPCW that it's basically, an understanding of computer science.
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[Brilliant]
Research shows that active learning is much more effective than passively listening to a lecture. Brilliant uses the active learning approach by teaching through problems with logical steps, breaking them up into bite sized concepts, presenting clear thinking in each part, and then building back up to an interesting conclusion. Rote memorization is not learning - supercharge your lessons with Brilliant.
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The Orange County Register
It's Friday night and high school friends Milan Narula and Katherine McPhie are watching a game, celebrating with whoops and high fives every time someone scores. A group of college students in the room with them do the same. But this is not football or basketball. It's coding. And the players are children from the Thomas House Family Shelter in Garden Grove. The youngest is 5.
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Education Week
Amazon is launching a "childhood to career" program that aims to spur underprivileged children and young adults to pursue careers in computer science. With the Amazon Future Engineer program, the technology giant will try to reach more than 10 million students each year through coding camps, online lessons, and introductory and Advanced Placement courses in computer science. It will also award computer-science-related scholarships and internships at Amazon.
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