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Facebook Data Breach Article
Facebook recently admitted to a HUGE data breach.
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Webinar: Teaching Computer Science as a Second Career - Opportunities and Challenges
Fewer than half of US high schools offer at least one computer science course – usually because there isn’t a qualified teacher available. Pre-service CS programs are graduating significantly fewer teachers than needed.
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Global Citizenship and CS Majors: Article Response
What comes to mind when you think of Global Citizenship?
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Biases in Data Science
https://towardsdatascience.com/five-cognitive-biases-in-data-science-and-how-to-avoid-them-2bf17459b041
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Poetry and Code
The celebration of April as National Poetry Month is a perfect opportunity to discover the many ways coding can be used as a form of creative expression and a force for social change. The following are a few examples of activities to try with your students.
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Media Ecology in AP CSP
This year I've banned politics from my classroom. It was the first year I'd ever done so, but the rhetoric and divisiveness of US politics had taken over and I was having a tough time creating a cohesive classroom community.
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Webinar: Teaching CS to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students – April 7, 2021
The next webinar in AccessCSforAll's “Accessible Computer Science: Teacher to Teacher” webinar series funded by the
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Facilitating Group Projects Remotely
I have LOVED Code.org's detailed adaptations for distance learners (synch and asynch). They have made my job as an online CS teacher much easier this year than it had been for the last 3.
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5TH ANNUAL RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Computer Science Summit ON SCALABILITY AND DIVERSITY
The Rutgers University Computer Science Department and Center for Effective School Practices are excited to officially announce the 5th Annual Computer Science Summit on Scalability and Diversity.
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Technology with Purpose
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Win $50 by earning a micro-credential in CS instructional strategies!
UTeach Computer Science is excited to offer $50 Amazon gift cards to K-12 educators who earn one of our free micro-credentials by May 31st!
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CSP Course Enrollment Data Nationwide Report from College Board and Code.org
I stumbled across this Code.org tool for dissecting the 2020 College Board AP CSP data report and it is fascinating!
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Accessible Computer Science: Teacher to Teacher
There are between 8 and 9 million students with disabilities in K-12 education in the United States who are served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The majority of these students are in mainstream classroom
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Blindspots-Hidden Bias! What role do they play in Computer Science?
Blindspots are untrue assumptions that someone has based on their hidden bias they have about someone’s identity. Blind spots