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Cultivating Digital Literacy Skills in Students

Cultivating Digital Literacy Skills in Students

Digital literacy is the ability to understand, use, and interact with technology, media, and digital resources in real-world situations, providing the foundation for college and career readiness.  Teaching digital literacy in students requires a range of specific...

Celebrating South Carolina STEM Education Month

Celebrating South Carolina STEM Education Month

March 14 (Pi day) marked the kickoff of STEM Education Month in South Carolina. STEM education is becoming increasingly important in K-12 classrooms. By teaching the fundamentals of science, technology, engineering and math, students become better equipped to...

Women Making History in Tech

Women Making History in Tech

Believe it or not, a report by Accenture showed that “the proportion of women working in tech is now smaller, at 32%, than it was in 1984, at 35%." In 1983, while I was an undergraduate student at UCLA, I worked part-time as a computer programmer for a defense...

Preparing Students for a Tech Centered World

Preparing Students for a Tech Centered World

For many, technology is a gift. For others…not so much. Either way you view technology, one thing is certain: technology is here to stay and will continue to advance.    When I first attended school, we didn’t have computers in the classroom. We were lucky to...

How to Help Students Improve Pattern Recognition Skills

How to Help Students Improve Pattern Recognition Skills

In computational thinking, one of the integral steps to the problem-solving process is pattern recognition. In this process, pattern recognition is the identification of similarities within a particular data set, sequence, or even in comparison to other problems and...