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Coding blended in school lessons – Business – The Boston Globe
Rob MacDonald scrawled an equation on a whiteboard, graphed it, then asked the students in his advanced calculus class to write a formula to calculate slope at any point on the curve. It was just the third day of school, … Continue reading
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Coding the Curriculum: How High Schools Are Reprogramming Their Classes
There are no lockers in the hallways at Beaver Country Day School. Instead, backpacks and tote bags line either side of the floor while students step over them during the mid-morning rush to class. Nearly everyone is carrying a laptop. … Continue reading
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Teach Preschoolers How To Code With a Board Game | MindShift
These days, the effort to get more of us writing computer programs has become part of an “everybody should learn to code” ethos that folks like President Obama and Will.I.Am have gotten behind. “We all depend on technology — to … Continue reading
Very Young Programmers – NYTimes.com
By LISA GUERNSEY Published: September 2, 2013 Ten years ago, a computer programming language called Scratch emerged from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Using colorful stackable icons to represent the sequencing and logic of computer code, … Continue reading
Code to Joy: The School for Poetic Computation Opens – NYTimes.com
AUGUST 12, 2013, 11:05 AM By AMY O’LEARY New computer science graduates jumped by nearly 30 percent last year, and a bevy of professionally oriented programming courses have erupted to teach start-up ready skills like, “How to Build a Mobile App.” … Continue reading
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MIT technology trailblazer is a critic of computerized learning | Hechinger Report
Mitchel Resnick is the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. His research group is best known for inventing two blockbuster educational … Continue reading
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How smart developers generate lousy code | ITworld
By Esther Schindler May 31, 2013, 10:03 AM Most experienced developers can think of a time when they worked on a team with other accomplished programmers. Yet the code quality was anywhere from “eh” to “oh god you didn’t actually … Continue reading
The coding movement: Resources for computer science education | eSchool News
In the middle of a resounding push for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is a growing movement to expose children to computer science education and skills, also known as computer programming or coding. According to Code.org statistics, computer … Continue reading
How to Be a ‘Woman Programmer’ – NYTimes.com
I WAS an ordinary computer programmer. I wrote code that ran at the levels between flashy human interfaces and the deep cores of operating systems, like the role of altos in a chorus, who provide the structure without your taking … Continue reading
Learn To Code, Code To Learn | EdSurge News
Mitchel Resnick How programming prepares kids for more than math. Is it important for all children to learn how to write? After all, very few children grow up to become journalists, novelists, or professional writers. So why should everyone learn … Continue reading