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Coding for Kids: How to Boost Academic Achievement

PCS Edventures

Communicating with computers is fun, engaging and thrilling, and it also has a powerful effect on kids’ futures. Coding boosts academic achievement while simultaneously embedding life-long skills in learners. At this age, they begin to understand cause-and-effect relationships, including simple computer commands. Vardanega, T.,

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Student-Centered Computing: Teaching Computer Science Using Culturally Authentic Practices

National Science Foundation

Though women were once at the forefront of developing the disciplines of computer programming and software engineering (Berkeley School of Information, 2021), the computer science (CS) workforce in the US for the past three decades has become a field of mostly White and Asian men. Building equity through collaborative work.

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Governor, teachers and others back Arkansas’s computer science push

STEMx

How did Arkansas become a national leader in promoting and implementing a K-12 computer science curriculum? I also serve as a board member for the National Computer Science Teachers Association, and as a member of the Southern Regional Education Board’s Commission on Computer Science, Information Technology and Related Career Fields.

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Hard vs Soft Skills in STEM Education

STEM Sport

Hard skills in STEM encompass the technical and specialized knowledge that students acquire in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Here are some primary hard skills: Data Analysis: The ability to collect, interpret, and draw meaningful conclusions from data.

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Helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy with Teaspoon languages

Computing Education Research Blog

Teaspoon languages: Support learning tasks that teachers (typically non-CS teachers) want students to achieve; Are programming languages, in that they specify computational processes for a computational agent to execute; and Are learnable in less than 10 minutes, so that they can be learned and used in a one hour lesson.

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Battelle NEON STEM Grant offers educators a chance to work with national environmental data

STEMx

Programs such as K-2 IMPACT, a statewide mathematics initiative for Ohio’s K-2 educators, allowed us to research changes in content knowledge, instructional strategies and student achievement. Q: What kind of experience do you have using primary source data such as that available through the NEON project?

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Tennessee network focused on “kindergarten to jobs” pipeline

STEMx

The network has taken a two-pronged approach to providing support for educators, students, and parents during this period of school closures with the primary goal being to ensure that learning and professional growth continue during this uncertain time. Tell us about its mission, how it works to achieve it and its impact.