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Can Affordable Computing Education Bridge the Global Digital Divide?

ED Surge

One way to lessen the global digital divide is to provide affordable and accessible computing education to all, regardless of socioeconomic background. Founded in the United Kingdom, the Raspberry Pi Foundation set out to inspire young people to study computer science by inventing a programmable computer for the price of a textbook.

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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.

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Modelling minds: can computers mimic human intelligence?

Futurum

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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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.

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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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Participatory Design to Set Standards for PCAS Courses

Computing Education Research Blog

My main activity for the last year has been building two new courses for our new Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS), which I’ve blogged about recently here (with video of a talk about PCAS) and here where I described our launch. The ACM/IEEE Computing Curriculum volumes weren’t going to be much help.

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Helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy with Teaspoon languages

Computing Education Research Blog

Last year, Tammy Shreiner and I received NSF funding to develop and evaluate computational supports for helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy and computing(see post here ). We have a chapter in the new book by Aman Yadav and Ulf Dalvad Berthelsen Computational Thinking in Education: A Pedagogical Perspective.

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