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Slate Magazine
Over the past five years, the idea that computer programming— or "coding" — is the key to the future for both children and adults alike has become received wisdom in the United States. The aim of making computer science a "new basic" skill for all Americans has driven the formation of dozens of nonprofit organizations, coding schools, and policy programs.
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Cue is Wonder Workshop's most sophisticated robot to date. With enhanced sensors, faster processors, and an all new app that enables young coders to transition from block-based coding to text-based Javascript programming, Cue is the perfect solution for middle school educators interested in taking coding and robotics to the next level.
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USA Today
Tech giant Apple is setting its eyes on teaching coding to every public school student in one of the biggest and most racially diverse school districts in the nation. Apple CEO Tim Cook told USA Today that the company — which like many top tech firms has faced calls from politicians and activists to take steps to diversify its workforce — in the New Year will partner with Chicago school system officials to teach the coding language Swift in city classrooms and through after-school coding clubs in a school district.
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EdSurge
California's Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom thinks his state is falling behind when it comes to requiring computer science in all of its high schools. "It's time to move away from downloading apps, to have our kids start designing apps," he told an audience at the College of San Mateo, south of San Francisco.
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Daily Press
The Virginia Board of Education voted to become the first state to adopt mandatory computer science standards for all students. The computer science Standards of Learning were unanimously approved after lengthy discussion on Nov. 16. They laid out the four key fundamentals that must be taught: computer literacy, educational technology, digital citizenship and information technology. Each of these concepts is interwoven into other content areas in most cases. Computer literacy means just that: making sure a student knows how to use computers and programs and can demonstrate that by creating a digital presentation.
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Chicago Daily Herald
As we are in the middle of Computer Science Education Week, what better time to look at recent kids' books about coding? As you may already know, coding is instructing a computer to take an action in a way it will understand and follow. "Secret Coders," written by Gene Luen Yang and illustrated by Mike Holmes, is a graphic novel series that follows three friends as they learn a largely forgotten computer language and try to save the world from a crazed computer genius. The fourth book, "Robots & Repeats," was published in October, and the next one will be released in March.
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EdSurge
Educators around the country this week are celebrating the Hour of Code, an international effort to bring awareness to computer science. But at Emma L. Johnston Elementary school (P.S. 241) in Brooklyn, students use words like "algorithm" and "loops" year-roun — and with remarkable ease. Their teacher has an unlikely strategy to get them to that level of understanding: unplugging the tech.
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Education Dive
The past several years has seen rising educational interest in STEM concepts like computer science and coding due to a significant skills gap in the workforce. For example, data from Code.org shows only around 43,000 new computer science graduates entered the workforce last year despite there being close to a half-million open jobs in the field.
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