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.CSTA NEWS
CSEdWeek Kicks Off Monday
CSTA
Join us as we celebrate the start of CSEdWeek! As we aim to celebrate our progress, we'll hear from a select panel of the 2022 CS Heroes about their own progress, and celebrate community milestones in CS Education. Our panelists will discuss their own journeys to computer science, what has inspired them, and their recommendations for how we can continue to advance so that every student has an equal opportunity to learn computer science. Our panelists include Okezue Bell, Yim Register, Kayla Saniya Fortson, and Daisy Murillo.
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Don't Miss Our Other CSEdWeek Events
CSTA
CSTA is hosting two additional events next week for CSEdWeek!
- CSEdWeek: Ways you can Advocate for CS in Your Community! — Are you looking for ways to advocate for computer science in your community? Looking for where to start? Look no further than this session. The CSTA Teacher-Led Policy committee will share ways all teachers can become advocates for CS in their schools, communities, regionally, and beyond! Register
- Examining K-12 CS Education from the Teacher's Lens: Results of a Recent National Study — Join us as we share the results of our national landscape study examining the background and experiences of thousands of PreK-12 CS teachers in the United States to understand challenges and opportunities for support creating more equitable student outcomes. Register
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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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$10,000 Scholarship Opportunity for High School Seniors
CSTA
CSTA has opened applications for the 2022-2023 Cutler-Bell Application, which looks to recognize up to four high school senior students residing in the US for their projects in CS. Winners will receive a $10,000 prize to go to their college/university of choice. Applications are due by Jan. 27, 2023. Share the application with your students. Have questions about the award? Join the CSTA Awards committee on Dec. 15 for a Q&A session about the award.
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Attend Getting Started with Real-Time 3D on Tuesday
CSTA
Real-time 3D (RT3D) is redefining interactive content. No longer confined to the realm of video games, this technology now plays key roles in industries as wide-ranging as architecture, medicine, automotive, aerospace, and film. From creating with code to developing VR applications, learn how you can confidently prepare your students with future-proof skills. Participants will be entered in a raffle to win Unity swag.
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.CSTA EVENT CALENDAR
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CSEdWeek 2022 Kick-Off Panel |
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Getting Started with Real-Time 3D |
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CSEdWeek: Ways you can Advocate for CS in Your Community! |
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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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ACM/CSTA 2023 Cutler-Bell Award Office Hours - December 2022 |
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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
Why students say STEM is hard and what educators can do about it
KQED
STEM ability is distributed evenly across the populace. STEM identity is created when that natural ability is fostered by human activity. We are at our very core scientific creatures, but we believe in our STEM selves when the world reinforces what we are.
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Promoted by AIClub
Questions, Answers, and 5 Cool Project Ideas
High school is a great time to explore career choices. Computer Science offers many career options and is foundational to many others such as healthcare, finance, marketing, and more. In this blog post, we answer common questions that high school students have about computer science, and suggest 5 cool projects to explore to see whether computer science is right for you!
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The importance of starting STEM learning early
SmartBrief
As we watch exciting updates from the science world — such as breathtaking images of the iconic Pillars of Creation by the James Webb Telescope or the slow methodical crawl of a Mars rover — it seems these discoveries and developments are primed to share with students.
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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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Combining movement and technology enhances learning
EdTech
When students move around in a classroom, it opens up new levels of learning. Pairing that movement with technology amplifies the impact and improves student outcomes. As an educational technologist, I see how combining movement and technology is a powerful strategy for schools and districts looking for more ways to ditch "sit and get" models — where teachers lecture at the front of a room and hope seated students "get" something out of the lesson.
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How to encourage STEM with student input and phenomenon-based learning
Tech and Learning
Peter J. Smith's advice for educators looking to encourage interest in STEM and CTE career pathways is simple: Listen to students.
"One of the reasons why we formed some of the classes that we did is interest from our students," says Smith, a science teacher and AVID Program Coordinator at Baldwin Park High School in California. "Getting their feedback and making it something that they feel is a benefit, is a big help."
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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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The ups and downs of girls in STEM
eSchool News
Are girls really underrepresented in STEM?
Yes.
In the US, the workforce is pretty evenly split between men and women, but in STEM fields men make up 73% of the workforce to women's 27%. Why?
It's easy to want to find a well-meaning solution for this disparity, or even to brush it off as unimportant.
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The stranglehold of technology in the classroom
The Progressive Magazine
The drive to transition in K-12 school technology from isolated computer labs, with students learning at dedicated workstations, to one-to-one computing, with every student having their own device, took a big jump during the pandemic and seems to be continuing at breakneck speed.
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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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Using data insight platforms to improve SEL strategies
eSchool News
Although structured social-emotional learning (SEL) has been around since the mid-90s, schools' focus on SEL has skyrocketed following the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on education. As remote learning exacerbated feelings of isolation and uncertainty, and behavioral and mental health issues emerged, many educators shifted away from attainment goals to helping students cope and connect in an environment that suddenly lacked regular social interactions, academic expectations and daily structure.
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What do schools need to know to recognize a social engineering attack?
EdTech
Cybersecurity is a high priority for K-12 administrators and IT leaders. It was the No. 1 technology pain point for survey respondents in the Consortium for School Networking's "EdTech Trends and Funding: A CoSN Member Survey 2022." The survey also found 83 percent of districts planned to expand cybersecurity initiatives.
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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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These 4 pillars support effective school cybersecurity strategy
K-12 Dive
Reports of ransomware attacks against schools are becoming all too commonplace. The increasingly complex threat of cybercriminals poses unique challenges to district IT departments. To borrow a phrase, school systems need to be at 100%, and a cybercriminal only needs to get lucky once.
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