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Tech Teacher Appreciation Week May 6-10, 2024

Ask a Tech Teacher

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This Program Is Empowering the Next Generation of Computational Thinkers

ED Surge

In 2015, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust set out to develop a computational thinking (CT) and coding education initiative of world-class standard, based on up-to-date teaching tools and proven pedagogy. This goes beyond simply embedding computational thinking into a curriculum; it’s really about empowerment.

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What Happens When Technology Fails? 3 Work-Arounds

Ask a Tech Teacher

Students will look to their teacher for solutions and the teacher will become best friends with a colleague in thick glasses and the pasty tan of someone rarely away from their computer, whose conversation includes words like gig, server, and modem. The top two: If the computer won’t start, check it’s plugged in.

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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed one of the great achievements of our civilization over the past several centuries has been to build up the paradigms of mathematics, the exact sciences—and, most importantly, now computation—and to create a tower of capabilities quite different from what pure human-like thinking can achieve. I think about things as a human.

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Simple Ways to Put More Rigor in Your Lesson Plans

Cool Cat Teacher

In math, rigor can be achieved by going beyond basic computation and focusing on identifying and explaining misconceptions. So here's the thing, we're doing computation, we're doing two plus two equals four, we'll go with something pretty basic. Well, so here's the thing. Vicki Davis (02:12) Oh. So that's great.

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From a Week of Computer Science to A Year of Possibilities

STEM Next

From a Week of Computer Science to A Year of Possibilities: Five Ideas to Take into 2023. We celebrate the incredible effort that made Computer Science Education Week 2022 a resounding success. Check out our How-to Guide for activities along with resources to advocate for computer science in your community.

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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.