Ms. Bacon teaches several computer science classes but she isn’t a teacher, exactly. She’s a counselor whose school didn’t offer computer science a few years ago. She proposed the idea for a course and offered to write the curriculum and teach it herself.
Interest in computer science among students, parents and teachers is surging, but access to the subject in our K-12 system is not. While 90% of parents want computer science taught in our schools, only 25% of schools offer rigorous courses.
Three governors (Asa Hutchinson R-AR, Jay Inslee D-WA, Gina Raimondo D-RI) are uniting to form a new partnership to close this gap. Governors in the new Partnership for K-12 Computer Science are working toward three key policy goals in their states:
Enable all high schools to offer at least one rigorous computer science course
Fund professional learning opportunities so teachers can be prepared to teach these courses
Create a set of high-quality academic K-12 computer science standards to guide local implementation of courses.
The governors will also share best practices for computer science and advocate for federal policies to expand computer science instruction.
Governors Jay Inslee and Asa Hutchinson will serve as the bipartisan co-chairs for the initiative. The initial members of the partnership will be the co-chairs and Governor Raimondo. The Governors are calling on their colleagues to join them in this Partnership.
In January, President Obama proposed $4.1 billion in his budget to expand K-12 computer science. One of every three schools in the US participated in the Hour of Code last year. Since 2013, more than 20 states have proposed policies to expand computer science instruction, and tens of thousands teachers are being prepared to teach this subject. While our country’s leaders may be divided on many issues, expanding access to K-12 computer science is one they are all rallying behind.
Hi! i am looking to get into computer science and i have no previous knowledge of coding programming etc. What would you recommend i start with ?
First: Awesome! You should and you can get started pretty quickly and easily.
The first think you should ask yourself is: what do you want to be able to do?
The answer to that question all help guide your choice of language or tools you learn.
Are you interested in data science? Python or R
Are you interested in writing programs that can interact with your operating system? Java, c++, ruby, Python, etc
Are you interested in creating things for the Internet? HTML, CSS (markup languages), and JavaScript.
Are you interested in writing iOS apps? Swift
Are you interested in writing android apps? Java
Where to start? Go and do some beginner tutorials on codeacademy.com. It’s free and it’s the best way I’ve found to introduce you to the basic concepts of computer languages through scaffolded exercises and active learning.
When you’re ready for more or if you want more advice just ask.
Djassi said it took a bit — okay a lot — of “gentle nudging” from his mom to get him to sacrifice a Saturday for some code thing. Totally new to computer science, Djassi dragged his feet to a “Design a Startup In a Day” workshop, organized by All-Star Code, a New York-based program that preps young men of color for bright futures in tech.
Computer science (CS) education is a pathway to innovation, to creativity and to exciting career opportunities. We believe that all students deserve these opportunities. That is why Google is committed to developing programs, resources, tools and community partnerships which make CS engaging and accessible for all students.
This is pure gold, a place to live in, everything you would expect from a Google initiative of this kind, and surely more.
Are you or do you know any qualified teachers who might be looking for teaching opportunities this summer? Do you have experience teaching middle schoolers and/or high schoolers about programming, video game design, app development, or wearable technology and electronics?
If you do, message me at http://thelearningbrain.tumblr.com/ask. I might have the perfect opportunity for you at the summer school of a well known prep school in the northeast.
If you’re an Education tag editor, could you boost this please?
To test the system prototype, the researchers pitted the Data Science Machine against human teams at three data science competitions. While the algorithm didn’t get the top score in any of the competitions, it did beat out a whopping 615 of the 906 human teams competing. In two of the competitions, it created models that were 94% and 96% as accurate as the winning teams. Whereas the teams of humans required months to build their prediction algorithms, the Data Science Machine did it in 2 to 12 hours.
The researchers don’t view the algorithm as a replacement for human intelligence, but do recognize that it could prove useful for helping analyze the huge amount of data with less manpower. It could also be an important tool for user-centered design—if a machine can comb through massive amounts of data with much less manpower and in record time, it could also help companies better understand their customer base and design with future behavior in mind.
Google Just Made Its Artificial Intelligence Software Available to the Public
The tech giant announced that it is releasing an open-source machine learning system called TensorFlow to the public, sharing the underlying code with the world.
