GitHub has released Classroom Assistant, a tool intended to help streamline the grading process for teachers using Classroom on its open-source service that allows developers to share and collaborate on code.
10/08/2018
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Forty-one states didn't graduate a single new teacher prepared to teach CS.
10/08/2018
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New STEAM Universe webinars available on demand!
10/08/2018
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Just as the College Board announced new resources and processes for its Advanced Placement exams, the organization also said that the number of students tackling an AP Computer Science assessment grew by nearly a third over last year's count. That count includes record participation by underrepresented groups, including girls and black and Latinx students.
10/03/2018
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Next, the state will finalize a plan for scaling up CS education, including how to support teachers. That's expected to be approved by March 2019.
10/01/2018
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The 2019 Vernier/NSTA Technology Awards program is now open, offering up to $5.500 for "the innovative use of data-collection technology using a computer, tablet, graphing calculator, or other handheld in the science classroom."
10/01/2018
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Vernier/NSTA Technology Awards grant Program now open!
10/01/2018
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Sam Patterson says he isn’t going to be the guy telling everyone else that they should teach with puppets, but he is happy enough to tell you why it works really well for him. Patterson is the makerspace coordinator at Echo Horizon School. He talked with us about using puppets to help students think about design goals, building puppets to teach students about iterative processes and more.
09/25/2018
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The Museum of Science of Boston's school curriculum division, EiE, has released two Engineering curricula, one for kindergarten and one for preschool and pre-K programs, the first of their kind of early learners.
09/25/2018
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Elementary math encompasses essential first steps on the path to understanding numbers and their uses, patterns, and relationships. Along the way, students learn the skills of counting, estimation, rounding, representing data, and measurement. These concepts are used in everyday life and are an essential first step to understanding science and its processes.
09/25/2018
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Proposals for Lowe's classroom grants are due in 10 days! New classroom grants added.
09/18/2018
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