Google wants all students to have the opportunity to learn and get excited about computer science (CS). To spread the excitement about Africa Code Week (ACW), Google has funded the Cape Town Science Centre to offer small grants (up to $1000 USD) to organizations and grassroots groups who want to run initiatives to give more kids (aged 5-18), especially those who may not have access to many CS learning opportunities, a chance to engage with computer science.
Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis, and must be received by midnight (SAST) September 2nd 2016.
Why Computer Science
ReplyDeleteA 21st Century Skill
a)a theory and practice that allows you to program a computer to do what you want to.
b)a tool that helps you tell a story or make something happen with technology.
c)a discipline that emphasizes persistence in problem solving -a skill that is applicable across disciplines driving job growth and innovation across all sectors of the workforce.
d)a skill that teaches how to use computers to create,not just consume.
Computer Science is not....
a)learning how to type
b)learning to use word processing,spreadsheet or presentation software.
c)learning how to build or repair computers.
d)playing video games
For the jobs of today, and in the future, are in science, technology, engineering and math STEM, art and design STEAM and computer science. The intersection of STEM, open educational resources (OER), and computer programming is the focus of a number of the articles published on open source.com in 2015.They highlight a growing interest in all three areas where students, parents and educators have the opportunity to immerse themselves in education as never before. Introducing the Kenya Computing Teacher Online Book Club which will offer: voluntary, open and free membership to all Kenyan educators: primary, secondary, tertiary and university levels).Its primary aim is to boost and promote a culture of profession development. Through empowering teachers and the Kenyan educators through connected resources. Which can be accessed, used face to face, off-line modes and or blended as the situation requires and demands
ReplyDelete'Giving Every Student an Opportunity to Learn Through Computer Science For All'
This is why the Kenya Teachers Computing Online Book Club : Comes in! Its volunteer led, on and after school digital fun book club that will equip our educators with the much needed computing knowledge and skills. Which will be transferred seamless to our millennial generation of kid’s later in Kenya. That if the kids are trained in the right skills, the country will breed more entrepreneurs,innovators and problem solvers who are needed in every ministry to develop logical thinking, persist at tasks and learn to collaborate to develop the nation and the world. Pupils need to understand the mechanisms and coding behind computer programmes-not just learning how to use a word processor, enter data into a worksheet or design a power-point presentation. Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use word or excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-years-olds able to write simple 2D/3D computer animations. The New Envisaged Kenyan Education Curriculum : Let us envisage a new curriculum that could have 16-year-olds creating their own apps for smartphones and 18-year-olds able to write their own simple programming language.
Kenya Teachers Computing Online Book Club
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