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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

Teacher professional development needs to be practical, fit your schedule, and improve your classroom — and I’ve found professional development from Advancement Courses that does just that! Recently, I took a course from Advancement Courses called Teaching Computer Science in 6-12. Look at Courses.

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5 Essential Resources To Teach Programming Remotely

EdTech4Beginners

Online Video Courses. First, online video courses are a great resource you can use to improve your students’ virtual computer science learning experiences. In addition, many courses come with integrated tools and platforms for your students to practice coding as well. Robotics Kits.

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STUDENT VOICE: Teachers assign us work that relies on rote memorization, then tell us not to use artificial intelligence

The Hechinger Report

Rather than browbeat students for using AI, maybe educators should outsmart AI by reimagining education so that it requires more creativity and critical thought, the aspects that separate people from robots. Now that I’m older, these include Regents exams, New York State tests and Advanced Placement assessments. Take AP Psychology.

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AI Tools Like ChatGPT May Reshape Teaching Materials — And Possibly Substitute Teach

Edsurge

“We’ll also look at basic concepts of data analysis, using NumPy as well as Pandas,” said the avatar in a female computer voice that sounds more like the iPhone’s Siri than like a 19th-century British mathematician, her mouth moving clumsily as she speaks. “If It’s almost like the teacher is programming the robot to do their job for them.”

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Ward’s Science–So Many STEM Resources

Ask a Tech Teacher

We talk about what that means–problem solving, critical analysis, logical thinking–but often, that sounds hard to them–too hard. Coding, robotics, and experimentation–integral pieces of STEM–give students the best start possible to the rest of their lives. Botley the Coding Robot. Why is that?

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Friday 5: K-12 computer science trends

eSchool News

New fields in computer science seem to emerge each day and now include computer systems and networks, security, database systems, human computer interaction, vision and graphics, numerical analysis, programming languages, software engineering, bioinformatics, and theory of computing. Teacher training has remained a roadblock.

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3 best practices to create a STEM-focused school

eSchool News

Starting at age 5, we offer coding, robotics, virtual reality, STEM-related clubs, and competitive team opportunities. Thus, we incorporate graphic arts, engineering, data analysis, and technology into all of our non-STEM courses. We utilize hands-on, innovative STEM curriculum to bring learning to life.

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