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Learning Goals

Learning Goals. Learn the content, how to facilitate it, and how to train others to facilitate it Gain hands-on experience with each of the six units Learn about and use the Design Process

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Learning Goals

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  1. Learning Goals • Learn the content, how to facilitate it, and how to train others to facilitate it • Gain hands-on experience with each of the six units • Learn about and use the Design Process • Learn how to help sites recruit and facilitate ICT professionals visits and fieldtrips, and facilitate family tech nights

  2. PD Structure • Format: Train-the-trainer approach • Trainers as learners, facilitators, and trainers • Trainers and facilitators get 8 hours of PD / unit (each unit is ~40 contact hrs) • PD Team: SRI International and Network leaders (e.g. Girls Inc. national; California School Age Consortium) • Participants: Trainers of afterschool programs and afterschool service providers/facilitators. Primarily women of color in their 20s and 30s across the U.S. and Canada, with diverse education backgrounds.

  3. Mission • Motivate middle school youth to • Use technology to strengthen and build their information and communication technology (ICT) fluency • Take high school algebra and computer science courses in preparation for postsecondary STEM education and ICT careers • Explore ICT and pursue ICT careers • Enhance staff capacity to offer ICT fluency programming

  4. Successes and Challenges Successes • Achieving Mission* • Program being scaled up, continued use in existing sites • Funded initial PD = 8 hours/unit • Ongoing PD at original sites • Girls Inc. national delivering PD after scale up funding ended Challenges • PD days for new sites, without specific funding, ≠ 8 hours/unit • Funding • Time for prep and PD available in afterschool • Variability of youth-development, gender-equity, ICT / content knowledge and expertise of trainers and site staff * Implementation data from observations, interviews, youth attitude and concept surveys, staff surveys. and facilitation logs

  5. Build IT  ICT4me

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