This course is part of the Teaching Impacts of Technology in K-12 Education Specialization

Beth Simon

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Teaching Impacts of Technology in K-12 Education SpecializationUniversity of California San Diego

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In this course you’ll focus on how the Internet has enabled new careers and changed expectations in traditional work settings, creating a new vision for the workplace of the future. This will be done through a series of paired teaching sections, exploring a specific “Impact of Computing” in your typical day and the “Technologies and Computing Concepts” that enable that impact, all at a K12-appropriate level. 
This course is part of a larger Specialization through which you’ll learn impacts of computing concepts you need to know, organized into 5 distinct digital “worlds”, as well as learn pedagogical techniques and evaluate lesson plans and resources to utilize in your classroom. By the end, you’ll be prepared to teach pre-college learners to be both savvy and effective participants in their digital world.

In this particular digital world (careers and work), you’ll explore the following Impacts & Technology pairs --

Impacts (Getting jobs in new ways): technology based freelancing, Linkedin and how it changed the way we work  
Technology and Computing Concepts: Data retrieval, data vs metadata, SQL, Boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT)

Impacts (Physical ties to work restricts people and businesses): work communication, the cloud, cloud computing, companies affected by ransomware attacks 
Technology and Computing Concepts: how the cloud works, FTP, cloud storage, clients and servers, scalability basics, fault tolerance, AWS, devops

Impacts (Advancing your career in the fast moving technical world): digital technology changing jobs, online classes, machines replacing jobs, data science and artificial intelligence

In the pedagogy section for this course, in which best practices for teaching computing concepts are explored, you’ll learn how to effectively explore and critique curricular material you find and practice reviewing lesson plans, with a focus on material aimed at learning HTML.

In terms of CSTA K-12 computer science standards, we’ll primarily cover learning objectives within the “impacts of computing” concept, while also including some within the “networks and the Internet” concepts and the “data and analysis” concept.  Practices we cover include “fostering and inclusive computing culture”, “recognizing and defining computational problems”, and “communicating about computing”.

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English

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

1 hour to complete

Course Orientation

Welcome! Are you ready to explore the impacts of the technology on the workplace and new types careers available to us? To learn more about the computation and computing concepts that underlie those technologies? We'll be using a problem-based approach to explore interesting ways to teach concepts of networks and the internet, data and analysis, and even algorithms and data representation. Additionally, this course features a series called "Career Explorations" -- resources you can use to help students broaden their ideas of future career opportunities. Finally, we'll explore several lesson plans supporting online learning resources around data science and html programming (don't worry -- not prior programming experience is required!).

1 hour to complete

2 videos (Total 18 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz

4 hours to complete

Getting a Job in New Ways

4 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 18 min), 8 readings, 5 quizzes

7 videos

Getting a Job in New Ways3mYour First Interactive Reading11mCheck Your Knowledge2sCheck Your Knowledge2sCheck Your Knowledge2sWhat is Teacher Powerup?2mCheck Your Knowledge2s

8 readings

Where's my interactive reading grade?3mExplore a Freelance Platform!10mHow do job sites store (and retrieve) matches?8mData vs Metadata!16mHow to "speak" database: SQL4mLeveraging Prior Knowledge: AND, OR, NOT6mBoolean Logic in Computing16mHacking websites with SQL10m

2 practice exercises

Mastery Quiz Part 130mMastery Quiz Part 230m

Week2

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Physical Ties to Work

3 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 4 min), 11 readings, 5 quizzes

6 videos

Physical Ties to Work4mCheck Your Knowledge2sIn Your Experience1sIn Your Experience...1sCheck Your Knowledge2sCheck Your Knowledge2s

11 readings

What is the Cloud?5mMore about the cloud7mIn a word: client? app? server? application?10mCloud Storage9mOptional: Chromebooks vs Laptops: Use in schools?Scalability Basics5mCareer Exploration: working at Amazon Web Services4mOptional: Extra Teacher ResourcesAWS Overview12mCareer Exploration: What is Devops?10mOptional: Extra Teacher Resources10m

2 practice exercises

Mastery Quiz Part 130mMastery Quiz Part 230m

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Advancing your career in the technical world

How will the workplace of the future be different? Will workers be expected to constantly learn new things just to stay employable? How might that happen? Will machines be taking over our jobs? This is currently the subject of a LOT of discussion. Although exploring the technology behind machine learning and artificial intelligence is appropriate, we have already covered that in another course (Course 2 - Data). Instead here we'll look at the new "career" of data science and explore a tool you can use with students to give them a first introduction -- no programming needed!

2 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 3 min), 3 readings, 5 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Impacts of Computing and Pedagogy

Technology and the Internet is changing not only what kinds of jobs we can get, but how we can stay trained and train for new jobs our entire life. This week you will find a resource for exploring the impacts of computing on career or work -- that you think would be useful with YOUR students. Additionally we'll reflect on how cognitive load can cause challenges when teaching computing and explore and critique a code.org lesson on learning HTML.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 12 min), 6 readings, 3 quizzes

4 videos

Why Study: Impacts and Next Steps3mIn Your Experience1sCognitive Load in Learning about Computing8mIn Your Experience: Cognitive Load1s

6 readings

Do This Now... Request a teacher account4mCan the Internet help teach the world?7mOptional: Extra Teacher Resources1mWhat's Up Next15mLearn HTML through a code.org lesson20mComment on and ask questions about the full lesson plan5m

2 practice exercises

Check Your Knowledge (Ped-CogLoad)5mMastery Quiz30m

About the Teaching Impacts of Technology in K-12 Education Specialization

2% That’s the estimate of how many high school students in all of California took a Computer Science class in 2015. And yet, computers and data are everywhere. Just consider a typical 24 hours in your life … how many different computer devices do you use? We all live in multiple digital worlds that are changing rapidly with new apps, devices, and data analyses offering a constant stream of innovations and technology integrations for our lives.

As it's an integral part of our lives, we’re working towards computer science for all - making it possible for every student, every future member of society, to understand computing and technology. To do so, we need teachers. Teachers prepared to both teach computational concepts and use best practices so kids enjoy and see they can be successful in computer science. This is where you (and this Specialization) come in! In this Specialization you will both learn about the impacts of computing in our world and how to teach these impacts to K-12 students. We offer both the technical knowledge and also the pedagogical approaches for teaching these concepts. Along the way you’ll engage with freely available materials you can use in your own classroom, as well as learn from teachers currently teaching these concepts in their classrooms. In short - in this Specialization we'll teach you the computing concepts you need to know and then help you explore and evaluate lesson plans and resources to prepare you for your classroom.

Teaching Impacts of Technology in K-12 Education

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Is financial aid available?
Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.
Can this course help me get the California Supplementary Authorization to teach Computer Science?
Yes! This course is designed as component of a Specialization that is 1 of a set of 4 Specializations (all will be offered on Coursera) that will support the requirements of the California Supplementary Authorization. Additionally, the Specialization may support credentialing or authorization in other states. However, most states require a transcript from an accredited institution of higher education. See the FAQ question on “Will I earn university credit” to find out how to get such a transcript.
Will I earn university credit for completing this course?
Yes, you can earn UCSD credit for completing this course, but only by completing the full Teaching Impacts of Technology in K-12 Education Specialization. In addition, you will need to (1) Enroll in an additional UCSD Extension course before completing the capstone ($500) and (2) complete part of the capstone project via an online proctoring service. After this is done, your Specialization course grades will be accumulated and a transcript with your final grade (both letter grade or pass-only supported) will be issued from UCSD with 4 graduate-level units. These are eligible to count towards the California Supplementary Authorization.
What background knowledge is necessary to succeed in this course?
There is no background knowledge, neither in education nor in Computer Science, required to take this course - just an interest in learning computational concepts about the technology that surrounds us and how to best teach those concepts to others.
Basic proficiency in the use of Googledocs will be needed to complete assignments within the course. Google help documentation will be provided, and with some extra attention, first time use of Googledocs should not be a barrier to successful completion of the course.
What is the value of taking this course online?
By providing this course online, our goal is to enable you to master all the material in the course at a pace that is appropriate for you, rather than the typical processes of picking a specific date and measuring how much you can learn by that date of in-person courses. Instead of the relatively bigger chunks of learning work found in traditional courses (e.g. go to class, read the book, do homework, study for the test) this course has a lot of smaller and more diverse activities that guide your learning experience. We use a lot of online features to
Break learning into smaller chunks
Engage you more in thinking and discussing content with others
Better integrate and more frequently test your knowledge (with a focus on mastery, allowing you to go back and learn what you missed then come test again)
Give you practice in teaching-specific skills you will need as an educator (finding and evaluating online teaching resources, critiquing and modifying lesson plans)
We hope you enjoy and learn a lot!

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