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In Spring 2015, Google began work on revamping their CT website. Their materials are available at a website called Exploring Computational Thinking. A team at Google developed a template for lessons which would be made available on their site. They took the large number of lessons that were already on their site and rewrote them into this new lesson plan format. They hired a group of educators to review all of those lessons and now have about 130 lessons and other materials available.
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The Associated Press
Moving her finger over the laptop trackpad, 6-year-old Lauren Meek drags and drops a block of code to build a set of instructions. She clicks the "run" button and watches as the character moves through a maze. She then pumps her fist in excitement. "Yes! This is so easy," says Meek, a kindergartener at Marshall Elementary in Marysville, north of Seattle. This fall, most elementary school students in the Marysville School District are getting 40-minute weekly computer science lessons as part of their core instruction - part of a growing effort nationwide to expose more public school children to computer science, even as early as in kindergarten.
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Edutopia
Chances are high that computer science literacy will be increasingly relevant for jobs of the future. Some theorists even suggest that the ability to read and write code is a fundamental 21st-century competency. Yet, according to an August 2015 Gallup survey, many students get little exposure to these concepts at school; opportunities are even more limited for low-income students. To address these realities, there are a variety of free resources that can help teachers of all grades and subjects give students exposure to computer science, as well as access to opportunities that develop the skills required to approach coding problems.
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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 San Francisco Chronicle
Backed by an all-star cast of Silicon Valley executives and nonprofit leaders, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the University of California Academic Senate to count high school computer science classes as math classes instead of electives — a move supporters say could help to diversify the tech industry. Newsom's hope is that the shift will encourage California high schools — which frequently tailor their curriculum to reflect what the UC system requires — to beef up their computer science offerings.
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EdSurge
Every era demands — and rewards — different skills. In different times and different places, we have taught our children to grow vegetables, build a house, forge a sword or blow a delicate glass, bake bread, create a soufflé, write a story or shoot hoops. Now we are teaching them to code. We are teaching them to code, however, not so much as an end in itself but because our world has morphed: so many of the things we once did with elements such as fire and iron, or tools such as pencil and paper, are now wrought in code. We are teaching coding to help our kids craft their future.
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Gizmodo
Kaila Hale-Stern, a contributor for Gizmodo, writes: "Today a kid in college told me he was debating whether to major in CS or not. How would you settle that debate? Airplane friends! I love making airplane friends. I just got off a plane, where I had a nice chat with a young man who said he knows he wants to work in software development someday, but he's getting to that point where you have to choose a major and is receiving mixed messages about following a fixed path of computer science study."
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Education DIVE
Interest in coding bootcamps is on the rise. Course Report projects the growing sector will produce more than 16,000 graduates in 2015, up from less than half of that in 2014. The vast majority of these graduates already had bachelor's degrees. Some were looking for promotions in their current workplaces while others signed up for intensive training to make a career change. President Barack Obama has praised the bootcamp model, highlighting it as an important alternative to a longer, more expensive degree program for adults who want to become more marketable in their job searches. But coding bootcamps are still on the fringe. They don't yet qualify for federal financial aid, though some could soon have access through the U.S. Department of Education's experimental sites program. In many circles, coding bootcamps are still seen as a lesser alternative to traditional computer science degree programs.
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