Computer science is changing everyone's lives yet few contribute to the technologies and services we all use. Learn about the national Computer Science for All initiative and how school counselors at the vanguard are supporting new courses and viable career pathways so more students get involved in the growing fields of computing. After attending this webinar you should be able to: Define computer science and who's right for it, Identify tips for talking about computer science education and careers with students and parents, teachers and other influencers, Identify factors that influence career decisions and reflect on ideas to support computing careers and Comfortably support viable pathways, whether students' postsecondary plans are for two- or four-year college or military service.

The 38th National Future of Education Technology Conference is organized between 23 Jan and 26 Jan 2018. The 38th National Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC 2018) will take place at Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida USA. It is going to be a trendsetter Conference, outstanding as one of the most cutting-edge meetings within the Education, Learning, Teaching, Education Technology and Digital Education aspects.

Even when girls perform just as well as boys on standardized math tests, they are half as likely to major in science at college. However, having one parent or guardian work in the STEM (science, technology, engineering or math) field makes it more likely for girls to perform better in math and to enroll in a ''hard sciences'' college degree in programs such as engineering, architecture, math and computer science.
This effect is larger for girls than for boys, according to a study by researchers at the University of Michigan and University of Arkansas. ''An important result is that most of the observed direct positive effects, of having a parent in STEM on the probability of enrolling 'hard science' college degrees, seem to be concentrated among females. This is in line with other work of mine and points to the potential benefit that role modeling could have on women,'' said Gema Zamarro, lead author and an associate professor at Arkansas. ''Our results suggest that there are additional barriers - not only math performance or perceived math ability - that could be stopping women from entering STEM.'' Some of these barriers could be gender stereotypes that break down if a girl has a parent in the STEM field, Zamarro said.

The conventional wisdom about 21st century skills holds that students need to master the STEM subjects -science, technology, engineering and math - and learn to code as well because that's where the jobs are. It turns out that is a gross simplification of what students need to know and be able to do, and some proof for that comes from a surprising source: Google. This post explains what Google learned about its employees, and what that means for students across the country. It was written by Cathy N. Davidson, founding director of the Futures Initiative and a professor in the doctoral program in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of the new book, ''The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux.'' She also serves on the Mozilla Foundation board of directors, and was appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Council on the Humanities.

Slowly but surely, Pinterest is getting more diverse. The company released its annual workforce diversity report on Tuesday, and claims that underrepresented minorities now make up 9 percent of its workforce, up from just 7 percent in 2016. Pinterest is also hiring more female employees: Women account for 45 percent of Pinterest's workforce, up from 44 percent last year, according to this latest report. The data represents advances compared to 2016 government data published earlier this year. And while the changes from year to year may seem small, the company is chipping away at those diversity proportions.

LabRoots, the leading provider of educational and interactive virtual events for tech innovators, engineers, and scientists from around the world, is excited to announce Reshmi Ranjith as the winner of the LabRoots Fall STEM scholarship, awarding her $2,000 to support her in her academic pursuits in the STEM fields. Ranjith is a senior at Westhill High School, who plans on attending Georgia Institute of Technology next fall, majoring in computer science. She has taken computer science courses since her sophomore year, which has fueled her passion and inspiration for majoring in it. She has won the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award, served as a tutor for struggling students and has already secured an on-going internship in the Stamford Government's Technology Department.

There is a new narrative from and among women that is both empowering and troubling at the same time. What seemed to begin, most recently, as a push within the technology industry for greater inclusion of women at all levels of the ecosystem has now extended into a full examination around sexual harassment issues, particularly within the areas of entertainment and media. This is only the tip of the iceberg and much more will come in terms of examination, pushback, exposure, and policy. This is about rattling the cage about everything from common decency and respect to start-up funding and C-suites, but just who is setting this neo-agenda for all women?

New research from the University of Delaware suggests that women receive less credit for speaking up in the workplace than their male counterparts. Kyle Emich, an assistant professor of management in UD's Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, explored this topic with the University of Arizona's Elizabeth McClean, Boston College's Sean R. Martin and the United States Military Academy's Todd Woodruff for a forthcoming article in Academy of Management Journal.

The 2018 Austrian Presidency will host the next ICT event at the Austria Centre Vienna in December next year. The ICT events organised since 1998 by the European Commission have become Europe's most visible international forums for ICT innovation and a unique gathering of the entire ICT research and innovation community. They meet to discuss current and future ICT trends and policies, share visions, network and develop partnerships in R&D, innovation and business. The 2018 edition of this major networking event will have the following main components: a conference on digital research and innovation policies, an exhibition of EU-funded research and innovation projects in the field of ICT, a series of networking activities, an innovation and startups village to showcase European entrepreneurship.

In 1995, tech visionary Anita Borg stood on stage at the Women in Science and Engineering Conference and issued a challenge. She asked the audience to set its sights on a technical workforce made up of 50 percent women by the year 2020. When Anita made that speech, 37% of computer scientists in the U.S. were female, and 2020 was still 25 years off into the future. It seemed like an ambitious goal, but still an achievable one. But today, we're looking at a very different workforce - one that is struggling to recover from a steep drop in gender diversity over the past 20 years' A report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) shows women have made up a steady 22% of the country's technical workforce between 2005 and 2015. That correlates with what we saw in the data from the 2017 Top Companies for Women Technologists program - in the U.S., we're hovering right around 23% women in technical roles.