[FRIAM] Fwd: How Computers Work, featuring Bill Gates, and more!

Tue Jan 30 12:43:01 EST 2018

I wonder if we could get our governors (whichever state we live in) to
join the 16 who have already signed up?

It seems to me that:
- Broadband is a utility, like water and power.
- CS should be taught in public schools.
- Both together would be a Good Thing

   -- Owen

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From: Hadi Partovi <hadi_partovi at code.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:57 AM
Subject: How Computers Work, featuring Bill Gates, and more!
To: owen at backspaces.net

<http://go.pardot.com/e/153401/nOPI1iJNcsRwJhvksEo1tJqjIqWbN-/k9xpkp/352648710>

We’re so so so excited to share six short videos that teach How Computers
Work
<http://go.pardot.com/e/153401/nOPI1iJNcsRwJhvksEo1tJqjIqWbN-/k9xpkp/352648710>!
Over a year in the making, these educational videos star Bill Gates along
tech leaders such as Apple designer May Li Khoe, xBox architect Nat Brown,
and Adafruit founder Limor Fried. Please watch these videos with a
classroom, with your children, or with a tub of ice cream. :-)

Because CS is for everybody, Khan Academy
<http://go.pardot.com/e/153401/2nocnaY/k9xpkr/352648710> and Alaska
Airlines will expand the audience for these videos. Khan Academy will
include the videos in their CS offering, and Alaska Airlines will offer
them for free on flights starting in April. (Both will also feature the How
the Internet Works
<http://go.pardot.com/e/153401/nOPI1iJNfMRZm5DDxco3UdsFegvuB7/k9xpkt/352648710>
videos previously released by Code.org.)

*State governors unite for computer science*
<http://go.pardot.com/e/153401/2018-01-30/k9xpkw/352648710>

The local momentum for K-12 computer science continues to spread throughout
the U.S. Eight more governors
<http://go.pardot.com/e/153401/and-computer-science-education/k9xpky/352648710>
joined the Governors for CS
<http://go.pardot.com/e/153401/2018-01-30/k9xpl1/352648710> partnership,
which now boasts 16 states committed to funding and expanding computer
science. Throughout January, governors announced new plans for CS:

   -

   Governors from AZ
   <http://go.pardot.com/e/153401/eorg-status-950846740353069056/k9xpl3/352648710>,
   IA, IN
   <http://go.pardot.com/e/153401/eorg-status-950891438300061696/k9xpl5/352648710>,
   MD, NY
   <http://go.pardot.com/e/153401/eorg-status-948911249907056647/k9xpl7/352648710>,
   and SC
   <http://go.pardot.com/e/153401/eorg-status-956570249016483841/k9xpl9/352648710>
proposed
   a combined $17 million to expand CS in every school
   -

   Legislation in support of computer science has been introduced in AZ,
   FL, HI, IN, MD, MO, MS, NC, NH, RI, and WA
   -

   The Utah State Board of Education adopted a proposal to create a
   strategic plan for K-12 CS in the state, including standards

*2017 in review, and Code.org Annual report
<http://go.pardot.com/e/153401/about-2017/k9xplc/352648710>*
At Code.org we start each year with a look at the global landscape of K-12
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work of global efforts that share our vision.

It’s been just over four years since Code.org hired our first employee, and
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diversity in CS; over 72,000 U.S. teachers have attended Code.org
workshops; a whopping 750,000 teachers have begun using Code.org to teach
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served – reaching one out of every 10 students on the planet.

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*“What you have done is by far the single most disruptive piece of
education at scale within the existing education structure in my lifetime.”
Gregg Fleisher, President, National Math & Science Initiative*
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