He trained his computer to teach the class, and then let the computer teach the 160, 000 students.
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Whelton, 20, had run a computer club at his own school, and saw a huge demand for more resources to teach computer programming skills to young people.
Code.org wants to tackle a complicated problem: how to get more schools to teach computer science as budgets shrink.
About 50 scholarships will be handed out in the first year and up to 500 existing ICT teachers will also be retrained to teach computer science.
And they teach English and computer science and ordinary science subjects and mathematics as well.
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Even if there were already trained teachers who could teach entry level computer science in high schools, budget and union constraints would make it very difficult to hire them.
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She had refused every offer Dad had made to teach her anything about a computer.
But Asians everywhere, from academics to computer hobbyists, are working on ways to teach the Internet to speak their mother tongues.
The foundation argues there is a worldwide shortage of computer programmers but that only 1 in 10 schools in America teach kids how to code.
Teach yourself just enough of the grammar and the logic of computer languages to be able to see the big picture.
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His team at the Neural Systems Laboratory, University of Washington, hopes to take brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to the next level by attempting to teach robots new skills directly via brain signals.
Dominated at the moment by courses in mathematics, computer science, and engineering, MOOCs may be ill-equipped to teach students to write and express themselves or to provide the hands-on experience of working in a lab.
He scrapped the ICT curriculum from last September and called on schools to use online resources to teach computing so that even 11-year-olds would be capable of writing simple 2D computer animations.
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There are four teachers who teach up to eight hours a week and can work from home or anywhere with access to a computer.
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