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Get Big Fast: "500 Club" Delivers Teachers For Code.org
theodp writes: The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports that Ben Schafer, an associate CS prof at the Univ. of Northern Iowa, was recognized at Code.org's annual summit for training 570 K-12 teachers in Iowa, which is equivalent to 5.5 percent of all U.S. teachers trained. Schafer ranked No. 2 in the '500 Club', a Code.org affiliate of trainers who trained more than 500 teachers in the first year of the program. Code.org's K-5 Affiliates "deliver one-day, in-person workshops to local elementary school teachers to teach computer science in a format that's fun and accessible". A Term Sheet explains to potential Affiliates that "Code.org will pay you $50 per workshop-attendee to cover costs, including food, and to compensate you and any teaching assistants." According to a White House' Fact Sheet, Code.org plans to use $20 million in philanthropic funds to train 10,000 teachers by fall 2015 and 25,000 teachers by fall 2016. You can follow their progress on Twitter, kids!
Slash-vertisement taken to a new low?
You're going to "train" a teacher, who has no formal CS training, in ONE DAY, to teach CS?
Bullshit six ways from Sunday.
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My guess it they will be training the new generation of slash dotters like, Moo Cow dude, Golden Girls, and hostile person coders.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Are those teachers for All-Girl Classes, or are all the teachers all women, or are the teachers fined for teaching boys like the mysandrists of Code.org did before ?
Sexist shits.
the 700 Club.
never heard of it.
I guess if they add 200 more, they could sign up that crazy elf-looking man as their mascot.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Seriously, if kids can learn to code in grade school then they can earn an MBA. With so many people hopping onto the MBA train from technology and the relative success of it, it seems like a no-brainer to me.
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Get Big Fast
Nooo. Get big: eat.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
It if funny to find Stakhanov like celebrated workers in the US
> It seems to work well. They learn to solve math problems, to create graphic art, and even make simple shoot-em-up games.
They don't get suspended if their long division vaguely resembles a musket? Are you in Texas, or Montana?
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I've seen people posting "Bullshit six ways from Sunday" and I've seen people posting "Bullshit six ways to Sunday"
Which one is which?
Finally on our way to making people in tech worth less than janitors!
"deliver one-day, in-person workshops to local elementary school teachers to teach computer science in a format that's fun and accessible"
So that's all it takes to learn computer science well enough to teach it to others - 1 day? Shit, I wasted my time on that 3 year degree. I can't believe anything of real value could be taught in just one day.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Kids everywhere like light sabers. Before light sabers, Zorro was big, and pirates, always swords.
In many parts of the US, the ADULTS have an irrational fear of weapons, the concepts of self-defense and defending others, etc. To the point that eating a sandwich got a kid suspended when the shape of remaining half of the sandwich triggered some administator's gun phobia.
The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports that Ben Schafer, an associate CS prof at the Univ. of Northern Iowa, was recognized at Code.org's annual summit for training 570 K-12 teachers in Iowa, which is equivalent to 5.5 percent of all U.S. teachers trained.
This statement needs to be taken into context. I think that the word that the OP meant to say is "indoctrinated". All certified teachers are trained. By that standard, if 570 teachers represents 5.5% of teachers in the entire United States, then there are only roughly 10,364 teachers in the United States (570*100)/5.5.
According to national statistics, there are 3.1 million teachers in the United States.
Doesn't someone do editing for clarity or fact checking around here?