Although the IT industry broadly welcomed education minister Michael Gove’s announcement today of a fundamental overhaul in the way ICT is taught in schools, those at the ‘chalkface’ were much more ...

“Let’s do it!” That was Alexis Johnson’s reaction when she saw professional learning opportunities focused on computational thinking. A first grade teacher with no formal CS background, she jumped at ...

Information and communications technology (ICT) teachers say plans to shake up the curriculum in England are "exciting" but "challenging". Current ICT lessons will be scrapped from September and ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Despite growing demand for computer science skills in professional careers and many areas of life, K-12 schools struggle to teach ...

The government is to scrap the teaching of the GCSE ICT curriculum in schools this September, with plans to replace the subject with the “rigorous” teaching of computer science and programming ...

UNESCO Kathmandu office in collaboration with the Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MoEST) and supported by UNESCO Bangkok organized a 5-day Customized training of trainers Program on ...

There are more than 3 million public school teachers in America, and many of them don’t know much about computer science. Whether the ambitious new plan comes to fruition will depend largely on the ...

The Tamilnadu B.Ed Computer Science out-of-work Teachers Association is demanding that the government implement ICT-enabled education from Class VI to X. According to S. Premkumar from the association ...

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Earlier this month, Education Minister Richard Bruton set a target of having the subject as a choice for fifth-year students from September 2018, a year earlier than previously planned. However, a ...

Well-intended computer science initiatives are often met with reluctance and resistance before they even get off the ground. Teachers may see the new initiative as “just another thing” on their plate ...

SAN FRANCISCO — More kids than ever are going back to school this fall to learn something that just a few years ago they would never have been taught: computer science. Code.org says it's gaining ...