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STEM in the wild. March 26, 2015. Today was the first time I’ve ever come across the term “STEM” out in the wild, in a context that wasn’t purely Educational. It was in a technical job posting, and I think it’s an interesting “leak” of Education terminology into the professional world. Here’s the position: a Data Visualization Builder at a data/analytics company. Linked in March 2015; apologies once it expires). Skipping past the fact that it sounds like a super cool job (! I think a few things:. Whether...

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Education reading list for 2015. March 31, 2015. Via my friends Andrea and Adam over at inov8 Educational Consulting. Here’s a list of interesting 2015 Edu books. Published by Australia’s informED ed-tech-pedagogy blog. I would personally skip the two about higher ed “disruption,”. Since nobody really knows how much of that (for-profits, MOOCs, finance/tuition reform, etc.) will stick and, frankly, the blurbs are an embarrassing mix of hype and misunderstanding. From. The End of College. This one interes...

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Another kind of tech underrepresentation. August 6, 2015. A summer program in Baltimore has black middle-schoolers coding, designing apps and altogether hooked on engineering. Coding Camp to Baltimore Schools: Bring Us Your Bored! NPR Ed : NPR. The conversations I tend to be involved in about underrepresentation in the technology world are about the gender divide. At Kids Code Jeunesse. They are different than for boys. It’s being rolled out at a handful of Historically Black Colleges in the Americ...

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Male-female imbalance in STEM comes down to economics? September 9, 2015. To know why fewer women choose math and science, you need to know the principle of occupational choice. Male-female imbalance in STEM comes down to economics University Affairs. Here’s a fascinating take on the STEM imbalance from University Affairs: the major dynamic may not be sexism or any other institutional intent, but the accumulation of simple economic choices at the individual level. And the solution may be more. How to tea...

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Was object-oriented programming a failure? – Quora | Freshman Labs

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Was object-oriented programming a failure? January 30, 2015. From the discussions in my Quora digest recently, a brilliantly simple and cheeky question:. 8220;Was object-oriented programming a failure? Free signup required to see the whole thread). Note the use of the past tense. You gotta love trolling for Java apologists. To be fair, you gotta love trolling for Python believers too. The difference, of course, is that the Python believers are usually. Another good response (by John Colagioia. 8211;is a ...

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Another kind of tech underrepresentation | Freshman Labs

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Another kind of tech underrepresentation. August 6, 2015. A summer program in Baltimore has black middle-schoolers coding, designing apps and altogether hooked on engineering. Coding Camp to Baltimore Schools: Bring Us Your Bored! NPR Ed : NPR. The conversations I tend to be involved in about underrepresentation in the technology world are about the gender divide. At Kids Code Jeunesse. They are different than for boys. It’s being rolled out at a handful of Historically Black Colleges in the Americ...

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Male-female imbalance in STEM comes down to economics? September 9, 2015. To know why fewer women choose math and science, you need to know the principle of occupational choice. Male-female imbalance in STEM comes down to economics University Affairs. Here’s a fascinating take on the STEM imbalance from University Affairs: the major dynamic may not be sexism or any other institutional intent, but the accumulation of simple economic choices at the individual level. And the solution may be more. How to tea...

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STEM in the wild. March 26, 2015. Today was the first time I’ve ever come across the term “STEM” out in the wild, in a context that wasn’t purely Educational. It was in a technical job posting, and I think it’s an interesting “leak” of Education terminology into the professional world. Continue reading STEM in the wild. Learning and general geekery. Kate and Kids Code Jeunesse on MAtv. Male-female imbalance in STEM comes down to economics? Another kind of tech underrepresentation.

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CS Capture the Flag 2015. May 15, 2015. Following the recent topic of cryptography for high schoolers. Here’s a cool event that popped up on the radar this week: HSCTF, a US-wide high school “capture the flag” style programming competition. Crypto for high schoolers. May 14, 2015. At one of our recent Kids Code Jeunesse. Meetings, my friend, high school programming teacher Stuart Spence (see his site. And his YouTube channel. Was telling us about what his students are into. One of the things they get.

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CS Capture the Flag 2015. May 15, 2015. Following the recent topic of cryptography for high schoolers. Here’s a cool event that popped up on the radar this week: HSCTF, a US-wide high school “capture the flag” style programming competition. The week of May 17-24, 2015, students from across the US are invited to play a (everyone outside the US too, but they’re not eligible for prizes). Challenges include cryptography, reverse-engineering, and reconnaissance. Ada Lovelace, reconnaissance guru. 8221; ….