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Curated Resource: Cybersecurity
From password strength and email phishing to firewalls and hacking prevention, every student in middle school and beyond should be aware of how cybersecurity affects their lives in our digitally connected world.
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Help! How do you teach Robotics in a remote environment? Ideas please!
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Like most, we find ourselves having to teach remotely. Starting next Monday (3/30) we begin 2 weeks of "Enrichment". Then we need to prepare ourselves for "phase 2" - online learning.
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WEBINAR: CS for Good: Going Beyond the Hour of Code 2020
Are you wondering what the Hour of Code 2020 is all about and how to engage your students? Well, wonder no more!
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WEBINAR: The 21st Century CS Classroom: Agile as a Tool to Get You There
Once thought of as "just programming," computer science has grown to encompass a variety of roles and disciplines. Isn't it time that the CS classroom evolved to meet the demands of the 21st century workplace?
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Opportunities For Social Justice Through the Lens of Computer Science
This week's CS for All Teachers Equity in CS Discussion is about OPPORTUNITIES:
How are computer science skills and social justice related?
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Bebras Challenge and other recruitment strategies
I'm starting to look ahead to next year and potential recruitment strategies for AP CSP. Some schools have a pipeline... Online, it's more challenging. I do have an Intro.
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CSTA CS Ed Week Shirts focused on Social Justice
CSTA's 2020 CS Ed Week TShirts focus on social justice. They're looking pretty good! Get yours here: https://stores.inksoft.com/CSTA/shop/home
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Help Request -> Makey Makey, Scratch and Inspiring Computer Science Grade Level Lessons/Activities
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Does Your State Have a CS State Plan?
Does your state have a computer science state plan? Is your state tracking the 9 policies?
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RESOURCE & IDEA SHARING: EXPANDING AWARENESS TO CS EQUITY AND ACCESS
We recently began gathering your ideas for words that describe Equity in CS via this Menti.
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Fiveable Part-Time Work Opportunity
Fiveable offers unofficial AP courses to students wanting to learn more or test prep outside of their high school. They are hiring AP CSP teachers (and other AP subject teachers) at $1,200 to lecture and oversee courses (not grading though!). Looks like a neat opportunity...
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ScratchEd Online Community
Exploring Computer Science allows for a lot of flexibility when it comes to curriculum!
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Virtual Family Creative Coding Night Event Facilitation Guide
An awesome new resources that I came across this fall is the Virtual Family Creative Coding Night Facilitation Guide from Scratch and Chicago Public School's Office of Computer Science.
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Version 3.0 Unit 6 Python Files?
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We are utilizing the Version 3.0 Unit 6: Computing Applications as an introduction to Python for students to have a better foundation when using the Python language with the Edison robots.
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Crowdsourcing Computer Science Creative Ideas, Activities and Resources List for #HourofCode
Could you help me with contributing too and crowdsourcing to this computer science creative ideas, activities and resources list, so we can provide for our students and teachers an amazing curated resource collection for #HourofCode and beyond?
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Game On!
This fall, more than ever before, I have found myself creating activities that promote joy and play in my classes. I've been curious and excited about incorporating gamification and game play into my middle school computer science classroom and this year seemed the right time
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Why are the assessments posted on line
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Https://slideplayer.com/slide/11002972
author Jeffery cook
has part of the multistep ECS Intro to Computer Applications on line.
I thought this information was not accessible to public, unless part of the community.
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Recruitment Video
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This year after the AP Exam I decided to assign a video project for my students. The assignment is to create a recruitment video for computer science. Have any one else done this and do you possibly have a rubric that you used to evaluate the project?
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Crowdsource With Us The Ultimate List of CS Online Learning Ideas and Activities
In case you missed it, we had
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Webinar Archive
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Is there an archive of past webinars?