Information on infusing leadership and life skills in K-12 education.
This week is the first “Open Education Week” ever held, and to celebrate the event there are webinars about how to access and use open content education resources being held around the world. You can find more information at http://www.openeducationweek.org/ About Open Education Open education is about sharing, reducing barriers and increasing access in education.
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Students (and you) will find this TED Talk, which blends computer science and mechanical engineering, amazing! At the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, at the University of Pennsylvania, flying quadrotor robots move together in eerie formation, tightening themselves into perfect battalions, even filling in the gap when one of their own drops
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February 3, 2012 The California Computing Education Advocacy Network (CCEAN) released a report today entitled In Need of Repair: The State of K-12 Computer Science Education in California as an initial response to a “call-for-action” by the Computer Science Teachers Association. CCEAN consists of computer science education leaders from the K-12, community college and university
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Over 80 educators and business leaders from throughout California met last month to participate in a collaborative initiative to improve instruction for students attending high schools, ROPs, adult schools, community colleges and four-year colleges in California. Over the past three years, Bill Cullifer, Executive Director of the WebProfessionals.org organization has led this collaborative initiative that
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