In Megan Bowen’s high school robotics class, students made cardboard mazes, quizzed a local expert who brought live birds into her classroom, and decided how they should be graded, all before touching ...
Computer Science Education Week (CS Ed Week) is a time where educators around the world will host an Hour of Code to get their students learning the important engineering, coding and computer science ...
Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Despite growing demand for computer science skills in professional careers and many areas of life, K-12 schools struggle to teach ...
Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. There are nearly half a million open computing jobs in the U.S., but only 42,969 computer science graduates ...
It’s not every day that the country’s public schools attempt to incorporate an entirely new academic discipline. But with the “CS4all ” movement, that’s exactly what’s happening: From PreK through ...
Life has little moments. Segments of time stitched together to reveal a passing of the torch. Coding, gaming, and expanded robotic and artificial intelligence (AI) applications are creating new, ...
Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence. Marisa Shuman challenged her students at the Young Women’s ...
The Oregon Department of Education released its first statewide plan for computer science education late last year. The chief goal is for all K-12 public schools to offer some level of computer ...