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eSchool News
It's that time of year again — nestled between Thanksgiving and winter break is Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code, offering super-cool activities to keep restless students engaged in programming challenges. This year, educators are focusing on all the things that make computer science education important and necessary for today's students — namely, how programming builds skills like critical thinking and problem solving that help students in daily life, the fact that these students will have STEM-focused careers (including some that don't yet exist), and the need to fill programming jobs that sit empty due to a lack of highly qualified workers.
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Times Higher Education
The University of Oxford has become the first U.K. institution to top Times Higher Education's computer science and engineering and technology subject rankings. Oxford overtook three prestigious U.S. universities renowned for their strength in technology to take pole position in the two tables. In the computer science ranking it outperformed Stanford University, which fell two places to third, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which dropped three places to fifth.
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NBC News
When Amazon put out the call for a new headquarters, Virginia Tech promised to build a $1 billion, 1 million-square-foot technology-focused "Innovation Campus" if the company came to town. George Mason University, meanwhile, said it would open a new School of Computing and an institute focused on digital innovation, which would double its undergraduate population and increase the number of students enrolled in its Master's-level computing programs from around 1,100 to 5,000 over the next five years.
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eSchool News
Minecraft has pretty amazing potential as a teaching tool. In general, it promotes creativity and problem-solving as it boosts engagement. But it also can improve achievement when confident teachers incorporate it into instruction. It's easy for students to become absorbed in Minecraft worlds, mainly due to the game's "sandbox" nature–it's open-ended and offers unlimited possibilities for math, science, and building challenges. And the game isn't just for STEM classes, either. It can help build social and emotional skills, it can illustrate concepts found in literature and history classes, and more.
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EdTech Magazine
New research from Macquarie University's Department of Educational Studies and education technology company Makers Empire finds 3-D printing integration can boost creativity, critical thinking and design skills among primary school students. Researchers involved in the project, which took place between August 2017 to July 2018, saw increased levels of student engagement and educator confidence in the 24 classrooms that used the 3-D modeling and printing applications.
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WSKG
In celebration of Computer Science Education Week from Dec. 3-9, we're inviting teachers and parents to discover PBS KIDS resources that introduce little ones to coding, storytelling, and creative problem-solving. With PBS KIDS ScratchJr, kids can create their own interactive stories and games featuring their favorite PBS KIDS characters. The storytelling possibilities are endless with this creative coding app for children ages 5-8.
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[Brilliant]
Whether you’re an educator, a researcher, or an engineer, your work is all about solving problems. You understand that knowing the answer is not the same as knowing how to get the answer. You know that there are always new problems to solve, and having the critical reasoning skills to tackle them is of utmost importance. With Brilliant, you can develop the skills you need to approach challenges with confidence.
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Education Week
The New Hampshire Department of Education is holding two more public sessions to get input on the state's new minimum standards for computer science education. A bill passed earlier this year requires that computer science and digital skills be added to the state standards. The department held six meetings around the state to hear from educators, administrators and the public in May and June, and now plans two more sessions in December before presenting a draft proposal to the state Board of Education.
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Education Week
The Trump Administration continued its efforts to highlight the value of STEM and computer science skills for students, through a joint visit this week by Ivanka Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook to an elementary school in a rural Idaho district with a 1-to-1 iPad initiative. But the visit was not without controversy. A group of parents and students were outside the school protesting the overuse of technology, particularly for high school students.
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EdWeek Market Brief
Educators' use of a wide variety of digital tools and platforms — from instructional videos to learning management systems to openly licensed content — has risen over the past year, according to a new survey. Teachers' use of ed tech increased significantly for 9 out of 13 different types of ed tech they were asked about in the survey, which was conducted by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, one of the country's biggest K-12 companies, and YouGov, a market research and analytics firm.
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