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As 2019 comes to a close, CSTA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the Computer Science Today, a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 9.
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eSchool News
From Aug. 8: The nation needs to engage more minorities and girls in computer science if it hopes to build a diverse and talented workforce — after all, great ideas and innovation don't lie exclusively within white men's brains. There has in recent years been a louder and more resounding call for girls to enter the coding world. This call is buoyed in large part by Computer Science Education Week, the Hour of Code, and extra-curricular coding groups for girls.
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IBL News
From July 25: Google has launched an initiative called "Code with Google" to train teachers in Computer Science. It brings together Google's free curriculum and programs that build coding skills. Educators can integrate CS First into their classroom, guide their high school students through the learning app Grasshopper to learn JavaScript, and share CS scholarship, summer programs and internships opportunities.
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The Advocate
From Nov. 14: Art Lopez, 9 – 12 representative, CSTA Board of Directors, writes: "In writing this blog post, I wanted to take the opportunity to share with you, our members, the impact that Dr. Jan Cuny has had on our children, our communities, our country and on computer science education. I do not know if you know or heard about Dr. Jan Cuny; Jan is the Program Director for Computing Education in the in the Division of Computer and Network Systems for the National Science Foundation and, in my opinion, why computer science education has progressed so far forward for the past several years."
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eSchool News
From July 11: Efforts to get kids coding have exploded in recent years, but sometimes kids need a push to discover the "why" behind learning how to code. At ISTE 2019, that push to learn coding was clear as new K-12 robotics solutions emerged. Aside from the cool factor K-12 robotics offers, students who learn to program through robotics learn a number of skills they'll take with them well into adulthood, including creativity, problem solving and the ability to fail without quitting.
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EdSurge (commentary)
From March 21: Sheena Vaidyanathan, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like Scratch? At what age should they transition to text-based languages? And how do I choose between Python, Java or JavaScript? Having taught coding for almost 10 years to hundreds of students, I often present at conferences or run workshops for teachers new to computer science. Many teachers are trying to build a CS program in their schools for the first time, and it's understandable why they worry about which programming language to choose."
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Computer Weekly
From Aug. 8: Computer science degrees have the highest number of students dropping out, according to the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The most recent figures available from Hesa, which cover the year 2016-2017, show that 9.8% of computer science undergraduates dropped out before completing their degree. Business and administrative studies saw the second highest dropout rate, at 7.4%. Engineering and technology degrees were the equal third most dropped out of, along with creative and arts, and mass communications and documentation, all at 7.2%.
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The Advocate (commentary)
From Nov. 21: Jake Baskin, CSTA's executive director, writes: "This December marks the 10th anniversary of Computer Science Education Week and it's remarkable how far it has come. I'll be honest, I wasn't a CS teacher during the first-ever CS Education Week, so I can't claim to remember the full history, but..."
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Venture Beat
From Aug. 22: Unity Technologies, the maker of the widely-used real-time 3-D game development platform, has launched two new tools for the classroom. Create with Code and Unity Teach are now generally available for students to learn both game design and computer science. Create with Code, the first comprehensive solution for educators to teach computer science using Unity, and Unity Teach, a platform and ecosystem of inspiration, enablement and support for educators who are teaching or want to teach Unity to students, are the next steps in Unity's commitment to preparing students for a future surrounded by real-time 3-D creation.
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THE Journal
From May 16: The STEM Opportunity Index, developed by the National Math and Science Initiative, SRI International and 100Kin10, looks at more than 100 public data sets and puts the results into an interactive map that compares how states are doing across 10 different conditions, practices and outcomes that demonstrate STEM success rates.
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AV Magazine
From June 27: A paradigm shift is underway in education, and it's global. The traditional passive listen-and-learn model is being swept away by active learning, a pedagogy that transforms both teaching method and classroom.
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ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. CSTA appreciates ACM's ongoing support!
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