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Refinery29
Google Doodles have featured animated stories and interactive games in the past, but today's doodle is the first of its kind to grace the search engine's homepage. Head to Google now and you'll see a bunny with cube-like blocks topped with carrots. Your mission: Collect the carrots by completing simple lines of code that will move the bunny forward. Although the bunny might imply an association with spring time, this is no celebratory Easter Doodle. Instead, it's a celebration of 50 years of kids coding: Five decades ago, the first programming languages for kids were created.
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TechCrunch
At today's Computer Science Education Week kickoff, the theme was women in coding. In the U.S., just 18 percent of computer science college graduates are women. Hence why tech leaders like Microsoft's Peggy Johnson, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and YouTube's Susan Wojcicki took to the stage at the College of San Mateo to discuss the importance of getting young girls involved in technology. Wojcicki described how she was introduced to computer science by luck. As a history and literature major in college, Wojcicki decided to take a computer science class during her senior year.
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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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Recode
More high school students around the U.S. took college computer science courses last year than ever before, but in what states are they more likely to take advanced coding classes? Rates of adoption vary heavily state to state. Maryland and Rhode Island rank the highest, according to new 2016-2017 school year data from the College Board collected by Code.org, an advocacy group that's been pushing for more computer science in schools. More than 41 percent of AP high schools in those two states offer such courses. Montana came in last place with just two percent of the state’s AP high schools offering computer science.
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eSchool News
An elementary technology teacher shares her game-based approach to helping her youngest students learn to love the keyboard — and prepare for computer-based assessments.
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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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Financial Post
Like many adults, Benjamin Kelly didn't initially get the global Minecraft phenomenon, which has seen millions upon millions of kids investing endless hours exploring and creating within a blocky virtual world. Eventually he came around. "I consider myself a late adopter," says Kelly, who teaches technology at Caledonia Regional High School in New Brunswick. "But the students' passion for the game was unyielding. I adopted Minecraft mainly because of that."
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Honolulu Civil Beat
When he was an elementary school math teacher, Shane Asselstine was on the verge of quitting. His students often slouched in their chairs, their heads on their hands. Bound to a textbook-based curriculum, Asselstine sensed the frustration and low energy in the room. That's when the Toronto native, who worked as a network engineer in Michigan before moving to Hawaii to pursue teaching, approached his principal at Momilani Elementary with a bold proposal: what if he could incorporate Minecraft, a video game that allows users to design and create interfaces in a digital medium, into his math lessons?
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Daily Miner
A program to teach coding to high schoolers praised by Gov. Doug Ducey as key to Arizona’s economic future had to be financed by local taxpayers and grants due to the lack of state dollars. And unless there's a sudden boost in state funding, schools in other districts that want to duplicate the program will also not get state dollars to construct a facility and buy the equipment. That, then, would leave them dependent on voters approving the kinds of bonds that financed the Phoenix Coding Academy and helped pay for the computers. "Computer science in terms of our future and economic development is critical," the governor said after touring the facility and talking with students.
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eSchool News
The generation in school now is the first generation raised entirely in the Age of Technology. They are digital natives, many of them using computers, smartphones and other digital tools nearly from birth. As technology continues to grow and expand, so too will the ways we use it. This growth and expansion will impact the types of jobs that will be available in the next 10–20 years. So how do we as educators prepare Gen Z for jobs that may not even exist yet?
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San Francisco Examiner
According to the Computer Science Teachers Association and Code.org, the SFUSD was one of 15 winners selected out of nearly 1,000 nominations — and the only winner in the school district category — because of our progress in expanding access to CS. It's true. We are committed to providing engaging, rigorous and relevant computer science instruction to all students. By 2020, every student from preschool through 8th grade will participate in computer science classes, and a menu of classes will be offered at all high schools.
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