Information Technology Preparation

1. Information Technology Preparation High School/ Career Center Information Technology Preparation with Emphasis at the Local Level Mike Rehner CIS 889 Winter 2001 Dr Zweben

2. Two Diverse Teaching Methodologies • Career Education vs. College Preparation • Fundamental differences in subject matter approach • Merging • A technological society needs both

3. College Preparation • Roots in Medieval Church/ University • Classical education- includes culture • Broad principles and theoretical knowledge • Curriculum driven by what is taught in college • Frequently called education • High Schools • Category 1 Worker

4. Career Education • Roots in craftsmanship • Difference between need to know and nice to know • Hands- on • Curriculum driven by job and task analysis • Frequently called training • Career Centers • Category 2 Worker

5. College Prep Organizations • Institute of Computer Technology (ICT)- • Intel & Microsoft partnership • Active in West and South • International Society for Technology Education (ISTE) • Engineering Organizations • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) • SIGCSE Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education • SIGCUE Special Interest Group for Computer Uses in Education • Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) • Job Analysis used for Certification

6. College Prep Organizations • Advanced Placement College Prep • Tests developed by College Entrance Examination Board • College courses taught by high school teachers • Students tested and rated score from 5-1 • AP curriculum determined by a survey of college courses • Includes binary trees and recursive data structures in curriculum • Curriculum flows downward from Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology (ABET) accreditation

7. Career Education Organizations • IT.Works- State of Ohio career based education • Education Development Corporation- Assists in the development of education/industry collaborations • Northwest Technology Group- Developed IT Job Analysis Studies • Information Technology Association of America- Business- Education Collaboration

8. Cisco Corporation • Plans to grow from and 18 billion dollars to 50 Billion dollars in the next 4years • Needs a 40% increase in technically trained personal • Globally has 6221 Academies with 180,000 students enrolled • E-Learning portal has 8000 resources organized into a set of roadmaps

9. High School Web Page Briggs High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/brigghs/index.htm Centennial High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/centennial/index.html Delaware JVS South Campus www.delawarejvs.org East High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/east/index.html Northeast Career Center www.columbus.k12.oh.us/north_east_cc/ Southeast Career Center www.columbus.k12.oh.us/southeast/index.html West High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/west_hs/index.html Local Cisco Academies at Present

10. Career Education Teacher Education • Four year business education degree • Individual may be brought in from industry and agree to take career education coursework.

11. Computer Science Teacher Education • Four year education degree • Degree in computer science and then education courses • ISTE recommends 12 semester hours in computer science in a 4 year program

12. Teacher Certification in Ohio • Vocational Business Education Comprehensive • Information Services and support • Network Systems • Programming and Software Development • Interactive Media • High School Computer Science • 4-5 year education degree • K-12 Computer Science

13. Local High School/ Career Center Survey • 45 local high schools and career centers surveyed • 11 responded back • Visited Delaware Southern JVS • Survey and results at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~rehner/WS/CIS/889/Survey/

14. Information Sought • School Profile • Number of students and computers • Computer science/computer technology department • Courses taught • Course Name • Enrollment • Math requirement • Length of course

15. Information Sought • Certification • Number of students certified • Number of teachers certified • Major difficulties in managing course • Comments- what kind of assistance could a computer science/computer engineering school provide

16. High School Profile • 12 schools responded out of 45 • Average number of computers- 258 • Average number of students – 1083 • Students/ Computer 4.19 • Number of Computer Technology/Computer Science Departments- 6

17. Course Offerings

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19. Course Offerings

20. Math Requirements • C++ - all required Algebra 1 • AP C++ - all required Algebra 2 • Visual Basic- 2 required Algebra 1 • Visual Basic- 1 required 9th grade math proficiency test • Networking Cisco- 2 required Algebra 1 • Web Design- 1 required Algebra 1

21. Certifications Supported By Local Area High School/ Career Center Curriculums Number of Students Certified Number of Instructors Certified CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate 3 4 CIW Certified Internet Webmaster 0 0 CompTIA A+ 11 3 CompTIA Network+ 0 0 MOUS Microsoft Office User Specialist 0 4 Curriculum Certifications

22. School Difficulties • 1. Keeping teachers up to date • 2. Hiring Instructors • 3. Purchasing Equipment • 4. Maintaining Equipment • 5. Motivating Students • 5. Recruiting Students • 6 Low Student Math Levels • 7 Developing Curriculum

23. Help from OSU Comments • Field Trips, Projects, Guest Speakers, Guidance, Mentoring of Students and Teachers, Videos • Integration of technology into curriculum • Offer tuition paid classes • Open course offerings to curriculum areas other than math- for example business/tech teachers AND remove prerequisite requirements to take technology classes • Technology Training for Teachers • We need teachers- not enough money for teachers to go into public schools

24. Survey Conclusions • There seem to be an adequate number of computers but maintaining equipment is a problem • Business driving curriculum as companies with forward looking management teams are assisting schools in delivering instruction • Most of the coursework students are doing is at the Category 2 level. There are a lot of students enrolled

25. Survey Conclusions • Math requirements are in place for AP classes but other classes have few math prerequisites • Difficulty for schools to keep teachers up to date and hire competent teachers • While curriculum is in place not very many students are leaving courses certified

26. Student Organizations • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) • Business Professionals of America (BPA) • Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) • Four H • JETS- Junior Engineering Technical Society • Use clubs to get young women & minorities involved in computers • GirlTech • www.gURLwURLd.com • National Society of Black Engineers- NSBE Jr.

27. Programming Contests • American Computer Science League- monthly contests • BPA local, statewide and national contests • FBLA local, statewide and national contests • USA Computing Olympiad- supports pre-college computing through competitions • International Olympiad in Informatics- annual competition for seniors in secondary schools

28. Recommendations • Develop long term relationships- post survey • Develop summer workshops in concert with industry for teachers and/or students for Midwest region • Wright State offers NEAS+ National Engineering Search+ assessment • University of Dayton offers “Women in Engineering Summer Camp • Baldwin-Wallace offers Biotechnology summer workshop • University of Akron offers a 3 week workshop in Science and Engineering

29. Recommendations • Develop a competition for high school students • Work with a broad based group for a definable teacher certification • Work with broad based group to develop standards for information technology education • Work with both type of programs • Although Ohio State is involved in developing college prep should also assist in developing career education

30. Resources • American Computer Science League http://www.accsl.org/ • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) http://www.acm.org/ • Business Professionals of America http://www.bpa.org/ • Building a Foundation for Tomorrow Skill Standards for Information Technology. Northwest Center for Emerging Technologies. Bellevue Washington. 1997 • College Entrance Examination Board. http://www.collegeboard.org/ap/ • Education Development Center, Inc. http://www.edc.org/ • Future Business Leaders of America http://www.fbla-pbl.org/ • Four H- http://www.4-h.org/tech/st4htech • Galagan, Patricia A. Mission E-possible The Cisco E-Learning Story. Training & Development. P46-56 Feb 2001. • GirlTECH http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/club/girls.html • International Olympiad in Informatics http://olympiad.win.tue.nl/iol/

31. Resources • International Society for Technology in Education. http://www.iste.org/ • Information Technology Association of America. http://www.itaa.org/ • itWORKS.OHIO http://www.itworks-ohio.org/ • JETS Junior Engineering Technical Society http://www.jets.org/ • Mangini, Rick. Career Ed Dept. (itWorks) State of Ohio. Phone Conversation Feb 21 2001 • National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering • National Society for Black Engineers http://www.nsbe.org/ • Northwest Center for Emerging Technologies. http://www.nwcet.org/ • Strunk, Wayne, Cisco CCNA Instructor, Conversation Feb 7 2001 • USA Computing Olympiad http://www.uwp.edu/ • Young Engineers- http://www.youngeng.org/

32. High School/ Career Center Name Web Page Beechcroft High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/beech/index.html Bexley High School www.bexley.k12.oh.us/hs1/index.htm Briggs High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/brigghs/index.htm Brookhaven High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/brookhaven/index.html Canal Winchester High School www.canalwin.k12.oh.us/hs1.htm Centennial High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/centennial/index.html Columbus Alternative High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/cahs/index.html High School/ Career Center Resources

33. High School/ Career Center Name Web Page Delaware JVS South Campus www.delawarejvs.org Dublin Coffman High School 198.234.193.26/Coffman/WebPages/Coffman.html Dublin Scioto High School scioto.dublin.k12/oh.us/ East High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/east/index.html Eastland Career Center www.eastland.k12.oh.us/career_centers/ecc/index.cfm Eastmoor Academy High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/eastmoor/index.html Ft Hayes Metropolitan Education Center www.fthayes.com/index.html High School/ Career Center Resources

34. High School/ Career Center Name Web Page Gahanna Lincoln High School www.gahanna.k12.oh.us/schools/glhs/7glhs.htm Hilliard Darby High School www.panthers.hilliard.k12.oh.us/ Linden-McKinley High-School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/linden_mckinley/info.html Mifflin High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/mifflin_high/index.html Northeast Career Center www.columbus.k12.oh.us/north_east_cc/ Northland High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/northland/index.html Northwest Career Center www.columbus.k12.oh.us/northwest.nwccindex.htm High School/ Career Center Resources

35. High School/ Career Center Name Web Page Pickerington High School www.pickerington.k12.oh.us/buildings/hs/ South High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/south_high/index.html Southeast Career Center www.columbus.k12.oh.us/southeast/index.html Thomas Worthington High School www.worthington.k12.oh.us/schools/thomas/index.html Upper Arlington High School www.upper-arlington.k12.oh.us/ Walnut Ridge High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/walnut_ridge/index.html West High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/west_hs/index.html High School/ Career Center Resources

36. High School/ Career Center Name Web Page Westerville North High School http://www.westerville.k12.oh.us/North/wnhs4/index.htm Westerville South High School www.westerville.k12.oh.us/south/pages/admin.html Whetstone High School www.whetstonehs.com/ Worthington Kilbourne High School www.worthington.k12.oh.us/schools/wkhs/index.html High School/ Career Center Resources