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Roland Gesthuizen

BBC News - BBC begins kids coding push with Bitesize and TV shows - 0 views

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    "The BBC has published computer programming study guides, quizzes and other support materials on its Bitesize site to coincide with the new computing curriculum's introduction in England."
Jarrod Robinson

Binary Game - 3 views

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    he Cisco Binary Game is the best way to learn and practice the binary number system. It is great for classes, students and teachers in science, math, digital electronics, computers, programming, logic and networking. It is also a LOT of fun to play for anyone who likes to play fast-paced arcade games.
Colin Sutton

DocHub | Instant Documentation Search - 0 views

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    DocHub is a great resource for finding documentation for whatever programming language you need. It currently includes CSS, HTML, JavaScript, DOM, jQuery, PHP, and Python. You can either search or browse through the properties, making it very easy to find whatever information you need.
Roland Gesthuizen

Can IT Help Lead Innovation? - Input Output - 0 views

  • innovation efforts inherently involve risk. In addition, innovation depends on creativity, which relies on thinking and acting differently
  • progress in these areas has stalled because of IT. The initiatives are blocked at every turn: It's not our priority; this project has too many security risks; we don't have the manpower
  • in companies where technology is not the end product, the IT department is more likely to be a barrier to innovation than to drive it
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  • IT — like HR and legal — is often dedicated to compliance, which is a fixed process. This is another condition to which innovation responds poorly
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    Make innovation a priority. It won't "just happen." Despite the plethora of hurdles, IT is crucial to innovation. "I believe that IT departments can be the best program managers for innovation," says DeSai. "Especially when IT departments are in partnership with marketing, they can create powerful platforms to gain deeper understanding of current and future needs of the customers."
Roland Gesthuizen

Bebras Australia | Computational Thinking - 0 views

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    "Bebras is an international initiative whose goal is to promote computational thinking for teachers and students (ages 8-17 / school years 3-12). Bebras is aligned with and supports the new Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum. Bebras is run by NICTA under the  Digital Careers program, funded by the Australian Government as represented by the Department of Communications."
Roland Gesthuizen

Unis ride analytics, data mining boom - 0 views

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    "By next year almost every Victorian university will have a master's program in analytics," ...  But what is analytics and why the sudden spike in courses?
Roland Gesthuizen

Creating Device Neutral Assignments for BYOD Classes -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • Instead of saying a ‘PowerPoint,’ say a presentation; don’t say ‘Word document,’ just say word processing file. The kids are going to find the application or the device program they need to create the assignment," Milliner says.
  • Milliner cites VoiceThread and StudyStack as two of his favorite device-neutral web resources
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    "One expert argues that educators don't have to alter lessons for each device in a BYOD environment."
Roland Gesthuizen

LearnStreet Blog | Fundamentals of Coding - 0 views

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    "Why is coding so difficult? It's not. In fact, everyone already knows how to code. Surprise!"
Roland Gesthuizen

BBC makes 2015 'year of making and coding' - 0 views

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    "It's official. The BBC gets behind 'making and coding' for schools and families, writes Tony Parkin. BBC's Howard Baker (photo Leon Cych) The 'will they, won't they' debate over the BBC launching a major initiative to support a new generation of coders has been resolved at last."
Roland Gesthuizen

The Twelve Greatest Defunct Tech Magazines Ever - 0 views

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    "Herewith, a look at a dozen tech publications that don't exist anymore (in print form, at least-some are still with us online). All of them were significant in one way or another, all had loyal readerships who mourned their loss, and most were terrific magazines, period. It's in chronological order by the year of founding. "
Roland Gesthuizen

Stephane Chazelas: the man who found the web's 'most dangerous' internet security bug - 0 views

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    "It was a bug that lurked in software found on hundreds of millions of devices for 21 years, leaving them vulnerable to hackers, who may have known of its existence ... Shell Shock bug finder Stephane Chazelas Now Stephane Chazelas, an open source software developer living in Britain, is being hailed a hero by security experts and internet users for finding it and causing it to be fixed."
Roland Gesthuizen

Hackers exploit 'Shell Shock' bug with worms in early attacks - 0 views

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    "Hackers have begun exploiting the newly identified "Shell Shock" computer bug, using fast-moving worm viruses to scan for vulnerable systems and then infect them, researchers have warned. "
Roland Gesthuizen

Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code | Talk Video | TED - 0 views

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    "Coding isn't just for computer whizzes, says Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab - it's for everyone. In a fun, demo-filled talk Resnick outlines the benefits of teaching kids to code, so they can do more than just "read" new technologies - but also create them."
Roland Gesthuizen

Harvard's tiny robots 'swarm' into shape - Science - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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    "CAMBRIDGE -- When Harvard scientist Michael Rubenstein walks into the laboratory in the morning, he is greeted with a scene somewhere between a disco and the opening of a science fiction movie about a robot apocalypse. A constellation of LED lights blinks in the darkness -- the electronic heartbeat of his 1,024-robot horde. They are ready to do his bidding."
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