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Smiling female teacher and three female high school teenage students preparing robot on desk in classroom

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Interview

Creating a Corps of CS Educators

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Female student at a white board using a blue marker to draw a mathematical diagram

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News

A STEM Boost for Indigenous Students

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Two high school students sit at a desk covered with technical paperwork and tools while working on a circuitboard

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Interview

Igniting Students’ STEM Afterburners

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Illustration of the city of Phoenix with criss-crossing blue lines making arcs above it

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News

Creative Solutions to Closing the Digital Divide

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Two elementary school students wear VR headsets and engage with virtual strands of DNA in a mockup of SDSU's VR lab experience

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Interview

Inside South Dakota's Higher-Ed Virtual Reality Lab

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Screenshot from a video showing an elementary school student wearing a VR headset manipulating a DNA double helix in a virtual environment

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News

Taking the Metaversity on the Road

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Man standing wearing a virtual reality headset

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Interview

Walter F. Parkes Moves From "WarGames" to Alien Zoos

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High angle view of multigenerational family enjoying meal outdoors

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Interview

A Digital Celebration of Black Food and Community

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Young black female student writing on a notebook while taking a remote class on a laptop

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News

Making Internet Connectivity More Affordable

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Four high school students, two boys and two girls, sit at a table each with their laptops open at a hackathon

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Handbook

Hackathons in the Classroom: A User’s Guide

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Illustration of a young man with sunglasses on his forehead, mouth open and eyes wide in excitement, holding a PDA-style device with the words Admitted to the Class of 2036 on the screen

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From the Archive

How Online Communities Can Affect College Admissions and More

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Young black woman scuba diving with two men in the background

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News

STEM Grants Get More Kids Outdoors

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rendering of a college student in a virtual reality headset against a backdrop with a blue planet and a dinosaur

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Interview

Metaverse Class is In Session at Arizona State

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overhead view on four young woman preparing together concepts for climate protection on desk indoors

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News

Climate Change in the Classroom

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Man in a tuxedo speaking from a lectern on a stage

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News

Honoring Promising Young Black Engineers

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Students Working on Computers in Class in the 1990s

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From the Archive

Policy Brief: The Digital Divide and Educational Opportunity

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Metaverse virtual education technology. Kids wear VR goggle glass flying to experience 3D space simulation interface on smart phone screen.

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Handbook

The Metaverse Comes to the Classroom—Maybe

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Mary Coombs stands in front of a recreated EDSAC computer

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Profile

A Pioneer of Commercial Computing

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Black and white photo of a woman sitting at a desk in front of a computer

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Feature

10 Black Computer Science Pioneers Everyone Needs to Know

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Woman in a suit holds a clipboard while standing in a white room full of circuits and and a large control board

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Profile

Pioneers in Computer Science: Annie J. Easley

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Photo of Clarence Skip Ellis smiling while holding a small yellow box

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Profile

Pioneers in Computer Science: Clarence "Skip" Ellis

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Black and white headshot photo of Evelyn Boyd Granville

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Profile

Pioneers in Computer Science: Evelyn Boyd Granville

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Black and white headshot photo of Frank Greene

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Profile

Pioneers in Computer Science: Frank S. Greene

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Headshot photo of a smiling Gladys West

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Profile

Pioneers in Computer Science: Gladys West

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Man in a red shirt smiles and gestures while he speaks while seated at a table

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Profile

Pioneers in Computer Science: John Henry Thompson

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Photo of Marian Croak, in a pink shirt against a blue background, speaking to someone off frame

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Profile

Pioneers in Computer Science: Marian R. Croak

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Headshot photo of Mark Dean

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Profile

Pioneers in Computer Science: Mark Dean

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Photo of Rediet Abebe smiling against a striped background

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Profile

Pioneers in Computer Science: Rediet Abebe

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Black and white photo of Roy Clay

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Profile

Pioneers in Computer Science: Roy L. Clay Sr.

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cover of the book system error

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Interview

Patching the Technology of Democracy

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Close up of a group of elementary school kids doing schoolwork on their laptops

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Interview

Empowering a Rebirth of Digital Citizenship

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Black and white photo of a smiling male college student sitting in front of an open laptop

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From the Archive

No Longer a Novelty, Online Learning Comes of Age

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Illustration of people, represented by hexagonal wooden tiles, connected against a red background

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Handbook

Blockchain Governance? Just DAO It!

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College students help adult learners sitting at a bank of computers

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Interview

Seizing the (Computer Science) Initiative in Arkansas

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Asa Hutchinson sits with a female student at a table as she shows him work on her laptop

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Interview

The Hope and Opportunity of a Technology Education

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Farmer Woman Using Digital Tablet With Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Analyzing Plant Disease in Corn Agriculture Fields. Technology Smart Farming and Innovation Agricultural Concepts.

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Interview

The Next Agricultural Revolution

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Photo of Dwana Franklin-Davis

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Interview

Rebooting the Invitation to Technology

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Ruthe Farmer holds her arm and hand up while speaking at a dias

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Interview

The Computer Science Evangelist

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A young black woman sits in front of a laptop looking intently at the screen

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News

The Real Value of Virtual College Fairs

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Bernard Harris standing to the side of a podium, his left arm resting on it as he smiles during his presentation

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Interview

A Trailblazing Astronaut’s Ongoing Mission

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Black and white photo of a white female high school student working at a computer

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From the Archive

The Gender Gap in AP Computer Science: 1984-1996

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A teacher gives thumbs up to the remote learning students she's looking at on a laptop while three students sitting in her classroom, wearing masks, look on

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Interview

Getting Students Connected—and Keeping Them Connected

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Black and white photo of a male college student with his hand against his mouth and chin, looking pensively at a computer screen

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From the Archive

Assessment's Next Wave: The Computerized Placement Tests

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Two young women, all wearing masks, work at laptop computers while a third woman, also masked, points at a computer screen as she assists one of the others.

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News

Reprogramming Computer Science Education

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Young male elementary school student in a white short-sleeve button down shirt, glasses, and facemask sits in front of a laptop at a desk in an empty school room

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Interview

The Pandemic-Driven Urgency to Improve Our Digital Lives

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Profile photo of Kiesha Taylor

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Interview

On the Frontlines of Closing the Digital Divide

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Overhead photo of a male teenager looking at his phone while sitting at his home desk, cluttered with notebooks and a computer and a globe

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News

Nudges, Not Sales Pitches

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A photo from above of a group of black laptops, open and sitting on a carpeted floor

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Interview

America’s Students—and Its Economy—Need Reliable Internet Now

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two hands pointing at two old computer terminals set against a blue-purple background

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From the Archive

Beyond Computer Literacy: Defining Levels of Skill in the Use of Computers

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Photograph of a young woman sitting at a desk, seen from behind as she looks at a laptop whose screen is covered in video conferencing boxes

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News

The Long-Range Benefits of Broadband Access

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a mother helps here two sons with their schoolwork

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News

The Digital Divide Is About More Than Technology

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three people, from left, a woman and two men, raise their hands as they take the oath of citizenship

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From the Archive

Wired World: On Education, the Internet, and the New Immigrants

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photo of space shuttle atlantis blasting off

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Interview

Guiding the Space Shuttle—and the Trajectory of Space Exploration

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cover of the book broad band

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Interview

The Secret History of Women in Tech

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a young woman wearing headphones sits in front of a laptop as she codes a video game

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Interview

School Days Influences: Decoding the World of Video Game Designers

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larry irving motions while giving a speech

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Interview

Internet Hall-of-Famer Larry Irving on Closing the Digital Divide

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a young woman college student sits in the bed of a red pickup truck doing homework

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News

Bridging One of the Widest Gaps in the Digital Divide

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A young woman wearing blue headphones smiles as she listens to a podcast

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Extra Credit

Ten Great, Enjoyable, and Educational Podcasts

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black and white photo of a classroom of students watching a lesson on a television

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From the Archive

Teaching With Television—In 1961

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photo illustration showing the TikTok app is displayed on an Apple iPhone on

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Extra Credit

The Coolest Educational TikTok Accounts and Hashtags

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student sitting at a table wearing headphones while looking at a laptop computer screen

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Handbook

Seven Online Tools to Keep Students Engaged at Home

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closeup of two female hands typing on a laptop computer

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News

Closing the Tech Gap for AP Students

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a man and a woman wearing hard hats and work vests stand in front of a row of wind energy turbines in a field during sunset, the woman pointing to the right

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Handbook

8 Green Jobs for Budding Environmentalists

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A row of college students wearing graduation regalia sit at a commencement ceremony, seen from behind

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News

Coronavirus Concerns Lead to Virtual Commencements

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four girl scouts stand in front of a portrait of frederick douglass at the national portrait gallery

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Handbook

Five Great Virtual Field Trips for Students, Educators, and Families

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three elementary school students examine a robot with their teacher

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Handbook

The Push to Bring AI into the K-12 Classroom

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a research associate at the university of texas holds a syringe in one hand and a test tube in another while working on researching coronavirus treatment

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News

Universities Race to Develop Coronavirus Treatments

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a male e sports gamer wearing a black and maroon jersey wears a headset, has one hand on a computer mouse and another on his keyboard, and stares with focus at his computer monitor

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Feature

The New Power-Up on Campus: Video Games

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an illustration of people walking into a school carrying bulky computers and walking out with a stack of books

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From the Archive

Computers: The New Kick in the Schools

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cover of the book coders by clive thompson featuring a yellow book jacket with the title in red at the top and a stylized green and white pixelation of earth at the bottom

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Interview

Decoding America’s Operating System

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a black and white photo rom 1986 of college professor Tom Tucker sitting at a computer and writing on a tablet with a stylus connected to the computer

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From the Archive

Teaching AP Calculus by Telephone and Computer

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three young men chatting and laughing as they stand next to tractors parked on farmland

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News

The Next Big STEM Career: Farming

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a young woman sits at a desk and speaks into a microphone that is connected to a computer and equipment to record a podcast

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Handbook

A User’s Guide to Classroom Podcasting

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a teacher looking over the shoulder of a young female student who is playing minecraft on a laptop computer

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Handbook

'Minecraft' In the Classroom Benefits Students and Teachers

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