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Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career

Ask a Tech Teacher

Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career Starting a career is an exhilarating journey, and in today’s tech-driven world, the technology you choose during your school years can be a foundational step toward your professional tech arsenal. Thus, choosing tech that scales with your growing needs is essential.

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Cyber Security and CS Education

Computer Science Teacher

Way back in time, cybersecurity was all about controlling access to the computer in the locked room with the raised floor. We spent a lot of design time on our various OS subsystems to make sure that access was verified and that people could only access what they were authorized to access. It was the real world.

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Modelling minds: can computers mimic human intelligence?

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Modelling minds: can computers mimic human intelligence? For many years, psychologists and neuroscientists have sought to uncover how the mind functions, while computer scientists have attempted to reproduce human-like capabilities in machines. Or are you smarter than computers? What are computational models?

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Broadening Participation in Computing by Moving Away from Computer Science: Information, Arts, Humanities, and Sciences offer better models for #CSforAll

Computing Education Research Blog

In April, I gave a talk at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D) “Broadening Participation in Computing by Moving Away from Computer Science” — slides available here, and video available here. More modern computer science definitions are much more narrow.

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Should CS Be Required in High School?

Ellipsis Education

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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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

ED Surge

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. This was giving me 100 percent quantifiable data on how many questions I asked and how often I asked them in a 90-minute class,” York says.

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Instructors Rush to Do ‘Assignment Makeovers’ to Respond to ChatGPT

ED Surge

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. The Challenge of Teaching Coding Perhaps the most challenging assignment makeovers will come in courses on computer coding.