Computer Science and Information Technology Newsletter December 2025

[joe jkmoch.com]

Hi, WI Computer Science and Information Technology Colleagues

Into December, 2025 we have the following features

For Wisconsin LearningBlade activities for CSEdWeek, our fourth monthly virtual meeting and other items

For all readers

• CS Ed Week - CSTA activities, Hour of AI, WI Gov Evers Proclamation on CS Ed Week
• AI Code and More newsletter
• Hello World #28 - Programming
• Technovation AI Curriculum
• Experience CS (replacement for Google CS First)
• Seven items from previous newsletters
• AI Resources page
• Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship
• Presidential AI Challenge
• Code/Art three annual competitions for girls
• Technovation Girls Competition
• Connecting Effective Teaching Practices and AI Education Webinar
• Reinvented - new video #7 for students and teachers to view and issue 19 of Reinvented Magazine
• PD/Conference Opportunities:  Slate, SIGCSE 2026, NICE Cybersecurity, and more
• Readings:  AI to Create Lessons, 5 Ways to Build Critical Literacy in the Age of AI
• NCWIT — Counselors for Computing Resource (C4C) Newsletter and resource guide
• Plan for "What will this Code do?" classroom exercises

Here is the Dec 2025 edition of the CSTAWI Newsletter.

https://bit.ly/CSTAWI_Newsletter-Dec2025

Table of Contents: (links work in Google Doc)

• CS Ed Week including HOUR of AI - preview and link
• CS Education Highlights this Month
• CSTA WI Dairyland CS News for WI CS Educators (partial list)
• NEW→ Learning Blade Corner and 2025 CS Ed Week activity plan
• Updated → CSTA WI-Dairyland monthly video meetings
• other useful info and links
• Computing Education Resources
• Latest Issue→ Coding and More monthly newsletter 
• New→ Hello World #28 - Programming
• Reminder→ Technovation - AI in Action Curriculum
• Updated→ Experience CS:  A New Way to Teach CS
• From previous issues
• Reminder→ Book Review of “AI with Intention”
• Three recent AI resources→ AI Learning Priorities for all K-12 Students, AI Guidance and AI Literacy Framework 
• CS Teaching Tips
• Reimagining CS Pathways Report (CSTA)
• Guidance on the Future of CS EDucation in an Age of AI
•  AI Resources
• Opportunities for Students
• NEW→ Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and Internship
• Register soon!→ ACSL - American Computer Science League Registration Open
• Reminder→ Presidential AI Challenge
• Reminder→ Code/Art three annual competitions for girls and non-binary students
• New→ Technovation Girls Competition
• From previous issues
• Continuing→ Last Mile Education Fund - Community College support
• Updated→ GirlCon newsletter
• Opportunities for Educators
• NEW→ Connecting Effective Teaching Practices and AI Education (in Jan 2026)
• From previous issues
• Recording available→ Learner’s Apprentice: AI and Human Creativity
• Reminder→ Pathfinders Online Institute
• Updated → CSTA - Largest CS Dept in the World; latest newsletters
• Student Publication
• New video→ Reinvented: Watt’s Up Girl video #7, Magazine Issue 19 available
• Professional Development/Conference Opportunities
• Registration open→ SLATE 2025
• New→ SIGCSE TS 2026
• Coming→ NICE K-12 Cybersecurity Conference & Expo
• New→ Coming Spring ‘26 and Summer ‘26
• new → Your homework reading assignment - Action Item

§  AI to create Lessons; 5 Ways to build Critical Literacy in the Age of AI

• new → NCWIT Resource

§  Counselors for Computing - Connected Counseling Newsletter for Dec 2025

§  Counselors for Computing (C4C) Resource booklet

• new → Plan for a “what will this code do” programming class exercise