Living rooms are now classrooms, dining tables are ad hoc desks & #LearnFromHome is the new normal. Recherche Tech is proud to be a part of Intel India & Times of India's pcpathshala.com initiative to enrich online+offline education. #pcpaathshala zcu.io/YwFl

Teaching computational thinking at school is a recent phenomenon in India. Since 2016, ACM India's education initiative, CSpathshala, has been promoting computational thinking by providing a curriculum, teaching aids and training to teachers for free. As part of the ACM India webinar series on education, CSpathshala brings you teacher-oriented webinars that presents innovative ways to make the task of teaching computational thinking easier.

The first of the series by Professor Tim Bell of University of Canterbury, New Zealand, will be held on Saturday 27th June 2020 at 11am IST.

Registration Link: https://webinars.on24.com/acm/tim

https://youtu.be/uyRifRll5lA

Shaastra, IIT Madras has launched Upskill, an initiative to train CS teachers in schools. Herein is a recording of the webinar and panel discussion.

CSpathshala brings you the next webinar in the series by Dr. Jonaki Ghosh on Saturday 25th July at 4pm.

webinars.on24.com/acm/jonaki

The National Education Policy 2020 mandates Computational And Mathematical Thinking and the My sCool Server along with CSPathshala has it readily served for our teachers and students.
Let the learning processes be empowered.

https://www.myscoolserver.com/cspathshala-takes-wings-on-kolibri/

The My sCool Server helps our educational institutions to achieve the NEP 2020 objectives with the integration of the CSPathshala curriculum.

An event invite forward -

Dear Teachers

We would like to invite all of you and your Computer and Maths teachers to the 2nd conference on Computational Thinking in Schools - CTiS2020 to be held at virtually on 2nd and 3rd October 2020. 

CTiS is an annual event organized by CSpathshala, an ACM India education initiative to promote Computational Thinking in schools. CTiS provides a platform for schools and teachers implementing computational thinking to share their experiences.  

The event will be held from 2-5pm IST on both days with a special keynote session at 8:30pm IST / 11am ET on October 2 by Prof. Jeannette Wing,  Avanessians Director, Data Science Institute @Columbia University, NY. The virtual conference will feature panel discussion and presentations of selected abstracts with sessions on implementation of computational thinking, fun activities and innovative examples used by teachers in classrooms! The enclosed invite presents the agenda and additional information on the event. 

The event is open to all educators as well as those involved and interested in computing education. 

Registration is free. 

We look forward to your participation. Please feel free to extend the invite in your networks. 

For any questions related to the conference, please contact us at: ctis2020@cspathshala.org  

Thanks and regards

Organising Committee

CTiS2020

https://learnstormin.khanacademy.org/

Win 30 tablets and many more prizes for your class with LearnStorm - our free, nationwide learning challenge.
LearnStorm runs from Oct 1 - Dec 24, 2020

6th: Be the Change... Education Conclave

13rd Oct, 2020, Tuesday: 2:15 PM to 4:45 PM

Link for the online meeting: https://meet.google.com/owf-ypjq-fnp

If anyone does not get admission for the Google meet using the above link, due to meeting being full, can use this YouTube channel link: https://youtube.com/channel/UC3Q6SCa3zpwDRRFim_nQVGA and select the *LIVE* option to participate in the meeting.

Digitally enabled education done right. Excellent read for all educators.

A must do and a great opportunity for every teacher - https://lnkd.in/dJc8BHU and it's free if it is not the certificate one is after but just the learning. :)

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com - simply awesome tools to teach children about being safe while navigating through their online lives.

Learning Equality is hosting a live session to discuss how organizations have adapted their educational programs to use the offline learning platform, Kolibri, during the pandemic.

We’ll be there - come join us!

📅 Jan 28
⏰ 9:30am EST
🔗 http://bit.ly/kolibri-01-28

Dear All,

Science Society of India is inviting students from class 7th to class 12th to join a free mobile app development crash course using MIT App Inventor for beginners conducted by Narayan Iyer. This will be followed by an App Inventor challenge contest (details of the contest will be posted later).
There will be four one-hour sessions (during weekends):
Day-1: Saturday May 1st 2021
Day-2: Sunday May 2nd 2021
Day-3: Saturday May 8th 2021
Day-4: Sunday May 9th 2021.
The timings will be 6.30pm to 7.30pm

For free registration & details go to: https://sciencesociety.in/appinventor
Register by 28th April 2021

Thanks

Join us in voting for Learning Equality’s Kolibri for Solve MIT’s Community Award! Kolibri empowers educators + learners disconnected from the Internet with quality digital learning experiences. Take 1 minute to show support for this inclusive edtech solution:
https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/equitable-classrooms/solutions/51214

Mehsana ના દોલતપુરામાં અનોખી Smart પ્રાથમિક શાળા | ખેતરોની વચ્ચે તમામ Facility સાથેની Morden School , #Zee24Kalak

#Mehsana #SmartSchool #MordenSchool #My sCool Server #Govt Schools
MSS Computer Lab (My sCool Server: Empowering Education)

The My sCool Server is an offline device to power a wired network of diskless computers, making all of them usable and useful instantly.
It simultaneously serves computer labs, several smart classrooms as well as facilitates tablet PC-based learning models. https://youtu.be/V8-wtVdjjyI

The MSS team is extremely happy and thankful to have been part of a noble cause by United Way of Baroda and Janapriya Trust to empower a govt school with a computer lab.

This lab, powered by the My sCool Server (myscoolserver.com), facilitates computer education and digital literacy amongst the students from the underserved sections of our society.

#myscoolserver #digitalliteracy #computereducation #computationalthinking

https://youtu.be/smKqOyrUQX8

Hello World is a magazine about computer science published in the U.K. The resources are great and this month’s focus is CS Pedagogy. You can download a free copy and subscribe at https://buff.ly/3EYqURI

https://helloworld.raspberrypi.org/issues/0

My sCool Server smart classroom feature

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyO9hjFptbdQTkZf894BvO8YDvlOvnkT6 - check out the last 3 excellent videos about Openboard in this playlist from creater Nidhi.

The powerfull MSS smart class features due to the integration of Openboard will become clear.

These can be inexpensively availed by pairing a projector and wireless/bluetooth pen+tablet. (Wacom CTL410 or XP-Pen Deco Mini 7)

Via the Plasma desktop environment, the MSS fully supports the multitouch features of most leading IFPs as well.