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CSTA
Myra Deister, a CSTA At-Large Representative, writes: "As I write this blog post, I am in the middle of planning for Computer Science Education Week. I have prepared my Eventbrite site and have emailed the link to the principals of the neighboring schools. This year will be the third year that my computer science students and I have hosted a community Hour of Code event at the high school for elementary and junior high students."
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Minnesota Daily
A recent Gallup poll found that students, parents and teachers think boys are more likely to be interested in and successful at computer science than girls. What’s more, the poll also found that high school-aged girls share in that lowered confidence. Three-quarters of students between grades seven and 12 said they think boys are more interested than girls in learning computer science, according to the poll. And at the University of Minnesota, students say fewer women take higher-level classes in the field. In fall of 2014, only a few dozen female students were enrolled in the University's computer science program. During the same semester, about 340 male undergraduates studied alongside them.
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KTAL-TV
A group of Natchitoches, Louisiana, middle school girls are on the way to adding diversity to the computer science field. The group is part of Girls Who Code, a national nonprofit working to close the gender gap in the technology and engineering sectors. About 15 middle schoolers meet every other Thursday after school at Northwestern State University Middle Lab for project-based activities that teach not only computer science concepts and logic, but also teamwork and leadership.
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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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The New Yorker
In September, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a ten-year deadline to offer computer science to every New York City public-school student at every grade level. One of the major obstacles to achieving "Computer Science for All," as the undertaking is called, is the fact that most teachers in the school system don't have computer-science backgrounds. "We're not training every teacher," Michael Preston, who runs the city's Foundation for Computer Science Education, told me a few weeks later. The plan sets aside eighty million dollars; in addition to public money, the city is raising private funds for some five thousand teachers to go through computer science programs.
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Orlando Sentinel
When Kyle Dencker started teaching computer science at Timber Creek High School in east Orange County, Florida, he had just 10 students in that class and spent most of his day teaching math. Six years later, he teaches computer science all day long, with more than 200 teenagers enrolled, including nearly 70 in Advanced Placement. Student interest in the field has soared in recent years, across the region and state. But state leaders are pushing for more, citing recent statistics from Code.org that reveal nearly 24,000 open computing jobs in Florida and fewer than 1,900 students earning computer science degrees from state universities each year.
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LA School Report
At a high school called the Critical Design and Gaming School, you'd think every student had a device on and was playing a game all the time. Not so. In fact, during one recent morning lesson, students opened up boxes of traditional board games to play with each other. "They find out pretty quickly it's not about playing games the whole time," said computer science teacher Nancy Se. But, the students do learn computer coding, build websites and design games on programs that have created their favorite apps and launched games like Assassin's Creed. "I teach them that computer science equals wealth equals power, and that is what could happen if you become one of the producers making games."
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Business Record
A working group of the Iowa Governor's STEM Advisory Council says that Iowa high schools should make completion of computer science coursework a requirement for graduation. The recommendation is one of three overall goals of the council's Computer Science Workgroup for the coming legislative session, the group's co-facilitator, Mark Gruwell, said in an interview with the Technology Association of Iowa. "Our overall goal is to expose students as much as we can to computer science, and find a way to create a computer science pathway from pre-K through college so we can get students involved in and train them to go into computer science," Gruwell said.
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District Administration Magazine
Analysts expect 3-D printer shipments to double worldwide to nearly 496,500 units in 2016 — in large part due to demand from K12 schools and universities, according to a new report. 3-D printers — devices that create physical objects from digital plans — are more common in STEM classes than in people's homes, despite manufacturers' initial expectations for the machines. Schools and universities are the primary market drivers for consumer 3-D printers costing under $2,500, according to a September report from Gartner Inc., an independent technology research company.
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