News of particular interest to teachers.
The UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM Center) is providing teachers with breakthrough tools for teaching math, coding and robotics. The C-STEM Center has been granted UC A-G Program Status. This means that schools can easily add C-STEM A-G approved courses to their own school’s “A-G” course lists without submitting a
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Schools that offer only basic digital literacy or word processing application courses should consider implementing a networking pathway program of study. While everyone needs to know how to use technology, those that have skills that enable others to use technology will have more opportunities for high-paying jobs. All information and data we rely on today
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Pat Yongpradit, Chief Academic Officer for Code.org, invites educators to review the first draft of the national K-12 computer science framework. As interest and growth in K-12 computer science grows, the framework will help answer a common question: What do students need to know and be able to do in K-12 computer science? In California we
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Jane Margolis was honored this week at the White House as a Computer Science Champion of Change. Since 1994 Jane has worked as a researcher with the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) studying why so few African American, Latino, and female students are learning computer science. Her research led to the writing of the
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