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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:25 AM

Bill Gates Calls For More Technology Education

Bill Gates testified before Congress last week ( transcript here ). Most of the news reports focused on his calling for more H1B visas and left out some of what I think are the more important things he said. First among those is that we need to improve
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:40 AM

What in the world is a Developer Evangelist?

The word "evangelist" is showing up in job titles more and more these days. But what is a job like that all about? I tend to describe it as being in the "making friends and influencing people" business. But that is just my perspective. Recently Channel
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 3:35 AM

DigiGirlz Days are scheduled

The DigiGirlz Days schedule is out (actually I got a sneak peak - thanks Diane ) and there are more of them in more places than ever before. What is a DigiGirlz Day ? During the event, students interact with Microsoft employees and managers to gain exposure
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Thursday, October 04, 2007 3:41 AM

How would you improve K-12 Computer Science Education

Chris Stephenson is the director of the Computer Science Teacher Association and recently her Advisory Council put some interesting questions to her: " What would CSTA do if it had unlimited financial resources? What projects would it undertake that would
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:13 AM

Global Challenge - A STEM Competition

The Global Challenge is an interesting competition for high school students. From the website: In the Global Challenge , teams of US high school students collaborate with international counterparts from October to May to address global climate change
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Friday, July 20, 2007 4:06 AM

Outreach-in-a-Box: Discovering IT

NCWIT ( National Center for Women & Information Technology ) has created a resource for helping to help people in the Information Technology field to introduce middle-school students to the field of computing. It is now available online. Are you ready
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:17 AM

2007 STEM Summit IV: Accelerating Forward (Massachusetts)

If you are in Massachusetts and interested in improving STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education you will want to be aware of the fourth annual STEM summit being held this October. Registration is now open. I have attended the last several
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:46 AM

ClubTech - Technology Programs from the Boys and Girls Clubs

Last week I met with someone from the national headquarters of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America to learn about their ClubTech programs. These programs are designed to teach young people technical skills and to integrate technology into the core program
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 3:27 AM

Computer Science Research Surveys - Please Help

One of the problems the whole field of computer science education faces is a lack of good data. Data on a lot of various subjects. Lack of data makes it hard to understand what is going on and how computer science is taught. And in fact there is a lack
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 3:23 AM

Two Weeks Until NECC

I'm starting to get jazzed up about NECC this year. As time gets closer I learn about more people I know who are going, more events worth attending, and just more possibilities to learn. A couple of things I am especially looking forward to: EduBloggerCon
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:33 AM

Today's Announcements and Random Useful Links

CMU Center for Computational Thinking This actually came out Monday but MSR and Carnegie Mellon announced the new Microsoft Carnegie Mellon Center for Computational Thinking . The part of this announcement that excites me is this sentence "In addition,
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:00 AM

Programming for Kids Who Cannot Read and Write

The Boku project is an interesting research project that lets young children create simple programs to more a robot around an imaginary three dimensional world. Laura Foy of On10 has a video of the very first public demonstration. I've been hearing about
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Friday, February 02, 2007 1:57 AM

The Girl in the Java Class

A recent blog post at the NCWIT blog Katy Dickinson writes about her daughter's experiences with computer science education in high school. Her daughter had a horrible experience with her first "introduction to computing" class as a freshmen but was having
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:17 AM

The Internet is More Than a Library

I spent some time last week talking to some people from The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. They have an impressive portfolio of 20 K-12 curriculum projects that make the Internet
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Monday, October 02, 2006 12:52 AM

Interesting links - Women in Computing & Computational Thinking

Diane and Hilary (two very talented young women I work with) continue their road trip through the mid-west and far west this week. They visited a number of colleges early last week and finished up at the Midwest Women in Computing Conference where they
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