News of particular interest to teachers.
More than 3,000 teachers, administrators, and students attended the 2014 California STEM Symposium this week at the San Diego Convention Center. While there was a lot of math and science related learning going on, there was also an emphasis throughout the symposium on the importance of coding and computer science within all of the STEM
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Relationships are more important than transactions. Circle the Schools program organizers intend to move beyond drive-by volunteerism, in which a company parachutes into a school for a few hours of benevolence and photo ops, and then disappears. Instead, participating companies will make a one-year commitment to the school they adopt. The companies will listen to
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Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is taking action to help make computer science an elective in San Francisco’s middle schools. Salesforce.com is gifting $5 million to the city’s public schools and $1 million to Code.org for computer science education. The company sets aside 1 percent of its equity for a foundation, 1 percent of its employees’
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The Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) today released a research report with recommendations entitled: Using Technology to Support At-Risk Students’ Learning. The report found three important variables for success with at-risk students who are learning new skills: Interactive learning; Use of technology to explore and create rather than to “drill and kill”; and,
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