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The Washington Post
Incoming U.S. Education Secretary John King, Jr. asked how many of the two dozen students in a McKinley Technology High School classroom want to study computer science in college. More than half the students in the D.C. classroom — a group of teenagers in a predominantly black Northeast high school — raised their hands, a promising sign for a federal Education Department that wants to ensure that students of all backgrounds are prepared for professions in the science and technology fields.
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The Huffington Post
What are the biggest social and political obstacles to getting more kids to study computer science? There are many obstacles, but I should say we are so much farther along now than we were 3 years ago when I started working on this. The largest political obstacle is that all the policies and regulations and funding sources that drive education (in the U.S. or in most other countries) don't include computer science. Whether it's academic standards, teacher certification rules, funding sources, all of these pieces work together to make the education system function, but they need to be revised to include computer science. Nobody is against this, but it takes time and it takes work.
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ABC News
Teaching kids to code is just as important as teaching them any other language. And the younger they start learning it, the better, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday. Cook spoke to a group of New York third graders who visited a Manhattan Apple store for an "Hour of Code" class. In an interview afterward, he said that schools aren't putting enough emphasis on computer-science education, but he has "great hope" that will change and coding will ultimately become a required class for all kids.
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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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eSchool News
Backed by an all-star cast of Silicon Valley executives and nonprofit leaders, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the University of California Academic Senate on Dec. 2 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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The Columbus Dispatch
Over the past year, Reynoldsburg City Schools has partnered with Code.org to train 44 teachers across our district to teach computer science. Prior to the Code.org opportunity, our district had small pockets of computer science, but no meaningful sequence of courses and experiences that spanned K-12. Now we have a K-12 computer-science career pathway aligned with Harrison College and Columbus State degree programs, as well as after-school coding clubs.
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The Daily Targum
The week is scheduled to commemorate Grace Hopper's birthday: the woman who created the first compiler. Her contribution to computer science led to the mass production of computers and the diversification of those partaking in the field. With this in mind, CSEd Week highlights the need of diversity in computer science. The event is focused on helping K-12 students gain interest in computer science. Computer science is missing from K-12 basic education curricula on a global scale. CSEd Week is a means of bringing about educator awareness and rectifying this issue.
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EdSurge
Computer scientists and engineers always seem to make their way into comics. Tony Stark, haughty genius, builds himself into Iron Man; Bruce Banner, unfortunate victim of his own brilliance, becomes the Hulk; Rube Goldberg, engineer with the San Francisco Water and Sewers Department, writes America's most popular comics and founds the National Cartoonists Society. It's these titanic figures that inspire today's cartoonists — including those who come from a science background. The writers of today followed the heroes of yesterday into science. Dilbert's Scott Adams worked a telecommunications engineer and computer programmer for 20 years. XKCD's Randall Munroe was as a roboticist at NASA. Graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang, whom we previously interviewed, taught computer science for 17 years.
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eSchool News
Way back in the 1970s, working as a computer programmer was quite prestigious, and if you wanted to get into computer programming, your potential employer would more often than not put you through a batch of aptitude tests in order to determine your suitability: even if you had a degree. Nowadays, programming is more widespread and you don't need a degree to be a programmer; it's no longer mainly for scientists and engineers: students studying the humanities, English as a foreign language students, people building websites and a whole host of other folks are learning to program.
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