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New paper alert: Contribution of Computational Thinking to STEM Education: High School Teachers' Perceptions after a Professional Development Program - a joint work with my Northwestern University colleagues from the time I've been there on sabbatical. Co-authored with Connor Bain, Jacob Kelter, Amanda Peel, Sally PW Wu, Michael Horn, and Uri Wilensky. We examined STEM teachers' perceptions of Computation Thinking (CT) after attending CT-STEM Summer Institute (CTSI), a professional development program in which they co-designed, together with scientists, CT-induced learning units for their own classrooms. We found that "the program provided an environment for holistic and meaningful teacher growth in terms of technology education. By positioning teachers first as CT learners and then as equal collaborators to design CT-enhanced curricula for their own contexts, we see evidence of teachers re-evaluating and expanding their ideas of how technology and CT can positively impact them and their students in ways that can transform their classrooms." https://lnkd.in/dACBm-72 #research #educationresearch #computationalthinking

Can you believe it? From just an idea in 2010, Pathways in Technology Early College High School has now expanded to a whopping 28 countries, 13 states and this month California joins Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Rhode Island and Texas with P-TECH college graduates. P-TECH has been transforming education and empowering young minds since its inception. By bridging the gap between high school, college, and the workforce, P-TECH is revolutionizing the way we prepare our future leaders for success. And guess what? MDRC now has produced P-TECH 9-14 Pathways to Success from the 7 P-TECHs in NYC Department of Education The results speak for themselves....... "By the end of the first year of postsecondary education, 2.6 percent of female and 1.8 percent of male P-TECH 9-14 students had earned degrees, compared with virtually no students from the comparison group, of either gender. These impacts for both genders are statistically significant". "Male students who had the chance to attend P-TECH 9-14 schools were more likely to attain college degrees than male students assigned to other kinds of schools". https://lnkd.in/eZ5d8VF8. #weareptech #skillsfirst #skillsbuild #skills2030 PTECH Brooklyn HS Alumni Network The City University of New York City Tech, CUNY IBM IBM iX New York State Education Department New York State Higher Education Services Corporation Lumina Foundation www.ptech.org

https://lnkd.in/gGydBycA Foe many of us int eh IP profession who have been calling for more early education on STEM and IP, hearing that the DOD is now prioritizing math as a national security concern can only help our efforts. Economic security is now national security and ensuring we are teaching and preparing our children for the jobs of the future is a national priority. It should be noted that IP lawyers are on the decline as are STEM graduates out of colleges. Investing in STEM education is also investing in IP and innovation. “The advances in technology that are going to drive where the world goes in the next 50 years are going to come from other countries, because they have the intellectual capital and we don’t,” said Jim Stigler, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the process of teaching and learning subjects including math. The Defense Department has called for a major initiative to support education in science, technology, education and math, or STEM. It says there are eight times as many college graduates in these disciplines in China and four times as many engineers in Russia as in the United States. “This is not an educational question alone,” said Josh Wyner, vice president of The Aspen Institute think tank. In July, the think tank warned that other nations are challenging America’s technological dominance. “We are no longer keeping pace with other countries, particularly China,” the Aspen report says, calling this a “dangerous” failure and urging decision makers to make education a national security priority. USPTO #increasingdii United States Intellectual Property Alliance - USIPA ADAPT.legal Increasing Diversity in Innovation - iDII

👩💻 Today, we are celebrating International Women in Engineering Day #INWED23 But did you know that, in Europe, women make up only 18% of Computer Science bachelor's graduates and hold only 22% of tech roles. That's a huge loss of talent, diversity and economic opportunity. Our report identifies six key barriers impacting the participation of girls in computer science studies: 1. Computer science is often perceived as an isolated subject, rather than a skill to develop. 2. Role models are important, but it’s not just about having more of them.  3. Teachers aren’t getting the support they need to engage students.  4. There’s a disconnect between what students learn in school and what computer science looks like in everyday life.  5. Parents, who are extremely influential to their children's success, often struggle to support them.  6. Peer networks in computer science are limited. This means missed opportunities for them, and fewer innovations for our future world. So how do we change this? A few ideas from our latest research: 💡 Put girls and boys on the same team, and let them solve real-world problems together. 💡 Equip educators with content and curriculum that shows students how computer science can be applied to all kinds of subjects, like maths, music, and humanities. 💡Empower grassroots programs to help parents and peers understand the value of computer science skills. Get to the root of the gender imbalance here: bit.ly/GoogleGirlsInSTEM #GrowWithGoogle #GirlsInSTEM #CreateOpportunity https://lnkd.in/ePwjjJxu