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AI Open Learning Platform:
Open Learning is a free, adaptable, classroom-based AI curriculum that empowers high school teachers to bring AI education to their classrooms. The curriculum is written for high school teachers to implement in a variety of ICT classroom settings. All curriculum is approachable for people without programming backgrounds and is available at olp.ai-4-all.org.
Free Open Learning curriculum materials are available as well as a community of practice from AI4All! , Curriculum slides are available for downloading and participants can join the AI4All teacher Slack channel. Here is a short flyer about how to access AI4ALL Open Learning through the platform and information on how to get in touch regarding the Slack channel and downloadable slides: https://ai-4-all.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ OpenLearningPlatformTips.pdf. All materials are still available on the platform olp.ai-4-all.org, but since COVID-19 has moved classrooms online, teachers requested that it would be easier to access the curriculum via downloadable slides (to incorporate into their own Google Classrooms or other online classroom formats). A one hour Zoom meeting will be held Friday May 15th starting at 12pm PDT to discuss the materials, taking questions, and providing feedback on what is working and what isn’t (see attached flyer “teacher meetup”)You can register here and a Zoom link will be provided:HP CodeWars Opening Up Competition:
Notice has been given that the yearly CodeWars Competitionhttp://www.hpcodewars.org/ has been opened up to expand the contest due to moving online. Write to Ken Duisenberg ken.duisenberg@hpe.com befor e May 8 to get registered. Attached is a description of how the contest operates. DoD Offering To Pay for Two Years of College for New Hires in Cyber and STEM
In exchange for a four-year commitment to working in Cyber Security and STEM fields, the Department of Defense will cover two years of college expense and offer the chance to work with an industry partner under a new bipartisan bill in Congress. See this article for details: https://workscoop.
com/2020/04/14/dod-stem- training-workforce-scholarship Free Online Cyber Security Curriculum from the National Cyber Security Training and Education Center (CyberWatch West):
Several complete lessons are available at https://www.ncyte.net/c5-
lessons including Information Security and The CIA Triad, Personal Data Vulnerabilities, Identity Authentication and Authorization and Steganography. Readers may know the Center by its old name which was CyberWatch West. Originally focused on increasing the quantity and quality of the cybersecurity workforce throughout the western United States. In July of 2013, Whatcom Community College became the lead institution for the center. Following years of success, CyberWatch West was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to serve as a National Cyber Resource Center in 2018. In 2019 the name was changed to the National Cybersecurity Training & Education Center (NCyTE). Now their mission has expanded to a national scale.
4/16/2020: Community Care and Share!
4/9/2020: "Zoombombing English Class and Other Fun Online Activities" by Stephen Cerruti Video here.