Supported by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (NSF ATE) program, HI-TEC is a national conference on advanced technological education where secondary and postsecondary educators, counselors, industry professionals, trade organizations, and technicians can update...
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What if we could teach kids the basics of computer science and programming without sitting them down for hours in front of a computer? That was the idea that sparked this program at the University of Canterbury, and the entire curriculum is now available online completely free and under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License. Educators will find an exceptional range of resources here. For example, navigating to a section called The Book allows readers to freely download the fully updated 243-page, 2015 edition of the CS Unplugged textbook. The Activities section navigates to several dozen lively exercises, games, and events, each of them accompanied by photos, videos, and textual explanations. A number of Videos are available on topics such as Binary Numbers, Searching Algorithms, Cryptographic Protocols, and many others. For anyone hoping to spark the interest of children in computer science, this site is one of the best resources on the web.
For more high-quality STEM resources, please visit AMSER, the Applied Math and Science Education Repository.
From Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (previously featured in the 05-25-2018 Scout Report), the exhibition Color Decoded: The Textiles of Richard Landis explored the masterful weaving of pattern and color from this celebrated American artist. Although the physical exhibition closed in 2019, visitors can still learn much from the materials available on the page linked above. The section About the Exhibition details Landis's life and craft, including his explorations of color combinations and his use of weaving to create and blend new colors. In the section From the Blog, readers can find interviews with Landis discussing his work and the exhibition. Finally, in the menu on the right side of the page, visitors can click "Color Decoded: The Textiles of Richard Landis," to be taken to another page which features 22 of the 23 objects displayed in the exhibition. Each object (which can be enlarged by clicking) can be viewed through image or video, and features text describing the inspiration for the work and the technique employed. Students and aficionados of art and color are sure to benefit from the digital materials available from this exhibition.
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Thursday, July 28, 2022
We are excited to announce the release of the ATE Impacts 2022-2023 book. Copies can be ordered online through the ATE Impacts website, and digital copies of the book can be accessed there as well. The digital copies are viewable across all devices....
Monday, May 21, 2018
CWIS version 4.1.1 has been released and is now available for download on the Scout site.
This is a maintenance release, focusing primarily on bug fixes, robustness, and increased PHP and MySQL/MariaDB compatibility. More specific detail about additions and fixes can be found on the Change...