Despite growing demand for computer science skills in professional careers and many areas of life, K-12 schools struggle to teach computer science to the next generation. However, a new approach ...

Keys to teaching computer science in elementary school "K-4 students explore CS concepts through unplugged activities, coding games, robotics, and block-based programming," Wilkens said.

Getty Images/iStockphoto Computer science has evolved from an elective experience to a foundational element of K-12 education for many American students in less than a generation. But decisions ...

Teaching Computer Science Is Great, But It’s Not Enough By Florence R. Sullivan & Jill Denner — June 20, 2017 4 min read Florence R. Sullivan, Jill Denner ...

Problems in computer science education can be considered a litmus test of the problems of high school education in general. If we imagine a fantastic situation in which a person from 1790 is shown a ...

“I think this has the power to revolutionize education.” In the meantime, educators like Chris Riesbeck, associate professor of computer science at Northwestern, are working to better understand how ...

The Joy of Teaching Computer Science in the Age of Facebook "When people see companies like Google and Facebook being founded by relatively young people, they feel empowered and think: I can do that." ...

But almost half of all U.S. states don’t have a plan to teach computer science at the K-12 level. There are eight states that lack certification for computer science teachers.

“Computer science teacher certification across the nation is typified by confounding processes and illogical procedures—bugs in the system that keep it from functioning as intended,” says ...

The education sector has long treated every student the same. However, every student is unique and has different learning capabilities. The use of computer vision in education can help to maximize ...