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eSchool News
An alarmingly large majority of U.S. teachers — 78 percent — say they feel they haven't received the training they need to teach with technology in the classroom, according to new research. The study from edtech and coding company SAM Labs, conducted online with independent research firm 72 Point, outlines the opportunities teachers see when it comes to technology in the classroom, as well as some of the biggest challenges the U.S. education system faces related to computer science and coding.
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Bring coding to life during Hour of Code with Dash, Dot, and Cue robots! Find free activities for grades PK-8, and for a limited time, get free Dash robots with Educator Pack purchase. Engage students all year with the Wonder League Robotics Competition! Finalists compete for a $5,000 STEM-grant Prize
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DOGOnews
From Dec. 4-10, tens of millions of people from over 180 countries will participate in the Hour of Code Challenge. Now in its fifth year, the event aimed to introduce the world of computer science to anyone from ages 4 to 104, is organized by Seattle-based nonprofit, Code.org. The sixty-minute event, which can be held anytime during the week, starts with an introductory video on computer science. Participants are then allowed to pick a coding project that intrigues them the most.
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Education World
Why were 600,000 high-paying tech jobs unfilled in 2015 in the United States alone, or is the better question: Is technology developing faster than humans can learn to handle it? According to the White House, by 2018, 51 percent of STEM jobs will be in computer science-related fields. However, the number of tech employees has not increased along with the number of jobs available. Why? The answer is simple: lack of relevant education. The White House maintains that just one quarter of K-12 schools offer high-quality computer science with programming and coding.
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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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eSchool News
The children we teach were born with technology as a part of their lives. They don’t know a world without touchscreen phones and computers in every room. In today's world, saying that subjects like coding and robotics "are for 'big kids'" is like saying "reading is for 'big kids.'" As Robin Ricketts from The Steward School points out, if we wait until students are in middle school to hand them a book, we have not only devalued reading, we’ve also missed out on the opportunity to make reading easy and fun. The same is true of STEM literacy, which can no longer be considered optional.
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iProgrammer
Apple has announced a global expansion of its Swift app development curriculum to more than 20 colleges and universities outside the U.S., including Australia's largest higher education institution, RMIT University. The App Development with Swift Curriculum has been designed by Apple engineers and educators to teach college-level students a solid foundation in programming using Swift. It features Xcode tutorials and structured lessons about data types, variables and elements of application design with enough material to be taught across an entire year.
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Portland State University via Science Daily
Researchers are learning more about undergraduates' experience in science, technology, engineering and math classes and sharing a set of survey questions that will help researchers and educators at other universities do the same.
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eSchool News (commentary)
Carolina Zarate, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "The recent Equifax security breach, which affected essentially every other person in the U.S., is just the latest example of our vulnerability in the face of cybercriminals — and further proof that we need to teach kids as early as possible that they can make good living as hackers. I'm not talking about the hackers in movies or TV shows who rob online banks or crash the stock market for fun; those aren't hackers — they're criminals. Think instead of hackers who understand computer systems so deeply, they can spot bugs before the bad guys do, and fix them."
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