ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

STEM identity can last a lifetime and help students thrive in school, future careers and life. As the demand for digital skills grows, schools must develop inclusive programs to engage diverse learners. Preparing future global innovators takes a district-wide team of facilitators, classroom teachers and school administrators.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

. — The lab starts filling up after school lets out. Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. Students trickle in.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

Schools have begun to recognize the value of esports, with more than 8,600 US high schools having started video-gaming teams since 2018. Students can start as early as upper elementary school with programs like Ozaria , a narrative adventure game that sets a foundation of core computer science (CS) concepts.

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CoderZ

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In this blog, we will discuss why its essential to foster student resilience and how game-based computer science can offer an effective avenue for empowering resilient learners. Between academic expectations, social dynamics, and external factors, students experience a substantial amount of stress on a daily basis.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Students can’t go wrong with future careers in information technology and computer science. Machine learning engineer One of the best technology jobs of the future is as a machine learning engineer. Machine learning engineers have been ranked as one of the fastest-growing jobs in the United States.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. The Board of Supervisors voted to bring back middle-school algebra, and a city ballot measure to reinstate eighth-grade algebra passed with about 82 percent of the vote.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

” School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 29 (2018): 339 – 361. ” International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 13 (2015): 405-423. Enloe High School in Raleigh, NC. Andersson et al. “Characteristics of improved formative assessment practice.” van den Berg et al.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

As High School seniors prepare to graduate, many will choose something about computers for their job or continued studies. For many students who are approaching school leaving age, they will already have decided the career path which they wish to take. Algorithms and search engines. What is an algorithm?

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

C-STEM Studio –download to teach computers, science, technology, engineering and math with robotics. Google Computer Science for High School –free workshops (with application) for K-12 teachers. Move the Turtle –programming via iPad for middle school. Why Should Students Learn Computer Science?

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JULY 26, 2021

The community support makes it very easy for kids to learn computer science with Python. For instance, Matplotlib is used for plotting charts and graphs; SciPy for engineering applications, science, and mathematics; Beautiful Soup for HTML parsing and XML and NumPy for scientific computing.

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Career in STEM

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Computer science careers are in high demand, offering lucrative opportunities across the education spectrum. From high school diploma to PhD, there’s something for everyone! Computer science is also a great way to develop high level computational thinking skills needed in the 21 st century. “In

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

The idea came to Asemota, who is in her final semester as a biomolecular science major with a computer science minor, during the doldrums of pandemic lockdown isolation in 2020. We're all kicked out of school, kicked out of the dorm, and honestly, it was so chaotic, and I'm just at home, like, “What do I do to not lose my mind?”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Six months out from when it broke the internet, ChatGPT — and its numerous clones and adaptations — have drummed up great interest, and concerns, for teachers, school leaders and districts. They’re going to figure it out before we figure it out,” says Tracy Daniel-Hardy, director of technology at the Gulfport School District in Mississippi.

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CoderZ

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

4, 2024) – Intelitek and CoderZ, an Intelitek company, announced today that the Dallas ISD has approved the CoderZ coding platform and the RoboX 3D simulation platform for the district’s pre-engineering and robotics certification programs as part of a recent request for proposal initiative.

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Computer Science Teacher

AUGUST 13, 2022

Social engineering not technical engineering. People were and are still the weak link in computer security. In the early days few people had access to a computer. What does that mean for high schools? For one thing, it means a lot of people are saying that high schools should teach it. Maybe when (if?)

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Ellipsis Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

Do you have interest in computer science but thought it's just about learning to code? While coding is a crucial aspect of computer science, it's not the only reason to pursue this field. Here are the top four benefits of studying computer science that don't include coding. Well, think again!

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity is Directly Ripping Off Content from News Outlets.” 12:52 Examples of positive uses of applications of AI in our world today and concerns as it relates to children in schools. Why Every School Needs an AI Policy Right Now. New York Post, June 10, 2024. Forbes, June 7, 2024. September 21, 2023.

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Ellipsis Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Let’s talk about these frameworks and how they can be applied to teaching computer science. PCK in Computer Science Since computer science (CS) is a relatively new subject in K-12 settings, every CS teacher is at a different place in their journey. What is Content Knowledge?

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DECEMBER 5, 2020

Move the Turtle –programming via iPad for middle school. C-STEM Studio –download to teach computers, science, technology, engineering and math with robotics. Google Computer Science for High School –free workshops (with application) for K-12 teachers. Why Should Students Learn Computer Science?

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Need for AI Literacy in Education The rapidly evolving space of artificial intelligence (AI) requires school and district leaders to make sense of how emerging technology applications, including those that use generative AI (Gen AI), are being integrated into schools and districts across the United States.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2018

Finding webtools for high school classes requires a different set of metrics than those that apply to lower and middle school searches. By high school, the pressure to prepare students for their future is immense. Of course they do! They aren’t interested in replacing the usual tools or facilitating rote drills.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In today's show, I talk with Mark Sparvell about a tool that has become essential to my lesson planning and work in my AP Computer Science Principles course: Bing Chat Enterprise. AIforEducators. I highly recommend this free AI course from Microsoft.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Move the Turtle –programming via iPad for middle school. C-STEM Studio –download to teach computers, science, technology, engineering and math with robotics. Google Computer Science for High School –free workshops (with application) for K-12 teachers. Lego Fix the Factory (app). L ightBot Jr.

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Computer Science Teacher

JULY 15, 2022

Amazon and the Amazon Future Engineer Program Amazon had one of the large end cap booths with a lot of people and materials. Their main emphasis was the Amazon Future Engineers program. Engineer for the Week | Facebook but also at Engineer for the Week (fb.com) The curriculum has a strong “coding for good” component.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Thousands of students go through the university’s life sciences department, he adds, but a lot of them don’t graduate with degrees in those fields. This story also appeared in USA Today Falling off that path can lock students out of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Be it blowing soap bubbles or building towers of spaghetti, they are second only to seasoned engineers and CEOs at getting results. Research shows that kids as young as pre-school or kindergarten age have divergent thinking capabilities. Well, don’t let that deter you.

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STEM Education Works

MAY 16, 2023

Educators and students alike face some difficult and unique challenges in the modern computer science classroom. Especially when it comes to tackling the “meat and cheese” of computer science: computer programming. In other words, computer science education is more important than ever. Why Robots?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In this tech-centric day and age, the demand for science, technology, math, and engineering skills has spiked significantly, and it only seems to increase. This is evident in how an increasing number of schools offer information technology degrees. 10 Best US Colleges for Computer Science. Celebrate With Tech.

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Computing Education Research Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Emma Dodoo is an Engineering Education Research PhD student working with me. When Emma took her first computer science classes, she was surprised to find that the curriculum was not only dominated by English but that it was virtually impossible to learn programming without also learning English terminology.

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Science Buddies

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Teacher Combines Computer Science and Engineering Design for Middle School Students

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 8, 2023

Computer science is an exciting, ever-changing field with a lot to offer. But what exactly does “computer science” mean, and how can kids get started off learning about it? What Is Computer Science? At its core computer science is about learning how computers and programs work.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JULY 23, 2023

William was curious: what would happen if he pit ChatGPT against the assignments from our Computer Science class. We need to examine if AI is being used responsibly in our schools by teachers, students, administrators, and parents. He aced Mrs. Vicki Davis' Computer Science class and always sparked great conversations in class.

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CoderZ

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It’s Computer Science Education Week and what better way to ignite a love for STEM and celebrate computer science than with your very own hour of coding in the classroom? Coding and computer science is for everyone! No experience in coding or robotics? No problem! So, what are you waiting for?

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2024

While the fiasco primarily derailed high school seniors, plenty of college students like Artica also rely on the process to access federal student aid, especially with the cost of college rising. In Virginia, where Artica goes to school, there’s been a 33 percent drop in completions. She’s studying computer science and engineering.

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STEM Education Works

JANUARY 27, 2025

Gaming can be a great way to inspire a young student to learn more about computer science, coding, and the different programming languages available to them out there (C++, C#, and JavaScript being the most commonly used by development teams in the gaming industry). Mathematics Math is all about numbers, and numbers are all around us.

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Ellipsis Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Meghan Lund Content Marketing Specialist In order to put on that cap and gown and walk across the stage with a diploma in hand, high school students must work hard to complete a certain amount of credits in various subject areas. Has the time come to update these requirements and add computer science to the mix? 3 Reasons Why.

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